Petition

J. R. Duncan 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
MG24-264 to MG24-265
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2167
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32210573

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Dates
--12
1858
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Citation

J. R. Duncan 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-0001-020-2167 (November 12, 2026).

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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Govenor of the Commonwealth of Ky.

Your Petitioners represent to your Excellency That at the JanyDec. term of the Barren County Equity & Criminal Court and John Kenady were tried and ^1858^ confined to the Penitentiary of this state for the term of 4 years upon a charge of having shot at and wounding his wife Mary Jane Kenady with intent to kill. They state that said Kenady had been married 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 and that the shooting was done in the Road Public Road some quarter of a mile from home about dusk or a little before about 3/4 of an hour after dark dark to one else being present but he and his wife. The Proof for the defense showed that no motive existed or that there ever had been any difficulty between them but that they had lived together Peacible and at the house of his fathers [...] time after their marriage. That he now had had a Pistol in his life that he was always an inoffensive harmless boy. That very soon before the shooting was done W. K. [Mayen] passed the road when it was done about Dusk and saw and heard an object behind a log and after the occurence went and examined the Plase & that it looked like some

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person had laid behind it [...] if some person were also seen near the spot behind a tree His wife Mary Jane Kenady stated that at the time she received the shot she saw no person & heard no one except her husband & if he did not do it She does not knew who did that at the time she received 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 always treated her kindly & that she knew of no cause or motive. Your Petitioners represent & state that from all the facts and circumstances in the case they think it is a case which is well worthy the Executive Clemency to which end they entreat & pray your excellency

J R Duncan M D.
Ben McIntire
J. A. Goodall
J. W. Vetch Newman
J. C. McClelin
Finis Smith
John M Bishop
Wm T. Fletcher
T C Johnson
J M Flannery
J S Steen
John Hagin
G W Rigdon
Thomas Caruth
R F Pulliam

T J Caruth
W R Downing
J R Seay
C A Caruth
[...][...]
H L Lee
W H Kiger odd
Elisha Fortune
John Benedict
H [moressey]
Willis Wood
Thomas x Combs
[...]
W H Kiger

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Samuel Combs
Wm H Pepkin
L J, Simmons
John. Parish
Leonadis L Gaitwood
N. C. Pitchford
T W Simmons
T Hagan
J. H. Hagan
James Lane
Geo M. Fortune
Zen Combs
T A, Long
F. M. Stone
J B Carver
J C austen
James M Welch
John W Toureran
Dr B. W. Stone
J,, J,, Goodman
B Hagan
Samuel temfals
B H ruch
R A Mayheer
Isaac Baurham

E Justice
John Wach
J, H, Collins
J. F. Williams
J D Carpenter
Sam Carpenter
John B Blackburn
Wm H Garing
H. S. Anthony
D Ayres
[...][...]
Jo. Venabell
John Y [Anthony]
William Vine
N D McElroy
Wm Jackson
J F Martin
Saml Bredsen
B A Foster
Joseph Frost
G E Carpenter
Amos Harris
Joseph Durham

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G M Mulligan
W M R Austen
F, Gatewood
A. C. Alexander
Samuel Russel
W C marcum
G. B. McElroy
W H Huitan
Peevs [...]
R P Welch
James F Johan
J M Clayport
B P Dance
William Mansfield
C. R. Tate
George Britt
D. H Simmons
Henry [...]
James Sanders
D B Denton
Josiah Hagan
R. R Parrish