CIVIL WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APP. - SUSAN ADAMS, WIDOW OF WILLIAM D. ADAMS, BRADFORD 
CO., FL

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Pensioner No. 12782

Widow's Application for Pension

State of Florida}
Bradford County}

On this 30th day of January, 1900, personally appeared before me a Clerk Circuit 
Court in and for said county and State, Susan Adams, aged 48 years, who, being by 
me duly sworn according to law, makes the following declaration in order to obtain 
the pension provided by act of the Legislature, approved June 2, 1899, for indigent 
widows of deceased Confederate soldiers and sailors:  I am the lawful widow of 
William D. Adams, who enlisted September, 1862, in Captain John C. Richards, Co. A, 
A 10th Fla. Regiment of the State of Florida, and who while in actual service and 
in the line of duty as such soldier, was on the ____ day of ____, 1864 at Richmond, 
in the State of Virginia, William D. Adams was taken sick came home from Virginia 
when his command was in service during the late war between the states, sick in 
first of the year 1864 and as soon as he regained his health sufficient returned to 
his command; and remained there until the surrender; having contracted a severe 
cold which resulted in consumption and remained in bad health until he died in 
Starke, Bradford County, Florida, September 2, 1893, that I was legally married to 
said solider on the 16th day of January 1866 at New River, in the State of Florida; 
that I have been a bona fide resident of the State of Florida continuously since 
the Jan'y 3d day of 18?2 that I do not own property, real and personal, to the value 
of $600 in this or any other State, and am not otherwise enabled, or in a position 
to earn a livelihood, and have no income from any source sufficient for a livelihood; 
that I have no children or other relation able so to do and whose legal duty it is 
to support me, and that I have not purposely disposed of my property for the purpose 
of availing myself of the provisions of this act.

Susan Adams
P. O. Address Starke, Fla.

Sworn and subscribed before me this 30th day of January, 1900.

W. T. Weeks
Clerk Circuit Court, Bradford County

We do solemnly swear that we personally knew the said deceased William D. Adams; 
that we served with him in Co. A, of the 10th Fla. Regiment from the State of 
Florida, and know of our own knowledge and that he never deserted the service of 
the State, or of the Confederate States.

John C. Richard
Capt. Co. A 10th Fla. Regiment
P. O. Address Starke, Fla.
W. ?
P. O. Address Starke, Fla.

Sworn and subscribed before me this 3d day of February, 1900.

W. T. Weeks
Clerk Circuit Court

I certify that the above affidavits are genuine; that all of the affiants are 
persons of respectability and good reputation, and that their statements are worthy 
of belief; that the attesting officers are duly authorized to attest such affidavits, 
and their signatures thereto are genuine.

W. T. Weeks
Clerk of Circuit Court

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Claim For Pension
By
Mrs. Susan Adams
Widow Of
Wm. D. Adams
Late of Capt. John C. Richard's Company,
10th Florida Regiment
Filed In Executive Department:
July 15, 1900
Approved by the Board
Mar. 14, 1900 for pay from Mar. 14, 1900
At rate of $60.00 per year
D. Lang
Secretary
Filed In Comptroller's Office
Mar. 14, 1900