CIVIL WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APP. - BULAH (HENDERSON) WRIGHT, WIDOW OF WILLIAM PRESTON 
WRIGHT, OKALOOSA CO., FL

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Application No. 22909
Pensioner No.  2667

WIDOW'S PENSION CLAIM
Under General Pension Law of Florida

Form A

STATE OF FLORIDA,}
County of Okaloosa}

On this 8 day of April, A. D. One Thousand Nine Hundred and twenty six, personally 
appeared before me a Notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid Bulah 
Wright a resident of Laurel Hill Rt. 4 County of Okaloosa 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 Wm. P. Wright.  For proof of husband's war service, 
refer to Pension No. 8530 filed in the Comptroller's Office.

That she was lawfully married to said Wm. P. Wright under the name of Bulah 
Henderson in the County of Santa Rosa State of Fla. on the 8 day of June, 1905, and 
that she was not divorced from him before nor has she remarried since his death, 
which occurred on the 12 day of March, 1926, in the County of Okaloosa, State of 
Fla. except as hereinafter stated.

That she is a resident of Okaloosa County, Florida, and has continuously resided in 
the State of Florida since the last 40 years.

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 Rt. 4, County of Okaloosa, State of 
Florida.

Bulah Wright

Attest:

(1) J. W. Baggett, Jr.
(2) W. S. Lawton

Sworn and subscribed before me this 8 day of April, A. D. 1926.  I hereby certify 
that the above declaration, etc., was made know and fully explained to the applicant
before swearing, and that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution
of this claim.

J. W. Baggett, Jr.
Notary Public

(c)

State of Florida
County of Okaloosa

Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally 
appeared J. F. Stewart and Jos. L. Steele who, being duly sworn according to law, 
deposes and says, each for himself, that he knows of his own personal knowledge of 
the death of Wm. P. Wright which occurred at Laurel Hill, County of Okaloosa, State 
of Fla., on the 12 day of March, A. D. 1926.

J. F. Stewart
Joe L. Steele

Sworn and subscribed before me this 8 day of April, A. D. 1926.

J. W. Baggett, Jr.
Notary Public

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Report of County Commissioners

We, the undersigned, County Commissioners in and for the County of ____, Florida, 
do hereby 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 Apr., A. D. 1926.

(1) D. E. Shelton, Chairman
(2) W. C. Jones
(3) W. K. McLaughlin
(4) C. C. Steele
    County Commissioners

By the County Commissioners.  Attest:

D. H. McCallum
Clerk Circuit Court

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Claim For Pension
By
Beulah Wright
Of Rt. 4 Laurel Hill Postoffice
Okaloosa County
Widow of
Wm. P. Wright
Filed In Pension Department
April 16th, 1926
Approved and Filed in Comptroller's Office
April 30th, 1926
With pay from March 12, 1926
At the rate of $480.00 per annum
Roumelle Bowen
Secretary of Board

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Letters of Guardianship

In Court of County Judge,
Okaloosa County,
State of Florida

In the Matter of the Guardianship of}
Mrs. Bulah Wright, An Incompetent.}

By the Judge of said Court, to all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:

Whereas, J. H. Fowler hath applied to the judge of the County Judge's Court of said 
County of Okaloosa to be appointed Guardian of Mrs. Bulah Wright, an Incompetent, 
and it appearing to the Judge of said Court that said Mrs. Bulah Wright, has been 
adjudged insane and a Guardian is necessary to look after her estate and it also 
appearing to the Judge of said Court that said J. H. Fowler is a fit and proper 
person to receive said appointment, and the said J. H. Fowler having in due form of 
law taken the oath and performed all other acts necessary to his just qualification 
as such Guardian:

Now, therefore, know ye, that I, ____ County Judge in and for the County aforesaid, 
by virtue of the power and authority by law in me vested, do hereby declare the said
J. H. Fowler duly qualified under and by virtue of the laws of said State, to act 
as Guardian of said Mrs. Bulah Wright, An Incompetent, and hath power, by virtue of 
those presents, to have the care, custody and control of said Incompetent and duly 
entitled to take possession of and to have and to hold, for the benefit of said 
Incompetent all and singular the goods, chattels, credits and estate of said 
Incompetent, as shall be in accordance with law, during the legal continuance of 
said guardianship, until the said Incompetent shall arrive at the age of twenty-one 
years, or until the said guardianship shall be duly revoked according to law.

In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at 
Crestview, this 22nd day of February, A. D. 1933.

Lloyd C. Powell
County Judge

State of Florida,}
Okaloosa County}

Be it remembered, that on this 22nd day of May, A. D. 1933 I have duly recorded the 
foregoing Letters of Guardianship in the public records of said County, and that 
the above is a true copy thereof.

Lloyd C. Powell
County Judge

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In Court of County Judge,
Okaloosa County,
State of Florida
Guardianship of
Mrs. Bulah Wright, an Incompetent
Letters of Guardianship
Filed this 22nd day of May, A. D. 1933
and recorded in Book One, page 137.
Lloyd C. Powell
County Judge

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In the Circuit Court of Okaloosa County,
State of Florida, In Chancery

In the matter of 
Mrs. Beulah Wright,
an insane person.

This cause coming on to be heard upon the bill of complaint of Mrs. Beulah Wright, 
an insane person, by W. H. Henderson, nephew of Mrs. Wright and next friend, and the
State Florida being represented by Purl G. Adams, State's Attorney for the First 
Judicial Circuit of Florida, for the purpose of this hearing and the said Mrs. 
Beulah Wright being present in personal and represented by counsel and the complainant
having produced as witnesses, Frank Clary, W. H. Henderson, I. J. Stephens, 
Elizabeth Brown, Mrs. Fay Belle Steele, who being duly sworn testified to the mental
and physical condition and fitness of the said Mrs. Beulah Wright to manage her own 
affairs, and be restored to his personal liberty and complainant having produced 
affidavits of neighbors, and affidavit of Dr. S. E. Stephens who is a licensed and 
practicing physician of Okaloosa County, Florida, attesting the sanity and physical 
fitness of the said Mrs. Beulah Wright, and the Court having considered the same;

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED, that the said Mrs. Beulah Wright is of 
sound mind judicially and is capable of managing her own affairs; that the said Mrs.
Beulah Wright be immediately restored to her personal liberty; that the said Mrs. 
Beulah Wright be decreed to be capable mentally of attending to her own affairs as 
though she had never been adjudged insane.

Done and ordered in chambers at Pensacola, Florida this 26th day of May, A. D. 1933.

L. L. Fanisinski, Judge

I, Allen T. Carr, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Okaloosa County, Florida, hereby 
certify that the above is a true and correct copy of Decree of this Court as 
recorded in Volume 4 at Page 113 of Ct. Ct. Min.

Allen T. Carr,
Clerk Circuit Court