Pike County  Georgia Newspapers - Pensions for Widows 1891
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Pike County, Journal
Zebulon, GA., Friday, January 16, 1891

Pensions for Widows

The following circular was issued Monday with the reference to
pensioning of confederate widows. The matter is one of general interest:

State of Georgia, Executive Department, Atlanta, Georgia, January 8,
1890 [?]. - In answer to numerous inquiries, and in order to explain the
law of pensioning certain widows of confederate soldiers, the following
points are mentioned.:

1. The law provides a pension of $100 per year.
2. The pension year will begin on 15th of February 1891.
3. The payments will be made upon proper proofs presented to the
executive department, in compliance with the laws and forms to be
furnished through the ordinaries of the state.
4. These blanks will be prepared during the latter part of March and
sent to the ordinaries.
5. The departments will begin about the 1st of April, 1891, and will be
for the pension year ending February 15, 1892.
6. The pension is only payable to certain classes of widows.
  a. Those whose husbands were killed in service.
  b. Those whose husbands died in the army of wounds or disease
contracted in the service.
  c. Those whose husbands went to the army and have never been heard
from since the war.
  d. Those whose husbands were wounded in the army and have since died
from the effects of the wounds.
  e. Those whose husbands contracted disease in the service, and who,
after the war, died of the disease caused by the service.
7. No widow is entitled unless she was the wife of the soldier during
the war and has never remarried.
8. The law does not provide for any one living out of the state of
Georgia, or who did not live in the state at the date of the act.
9. The facts to establish a claim must be substantiated by the testimony
of three witnesses who personally known [sp] of the enlistment of the
husband and his death, and the immediate cause of the death.
10. Widows who have married since the service of their husbands in the
army are not entitled.
11. There is no need of employing a lawyer or other agents to attend to
this claim. The department will furnish full and specific instructions,
and will give ample opportunity to every claimant.

By order of the governor.
W.H. Harrison,
Secretary Executive Department.

(Transcribed 10/17/02 Lynn Cunningham)