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To His Excellency.
Thos. E. Bramlette Gov r of Kentucky.
Your Petitioner Eliza Ann Jane Turpin would respectfully represent that a Judgment was rendered against her at the present Fall Term of the Wayne Circuit Court, for $60; being charged withsellin with "Keeping a tipling house"
TShe states, that she had some liquor, and was induced to sell a small quantity at one time, to the person who indicted her: She states she only sold once -- That she is very poor, That she had three sons in the Fedral service and four small children at home to be supported by her labor alone; That she has no property. money, but a little which has been accumulated by her own work since the death of her husband -- (That the prosecution was malicious)
She says. if forced to pay the judgment, it will leave her penniless, and bring suffering to the four small children who now constitute her family, and dependant on her for food --
She ^Petitions^ asks Your Excellency to remit this fine and judgment.
x. Eliza J ^her X mark^ Turpin
Sworn to by Eliza Ann Turpin before me this t day of Oct 1865
x John L Sallee Clk
We Citizens of Wayne County, Know the above applicant, Eliza Ann Turpin, and
believe Your Excellency ought to extend to her the pardon and relief asked for --
I concur in the prayer of the above & foregoing Petition
Fon T Fox
Sd. M. Sallee
J, S, Crutchfield
Jno G VanWinkle
Ja s A. Crutchfield
W. Simpson
John D
John L Sallee clk
Micajah Phillips
J, E, Vickers
W. McKee. Fox
John W. Tuttle
Joseph E. Hay of Russell
John. W. Higginbotham
G,, M,, Hardwick
P. W. Hardin
G. H. Marcum
Darrell Kennede
Thomas. J. Caldwell
James, P, Kelly
B N Mills
vs
Eliza Jane Turpin
$60,
Tipling
Remit --
st Oct /65
No fee charged