Civil War Pension: Sarah Fillman widow of John SILCOX (1908); Escambia Co., FL

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Ronnie Silcox, 
resilcox@yahoo.com

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Sarah Fillman Silcox, widow of John Silcox.

Claim for pension based on Civil War service State of Florida

File # 16451. Application filed July 27, 1908, Escambia County, Florida.
Approved February 10, 1910, pensioner # 5477 at the rate of $120 per annum.

From Widow's Pension Application:
Service was claimed in Company I, 6th Alabama Cavalry. Enlisted Dec 15, 1863
in Milton, FL and was discharged due to sickness near Oxford, AL on
September 30th, 1864. Files indicated that copies of discharge papers were
provided by the widow. Joseph Keyser, former Captain of Co. I, served as a
witness in application files.

Widow's application contains the following information from Sarah Fillman
Silcox:
Sarah was born in Early County, Georgia in June 1836. She moved to Henry
County, Alabama at the age of 15. She married John Silcox on January 5, 1853
in Henry County, Alabama under the name of Sarah Fillman. She lived in
Alabama from about 1851 to about 1888. John Silcox died in Lowndes county,
Alabama about 1887. She did not remarry. Sarah lived in Florida from about
1888. Her address at filing was Bluff Springs, Escambia County, Florida.

Notes: Marriage date agrees with Henry county marriage records. Date of
death for John and first date of Escambia County residence (1887-8) may be
off by a few years, since Sarah (Sallie) Silcox and children are listed in
the 1885 census of Escambia County, Florida without John.