MONROE COUNTY, GA - MILITARY PENSION Staples, Samuel  
Co H 32nd (widow)

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Affidavit to be Made by the Widow State of Georgia

County of Monroe (File contributed by Jane Newton,
transcribed by E. Robertson)


In person comes before me, the undersigned Ordinary
Mrs.CATHERINE  L. STAPLES, Sworn according to law,
says under oath that she is the widow of
SAMUEL STAPLES, who was a soldier in the service of
the Confederate States, and served as a member of
Company    H                  , of the   32ST       
Regiment of     GEORGIA             Volunteers; that
he enlisted in said service on or about the      15 
day of            OCTOBER

1862     , and was in the CONFEDERATE  Army up to   
15 OF AUGUST 1864  .  That while in the Army, he was
on the      1ST          day of   AUGUST 1864 ,
TAKEN SICK WHILE IN ROUTE FROM CHARLESTON, S. C. TO
MACON, GEORGIA AS A GUARD FOR FEDERAL PRISONERS, ON
REACHING MACON HE WAS FURLOUGHED AND ALLOWED TO GO
TO HIS HOME IN MONROE COUNTY GEORGIA WHICH HOME HE
REACHED STILL SUFFERING FROM SAID SICKNESS WHICH WAS
AGREED BY HIS ATTENDING PHYSICIAN ________FEVER AND
OF WHICH HE DIED ON THE 15TH DAY OF AUGUST 1864.

Deponent further swears that she was the wife of
said deceased during his term of service in the
Army, and that she has never married since his
death; that she became his wife on 11th Day of MARCH
1857 and that she has lived in Georgia continuously
since the         10TH     day of           AUGUST  
1841(?)            , that Georgia is her home and
was such on the 23rd day of December 1890 and since
said date she has not resided in any other State or
locality. Deponent, as the widow of said deceased
soldier husband, applies for pension by Act of the
General Assembly of Georgia, approved December 23,
1890, for the pension year ending February 15, 1892
and herewith tenders the proof of her right to
receive allowance granted by said Act.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this, the 16TH
Day of April 1891. SS John T. McGuity, Ordinary,
BUTTS COUNTY Mrs. Catherine Staples

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(Note:  This file copy was bad and some words not
readable.  There were some discrepancies in dates
however from above record)

FOR  WIDOWS HERETOFORE ALLOWED PENSIONS.

(File contributed by Jane Newton, transcribed by E.
Robertson)

STATE OF GEORGIA, Personally comes CATHERINE STAPLES
County of     Monroe          who, being sworn, says
on oath, that she is a bona fide resident of said
County of  MONROE COUNTY , State of Georgia, and
that she has RESIDED in said State Continuously ever
since       1835.  That she is the Widow of SAMUEL
STAPLES  who was a soldier in Company  H            
of the       32      Regiment of GEORGIA Volunteers,
that he enlisted in said regiment on or about the
month of. ? 1862 and served in the Army up to
jANUARY 1864. That he  died on the                  
day of        JANUARY   1865.

(Give full particulars of the husband's death, when,
where and from what cause).  He was taken sick in
Camp at Charleston about the month of Novembr 1864
and was being brought from that town to his home in
Monroe County where he died on the third day (?),
reaching there in January 1865.

Depondent swears that she was the wife of said
deceased soldier, during his service in the Army as
a soldier, and that she has never married since his
death aforesaid, and that she became his wife in the
year  1851, that Georgia is her home and she resided
in this State 23 day of December 1890, and has not
lived in any other state or locality since that
date. _____________pension for the year ending
February 15, 1892 and now apply for the __________
by law for the year ending February 15, 1893.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, the     24   day
of      January 1893, John T. M.cGuity, Ordinary,
Butts County, GA SS: Catherine Staples