CIVIL WAR PENSION APP. - JOHN NICHOLS, OKALOOSA CO., FL

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Application No.  23798

Special Claim for Pension by John Nichols, c/o Hon. Purl G. Adams, Crestview, Florida.

Henry Walton Home Guard Company. Filed in Pension Dept. 19 June, 1931.

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Letter

July 30, 1931

Mr. John Nichols
C/o Hon. Purl G. Adams
Crestview, Florida

My dear Mr. Nichols -

With reference to the Special Law granting you a pension, I am sorry to inform you but the 
law of 1923 makes it the duty of the Pension Board to strike special pensioners from the 
roll who have not submitted such proof of their service or who have deserted.

It will be necessary for you to submit proof in substantiation of your claim if you can and 
the Board will be glad to render such assistance in enabling you to do so as they can.

I am enclosing herewith copy of the law requiring this investigation.

Respectfully,

Secretary, Pension Board.

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Letter

Dec. 21st, 1931

Hon. Purl G. Adams,
Senator,
Crestview, Florida.

Dear Senator Adams:

The claim for pension of John Nichols was presented to the Pension Board and denied on 
account of the fact that no proof of his service has been furnished.

Yours very truly,

Secretary, Pension Board.

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An Act Granting a Pension to John Nichols, of Okaloosa County, Florida.

Whereas, John Nichols enlisted in the summer of 1861, at West side of Yellow River between 
Crestview and Milton, Florida in the Henry Walton Home Guard Company, of the State of 
Florida, and served in said company from then to the end of the war and did not desert the 
Confederate States service, nor take oath of allegiance to the United States before the 
close of the war, and,

Whereas, the said John Nichols was born on August 16, 1849, and is now without income or 
property and wholly dependent on charity.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA:

SECTION 1.  That the State Board of Pensions be and it is hereby authorized and directed to 
place the name of John Nichols of Okaloosa County, on the Pension Roll of the State of 
Florida, to be paid a pension at the same rate and in the same manner as other pensioners of 
the state are paid.

SECTION 1A.  Provided that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit the right of 
the State Pension Board under the General Law of 1923 to remove the name of the pensioner 
from the Pension Roll if after investigation such Board shall find that the alleged soldier 
upon whose service the pension is based did not render service during the war between the 
States such as would entitled him to receive a pension or that he deserted the service.

SECTION 2.  That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 3.  That this Act shall become effective upon its becoming a law.

Date filed 15 June, 1931
Unsigned