CIVIL WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APP. - MARY A. ARMSTRONG, WIDOW OF GEORGE O. ARMSTRONG, LEVY CO., FL

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Application No. A11691

Widow's Application for Pension

STATE OF FLORIDA,}	
Levy County}

On this 19th day of Oct., 1899, personally appeared before me a Clerk Cir. Court in and for 
said county and State, Mary A. Armstrong, aged 81 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 Geo. O. Armstrong, who enlisted March, 1862, in Captain 
Idleburger Company, "H" 7th Fla. Regiment of the State of Florida, and who while in actual 
service and in the line of duty as such soldier, was on about July, 1862, at Chattanooga, in 
the State of Tenn. was taken sick with pneumonia on the battlefield and he was carried to 
hospital where he died, after an illness of only a few days and that I am already a state 
pensioner 

that I was legally married to said soldier on the ____ day of Dec. 1840, at Fairfield Dist. 
in the State of S. C.; that I have been a bona fide resident of the State of Florida continuously 
since the ____ day of March 1861 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.

Mary A. Armstrong
P. O. Address:  Montbrook

Sworn and subscribed before me this 19th day of Oct., 1899.

Perry M. Colson
Clerk Circuit Court, Levy County

We do solemnly swear that we personally knew the said deceased George O. Armstrong; that 
we served with him in Company H of the 7th Regiment from the State of Florida, and know of 
our own knowledge that he contracted at the time and place claimed, the disease which 
resulted in his death, and that he never deserted the service of the State, or of the 
Confederate States.

J. B. Miles
P. O. Address:  Morriston, Fla.
D. M. Armstrong
P. O. Address:  Phoenix, Levy Co., Fla.

Sworn and subscribed before me this 21 day of September, 1899.

P. O. Sneller
Notary Public

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 that their 
signatures thereto are genuine.

Perry M. Colson
Clerk of Circuit Court

We, the undersigned County Commissioners of Levy county, Florida, do hereby certify that 
we have carefully investigated the above application for pension made by Mrs. Mary A. 
Armstrong and are satisfied that the facts and conditions stated therein are true and 
correct, and that she is legally and justly entitled to the pension provided by the act, 
approved June 2, 1899.

This Nov. 7, 1899.

E. C. Price, Chairman
W. D. Finalyson
J. M. Stephens
C. W. McElroy
E. Walker
County Commissioners

By the County Commissioners, Attest:

Perry M. Colson
Clerk Circuit Court

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Pensioner No. 226
Old No. 530

Claim For Pension
By
Mary A. Armstrong
Widow Of
Geo. O. Armstrong
Late of
Capt. Idleburger Company H
7th Fla. Regiment
Approved by the Board
Dec. 9/99 for pay from 
Sept. 30/99
At rate of $60.00 per year
D. Lang
Secretary
Filed In Comptroller's Office
Dec 9 1899