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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-0001-004-2508 BR16-13 to BR16-14

Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky 1865-10-17 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Lebanon October 17/1865 To his Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette Hillery Rhodes

your petitioner Hillery Rhodes stats that ^at^ the term 1864 of the Marion Circuit court he was indicted by the Grand jury of said county and charged with the offence of assault and Battery upon James Craig. And he further states that at the August term 1865 of the Marion Circuit Court he was fined the sum of twenty dollars ($2000) your petitioner states that he is in very indigent circumstances and has a large family dependent upon hom for support he has no way of supporting his famiy Except to work by the day. and small as this sum is it will be a severe hardship for him to be compeled to pay it your petitioner humbly requests and prays your Excellency to remit the said fine --

Hillery Rhodes

The undersigned loyal citizens of Marion county believing the above case to be one Eminently deserving the interposition of Executive clemency join in the foregoing petition

132. W. J. Clements 13 W. N. Miles of the 37. mounted infantry 14. Thomas Miles 15 Ambrose, Smith 16 F D Greenwell 17 S. O. Hancock 18 Thos A Luckett 19 S S Mudd 20 R. S. OBryan 21 Jas H,, Hagan 22 James Boarman 23 Will. E. Ray -- 1 -- J. R. Thomas 2. John S Hagan 3 W. P Beauchamp late enrolling officer of Marion & Nelson counties 4 James carico 5 J K Thompson 6 Thomas Brannan of the 16th Regulars 7. Ben F. Russell. 8 Joh. H. Clements 9 F D Green 10 Wm Odaniell 11 J. M Hardisty

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S T Ray 25 Henry Beaver 26 Thos L. Fogle 27 G. W Bowles 28 J E Miles 29 J. W. Jarboe 30 James Malone 31 Joseph Blair 32 Charles Mattingly 33 Simeon Mattingly 34 E. A. Byrne 35 Nicholas Browning 36 Elijah Shockney 37 Wm Gardner 38 Jas dolittle 39 Thos. H. Payne 40 T. W. Walker 41 W W Smith James Elder 50

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Marion Cir Ct vs H. Rhodes $20 assault Remitted 23 Oct /65