Petition for pardon of Reuben Pearson
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Q000134240_Q0000134243
Title
Petition for pardon of Reuben Pearson
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Type
text
Creator
Unknown
Date
1859 March
Description
Petition for pardon of Reuben Pearson
Language
English
Publisher
Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)
Contributor
Soleil Ozols
Relation
Q134235; Q134234; Q134236 - Q134238; Q134239
transcription
Dallas County Alabama
March 1859
To His Excellency Andrew D. Moore Governor of Alabama
Dear Sir
The undersigned Citizens of Dallas County, represent to your Excellency that Reuben Pearson was convicted in the Circuit Court of Dallas County in the year 1847 of murder and sentenced to be hanged, and that pun-ishment commuted to imprisonment for life in the Penitentiary. He has been now confined nearly twelve years, and has reached his 68th year We are pleased to see from the recommendation & Certificate of the Inspectors of the penitentiary that his conduct as a prisoner has been unexceptionable and exemplary, and do not doubt thus he has undergone a complete reformation.
Regarding the good conduct and his extreme old age we agree with the Inspectors of the penitentiary that the “Remission of the remainder of his term would not be inconsistent with the public good” His extreme old age surely renders him a public charge and expense and his life must be near its close
His son a most-excelling and much respected merchant of Louisiana is here, and anxious to to take his old father with him to that State and Comfort him in his last hours
In Consideration of these things, We respectfully ask your Excellency to [remit?] the ballance of his imprisonment
R.J. [?]
George F. Davis
R.A. Hayes
[Little?] Bery Vaper
One of the Jury
A.B. King
One of the Jury
K. McKinman
A.G. Adams
A.F. Smith
[Little?] Berry Vaper Jr.
Robt C. Walker
A M M [?]
J.H.D. Monack
A. Stewart
W.N. Counch
P. Wilson
Samuel Langley
L. Alison Lee
W.P. Brandon
J.D.W. McKellar
E.A. Bell
[Lynch?] Lee
J.S. Davidson
J.I. Miller
A.W. Coleman
Richard Powers
[?]
T.G. Miller
[page break]
J.B. Malett
W.F. Watts
[M.F.?] Womack
J.W. Cochran
Frank A. Lee
Thos. B. Lee
Samuel R. Stafford
John Hall
Thos W Ethridge
J. Martin Lee
J.M. Lede
Saml D Stewart
George B. Bibb
J.D. Alison
P [?] Lee
P.E. Youngblood
A. Watson
George Kepper
J. W. Watson
[L.Y.?] Paddock
William Matthew
E.W. Jones
J.S. Norris
Saml T. Calley
J. Lister
J.E. [P?]
J.J. Roach of Wilcox I have seen Mr Beck and [?] fully in his [?]
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Petition of the Governor
March 1859
To His Excellency Andrew D. Moore Governor of Alabama
Dear Sir
The undersigned Citizens of Dallas County, represent to your Excellency that Reuben Pearson was convicted in the Circuit Court of Dallas County in the year 1847 of murder and sentenced to be hanged, and that pun-ishment commuted to imprisonment for life in the Penitentiary. He has been now confined nearly twelve years, and has reached his 68th year We are pleased to see from the recommendation & Certificate of the Inspectors of the penitentiary that his conduct as a prisoner has been unexceptionable and exemplary, and do not doubt thus he has undergone a complete reformation.
Regarding the good conduct and his extreme old age we agree with the Inspectors of the penitentiary that the “Remission of the remainder of his term would not be inconsistent with the public good” His extreme old age surely renders him a public charge and expense and his life must be near its close
His son a most-excelling and much respected merchant of Louisiana is here, and anxious to to take his old father with him to that State and Comfort him in his last hours
In Consideration of these things, We respectfully ask your Excellency to [remit?] the ballance of his imprisonment
R.J. [?]
George F. Davis
R.A. Hayes
[Little?] Bery Vaper
One of the Jury
A.B. King
One of the Jury
K. McKinman
A.G. Adams
A.F. Smith
[Little?] Berry Vaper Jr.
Robt C. Walker
A M M [?]
J.H.D. Monack
A. Stewart
W.N. Counch
P. Wilson
Samuel Langley
L. Alison Lee
W.P. Brandon
J.D.W. McKellar
E.A. Bell
[Lynch?] Lee
J.S. Davidson
J.I. Miller
A.W. Coleman
Richard Powers
[?]
T.G. Miller
[page break]
J.B. Malett
W.F. Watts
[M.F.?] Womack
J.W. Cochran
Frank A. Lee
Thos. B. Lee
Samuel R. Stafford
John Hall
Thos W Ethridge
J. Martin Lee
J.M. Lede
Saml D Stewart
George B. Bibb
J.D. Alison
P [?] Lee
P.E. Youngblood
A. Watson
George Kepper
J. W. Watson
[L.Y.?] Paddock
William Matthew
E.W. Jones
J.S. Norris
Saml T. Calley
J. Lister
J.E. [P?]
J.J. Roach of Wilcox I have seen Mr Beck and [?] fully in his [?]
[page break]
Petition of the Governor
Subject
Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873; Governors--Alabama; Alabama--Politics and government--To 1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865