SOLDIERíS APPLICATION FOR PENSION
Under the Class "5"

 I, D.A. Browning  , a native of the State of   Kentucky  and now a citizen of Tennessee, resident at  Gleason  in the County of  Weakley  in said State of Tennessee, and who was a soldier from the State of   Tennessee  , in the war between the United States and the Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid under the Act of the General Assembly of Tennessee entitled "An Act for the benefit of the indigent and disabled soldiers of the late war between the states, and to fix the fees of attorneys or agents for procuring such pensions, and fixing a penalty for the violation of the same,"  And I do solemnly swear that I was a member of  15th (?) first which was consolidated with the 16th F (?) (?) regiment on Co. K. till near close of war.   in the service of the Confederate or United States, and that by reason of disability and indigence I am now entitled to receive the benefits of this Act.  I further swear that I do not hold any National, State, or County office, nor do I receive aid or pension from any other State, or from the United States, and that I am not an inmate of any soldierís home, and that I am unable to earn a reasonable support for myself and family.  I do further solemnly swear that the answers given to the following questions are true:

In what County, State, and year were you born?
Answer: Logan Co., KY in 1839

When did you enlist and in what command?  Give the names of the regimental and company officers under whom you served.
Answer:  Nov. 1862 in Forests command, Wilsonís regiment, Capt. Scates commander of Co.
In what battle or battles were you engaged, and if not wounded, state what disabilities did you receive, in any?

Answer: Harrisburg, Brices Cross roads in Miss. and several other skirmishes.  Recíd sunstroke at Harrisburg, Miss.

What was the precise nature of your wound or disability, if any?
Answer:  As stated above, received a sunstroke at Harrisburg, Miss.

Were you incapacitated for service by reason of said wound or disability incurred?
Answer:  I was not.

Were you discharged from the army by reason of said wound or disability?
Answer: I was not.

If discharged from the army, where were you and what did you do until the close of the war?
Answer:  (No answer).

What was the name of the surgeon who attended you?
Answer: (No answer).

How did you get out of the army, when and where?
Answer: By fuss from Capt. Scates in fall of 1864 in Jackson, Tenn.

Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government?
Answer: I did 

If so, when and under what circumstances?
Answer: In May 1865 at Paduka, KY.  An order was issued to imprison us if we did not come in and take the oath of allegiance.

Are you married, or have you been married?
Answer: I am.

If so, what is the size of your family living together?
Answer: Myself & wife & 4 girls

What are the respective ages of your wife and the children living with you?
Answer: Wife 54 - Children 35 to 18 all girls.

To what sex do your children belong?
Answer: (unreadable)

Are not some of your children able to support you?
Answer: They are not

In what business are you now engaged, if any, and what do you earn?
Answer: Farming.  A scanty living for myself & family - assisted by girls.

What estate have you in your own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: 85 acres common poor land  valued for irrigation at $500.00.

What estate does your wife have in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer:  None

How have you derived support for yourself and family for the last five years?
Answer: By farming

Do you use intoxicants to any extent?
Answer: No

How long have you been an actual resident of the State of Tennessee?
Answer: 58 or 59 yrs.

Have you an attorney to look after this application?
Answer: I have

If so, give his name and address.
Answer: W.R. Hawns  Gleason, Tenn.

 Witness my hand, this  24  day of    July  1906.
      D.A. Browning
      (his mark)

WITNESSES:
 R.W. Bandy MD, Physician.
 G.W. Montgomery, Witness.
 J.H. Bandy, Witness
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STATE OF TENNESSEE,)
Weakley  County,              )  I, D.A. Mcwherter, Trustee of said County, certify that D.A. Browning and his wife                     are assessed with 85 acres, valued at $800, and with $ no personal property.

 Witness my hand, this   24    day of  July  1906.
    D.A. McWherter, Trustee.
 

STATE OF TENNESSEE) 
Weakley  County,             )  Personally appeared before me, a notary public, of said County, the above named D.A. Browning, the applicant, with whom I am personally acquainted, and having the application read and fully explained to him, as well as the statements and answers therein made, made oath that the said statements and answers are true.
 Witness my hand and seal of office, this   24  day of  July  1906.
 
W.R. Hawns Notary Public
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STATE OF TENNESSEE)
Weakley  County,             ) Personally appeared before me, W.R. Hawns a Notary public  of said County, the above named R.W. Bandy  one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, and who is a physician of good standing, and being duly sworn says that he has carefully and thoroughly examined D.A. Browning, the applicant, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities:

 Some trouble of a permanent of the ears & head causing partial deafness & bugging(?) ears & constant roaring of head which was probably caused by overheat or sunstroke.

