MONROE COUNTY, GA - MILITARY PENSION Sykes, Geo. W. (widow) Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: (File contributed by Jane Newton, transcribed by E. Robertson) (*SOME NOTES HAVE BEEN ADDED BY TRANSCRIBER THESE ARE INDICATED BY (*Notes:) Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm GEO. W. SYKES (File contributed by Jane Newton, transcribed by E. Robertson) Application for Pension Due Deceased Soldier (Under Act approved October 9, 1891) STATE OF GEORGIA, MONROE COUNTY Personally before me comes MRS. MARY A. SYKES, of said county, after being duly sworn, on oath says that she is the widow of GEO. W. SYKES who was duly enrolled as a INDIGENT Pensioner from the county of Monroe and was paid a pension of ($60.00) Sixty Dollars from Monroe county for 1909, and that the said GEO. W. SYKES died in MONROE county on the 16th DAY OF JANUARY 1910 and at the time of his death a pension of $60.00 was due him from Monroe County and unpaid for 1910. Applicant further swears that she married the said GEO. W. SYKES on the 4TH DAY OF MARCH 1856 IN MONROE COUNTY and State of Georgia and resided with him from the date of marriage to his death as his lawful wife, and is now his dependent widow, and she asks that the Pension so due and unpaid be paid to her. Sworn this the 4th day of February 1910. Geo. W. Newton, Ordinary SS: MARY A . SYKES ******************************* AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESS GEORGIA, MONROE Personally before me comes A. J. ZELLNER , who on oath says that he knew GEO. W. SYKES while in life and that he knows MRS. MARY A SYKES the above applicant; that he knows that the said GEO. W. SYKES and MISS MARY A. INGRAM were in due form of law married in the county of Monroe in the State of Georgia, on the 4th day of March 1856 and that they resided together as husband and wife from date of marriage to the date of his death on the 15th day of January 1910, and I now know that she is his dependent widow. Sworn 4th Feb. 1910, Geo. W. Newton, Ordinary SS: A. J. ZELLNER Also included is Ordinary's Certificate ********************************* STATE OF GEORGIA, MONROE CO., (Handwritten note) I certify that Geo. W. Sykes and Mary A.. Ingram were duly joined in matrimony by me this 4th day of March 1856. SS: Edmund Dumas, MG STATE OF GEORGIA, MONROE CO., ORDINARY'S OFFICE (Handwritten) I, Geo. W. Newton, Ordinary and Ex Office Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of said County, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of Geo. W. Sykes and Mary A. Ingram's marriage certificate with the original record thereof, now remaining in this office, and the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and, of the whole of such original record. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Ordinary, this 1st Day of March 1910. SS: Geo. W. Newton ************************* (This is copied at the bottom of the marriage statements. I does not appear to refer to the Sykes file however, it is attached to it). STATE OF GEORGIA, BUTTS COUNTY Ordinary's Office, at Chambers I, J. H. Ham, Ordinary in and for said Butts County, do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above subscribing witness, W. J. KIMBELL, and know he is trustworthy and truthful man, and that his evidence is entitled to full faith and credit; and that the above affidavit was his own dictation and that he was qualified as the law directs before subscribing the same. Witness my hand and official seal this 13TH AUG, 1901 J. H. HAM, ORDINARY BUTTS COUNTY