Lumpkin-Union County GaArchives Military Records.....Holloway, Nancy (William) 1895 Civilwar - Pension Co. I 61 N. C. Regiment ************************************************ 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: Jacqueline King Fammaw54@aol.com June 16, 2006, 10:35 am Pension Application Confederate Widow’s Pension Application of Nancy Holloway Application for Pension by a Widow Under Act of 1910 As Amended by Act of 1919. State of Georgia Lumpkin County. Personally before me comes Nancy Holloway of said State and County, and, after being duly sworn, says that she desires to apply for a pension allowed under the Act of 1910, as amended by the Act of 1919, and submit testimony to make out the same, true answers to make to the following questions to-wit: 1. What is your name, and where do you reside? Nancy Holloway. 2. How long and since when have you been a continuing resident of the State of Georgia? Ever since the Surrender. 3. When, where and to whom were you married? William Holloway in Lumpkin County, Ga., August 1, 1870. a. Have you married since the death of first soldier husband? No. 4. When, where and in what Company and Regiment did your husband enlist as a soldier in Confederate Army of Georgia Militia? (State the arms and class of Service.) C. 61 N. C. 1862 [Co. I 61st Regiment North Carolina Volunteers] 5. When and where did the commands of your husband surrender or discharge from the army? Do not know. 6. Was your husband personally present at the time of the surrender or discharge of this command? Said he was. 7. If he was not present state clearly where he was? [blank] 8. Where was his command when he left? [blank] a. For what cause did he leave his command? [blank] b. By whose authority did he leave his command? [blank] c. For how long was he granted leave of absence? [blank] e. [there is no d.] What was his physical condition when he left his command? Very good when he came home just after the Surrender. [Questions f. and g. relate to a separation from command and are not answered.] h. Was he captured by the enemy at any time? Said he never was. i. If so, when and where captured and where held as a prisoner, and when and for what cause released? [blank] j. When and where did your first husband die? Union County, Ga., April 22, 1919. k. Were you residing together when he died? Yes. l. If not, how long had you resided apart? [blank] m. Are you now a widow? Yes. 9. Have you or your husband heretofore been paid a pension by the State? Yes. If so, when and for what cause were you or your husband placed on the roll? Infirmity and poverty, drew first 1898. Signed: Nancy Holloway [X her mark] Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 25 day of August 1919. W. B. Townsend Ordinary of Lumpkin County. Letter from the Commissioner of Pensions. Jan. 30, 1920. Hon. W. B. Townsend Dahlonega, Ga. Dear Judge: I have been trying to pass on the application filed in this office by Mrs. Nancy Holloway, from your county, who is the widow of Wm. F. Holloway. I find that William F. Holloway was on your pension rolls for 1919, and died on April 4 1919, and that the entry on my docket and on your pay rolls is that the pension was paid to the funeral expenses and receipted for by one J. G. Holloway [Joseph Gordon Holloway]. Now, his widow is applying to be put on the rolls as his widow based on his proven record. Under the law when Mr. Holloway died and a pension due him it should have been paid by you direct to her and not to any funeral expenses. I want to know why this was not done. If she was in life and living with him at the time of his death what reason is there, or was there, at the time that she failed to present her claim at that time for the pension of 1919, and now apply to be put on the roll in her own right as his wife. Will you kindly explain this proposition so that I may pass upon her application intelligently? Respectfully, Com. of Pensions. [unsigned] Notes- Nancy Holloway continued to receive Confederate Widow’s Pension until her death 05 November, 1936, when she died in Lumpkin County, Georgia. Loose papers included in the supplementals to Confederate Pensions at the Georgia State Archives include statements from Nancy Holloway for the January 1932-January 1933, in which she states that she is unable to appear personally before the Ordinary in Lumpkin County to collect her monthly pension check and she appointed J. A. Dockery as her agent for months February, March, June, July, October, November and December 1932, as well as January 1933. For the months of January and April 1932, Nancy Holloway appointed her son, W. M. Holloway as person to collect her checks. In all entries she states that she lives with M. H. Holloway [Major H. Holloway, her son]. Witnesses to her appointments at various times are Lou Grindle, Martha Holloway [Martha J. Holloway, her daughter], W. M. Holloway [William M. Holloway, her son] and Luther Holloway [her grandson]. Nancy Holloway is purportedly buried at Damascus Baptist Church in Lumpkin County, Georgia. Her grave marker is no longer visible according to family members. We do know that Nancy Holloway was born in North Carolina about 1845, and that she was named as Nancy Holloway when she married William Holloway in Lumpkin County on August 1, 1870. Compiled and transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline Holloway King File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/lumpkin/military/civilwar/pensions/holloway248gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.7 Kb