From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for pardon of B. D. McGowan who was convicted of aiding the escape of a convict.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Stone Collection. Document from Mississippi Governor John M. Stone at Jackson, Mississippi, to Sheriff of Bolivar County, Mississippi, sending a writ of arrest for Archie Snowden.