CIVIL WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APP. - VIENNA E. (TAYLOR) TYNER, WIDOW OF W. H. TYNER, 
OKALOOSA CO., FL

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Application No. 22833
Pensioner No.  2615

WIDOW'S PENSION CLAIM
Form A

STATE OF FLORIDA
County of Okaloosa

On this 17th day of September, A. D. One Thousand Nine Hundred and 25, personally 
appeared before me a ____ in and for the County and State aforesaid Vienna E. 
Tyner a resident of Okaloosa County of Florida, State of Florida, who being duly 
sworn according to law, makes the following declaration in order to obtain a 
pension under the provisions of the General Pension Laws of Florida.

That she is the lawful widow of W. H. Tyner who enlisted under the name of W. H. 
Tyner on the ____ day of ____, 186_, in Company E. Clanton's Bat. Regiment of the 
State of Alabama and who was honorably discharged at Near Andalusia, 186_, on 
account of close of the war.

That he also served For proof of husband's war service, refer to pension No. 8656, 
filed in the Comptroller's Office.

That she was lawfully married to the said W. H. Tyner under the name of Vienna E. 
Taylor in the County of Covington State of Alabama on the ____ day of  April, 1868, 
and that she was not divorced from him before nor has she remarried since his death,
which occurred on the 11th day of September, 1925, in the County of Okaloosa, 
State of Florida except as hereinafter stated.

That she is a resident of Okaloosa County, Florida, and has continuously resided in 
the State of Florida since the ____ day of April 1888.

That she was heretofore granted a pension from the State of Florida under 
Certificate No. ____.  That she is not a pensioner of any other State.

That her Postoffice address is Laurel Hill, County of Okaloosa, State of Florida.

Her X Mark:  Vienna E. Tyner
             
Attest:

(1) Ethel Wheelus
(2) A. M. Campbell

Sworn and subscribed before me this 13 day of October, A. D. 1925.  I hereby 
certify that the above declaration, etc., was made known and fully explained to the 
applicant before swearing, and that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the 
prosecution of this claim.

Ethel Wheelus
Notary Public

(b)

State of Florida,
County of Okaloosa,

Before me, a notary public, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally 
appeared G. W. Taylor who, being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says each 
for himself that he was present at the marriage of W. H. Tyner and Vienna E. Taylor 
which occurred at T. D. Taylor's res. on the ____ day of April, A. D. 1868, in the 
County of Covington, State of Alabama, and that the ceremony was performed by A. H. 
Paulk.

G. W. Taylor (L. S.)
Sworn and subscribed before me this 17th day of Sept., A. D. 1925.

A. B. Morris

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Report of County Commissioners

We, the undersigned, County Commissioners in and for the County of ____, Florida, 
do herby report that at a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners held this 
day, the foregoing application of ____ for a pension under the Laws of Florida, 
was investigated by us that we are satisfied that the applicant has been a bona 
fide citizen of the State of Florida for eight years just preceding the date of 
this application, and that the representations made in the petition and affidavits 
are true, and that a pension should be granted the applicant.

Witness our hands this 13 day of Oct., A. D. 1925.

D. E. ?, Chairman
C. C. Steele
W. C. Jones
J. W. Moore
W. K. McLauglin
   County Commissioners.

By the County Commissioners.  Attest:

D. ? Collum, Clerk Circuit Court

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Claim For Pension by
Vienna E. Tyner of
Laurel Hill Postoffice
Okaloosa County
Widow of W. H. Tyner of
Clanton's Bat.

Filed in Pension Department
Oct. 14, 1925

Approved and Filed in Comptroller's Office
Nov. 2, 1925
With pay from Sept. 11th, 1925
At the rate of $300.00 per annum
Roumelle Bowen, Secretary of Board