Heard-Carroll County GaArchives Military Records.....Armstrong, James Isom & Widow Amanda May 10 1895 Civilwar - Pension Co D 42nd Regiment GA Vols. ************************************************ 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: Candace Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 August 17, 2004, 11:09 pm Civil War Pension Application Indigent Pension Application of James Isom Armstrong of Heard County, Georgia, 1895 State of Georgia, Heard County J. I. Armstrong of said State and County, desiring to avail himself of the Pension Act approved December 15th 1894 hereby submits his proofs 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? James I. Armstrong, P.O. Franklin, Heard County, GA. 2. Where did you reside on January 1st 1894 and how long have you been a resident of this State? In Heard County, GA. 3. When and where were you born? In DeKalb now Fulton Co. GA 4. Did you volunteer in the Confederate Army or in the Georgia Militia? Confederate Army 5. When and where did you enlist? March 1862 in Decatur, GA 6. In what company and regiment did you enlist? Co. D 42 GA Regiment 7. How long did you remain in that company and regiment? Until captured 1864. 8. If you were discharged from same and joined another or if you were transferred to another, give an account of such discharge or transfer: I served in Co. D 42 GA all the time. 9. For how long a period did you discharge regular military duty? From Mar 2nd 1862 to July '64. 10. When, where and under what circumstances were you discharged from service? I was discharged from prison at Camp Douglas, Ill. in May 1865. 11. What is your present occupation? Farmer 12. How much can you earn per annum by your own exertions or labor? I can make 1 bag cotton on my part. 13. What has been your occupation since 1862? Farming 14. What sum would be necessary for your support for this pension year and how much are you able to contribute thereto either by labor or income? I am in dire neccesity, can do very little. 15. What is your present physical condition and how long have you been in such condition? I suffer from kidney trouble contracted while in siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. In 1881 and occasionally ever since I had vertigo so I cannot stand up for days. 16. Upon which of the following grounds do you base your application for pension, viz: age and poverty, infirmity and poverty or blindness and poverty? Second. 17. State how long you have been in such condition that you cannot earn a support? In June 1863 while laying in the ditches of Vicksburg, I was taken with kidney affliction. It gets worse as I grow older and the vertigo since 1881. 18. What property effects or income do you possess? None except a cow and a little household. 19. What property effects or income did you possess in 1893 and 1894 and what disposition of any did you make of same? None, I lost what I had when the Union soldiers passed through Cobb Co. GA in 1864. 20. In what County did you reside during those years and then return for taxation? In 1894 I lived in Heard County and returned $38. 21. How were you supported in the years 1893 and 1894? I made little crops and received some help from friends. 22. 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 have wife and 7 children, we lived on about $125. each year. 23. What was your employment during 1893 and 1894? Farming in '93, made about $125. and little more in '94. 24. Are you married and have you a family? If so is your wife now living and how many children have you? I have a wife and 7 children, 2 girls ages 4 to 14, 5 boys ages 6, 8, 10, 14, 16. oldest one boy has been weakly all his life, they help me all they can on farm. Signed, J.I. Armstrong Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of May 1895. G.A. Crain, Ordinary, Heard County Questions for Witness State of Georgia, Heard County J. T. Armstrong of said state and county having been presented as a witness in support of the pension application of J.I. Armstrong, 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? J.T. Armstrong, Franklin, Heard County, Georgia (note: This is John Thomas Armstrong, a brother of James Isom Armstrong.) 2. Are you acquainted with J.I. Armstrong the applicant, if so how long have you known him? Forty five years. 3. Where does he reside and how long has he been a resident of this state? In Heard County, GA. All his life except about 8 years. 4. Do you know of his having served in the Confederate Army or Georgia Militia? How do you know this? I was in same Company with him. 5. When where and in what company and regiment did he enlist? In March 1862 at Decatur, GA in Company D 42 Regiment GA Vols. 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 the service? He served till captured in the summer of 1864 near Atlanta and was carried to prison and kept till close of war in 1865. 8. What property, effects or income has the applicant? He has no property or income, I know. 9. What property, effects or income did he have in 1893 and 1894? He had none. 10. What is the applicant's physical condition and occupation: Farmer, renting on halves. Physically broken down, suffers from kidney disease and vertigo. 11. Is the applicant unable to support himself by his own labor and if so, why? He has large family and cannot make support for them. 12. How was he supported during the years 1893 and 1894? By scanty living procured by his forced efforts and donations. 13. What portion of his support for these two years was derived from his own labor or income? Most all of it, such support as it was. 14. Give a complete statement of the applicant's physical condition which entitled him to pension: His spinal affliction is the greatest trouble being sometimes unable to go at all. He was a good soldier and deserves it having lost all he had during the war. Signed, J.T. Armstrong Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of May 1895. G.A. Crain, Ordinary, Heard County For Applicants Heretofore Allowed Pensions State of Georgia, Heard County Personally appears, J.I. Armstrong of Heard County, State of Georgia who being duly sworn says on oath that he is a bona fide resident citizen of said County and State; that he has resided in said State continuously ever since his birth the 17 day of December 1843; that he is 52 years old and by occupation a farmer. That his physical condition is a follows: that he is suffering with kidney trouble, spinal affliction and diabetes and all broken down in general health. Deponent desires to participate in the benefits of the Act approved December 15th 