Fulton-Greene-Oglethorpe County GaArchives News.....Veterans Make Required Proof - Thirty-Six Applicants Admitted to Soldiers' Home -- Notified to Come June 3D May 28 1901
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The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution, May 28, 1901

VETERANS MAKE REQUIRED PROOF
Thirty-Six Applicants Admitted to Soldiers’ Home
NOTIFIED TO COME JUNE 3D
Committee Assured of at Least Fifteen More, So That the Home Will Open with 
Over Fifty – Names of Those Admitted

The committee on applications of the trustees of the Confederate Soldiers’ 
home has just passed favorably on thirty-six applications for admission to the 
home before that body.

As has been stated, there were about ninety applications on file with the 
trustees for admission to the home, but it will be remembered that it is 
necessary for each one to submit proofs of honorable service and discharge 
from the army, and of residence within the state of a period of five years.  
At the meeting of the committee all the names were passed upon where the 
requisite proofs had been submitted.

The thirty-six veterans referred to may now be practically considered inmates 
of the home.  Captain “Tip” Harrison, secretary of the board of trustees, 
wrote to each one of them personally yesterday notifying them that they had 
been admitted and requesting them to be in Atlanta on the morning of June 3d, 
or the day before.  They will be sent at once to the home on their arrival.  
The names of the thirty-six admitted and their counties are as follows:

W. J. Aldred, Washington county; Peter B. Baughn, Oglethorpe; Curran Becton, 
Jefferson; Francis M. Bearden, Morgan; W. G. Clark, Sumter; John A. Clements, 
Talbot; W. B. Clements, Fulton; J. L. Collier, Gordon; Robert B. Davis, Dooly; 
E. F. Elliott, Putnam; James C. Ford, Fulton; Edward A. Furlow, Morgan; Martin 
Farries, McIntosh; D. C. Goza, Fulton; Edward Garvin, Chatham; W. H. Harris, 
Gordon;’ E. V. P. Harris, Whitfield; J. C. Harris, Forsyth; M. J. Haralson, 
Walton; W. F. Hayes, Polk; Alfred B. Holt, Whitfield; W. B. Hunter, Troup; 
John B. Hunnicutt, Gwinnett; Thomas M. Jones, Warren; Charles L. Lankford, 
Greene; F. M. Leveritte, Morgan; J. J. McConnell, Habersham; G. W. Miller, 
Cobb; J. M. Mills, Whitfield; Amos Moore, Fulton; James F. Murphy, Jasper; 
Nicholas Overby, Fulton; G. S. Paul, Fulton; W. E. Saunders, Johnson; James N. 
Stephens, Fulton, and W. D. Wade, Richmond.

The committee is certain that at least fifteen others will have their proofs 
here before June 3d, so that the home will open with fifty or more inmates.

Each of those notified or positive admission to the home was asked to let the 
secretary know just what train he would come on.  Arrangements will be made to 
meet each of the veterans at the train and to send them at once to the home.  
President W. L. Calhoun, of the board of trustees, and Secretary Harrison have 
both gone to the reunion at Memphis, but they will be in the city again by 
Saturday, and will see that everything is in readiness for the reception of 
the veterans who come to the home.

Out of the ninety applicants three have died since making application.  Some 
thirty or more of the others are qualified for admission to the home and will 
no doubt send in their proofs within a few days.

It is thought when the pension year expires in the fall there will be more 
applicants for admission to the home than can be accommodated.  There are many 
cases where the pension is not sufficient to support the recipient because of 
the total lack of any other aid.  In one county near Atlanta there is an old 
veteran who sleeps in the courthouse, and still barely manages to live from 
one year’s end to the other on his pension of $66.  Many of this class will 
undoubtedly apply as soon as they are qualified to do so under the lay, and it 
is believed that in less than a year the capacity of the home will be severely 
taxed.

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