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Petition

F. A. Wilson et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1862-05-22

Document details

Date of Creation: May 22, 1862
Place of Creation: Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky
Document Genre: Petition
Repository: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection: Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
Box / Folder: MG23-371 to MG23-372
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-1933
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FTP Identifier: 32210341

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Dates: 1860-12; 1862-05-22; 1862-06-09

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F. A. Wilson et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-05-22, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-1933 (November 13, 2026).

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His Excellency ~~Governor~~ Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

We the undersigned would humbly lay before you, that at the Decr Term of the Lyon Circuit Court in the year 1860 judgment was rendered against G. W. Lady for Sixty Dollars on indictment for keeping tipling house that said Geo. W. Lady is a very poor man with a large & helpless family his children are all girls & his wife a criple, he is bearly able to provide them with the necessaries of life using his utmost energies We would also state that his health is bad, besides he is badly ruptured & think & know if a capias is issued he would not be able to liquidate the debt & consequently would have to lay in jail until the law was satisfied, which no doubt would prove ^a^ great detriment to his health, besides a great discomfiture to his breadless family Since the pardoning power alone rests in the Executive, We pray that his Excellency remit the fine thus assessed

Eddyville Ky
May 22^nd 1862

F A. Wilson
A H Ludley
James Lester
Jas M Biggam

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D. L. Gardner
Charles Woods
J. H. C[...]
J N Gracey
Jno Boyd
Wm C Bigham
W. H. Long
Jno Long
E. G. Smith
C. H. Boid
W. W. Hollman
R. A Dickson
W. T. Smith
Archd. Hanter
R. R. OHara
A J Browing
Tho^s P Pain
O. M.Jenkins
M W Johnson
A Holand
Jas [Winfrey]
A. M. Fleming
J. L. Stubb
W. V. Leach
J. W. Clark
James. F. Long
D. S. Hollman
J. H. Hunter
J. N. Holloway
W G Braswell
J. C. Cobb
J. T. Young
John Leech
J M Etheridge
Pat. Darby

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J. T. Brindly
G M.Huggans
S. W. Hondston
John [Locke]
B. G. Enis
W W Primer
S P L Marshall J^r
A. H Champion

I am not personally acquainted with all the statements in this petition but would ask the fine be remitted
F. H. Skinner

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Lyon Cir. Ct
$60 } Tipling
Geo. W Lady
Remission Iss^dJune 9 1862