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 November 12, 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-0001-004-2431 BR15-377

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To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioner William Walker States that he was Indicted by a Grand Jury of Russell County in two Cases for Keeping a Tipling house and that at the April Term 1865 of the Russell Circuit Court judgment was rendered against him by default for $60 fine in each case -- Your petnr further states that while a member of Company C. 1st Kentucky Cavalry Commanded by Col Frank Wolford, and in the line of his duty by extreme exposure he Contracted a disease of the head that distroyed his hearing so much so that he was unfit for duty; he procured permission to return home to his widowed mother who was poor and almost entirely dependant upon him for a support and while so at home and for the purpose of providing something for the support of himself and mother ^And having applied to Judge Green U. S. ast assr for United States license to retail Spirits^ he without Knowing that he was violating any law did Sell Spirits by the Small -- but on account of his diseased condition ^& being unable to work,^ and for the supporting his aged mother he would not have engaged in such business -- Your petitioner respectfully asks the remission of said fines

William Walker

Post office address Jamestown Ky.

We the undersigned respectfully as join in the petition of Wm Walker for a remission of the

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fines Set fort therein &c --

George Bryan Cap N G Wells W. T Jackman S. R. C S P Collins Judge R C C W M Green capt Thomas Wood Abner Jones Isham Bolin G. W. Twidwell C. R. Coffey W. P. Payne A P, Simpson

Russell Cir Ct vs Wm Walker 2 judgts $60. each 11th Sept/65

Sent for fee 25 August /65