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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-1287 BR11-477

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State of Kentucky Jefferson County

Caspar Hebel Chales Hartling John Zoll & Charles Hannger John Miller Henry Melcher state that they are citizens of Louisville Ky that they knew William Medard decd. and also Jacob Medard who was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in the Penitentiary of Ky at the last Jany term of the Jefferson circuit court -- that the mental capacity of both was of a very low order. They ^have^ known the sd Jacob well, living in the immediate neighborhood of him for some 12 or 14 years. & the old man the father for several years -- That sd. Jacob never was able to speak the language of this country. That he was industrious & honest in his business as a shoemaker making a bare support for his wife & children --

C B Hebel Chas. Hartling. Johann Zoll John Moeller Charles Hauneys

Subscribed & sworn to before me by Caspar Heleb Charles Hartling John Zoll Charles Hannger John Miller Henry Melcher these all respectable citizens of Louisville. this 6 August 1864

A. W. Waller J. P. J. C.