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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-0001-004-1549 BR12-397 to BR12-397B

Barren County, Kentucky Barren County, Kentucky 1865-03-18 Petition English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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State of Kentucky County, of Baren

To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlet Governor of said state at Frankfort.

Your petitioners show to your Excellency that Sidney Young was indicted at the March Term 1865 of the Baren circuit court and tried and convicted for the crime of Arson and sentenced to five years confinement in the state Penetentiary. They show that said Young is only about Eighteen Years old up to this time he has sustained a good character for honesty industry sobriety & morality; no charge of vice or immorality ever having previously been made against him. His parents are also of the very highest respectability and reside in our immediate neighborhood in this county & we have known the defendant from his childhood. On the day the offence was committed he was induced to & did drink too much spirits and was very drunk when he went to the house of one Preston wade & have a fight with a negro and threw several things in the fire which was burning & from which it appeared the house took fire. He was a stranger to wade & his family had no malice at him and only a hole in the floor was burned. In consideration of his Extreme Youth & previous good character we respectfully Yet earnestly recomend him to Executive clemency and ask your Excellency to pardon him

C. P. Edmunds E M Duval J W Read .H. W. Sanders G W Gaines Susan. F. Hawkans Elzira Henderson N A Jamison Mary Malinda Green

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Thomas L Morriss William B. Edmunds F. J. Smith Thomas Matthews George W Read Wm. F Read R H Hawks W. F Dodd Jo. H. Holman J. B. Benedict J, E, Whitney M S Reynolds T W Hart Hiram Smith W. R. Henderson Allen D Settle E D Buster James S E Everett James. M. Morrison John, Q, Everett G. W. Erwin -- H. Richy C. S. Steritt Vestes Moore C. J. Huffman E, E, Huffman F G Huffman John F. Henderson W. W. Duff D. C. Buster A. J. green W. T. green T. F. Smith Lucinda W Buster Frances A. Everett M S Everett Mary M Erwin Lou Moore Ronnie Fant Callie Fant Harrett, L, Hawks Luan. H. Hawks Mary, E, Hawks Sark, E. Huffman Anna, E, Huffman Nancy. A. Huffman Mary Huffman Fannie A E Martin Margeret J Henderson Eliza, J, Duff Winny, Duff Mary, W, Duff Sarah, A, Buster Louisa Morriss Lucy, J, Smith Sarah, G, Smith Mary. Jane. Green Mary C Jordan Luvenia. Y. Hackney Alice. J. Jordan Mattie Porter Ella Barton Maria E Spillman Susan E Richey Lucetta. C. Button Emily J. Button

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John, R, Green F. Duff Underwood Butler Jerome. B. Butler Joseph. Butler Jos. W. Smith John B. Spillman A H Cole Jr Robert Butler R. A. Galbraith Wm. C. Lewis C. P. Spillman Jno E Holman Harvey Doty Ahmid Larrance T. E. Button John Butler G. B. Shackel John L Duff Jonathan Jewell Jr J W Henderson S W Holman C. T. Holman

I have not been acquainted with the above prisoner as mentioned but I believe the statements made above are true and I am satisfied that Mr Young was very drunk, when he committed the crime of which he is found guilty. and sentenced I fully concur with the above subscribers in asking the Gov. of Ky to pardon Mr Young for the offence for which he is sentenced.

Samuel Martin D. C. B. C. Ky, Sarah, E. Butler Caroline, M, Butler Mary, J, Butler L, M, Shackels Elizebeth, S, Shackels Cloe. Shackels Martha. Huffman Cornelia D Henderson Virginia. W. Lewis E. T. Smith Sarah, E, Duff

C. Duff Chas M Wheeler Wm T. Oliver M W Hudson W G Rodes G. P. Gaines F. A. Richardson, late Pro. Mar. B. C.

Gov. Bramlett, Sir I have carefully examined the signatures of the persons to the foregoing petition; I am acquainted with at least one half of them, they are respectable and some of them I know to be amongst our best citizens

W, F, Evans March 18. 1865