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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-029-0149 R3-227

Graves County, Kentucky James Fisher Robinson (governor, state senator, businessman, attorney, and farmer) N001004 1800-10-04 1882-10-31 Categories: People

Twenty-second governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, banker, and legislator. Son of Jonathan Robinson and Jane Black Robinson. Married to Susan D. Mansell Robinson on December 26, 1821. Father of Emilie Jane Robinson and James F. Robinson, Jr. Married Willina S. Herndon Robinson on May 30, 1842. Father of Scott Herndon Robinson, John McCracken Robinson, George Sidney Robinson, Madison Johnson Robinson, Stephen Gano Robinson, Willa Ewing Robinson, Philip Eldon Robinson, and Stephen Gano Robinson. Educated at Forest Hill Academy and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Trustee of Georgetown College. President of the Farmers' Bank of Georgetown. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 3, 1861, to September 5, 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 16, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Governor of Kentucky from August 18, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Returned to practicing law and farming on retiring from politics in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266. John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. William Henry Engle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7. James Gardner (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer) N00018731 1826 1906-03-10 Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Jane Carter Gardner. Father of Nancy Gardner, Eveline Gardner, Louisa Gardner, Samuel Gardner, John Gardner, Emma Ramsey Gardner, David Gardner, and Ada Gardner. Farmer in Graves County in 1850. Farmer in Graves County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Graves County in 1860. Farmer in Graves County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Graves Circuit Court Social: Andrew J. Colley (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Thomas Hardeman Mayes (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John S. Wilkerson (Graves County, Kentucky, overseer and farmer) Social: William Yancy Eaker (Graves County, Kentucky, postmaster, student, and farmer) Social: Samuel S. Galloway (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Moses W. Galloway (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) Social: Lucian Anderson (Graves County, KY, attorney and politician) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 422A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 32. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 53B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p.171A-B. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 19088. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Graves County, KY, June 1863. p. 10.5. "James Gardner." Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), March 12, 1906. "James Gardner (1826-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial 158961382, accessed October 3, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158961382. Patrick Murray (Graves County, Kentucky, resident) N00019103 1825? Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, resident. Native of Ireland. Married to Mary O'Boyle Murray. Father of James Murray, Patrick Murray, Richard Murray, Michael Murray, Ellen Murray, John Murray, and Julia Murray. Resident of McCracken County, Kentucky, in 1854. Resident of Graves County, Kentucky, in 1862.

Relationships Legal: James Gardner (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Graves Circuit Court

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 183B. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, District 087, p. 210C. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994046, McCracken County Births, p. 2. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 14857. KYR-0001-029-0149 Lucian Anderson (Graves County, KY, attorney and politician) N00000809 1824-06-23 1898-10-18 Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Son of John Anderson and Nancy Davenport Anderson. Married to Ann R. Lockridge Anderson in 1846. Father of Harry C. Anderson, Nancy A. Anderson, Herbert L. Anderson, Robert L. Anderson, Mayes Anderson, and Lillian Anderson. Admitted to the bar in Kentucky in 1845. Attorney in Graves County in 1850. Household owned eleven enslaved persons in Graves County in 1850. Presidential elector for the Whig Party from the 1st District of Kentucky in 1852. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Graves County from 1855 to 1857. Attorney in Graves County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Graves County in 1860. Member of the United States House of Representatives from the First Congressional District of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864. Accused of extorting citizens in Paducah in July and August 1864.