1894 and acts amendatory thereof and makes application for pension to which he is entitled for the year 1897. He has heretofore been a resident of Heard County and been allowed pension for the year 1896. J.I. Armstrong Same information given in his re-application for pension in 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904. In 1905 the pension was transferred to Carroll County, GA and he made new application there: Civil War Pension Application of James I. Armstrong, filed in Carroll County, GA (Note: pension application was transferred from Heard Co. GA to Carroll Co. GA in 1905): Indigent Soldier's Pension 1905 for those already enrolled Name: J.I. Armstrong County: Carroll Co. D 42nd Regiment GA Volunteers For Applicants Heretofore Allowed Pensions State of Georgia, Carroll County Personally appeared, J.I. Armstrong of Carroll County, State of Georgia, who being duly sworn says on oath that he is a bona fide citizen and resident of said County and State and has resided in said State continuously ever since the 17 day of Dec 1843; that he is 61 years old and by occupation a Farmer; that he enlisted in the military service of the Confederate States of Georgia during the War between the States and served for the term of 3 years in Company D of 42 Regiment of GA Vols.; that his physical condition is as follows: kiendy and spinal afflection which renders him unable to do any manual labor or to make a living; that his property consists of nothing; that he is now earning by his own labor, nothing. That by reason of his physical condition and poverty he is unable to support himself by his own exertion or labor and that he receives no pension but the one herein applied for. Deponent desires to participate in the benefits of the Act approved Dec 15th 1894 and the acts amendatory thereof and makes application for the pension to which he is entitled for the year 1904. J.I. Armstrong (signature of applicant) Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 7 day of Aug 1905. J.H. Barron, Ordinary, Carroll County Same application with same info made in Jan 1906 and Jan 1907. Widow's Application to be Put on Roll in Her Own Right When Husband Was on the Indigent Roll or Under Act of July 11, 1910 Name: Mrs. Amanda H. Armstrong, widow of J.I. Armstrong, Co. D 42nd GA County: Carroll Widow's Affidavit State of Georgia, Carroll County Personally comes Mrs. Amanda H. Armstrong of said County, who after being duly sworn, on oath, says that she is the widow of J.I. Armstrong to whom in the County of DeKalb, State of Georgia, she was married on the 7th day of August 1866 and that she remained his wife and resided with him to the date of his death on June 13, 1916 and that she has not since his death remarried. At the time of his death he was a resident of Carroll County in the State of Georgia and he was on the Indigent Pension Roll of the State and paid a pension of $60. in Carroll County for 1916 per annum, on account of being a soldier in Company D 42nd GA REgiment Volunteers, Infantry. At the death of J.I. Armstrong he was in the use and possession of the following property: 50 acres of land valued $750 1 mule val. $50. Household and Kitchen furniture $40. One old wagon val. $10. The above property, after he went on the pension roll. I have under the law one fifth undivided interest in the above described property there being eleven children who inherit. 1/5 interest, 50 acres, my interest $150. 1/5 interest in 1 mule, my interest $10. 1/5 interest in wagon and household goods, my interest $10. That she is now a bona fide resident citizen of said County of Carroll and she has so continuously resided since Dec 1903 but I have been a resident of the state all my life. Amanda H. Armstrong, X, her mark Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of August 1916. W.J. Millican, Ordinary of Carroll County. (NOTES: Copy of marriage certificate is in the civil war pension file: State of Georgia, DeKalb County To Any Minister of the Gospel, Judge, Justice of the Inferior Court or Justice of the Peace, or any person authorized to celebrate. These are to authorize and permit you to join in the Honorable State of Matrimony James I. Armstrong and Miss Amanda Hardman, according to the Constitution and Laws of this State and this shall be your authority for so doing. Given under my hand as Ordinary for the County aforesaid, this the 6th day of August 1866. J.B. Wilson, Ordinary I hereby certify that James I. Armstrong and Miss Amanda Hardman were joined together in the Holy Bonds of Matrimony on the 7th day of August 1866. Joseph A. Hughey, M.G. ************************************************************************** Additional Comments: 1870 census DeKalb County, Georgia Decatur Dist. page 215 June 1870 James I. Armstrong, farmer, age 25, Georgia Amanda, age 20, keeping house, Georgia Margaret I., age 2, Georgia Thomas G., age 7 months, Georgia 1880 census Cobb County, Georgia District 99, Powder Springs, Cobb County, Georgia 1880 Source: FHL Film 1254141 Natl Archives Film T9-0141 Page 46C J. I. ARMSTRONG Self age 36 GA Occ: Farmer Fa: SC Mo: SC A. H. ARMSTRONG Wife age 29 GA Occ: Keeping House Fa: GA Mo: GA M. I. ARMSTRONG Son age 12 GA Occ: At School Fa: GA Mo: GA Thomas G. ARMSTRONG Son age 10 GA Occ: At School Fa: GA Mo: GA J. I. ARMSTRONG Son age 8 GA Fa: GA Mo: GA F. L. ARMSTRONG Dau age 6 GA Fa: GA Mo: GA R. L. ARMSTRONG Son age 4 GA Fa: GA Mo: GA Elbert ARMSTRONG Son age 4 months GA Fa: GA Mo: GA ***************************** 1900 census Heard County, Georgia p. 109 (Rockalo Dist.) ****************** 1910 census Carroll County, Georgia Carrollton Dist. page 71 Jim I. Armstrong, age 67, GA Amanda, wife, age 60 ?, GA, SC, SC Vestie, son, age 21, Alabama (this is Sylvester Armstrong) ********************** Excerpt from "The Heritage of Cleburne County, Alabama", pub. by Heritage Books, 1998: James Isom Armstrong served in the Civil War. He was married in Decatur, Georgia to Amanda H. Hardman...they had eleven children.... ...James Isom Armstrong went out after dinner one day to some new ground to cut sprouts and when he didn't come home for supper they went looking for him. They found him dead on the ground by a poplar tree stump. Uncle Ernest was very young but he remembers a big black hearse drawn by two big horses coming to take James Isom Armstrong away..." (article written by S.B. Peart, of Graham, Alabama 1998) ******************* File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/heard/military/civilwar/pensions/gmt69armstron.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 14.2 Kb