Carroll County GaArchives Military Records.....Woodard, Tobias March 31, 1899 Civilwar - Pension Co K, 30th Reg / Co A 12th Ga Bat ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bert Pittman http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00032.html#0007820 July 1, 2005, 9:12 pm Confederate Veteran's Pension Application QUESTIONS FOR APPLICANT STATE OF GEORGIA Carroll County. Tobias Woodard of said State and County, desiring to avail himself of the Pension Act (Section 1254, Code), hereby submits his proofs, and after being duly sworn true answers to make in the following questions,deposes and answers as follows: 1. What is your name and where do you reside (Give State, County and Post office) Mandeville Carroll County Ga Tobias Woodard is my name 2. How long and since when have you been a resident of this state? All my life except 5 years in Ala. I moved back in 1894 3. When and where were you born? March 7, 1840 - Cherokee co Ala 4. When and where and in what company and regiment did you enlist or serve? 1861 in Coweta Co Ga, Co K 30th Regt Ga Vols served 12 mos. & was transferred to 12th Bat. 5. How long did you remain in such company and regiment? I was in the service nearly 4 years. 6 For how long a period did you discharge regular military duty? Nearly 4 years. 7. When, where and under what circumstances were you discharged from service? Surrendered at Appomatox 1865 8. What is your present occupation? None - I have been a farmer. 9. How much can you earn (gross) per annum by your own exertions or labor? Nothing, might do little jobs and earn $15 or $20 10. What has been your occupation since 1865? Farming til 2 years ago. 11. Upon which of the following grounds do you base your application for pension, viz: first, "age and poverty," second, "infirmity and poverty," or third, "blindness and poverty?" infirmity and povery. 12. If upon the first ground, state how long you have been in such condition that you could not earn your support. If upon the second, give full and complete history of the infirmity and its extent. If upon the third, state whether you are totally blind and when and where you lost your sight. I have bronchitis and dropsy and I breath with difficulty at times. I am swelled and don't have good use of myself & but little strength. I suffer from inability to sleep. 13. What property, effect or income do you possess, and its gross value? a frame. 1 & 1 & goods not worth over $25 or $30 14. What property, effects or income, did you possess in 1894, 1895, 1896, 1896, 1897 and 1898, and what disposition, if any, did you make of same? I had no others, except a cow, I had a horse & paid the tax on it then was Mr Garretts 15. In what county did you reside during those years, and what property did you then return for taxation? Carroll Co Ga A House & H. H. Home was but not paid tax 16. How were you supported during the years 1897 and 1898? By my friends who helped me & my children. I chopped wood sometimes & I did what I could I am not able to (chop) wood at all now. 17. How much did your support cost for each of those years, and what portion did you contribute thereto by your own labor or income? I suppose 50-60 or 75 - I suppose I made $25 a year in good years. 18. What was your employment during 1897 and 1998? What pay did you receive in each year? set bounds some and helped hoe a little, don't know what I earned, very little 19. Have you a family? If so, who composes such family? Give their means of support. Have they a homestead ? Yes; Wife - 2 daughters & a son. Wife badly afflicted, has fits. No means of support No Homestead. 20. Are you receiving any pension? If so, what amount and for what disability? None Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31st day of March, 1899. Tobias Woodard S. J. Brown, Ordinary of Carroll County ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ QUESTIONS FOR WITNESS State of Georgia Coweta County Alvin D Freeman, of said State and County, having been presented as a witness in support of the application of Tobias Woodard for pension under the Act approved December 15th, 1894, and after being duly sworn true answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as follows: 1. What is your name and where do you reside? Alvin D Freeman and I reside near City of Newnan Georgia 2. Are you acquainted with Tobias Woodard, the applicant; if so how long have you known him? I knew him in 1862 & 3 & 4 & 5 3. Where does he reside, and how long and since when has he been a resident of this state? don't know 4. Do you know of his having served in the Confederate army or the Georgia militia? How do you know this? I know he served in the Confederate Army in Co A 12th Bat in 1862 & 3 & 4 & 5 5. When, where and in what company and regiment did he enlist? I was not a member when he came to said company 6. Were you a member of the same company and regiment? I was 7. How long did he perform regular military duty, and what do you know of his service as a confederate soldier, and the time and circumstances of his discharge from service? I think he served two or three years. I think he was discharged by surrender of Appomattox 8. What property, effects or income has the applicant? (give means of knowledge.) I don't know 9. What property, effects or income did the applicant possess in 1895, 1896, and what disposition, if any did he make of same? I don't know 10. What is the applicant's occupation and physical condition? I don't know 11. Is the applicant unable to support himself by labor of any sort, if