Relationships Political: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Andrew R. Boon (Graves County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Social: Edward Crossland (Hickman County, Kentucky, lawyer and colonel (C.S.A)) Social: Rufus K. Williams (Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals) Political: Samuel H. Jenkins (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Ervin Anderson (Graves County, Kentucky, clerk of Graves County Circuit Court) Legal: Graves Circuit Court Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 363B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 332. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 53A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 219B. “Investigation of General Paine’s Administration at Paducah,” Louisville Weekly Journal (Louisville, KY), October 4, 1864, p. 1. Berry Craig, "Anderson, Lucian," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), p. 20. Berry Craig and Dieter C. Ullrich, Unconditional Unionist: The Hazardous Life of Lucian Anderson, Kentucky Congressman (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2016). Moses W. Galloway (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) N00018734 1817-07-04 1889-05-25 Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, native. Son of John Galloway and Lucy Thompson Galloway. Married to Irene Galbraith in Maury County, Tennessee, on December 8, 1838. Father of John Galloway, Rebecca S. Galloway, Virginia Galloway, Elizabeth Galloway, and Benjamin H. Galloway. Farmer in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. Sheriff in Graves County in 1859. Sheriff in Graves County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 1, p. 444B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 317. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Hays, p. 452A. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Maury County, 1808-1867: Marriages 3, pp. 24-25. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 99. "Local News," Hickman Courier (Hickman, KY), May 31, 1889, p. 3. J.H. Battle, W.H. Perrin, and G.C. Kniffin, Kentucky, a History of the State, (Louisville and Chicago: F.A. Battey, 1885), p. 255. Samuel S. Galloway (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer) N00018735 1823-05-18 1889-09-27 Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer. Tennessee native. Son of John Galloway and Lucy Thompson Galloway. Married to Charity Adline Gillian Galloway. Father of John C. Galloway, Nancy J. Galloway, William T. Galloway, Nickolas L. Galloway, Thomas L. Galloway, Lucy Galloway, and Albert Galloway. Farmer in Graves County in 1850. Farmer in Graves County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 419A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 5. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 171B. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 28413. J.H. Battle, W.H. Perrin, and G.C. Kniffin, Kentucky, a History of the State, (Louisville and Chicago: F.A. Battey, 1885), p. 255. "Samuel S. Galloway (1823-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial 76493738, accessed October 4, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76493738. William Yancy Eaker (Graves County, Kentucky, postmaster, student, and farmer) N00018736 1830-12-27 1914-07-28 Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, postmaster, student, and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Martha Eugenia Haslem Eaker. Father of John Eaker, May Eaker, Lilly Eaker, and Rosa Eaker. Postmaster for Leander in Graves County from December 10, 1849, to May 27, 1850. Cadet at the United States Military Academy in Orange County, New York, from 1850 to 1854. Resident of Graves County in 1857. Farmer in Graves County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Graves County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 260. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 43B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Feliciana, p. 91B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994035, Graves County Births. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Graves County, Kentucky, vol. 14, p. 620. U.S. Military Academy Cadet Application Papers, 1805-1866, No. 22, 1849-1850; NARA Series M688, RG 94. Register of Cadet Applications, 1819-67, Vol. 1850, File 078-161; NARA Series M2037, RG 94. Official Register of the Officers and cadets of the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, 1887), 25. "William Yancy Eaker (1830-1914)," Find A Grave, Memorial 30432283, accessed October 4, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30432283. John S. Wilkerson (Graves County, Kentucky, overseer and farmer) N00018738 1820? Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer. North Carolina native. Married to Elizabeth Allen Wilkerson in Person County, North Carolina, on October 11, 1845. Father of Warren Taylor Wilkerson, Lewis Cass Wilkerson, J.C. Wilkerson, John W. Wilkerson, Serilda V. Wilkerson, Frances V. Wilkerson, and Georgia A. Wilkerson. Married to Sarah Jane Bradshaw Wilkerson. Father of James Wilkerson. Overseer in Christian County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Christian County in 1850. Farmer in Graves County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Graves County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 375A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 4. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 52B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Pryers, p. 235A. North Carolina, U. S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, RG 048, Person County Marriages, 1792-1868, p. 167. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 12384. Thomas Hardeman Mayes (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer) N00019099 1807-03-16 Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Son of Robert Chappell Mayes and Agnes Thweat Locke Mayes. Married to Susan Elizabeth Marquess Mayes in Christian County, Kentucky, on December 1, 1834. Father of Thomas Franklin Mayes, Robert Chappel Mayes, George W. Mayes, Harriet A. Mayes, William Marquess Mayes, Eugene Mayes, Elizabeth Mayes, Richard L. Mayes, Catherine Mayes, and Emma Mayes. Farmer in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Graves County in 1850. Farmer in Graves County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Graves County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 411B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 155. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 6. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 52B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 212A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film 000465562. Edward Mayes, Genealogical Notes on a Branch of the Family of Mayes, (Jackson: Hederman Bros., 1928), 19, 22-23. Andrew J. Colley (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer) N00019100 1827 1899 Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer. Caldwell County, Kentucky, native. Married to Nancy J. Pinnegar Colley. Father of Susan Colley, Elizabeth Colley, and Permelia Colley. Married to Fanny E. Taylor Colley in Graves County, Kentucky, on June 18, 1855. Father of Letita J. Colley. Married to Mary Elizabeth Bullion Bullock Colley. Father of Dolisca Colley, Jackson Colley, and William Colley. Stepfather of Oscar Bullion Colley and Lydia Bullion Colley. Farmer in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Graves County in 1850. Farmer in Graves County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in 1860. Distiller in Graves County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 1, p. 476A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 1, p. 141. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 113. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 3. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Cuba, p. 35B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Graves County, KY, June 1863, p. 18. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994035, Graves County Marriages. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994035, Graves County Births. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994035, Graves County Deaths, p. 3 "Andrew Jackson 'Drew' Colley (1827-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial 35162240, accessed December 19, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35162240. Graves County, Kentucky P00000908 Categories: Places

County in far western Kentucky. Seat at Mayfield.

36.6888, -88.7109 “Graves County, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Lon Carter Barton, “Graves County,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 384-85. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 123. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Graves Circuit Court O00000382 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 1st Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Rufus K. Williams and Charles S. Marshall. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Thomas H. Corbett, Philip D. Yeiser, and W. W. Tice. Clerk(s): Ervin Anderson and W. A. Turner.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Graves County, Kentucky 1862-12-20 Petition English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. 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 James F. Robinson Gov of Kentucky.

We the undersigned Citizen of Graves County Ky & some of the Jurors who tried the case of the Comlth of Ky. agst James Gardner tried at the late Novr term of the Graves Circuit Court 1862 beg leave to state that said Gardner was tried & fined Twenty five dollars & for a breach of the peace charge to have been committed on one Patrick Murray -- the facts of the case showed that both Gardner & Murray were drunk had always before the difficulty been friends, & have ever since then been on friendly terms that it was the liquor which caused the difficulty, that Gardner is & has always been a peeseeble man, that is very poor & has a large family to support that he is unable to pay the same but will be forese to go into jail unless the Executive interposes to relieve it from it. we therefore respectfully ask that said fine be released. Decr 20th 1862.

Lucian Anderson Patrick, Murry M' W' Galloway S S Galloway W. Yancy, Eaker J S Wilkerson T. H. Mayes A. J. Colley

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Graves Cir. Ct.

Fine remitted except Ten dollars J F Robinson

$25. } Breach of the Peace

Jas Gardner IssdFeby 27. 1863