 Witness my hand and seal of office, this  24  day of   July  1906
     W.R. Hawns Notary public
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(If possible, the two witnesses as to character should have served with the applicant in the army, and if so, let them, or either, state it is their oath; also any other information regarding applicantís army service.)
STATE OF TENNESSEE,     )
Weakley       County,              )  Personally appeared before me, W.R. Hawns an Notary public   of said County, the above named G.W. Montgomery   and J.H. Bandy  ,two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, with whom I am personally acquainted, and known to me to be citizens of veracity and standing in this community, and who make oath that they are personally acquainted with the foregoing applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in this application are correct and true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim, and that said applicantís habits are good and free from dishonor.  And  we  further make oath to the following facts touching the applicantís service in the  Confederate  army.
That we was with him during his services as a soldier and know that he made a faithful soldier and is entitled to a pension.
J.H. Bandy further state that he was with him in only one battle, i.e.. Okalona, Miss. after that time he was with the infantry.
 Witness my hand and seal of office, this  24  day of  July  1906
     W.R. Hawns  Notary public
 

Soldierís Application for Pension

 I, David Browning, a native of the State of Kentucky and now a citizen of Tennessee, resident at Gleason in the county of Weakley  in the said State of Tennessee, and who was a soldier from the State of  Tennessee, in the war between the United States and the Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid under the Act of the General Assembly of Tennessee, entitled ìAn Act for the benefit of the indigent and disabled soldiers of the late war between the States, and to fix the fees of attorneys or agents for procuring such pensions, and fixing a penalty for the violation of the same.î  And I do solemnly swear that I was a member of  Co. K 16th Tenn Cav, CSA. in the service of the confederate of United States, and that by reason of disability and indigence I am now entitled to receive the benefit of this Act. I further swear that I do not hold any National, State, or County office, nor do I receive aid or pension from any other State, or from the United States, and that I am not an inmate of any soldiersí home and that I am unable to earn a reasonable support for myself and family.  I do further solemnly swear that the answers given to the following questions are true:

In what County, State and year were you born?
Answer Logan Co., KY  1839

When did you enlist and in what command?  Give the names of the regimental and company officers under whom you served.
Answer Nov 1862 Co. K 16th Tenn Cav. Col Wilson, Lieut. Co. Jesse Forrest --Capt. Robt Dudley

In what battle or battles were you engaged, and if not wounded , state what disabilities did you receive, if any?
Answer Okolona, Harrisburg, Brices X Roads & many other small battles.  Not wounded except shock from shell, disabled for short time resulting in partial deafness which has been permanent.

What was the precise nature of your wound or disability, if any?
Answer Answered above

Were you incapacitated for service by reason of said wound or disability incurred?
Answer No

Were you discharged from the army by reason of said wound or disability?
Answer No

If discharged from the army, where were you and what did you do until the close of the war?

Answer X

What was the name of the surgeon who attended you?
Answer None

How did you get out of the army, when and where?
Answer Came home on recruiting expedition as stated by witness Scates started, back and was intercepted by the enemy & was never able to reach my command

Were you ever in prison?  If so, state what prison when released.
Answer No

Were you paroled?  If so, when and where.
Answer Paroled at Paducka KY   May 1865

Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government?
Answer No

If so, when and under what circumstances?
Answer:  X 

Are you married, or have you been married?
Answer: Married 

If so,  what is the size of your family living together?
Answer: Self, wife and 3 daughters.

What are the respective ages of your wife and children living with you?
Answer:  Wife 62 - - Daughters 30-25-20.

To what sex do your children belong?
Answer:  All females

In what business are you now engaged, if any, and what do you earn?
Answer:  85 acres land $900 - Personal property $500

What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: None 

How have you derived support for yourself and family for the last five years?
Answer: By my own labor assisted by daughters

Do you use intoxicants to any extent?
Answer:   No 

How long have you been an actual resident of the State of Tennessee?
Answer:  61 years

Have you an attorney to look after this application?
Answer:  No 

If so, give his name and address?
Answer:  (no answer)

Witness my hand this  9th  day of August  , 1909.
    David X Browning
    his mark
Witnesses:
W.W. McBride, Physician
W.F. Scates, Witness
G.W. Montgomery, Witness
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STATE OF TENNESSEE,)
Weakly    ,County,             )  I,  Z.W. Grooms,  Trustee of said County, certify that D.A. Browning and his wife                         are assessed with   85 acres, valued at $1000  ,and with $ x of personal property.
 Witness my hand this 10 day of August 1909
    Z.W. Grooms, Trustee
 If applicant and his wife have no property the Trustee must certify.

STATE OF TENNESSEE,)
Carroll      County,             )    Personally appeared before me (cannot read), Notary Public  of said county, the above named David Browning. The applicant, with whom I am personally acquainted, and having the application read and fully explained to him, as well as the statements and answers therein made, made oath that the said statements and answers are true.

