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CSA
Pension Application - Nancy Jenkins Terry, wife of William
Strom Terry
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Form No. 2.
CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION
Name of Applicant
Mrs. Nancy Terry
Nolan County
Post Office Sweetwater
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Comptroller's File No. 7354
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I have carefully examined the within application for
Pension, together with the proof in support thereof, and I recommend
that the application be Approved This ___day of _____A.D.
Wm. J. Devain (?) Pension Clerk
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I hereby Approve the within application for pension,
this 12 day of July A.D. 1900
J. Ronrl (?), Comptroller
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FORM No. 2.
APPLICATION of Indigent widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late
Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899.
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THE STATE OF TEXAS, }
County of Nolan }
To the honorable County Judge of Nolan County, Texas:
Your petitioner, Mrs. Nancy Terry respectfully
represents that she is a resident citizen of Nolan
County, in the State of Texas; that she is the widow of W. S.
Terry, deceased, who was a Confederate soldier (or sailor), and
that she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a
pension as the widow of said W. S. Terry, deceased, under the
act passed by the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas,
and approved May 12, A. D. 1899, the same being an act entitled "An
Act to carry into effect the amendment to the Constitution of the
State of Texas, providing that aid may be granted to disabled
and dependent Confederate Soldiers, sailors, and their widows under
certain conditions, and to make an appropriation therefore," and I
do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following
questions are true.
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NOTE: Applicant must make answer to all of the following questions,
and such answers must be written out plainly in ink.
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Q. What is your name? Answer: Nancy Terry
Q. What is your age? Answer: Sixty nine
(69) years
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer:
Nolan
Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is
your post office address? Answer: About 19 months.
Sweetwater, Texas
Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate
Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so state when
and where. Answer: No
Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one?
Answer: None
Q. What is your physical condition? Answer:
Feble
Q. What was the name of your deceased husband?
Answer: W. S. Terry
Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866?
If so, on what
date were you married to him and where? Answer: Yes.
Dec. 23rd 1847 in Ala.
Q. What was the date of his death? Answer:
19th day of November 1888
Q. Are you unmarried, and have you so remained unmarried
since the death of your said husband for whose services you claim a
pension? Answer: Yes
Q. State in what company and regiment your deceased
husband for whose services you claim a pension enlisted in the
Confederate Army, and the time of his service therein? Answer:
Co. "A" 57th Ala Infantry, served about 2 years, was wounded at
Peach Tree Creek.
Q. If your deceased husband served in the Confederate
Navy, state when and where, and the time of such service?
Answer: (left blank)
Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or
veteran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you
answer in the affirmative state what pension or veteran donation
land certificate you have so received. Answer: No
Q. What real and personal property do you now own, and
what is the present value of such property? Give list of such
property and value. Answer: I own neither real or personal
property. I have nothing.
Q. What property, and what was the value thereof have
you sold or conveyed within two years prior to the date of this
application? Answer: None
Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer:
None
Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you
in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence?
Answer: Yes
Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support?
Answer: Yes
Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value
of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this
law? Answer: No
Q. Did your deceased husband for whose services you
claim a pensionever desert the Confederacy? Answer:
No
Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of
March 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State?
Answer: I have
Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application
for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in
the premises as are required by law.
(Signature of Applicant) Nancy Terry
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of
August A.D. 1899
Signed John H. Cochran
(SEAL)
County Judge, Nolan County, Texas
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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES
(Note--There must be at least two credible witnesses)
THE STATE OF TEXAS }
County of Nolan }
Before me John H. Cochran, County Judge of
Nolan County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared W.
Glass and R. F.Hemby who are personally known to me to be
credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that
they personally Terry, applicant for a pension as the widow of
W. S. Terry, deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of the
said, deceased; and that they further know that the said Mrs.
Nancy Terry, widow of the said W. S. Terry, deceased, is
unable to support herself by labor of any sort.
(Signature of Witness) W.
Glass
(Signature of Witness) R. F.
Hemby
(Signature of Witness)
(Signature of Witness)
Swore to and subscribed before me this 16th day of May, A. D. 1900
John H. Cochran
(SEAL)
County Judge, Nolan County, Texas
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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE
THE STATE OF TEXAS }
County of Nolan }
I, John H. Cochran, County Judge of Nolan County, State of
Texas, do hereby certify that on the 16th day of May, A.D. 1900,
before me came on to be heard the application of
Mrs.
Nancy Terry, widow of W. S. Terry, deceased, for a
pension under the Confederate
Pension Law of this State, approved May 12, A. D. 1899; that the
answers of said applicant to the questions propounded were made
under oath as the same appear in writing in the foregoing
application; that the affidavits of witnesses who are credible
citizens were made before me as the same hereinbefore appear.
I also certify that the said applicant Mrs. Nancy Terry is
not disqualified under any of the provisions of
Section 12 of the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify
that after considering all of the proceedings had before me relative
to the said application for a pension by the said Mrs. Nancy
Terry as widow of W. S. Terry, deceased, I find the said
applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the
Confederate Pension Law of this
State, and I hereby approve said application.
Witness my hand and seal of office at Sweetwater,
Texas this 16th day of May,
A.D.
1900.
John H. Cochran
(SEAL)
County Judge, Nolan County, State of Texas
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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
THE STATE OF TEXAS }
County of Nolan }
We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of
Nolan County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application
of Mrs. Nancy Terry, widow of W. S. Terry, deceased,
for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly
submitted by Hon. John H. Cochran, County Judge of Nolan
County, to the Commissioners Court of this Nolan County, at a
regular term thereof on the 16th day of May, A.D. 1900, and after a
careful consideration of the same we find the said applicant is
lawfully
entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate Pension Law
of this State, and we hereby approve said application.
Witness our hands and seal of office at Sweetwater,
Texas this 16th day of May, A.D. 1900.
(Signatures of Commissioners.)
J. R.
Brannan
J. F. Dennis
C. W. Boyett
(SEAL)
F.E.
Abrey
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Submitted by:
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