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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-0001-020-2167 MG24-264 to MG24-265

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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin Govenor of the Commonwealth of Ky.

Your Petitioners represent to your Excellency That at the JanyDec. term of the Barren County Equity & Criminal Court and John Kenady were tried and ^1858^ confined to the Penitentiary of this state for the term of 4 years upon a charge of having shot at and wounding his wife Mary Jane Kenady with intent to kill. They state that said Kenady had been married but a few months & that he & his wife were going home from a neighbors House on Sunday evening some three quarters of a mile from home and that the shooting was done in the Road Public Road some quarter of a mile from home about dusk or a little before about 3/4 of an hour after dark dark to one else being present but he and his wife. The Proof for the defense showed that no motive existed or that there ever had been any difficulty between them but that they had lived together Peacible and at the house of his fathers time after their marriage. That he now had had a Pistol in his life that he was always an inoffensive harmless boy. That very soon before the shooting was done W. K. Mayen passed the road when it was done about Dusk and saw and heard an object behind a log and after the occurence went and examined the Plase & that it looked like some

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person had laid behind it if some person were also seen near the spot behind a tree His wife Mary Jane Kenady stated that at the time she received the shot she saw no person & heard no one except her husband & if he did not do it She does not knew who did that at the time she received the shot her husband steped a little behind her to avoid a mud Hole in the road was all she knew about it she stated he had always treated her kindly & that she knew of no cause or motive. Your Petitioners represent & state that from all the facts and circumstances in the case they think it is a case which is well worthy the Executive Clemency to which end they entreat & pray your excellency

J R Duncan M D. Ben McIntire J. A. Goodall J. W. Vetch Newman J. C. McClelin Finis Smith John M Bishop Wm T. Fletcher T C Johnson J M Flannery J S Steen John Hagin G W Rigdon Thomas Caruth R F Pulliam T J Caruth W R Downing J R Seay C A Caruth H L Lee W H Kiger odd Elisha Fortune John Benedict H moressey Willis Wood Thomas x Combs W H Kiger

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Samuel Combs Wm H Pepkin L J, Simmons John. Parish Leonadis L Gaitwood N. C. Pitchford T W Simmons T Hagan J. H. Hagan James Lane Geo M. Fortune Zen Combs T A, Long F. M. Stone J B Carver J C austen James M Welch John W Toureran Dr B. W. Stone J,, J,, Goodman B Hagan Samuel temfals B H ruch R A Mayheer Isaac Baurham E Justice John Wach J, H, Collins J. F. Williams J D Carpenter Sam Carpenter John B Blackburn Wm H Garing H. S. Anthony D Ayres Jo. Venabell John Y Anthony William Vine N D McElroy Wm Jackson J F Martin Saml Bredsen B A Foster Joseph Frost G E Carpenter Amos Harris Joseph Durham

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G M Mulligan W M R Austen F, Gatewood A. C. Alexander Samuel Russel W C marcum G. B. McElroy W H Huitan Peevs R P Welch James F Johan J M Clayport B P Dance William Mansfield C. R. Tate George Britt D. H Simmons Henry James Sanders D B Denton Josiah Hagan R. R Parrish