 Witness my hand and seal of office, this  9th day of August   1909
       (Cannot read) Notary Public
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STATE OF TENNESSEE,)
Weakley        County       )  Personally appeared before me R.W. Bandy Notary Public
of said County, the above named W.W. McBride     one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application and who is a physician of good standing, and being duly sworn says tha the has carefully and thoroughly examined    David Browning   , the applicant, and find him laboring under the following disabilities:

Almost complete deafness of Left Ear  He says there has been a roaring in ear every since the fight or Battle of Harrisburg--Either caused by getting Sunstroke in Battle or by a Bombshell bursting near his head.

     W.W. McBride M.D.

 Witness my hand and seal of office, this   9th  day of Aug. 1909
     R.W. Bandy  Notary Public
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STATE OF TENNESSEE,)
   Carroll   County.             )  Personally appeared before me  (cannot read) a Notary Public    of said County, the above named W.F. Scates  and G.W. Montgomery,  two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application with whom I am personally acquainted, and known to me to be citizens of veracity and standing in this community, and who make oath that they are personally acquainted with the foregoing applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in this application are correct and true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim, and that said applicantís habits are good and free from dishonor, and    he   further makes oath to the following facts touching the applicantís service in the Confederate States army:
State here what witnesses know of their own knowledge.
I, W.F. Scates hereby certify that Co. K. 16th and 21st Tenn Cav. was disbanded at Jackson Tenn Nov 1864 for the purpose of recruiting men & horses with orders to report at Lexington (?)  A portion of the company reported as instructed and I have no personal knowledge of the reason why the other failed to report.  I commanded Co. K and can recommend Mr. Browning as a true and faithful soldier and as an honorable citizen since the war.

 Witness my hand and seal of office, this   9th   day of  August  , 1909

     (Cannot read) Notary Public
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Note handwritten on BYNUM-ALEXANDER-SWEARINGEN CO. letterhead, Gleason, TN

Mr. Browning did not  __?__ it--recovery to go back to the command fort in order to be mustered out--as at the time it would have been almost impossible for him to have gotten back to the command, as it was generally known him that apart of the county through which he would have to pass to get back was impacted with Yankees.  Knowing that these are the facts we are glad to give them trusting that they will be worth something to DA BROWNING in his efforts to get pension which we believe him to be entitled to.
   signed JS (?) SMYTH
             Dick DUNLEY
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6-10-1915 R.I. Haley
       Notary Public
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This is followed by another hand written note which is dark and hard to read.  It is dated Apr 23, 1907  There are other handwritten notes which I believe are letters of references.  The copy is poor and hard to read.
*************************************************************************WAR DEPARTMENT
THE MILITARY SECRETARYíS OFFICE
WASHINGTON,  October 31, 1906

Respectfully returned to the 

President,
 Tennessee Board of Pension
   Examiners,
    Nashville,

 The records show that David Browning, private, Company K, 16th Tennessee Cavalry, C.S.A., Enlisted March 13, 186? and he is reported on the last roll of that organization on file, dated June 30, 1864, as present.  No later record of him has been found.

    F. Chu***(?)
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       May 25, 1915

   D. A. BROWNING  No. 7975

Mr. D.A. Browning,
  Gleason, Tenn.

Dear Sir:

 We have received the affidavit in your case of Mr. J.D. Smith, of Oklahoma, and I am writing to say that it does not change the status of your case.  He knows nothing about you after the Battle of Shiloh.   What the Board wants is proof to show why you were not with your command at the close of the war.  You claim you were brought in recruiting service and attempted to go back.  there is no proof  in the case that you ever made any such attempt.  If you can make such proof by the affidavit of persons who were with you and know of their own knowledge it might strengthen your case.

   Yours truly,
   Special Examiner
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       Holdenville, Okla. May 10, 1913

State of Oklahoma
  as
Hughes County

  Comes now, A.D. Smyth of Gleason, Tenn., and after being duly sworn on his oath states the following facts, with reference to Mr. Dave Browning or Gleason, Tenn.
    I have know  Mr. Browning from child-
   hood, and enlisted with him in the 31st Tenn-
   essee in the fall of 1861, where he served 
   as a good and faithful soldier to my personal
   knowledge up until the time of the battle of
   Shiloh.  At the time of the above battle, I 
   was wounded, and when I was able to go back
   on duty I joined the ìForrest Cavalryî, and 
   did not see Mr. Browning anymore until the 
   close of the war in the year of 1865.

    I thoroughly believe in the honesty 
   and integrity of Mr. Browning and feel he
   would make no statements falsely in order that 
   he might secure a pension from the government.

WITNESS MY HAND THIS 10th day of May 1915.
     A.D. Smyth
  Subscribed and sworn to before me a Notary Public this 10th day of May 1915.
     R.E. Zuefleciner
     Notary Public