CIVIL WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APP. - SUSIE (CELEST) FLOYD, WIDOW OF BEN FLOYD, OKALOOSA CO., FL File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Janet Steadham, (steaddanjan@earthlink.net) ******************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or publication by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ******************************************************************************* CONTRIBUTOR'S NOTE: I have no relationship to anyone mentioned in the below file. ******************************************************************************* Pensioner # 10554 Letter State Board of Pensions Governor Comptroller, Treasurer. State of Florida Department of Pensions Tallahassee July 12, 1941 The Adjutant-General Washington, D. C. Sir: In the consideration of an application for a State Pension under the laws of Florida, it is necessary to have information of the military record of Ben Floyd who it is claimed was a member of Company A, 21st Regt. Ala. Regt. CSA. Any information or record of this soldier you may be able to furnish me will be greatly appreciated. Yours very truly, Miss Roumelle Bowen Secretary of the Pension Board ******************************************************************************* Letter War Department The Adjutant General's Office Washington July 15, 1941 Respectfully returned to Comptroller, State Board of Pension, State of Florida Tallahassee, Florida The name Ben Floyd has not been found on the muster rolls on file in this office of Company A, 21st Regiment Alabama Infantry, Confederate States Army, which cover the period, in part, from September 24, 1862 to October 31, 1863 and no record has been found of the service, capture or parole of a man named Ben Floyd as a member of that organization. The collection of Confederate States Army records on file in this Department is incomplete and the failure to find the complete or any record of any person thereon is by no means conclusive proof that such person did not serve at some period not covered by the records. E. S. Adams Major General The Adjutant General ******************************************************************************* Letter Alabama Pension Commission The State Capitol Montgomery July 21, 1941 Miss Roumelle Bowen, Secretary State Board of Pensions Tallahassee, Florida Re: Mr. Ben Floyd Deceased Veteran Dear Miss Bowen: This will acknowledge receipt of your recent letter asking for the Confederate Military Record of the above veteran. According to our files, Mrs. Susie C. Floyd was placed on the pension roll of Alabama upon the following record of her husband, Ben Floyd: Private Company "A" 21st Regiment Since the application does not state the name of the Regiment, I assume that it is the 21st Alabama Regiment. No other information is given in the application concerning his service in the war, other than the above. Trusting this is the information you desire, I am Yours very truly, S. C. Blackshear Secretary Alabama Pension Commission ******************************************************************************* Letter State of Florida House of Representatives Tallahassee July 15, 1941 Pension Department Tallahassee, Florida Attention Mr. Roumelle Bowen, Secretary State Board of Pensions: In reply to your letter concerning the pension for Mrs. Susie Celest Floyd. This is to advise that Mrs. Floyd drew this pension from Pike County Alabama, Troy County Seat and that she drew the last check March 1, 1940. Mrs. Floyd's Address is Baker, Florida, R. F. D. Yours very truly, Newman Brackin ******************************************************************************* CHAPTER 20967 - No. 759 AN ACT Granting a Pension to Susie Celest Floyd of Okaloosa County, Florida. WHEREAS, Susie Celest Floyd is the widow of Ben Floyd who served in the Confederate State's Army as a private in Company A in Regiment 21 and did not desert the said cause, and WHEREAS, Susie Celest Floyd is now eighty-three years old and has resided in the State of Florida for more than the past five years, and WHEREAS, the said Susie Celest Floyd was on the pension roll and received a pension from the State of Alabama from July 1, 1916, until she was stricken from said pension roll for reasons of her becoming a resident of the State of Florida, and WHEREAS, the said Ben Floyd rendered valuable services to the Confederate cause and was wounded in said service. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA: Section 1. That in recognition of the services rendered by the said Ben Floyd, who was the husband of the said Susie Celest Floyd, she is hereby awarded a pension in the sum of Four Hundred Eighty Dollars ($480.00) per annum in equal monthly payments, in the same manner that other pensioners are paid, said payments to be made during the remainder of her natural life or until otherwise provided by law. Section 2. That the sum of Four Hundred and Eighty Dollars ($480.00) per annum, is hereby annually appropriated out of the Pension Fund of the State of Florida to the pension hereinbefore provided, and it shall be the duty of the Comptroller to draw his warrants from the Treasurer payable from said appropriation on the first of each month hereafter and transmit the same to said pensioner. Section 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Section 4. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its becoming a law. Approved & Filed: June 14, 1941 ******************************************************************************* Pensioner # 10554 Mrs. Susie Celest Floyd R. F. D. Baker, Fla. Okaloosa County Approved Dec. 17, 1941 with pay from June 14, 1941 at the rate of $600.00 per annum. Roumelle Bowen