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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-1933 MG23-371 to MG23-372

Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky 1862-05-22 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 "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 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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His Excellency Governor Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

We the undersigned would humbly lay before you, that at the Decr Term of the Lyon Circuit Court in the year 1860 judgment was rendered against G. W. Lady for Sixty Dollars on indictment for keeping tipling house that said Geo. W. Lady is a very poor man with a large & helpless family his children are all girls & his wife a criple, he is bearly able to provide them with the necessaries of life using his utmost energies We would also state that his health is bad, besides he is badly ruptured & think & know if a capias is issued he would not be able to liquidate the debt & consequently would have to lay in jail until the law was satisfied, which no doubt would prove ^a^ great detriment to his health, besides a great discomfiture to his breadless family Since the pardoning power alone rests in the Executive, We pray that his Excellency remit the fine thus assessed

Eddyville Ky May 22nd 1862

F A. Wilson A H Ludley James Lester Jas M Biggam

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D. L. Gardner Charles Woods J. H. C J N Gracey Jno Boyd Wm C Bigham W. H. Long Jno Long E. G. Smith C. H. Boid W. W. Hollman R. A Dickson W. T. Smith Archd. Hanter R. R. OHara A J Browing Thos P Pain O. M.Jenkins M W Johnson A Holand Jas Winfrey A. M. Fleming J. L. Stubb W. V. Leach J. W. Clark James. F. Long D. S. Hollman J. H. Hunter J. N. Holloway W G Braswell J. C. Cobb J. T. Young John Leech J M Etheridge Pat. Darby

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J. T. Brindly G M.Huggans S. W. Hondston John Locke B. G. Enis W W Primer S P L Marshall Jr A. H Champion

I am not personally acquainted with all the statements in this petition but would ask the fine be remitted F. H. Skinner

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Lyon Cir. Ct $60 } Tipling Geo. W Lady Remission IssdJune 9 1862