CIVIL WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APP. - AMELIA P. W. BALDWIN, WIDOW OF JOHN P. BALDWIN, 
Monroe Co., FL

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Application No. A12531

Widow's Application for Pension

STATE OF FLORIDA,
Monroe County,}

On this 10 day of August 1903, personally appeared before me a notary public in and for said 
county and State Amelia P. W. Baldwin, aged 83 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 6, 1903, for indigent widows of deceased and aged Confederate 
soldiers and sailors:  I am the lawful of John P. Baldwin, who enlisted 1861, in Captain ____ 
Company, ____ Regiment of the State of ____ and who while in actual service and in the line 
of duty as such ____, was on the 22 day of September, 1864, at Lake City, in the State of 
Florida died of typhoid fever while in actual service in the Commissary Department. 

He had ? of Major and I believe his rank was that of a Major - that I was legally married 
to said soldier prior to the first day of January, 1885, at Key West in the State of Florida; 
that I have been a bona fide resident of the State of Florida continuously since the first 
day of January, A. D. 1890; that I do not own property, real and personal, to the value of 
$800 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; and that I have 
not purposely disposed of my property for the purpose of availing myself of the provisions 
of this act.

Her X mark:  Amelia P. W. Baldwin
P. O. Address:  Key West, Fla.

Sworn and subscribed before me this 10 day of August 1903.

W. Hunt Harris
Notary Public

We do solemnly swear that we personally knew the above applicant Amelia P. W. Baldwin that 
she was the lawful wife of John P. Baldwin now deceased, that she has never remarried since 
his death, that she is a person of "respectability and good reputation," that she does not 
own property to the value of $800 in this or any other State, and that she is not physically 
or otherwise enabled to earn a livelihood, and has constantly resided in Florida since 
January 1st, 1890.

Alfred Lowe

Sworn to and subscribed before me this __ day of Feby. 1904.

W. Hunt Harris
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 said affidavits, and that their signatures 
thereto are genuine.

Geo. W. Reynold
Clerk of Circuit Court

I do solemnly swear that I personally knew the above applicant A. P. W. Baldwin that she 
was the lawful wife of John P. Baldwin now deceased, that she has never remarried since his 
death, that she is a person of "respectability and good reputation," that she does not own 
property to the value of $800 in this or any other State, and that she is not physically or 
otherwise enabled to earn a livelihood, and has constantly resided in Florida since January 1st, 
1890.

B. B. Whalton
Key West, Fla.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of May 1904.

Geo. W. Reynold
Clerk Ct. Ct.
Monroe Co., Fla.


We, the undersigned County Commissioners of Monroe county, Florida, do hereby certify that 
we have carefully investigated the above application for pension made by Amelia P. W. Baldwin 
and are satisfied that the facts and conditions therein stated and alleged are true and 
correct, and that she is legally and justly entitled to the pension provided by the act, 
approved May 3, 1901.

J. R. Curry, Jr., Chairman
Thos. W. Shultz
Chas. O. Forsberg
Robert J. Duffy
County Commissioners

By the County Commissioners, Attest:

Geo. W. Reynold
Clerk Circuit Court

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Claim For Pension
By
Mrs. A. P. W. Baldwin
Of
Monroe Co.
Widow of
John P. Baldwin
Filed In Executive Department
Feb. 15 1904
Approved
April 4 1904
C. H. Dickinson
Pay from Feb. 15 1904
At rate of $96.00 per annum.

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State of Florida}
County of Gadsden}

Before me personally appeared P. W. White of said county and state, who first being duly 
sworn, deposes and says that he was appointed and commissioned by the war department of the 
late Confederate States, as Chief Commissary of the State of Florida, with the rank of Major, 
with authority to divide and said state into districts, and to assign to each district a 
District Commissary, and that he divided said state into five (5) Districts, and that he 
appointed and assigned to duty Major John P. Baldwin, then holding the rank of Captain in 
the commissary department, to duty of Commissary of the third district of Florida, with 
headquarters at Sanderson, in East Florida.  That the said John P. Baldwin was afterward 
promoted to the rank of Major, and continued on duty as commissary of the said Third District, 
with headquarters at Sanderson, until driven from that post by the invasion of the United 
States Troops; after which time, this affiant changed his headquarters from Sanderson to Lake 
City, in the same District, either until the close of the war between the States, or until 
his death, this affiant does not now remember which.  The date for the foregoing statement, 
I found in my letter press Book as Chief Commissary of the State of Florida, now in my possession.  
Major Baldwin was always recognized by all who knew him as a true patriot and an honest and 
faithful officer in the position he held.

P. W. White (singed)

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of January A. D. 1914.

Thos. Mitchell, Clerk Circuit Court,
Gadsden County, Florida