Petition

F. M. Jones et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Place of Creation
Barren 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
MG24-236 to MG24-237
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2148
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32210555

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Dates
--12
1858
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Citation

F. M. Jones et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-2148 (November 14, 2026).

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To his excallency commonwealth of Ky

Your petitioners represent to your Excellency that at the Dec term of the Barren County Equity and Criminal Court one John Kennady was tried 1858 & Convicted to the Penitentiary of this state for the term of four years upon a charge of haveing shot at and wounding his wife Nancy Jane Kennady with intent to kill they state that said Kenady had ben Maried but a few months & that he & his wife were going home from a neighbors house on sunday evening some three quarters of a mile from home & that the shooting was done in the public Road some quarter of a mile from home about 3/4 of an hour after night No one els being present but he & his wife the proof for the defens shwed that No malice existed or that there ever had ben any Dificulty between them but that they had lived together peacable & at the ^house^ of his fathers all the time after their mariage that he never had had a pistole in his life that he was allways an in offenssive harmless boy that verry soon before the shooting was done W K Morgan pased the road whare it was done about dusk & saw & heard an object behind a log & after the occurance went & examined the place & that it looked like some person had Laid behind it Tracte of some person ware also sen near the spot behind a tree his wife Nancy Jane Kenady stated that at the time she receieved the shot she saw no person & heard no one except her husband & if he did not

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Do it she did not ^know^ who Did that at the time she Heard the shot her husband steped a little behind her to avoid a mud hole in the road was all she knew about it she stated he had allways treated her kindly & that she knew of no cause or motive your petitioners represent & state that from all the facts & circumstances in the case they think it is a case whitch is acasenot well worthy the Exocution clemency to whitch end they entrust and prey your Excellency

F M Jones

K D Dossey Sr
Joseph Grisdom [...]
Parker ,M, Dossey
Thomas Percell
Curran Eaton
Joseph Eaton
W,, G, Hammett
John Eaton
C. C. Mauery
A P Childress
Joshua Sherman
Robt R [Gideon]
S P [Dossey]
Henry Childress
J I Grier
David Bowman
Z McDaniel
Benj Little
Y M Wagner
H Hunt

Benj.. Payne
D, C, Murphey
Wesley Dennis
William Jordan
D Payne
T. T. Chism
James.F. Russel
Benjamin Neighbors
Harrison Eaton
J. T. Thomas
R. M. Lee
P. B. Thomoson
J P [...]
Jesse Payne
W,, S,, Hammett
James ,H. Veach
V, N, Payne
Reuben Carver
Matthew Branch
Edward Holder
Alexander Cherry
Adam Thomas
C. A. [...]

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E, A, Thomas
James, A, Thomas
William Tinsley
K. C. Veach
John Britt
J. T. Goodman
John A Dossey
P, M, Murphey
Leonard Eaton
G, B, Lee
John W. Kelly
D. G. Ferguson
James W Martin
Moses Lane
George Touch
Wm A Hunt
M M Socy