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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-0001-004-3395 BR42-268

Grayson County, Kentucky Grayson County, Kentucky Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlett Govnor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

Your petitioner Francis Sanders would respectfully represent to your Excellency That at the present Term of the Grayson Circuit Court ^May 1864^ he was fined one hundred & thirty ^^ Dollars on an Indictment for Keeping a Disord^er^ally house, the facts proven was that your petitioner had taken to live with him a woman to whom he was not married and was seen sleeping with her on some 3 or 4 acasions, Your petitioner would further represent that he is a very poor man & cannot pay the fine he has no property out of which to make it or any part thereof & will be bound to be in the County Jail, if the law is enforsed as he Expects it will, & the length of time he would be compeld to by this would deprive him of making a crop & his little children ^would be deprived^ of many of the necessaries of life and of the Company & protection of an only parent ^who he has & sons of the Union army & are dead^ He prays your excellency to Interpose pose your Clemency and remit the Commonwealths part of said fine and would Ever pray as he is in duty bound to do

Frances ^his X Mark^ Sanders

Jurys Names
Jurors Names W. M Merideth W. C. Simpson Henry Decker Jas Lagland Wm Cralickford The Jury had dispersed is the reason their names are not here W. E. Wortham Shff G. C. Austin.S. Edelen Edwin Thomas clk Jack Thomas D. C. A H Kerr J M McClure Jno Brown Thos Hill M. M. Jones Baley Willis

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Caleb Stinson Representative Grayson Co Joseph Batey Loddick M. Dechser Jr O. M. Decker L McClurie Jas Edelin E McClure H Haysen Samuel McClure Wm J Snyder James N Jackson Wash Hornback H. P. Bozorth C P Dewes Jack Haycroft Emory Fulkerson Thomas Brutcher Jack Taylor Leo Nelson Samuel C McClure Henley H. C. Cunningham Silas Heston H H Thomas H C Crawford James D Edelin Norwood D Wilson Christopher Wilson J. H. Rogers J. J. Rogers J H Dewes Solomon Clagett Wm McMayhen P T Dearham S J Hunt Wm F. Caplinger Eli Bozorth S. T. Felix Joseph Carroll John Y Owens Wm Armes W. B. Haywood W C Grayson Simeon Crawford M D. Israel Deury John Goldsberry Elizah Day D E Perin Jno P McClure Joseph Mudd Uriah Winchel Dept Prov. Mor Gen Ky W. S. Conklin