Butts County GaArchives News.....Our Pensioners December 31, 1896
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Jackson Argus – Week Of December 31, 1896 December 31, 1896
Through the kindness of our excellent Ordinary, Judge Carmichael, we learn the
following facts with reference to the confederate pensioners of Butts County:

There are 75 persons in the county who draw pensions from the state.   Of this
number 42 are the widows of confederate soldiers; 48 are old confederate
soldiers.   These latter may be divided into two classes, towit; invalid
soldiers, 29 and indigent soldiers, 14.

The widows are paid annually the uniform sum of sixty dollars.   They receive
therefore, $1,920 from the state.   The indigent soldiers also receive the
uniform stipend of sixty dollars a year, which brings into the county from that
source $840.   The invalid soldiers are paid according to their injuries.   One
of them receives a pension of five dollars a year for the loss of a finger; two
get twenty-five dollars each; 2 get thirty dollars each; 16 get fifty dollars
each and eight get one hundred dollars each, making $11715 received by invalid
soldiers.(This figure of $11715 is an incorrect figure.  The above figures add
up to $1715.00)

It will be observed that the total amount of cash paid to Butts county
pensioners is $4,475.




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