BERRIEN  COUNTY, GA - Confederate widows (pension) Jan 1892

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Gwen Robinson

The Gazette: Tifton, Ga.
January 1892

This is an official list of the Confederate widows
whose applications for pensions have been approved and
filed in the Executive Department for payment. This
list was given to the gazette to publish by F. M. Smith
who at the time was the Ordinary of Berrien county.

The article states that these ladies will receive $100
each under the widow's pension act. 

They are: Mary Alger, Lydia Chambers, Winnie E.
Connell, Elizabeth Coker, Patience Crosby, Jerasha?
Dobson, Mary Eldridge, Lydia Ford, Sarah Gaskins, Nancy
Goodman, Beadiann Griffin, M.A.J. Hancock, Bla?sett
Hendley, Sarah Hutchinson, M.M. Juban, Angeline Key,
Mary Kirby, Elizabeth W. Langford, P.A. Lewis, Martha
A. Lindsey, Mary Matthis, Nancy Moore, Elizabeth
Morrison, M.M. McCranie, Tempie Paulk, Tabitha Parrish,
Elizabeth Patterson, Rebecca Purvis, M.M. Register, ?
Richardson, Martha Richardson, Mary A. Robinson, Mary
Ann Roe, Caroline Shaw, Jane Smith, Farroby? Sutton, M.
E. Thompson, E.J. Turner? (correction Elizabeth Jane
Luke Turner), Caroline Tygart, E.L. Varn, Fannie
Vickers, and Catherine Young

Gwen Robinson
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Elizabeth Jane LUKE Turner D1897 buried Flat Creek Cem. Berrien Co. wife of John Smith TURNER B1827 D Unk. George Turner GDTurner@webtv.net

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My great great grandfather Henry J. Crosby, his wife
Patience and their children lived somewhere near
Moultrie, Colquitt Co., Georgia in 1860. Henry's
parents, brothers and sisters lived at Berrien Co.
(maybe near what is today Sparks), but the distance is
not great. In the 1870 census, Patience is a widow
living near Milltown, Berrien Co. I had guessed that
Henry died in the war, but seeing Patience Crosby on
the Berrien County pension list removes the guess work.

I found CSA army information on four Henry or H. J.
Crosbys using the Internet. I've pretty much eliminated
two of them, but don't know how to determine if either
of the others is my ancestor.

Do you know if the pension applications are on file
anywhere? Or can you perhaps recommend another source
of information?

Thanks again, Brian

--------------- Two Henry Crosbys ----------------

Henry Crosby (gsi 44310) is in Company A, K, 4th Reg't,
Georgia Cavalry ("Clinch's Cavalry"). No Crosby is
indexed at Clinch County in the 1860 census, but Henry
Crosbys are indexed at Colquitt and Mitchell Counties.
Colquitt is about 50 miles west of Clinch County, and
Mitchell is just west of Colquitt, so it is possible
that men from Colquitt and Mitchell joined this unit. I
have seen no evidence of recruiting from Colquitt or
Mitchell, but there is mention of recruits from Berrien
County.

Henry Crosby is in Company I, 12th Georgia Militia,
which was organized in the summer of 1864. The 12th was
assigned to the Army of Tennessee August-October, 1864;
and then to the Dept. of South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida until January 1865. I have no information on
the area from which Company I was recruited.