so, why? I don't know 12. How was he supported during the years 1895 and 1896? I don't know 13. What portion of his support for these two years was derived from his own labor or income? I don't know 14. Give full and complete statement of the applicant's physical condition that entitles him to a pension under the Act of December 15th, 1894? I don't know 15. What interest have you in the recovery of a pension by this applicant? None Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 23 day of January 1897 Alvin D. Freeman, Witness Orlando McClendon, Ordinary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- Georgia Carroll County Pension Claim of Tobias Woodard. Indigent Act 1894. Personally came before me .J. C. Hendrix, whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and having by me duly sworn say. I am not interested in the above claim. I know the claimant well, Have been living near him for the last 5 years. I know that formerly he was a very hard worker, and I know that he does but very little now. I don't think the is able to work sufficiently enough to make a support by work, or anything near it . I living , and have the last year near him, in 1/2 mile. and see him once or twice a week. From his appearance and the way he complains, I consider him nearly a complete wreck, He limps and hobbles with rheumatism. He is swelled and seems to have Dropsy. Complains lots with his head & shoulders, and says he has kidney disease. It is not caused by bad habits as I don't think he has any living strictly morally I am acquainted with his means. He has nothing except a few articles of old house hold , I don't suppose everything hew has would bring $30. I think he will have to go to the poor home unless he gets help from somewhere. for I am satisfied that he can't even make a cheap living by his own labor. J C Hendrix Sworn to & subscribed before me this 4 April, 1899. S. J. Brown Ordinary. Personally Came J. M . Garrett whom I certify is worthy of belief and being duly sworn says that he has no interest in the claim except as a well wisher, and that he fully all the facts as typical by J C Hendrix. in the forgoing application . the physical & fininancial condtion of claimant Jeff Garrett . Sworn to & subscribed before me this 5th day of April 1899. S. J. Brown, Ordinary. ------------------------------------------------------------------ AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIANS State of Georgia Carroll County Personally came before me J. F. Cole and W. L. Pitts, both known to be reputable physicians of said county, who, being severally sworn, say on oath that they have examined carefully Tobias Woodard, applicant for pension under Section 1254, Code, and after such personal examination say that his precise physical condition is as follows: He has Dropsy due to Bright's disease. his body and extremities are swollen. his difficulty. We further say on oath that the physical condition of applicant renders him unable to labor at any work or calling sufficient to support himself, and that we have no interest in said pension being allowed. J F Cole, M.D. W.L. Pitts, M.D. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 15th day of April 1899. S. J. Brown, Ordinary. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORDINARY'S CERTIFICATE State of Georgia Carroll County I, S. J. Brown, Ordinary in and for said county, hereby certify that the applicant Tobias Woodard resides in said county, and has been a bona fide resident of this state since the (blank) and that the witnesses, vis: J. M. Garrett and J. C. Hendrix are of trustworthy character, and that their statements are entitled to full faith and credit, I further certify that before the foregoing questions the applicant and each witness took the oath hereon prescribed, and that the full text of the affidavits was read to the applicant and witness before same was signed. I further certify that the tax digests of Carroll County show that applicant returned for taxation in his name in 1897, $66 Dollars of property, and in 1898 $65 Dollars of property. In my opinion, the foregoing claim is made in good faith. Witness my hand and seal of office, this 15th day of April 1899.. S. J. Brown, Ordinary of Caroll County. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Included in the file of Tobias Woodard was an untitled page containing type written questions and answers. I assume this is an internal summery page. The following is a transcription of this page: ----------------- NAME: Woodard, Tobias YEAR 1899 COUNTY Carroll WHEN AND WHERE BORN? March 7th, 1840 Cherokee Co. Ala RANK (blank) COMPANY AND REGIMENT? Co.K 30th. Regt, Ga, Vols. (12 months) Transferred: Co. A. 12 Ga. Battalion NAME OF CAPTAIN AND COLONEL? (blank) WOUNDED? (blank) CAPTURED, WHEN AND WHERE? (blank) RELEASED. (blank) WHEN AND WHERE SURRENDERED Appomattox Court House, VA. 1865. IF NOT PRESENT AT SURRENDER, WHERE WERE YOU? (blank) DIED, WHEN AND WHERE? (blank) BURIED. (blank) WITNESSES. Alvan (sic) D. Freeman, same command - No data. JWT Additional Comments: Tobias Woodard was born 1840, in Cherokee Co AL to Jesse Woodard and Mildred [Brown] Woodard. According to researcher Janet Baber, he died in 1919 and is buried somewhere near Mt. Zion in Carrol Co GA He served in Co K, 30th Regt Ga Vols (Infantry), for 12 months and then was transfered to Co A, 12th Ga Bat (Light Artillery) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/military/civilwar/pensions/woodard381mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 11.8 Kb