Schley-Webster County GaArchives Military Records.....John J.Drew January 11 1905
Civilwar - Pension Co. F, 57th Ga. Inf.
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There are some notes on the outer cover of the pension form that indicate this 
pension was transferred from Webster County in 1904.

FOR APPLICANTS HERETOFORE ALLOWED PENSIONS.

State of Georgia
Schley County

Personally appears John J. Drew of Schley 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 
28th day of Aug. 1832; that he is 72 years old and by occupation a farmer, that 
he enlisted in the military service of the Confederate States during the war 
between the states, and served for the term of 4 years in Company F, of 57th 
Regiment of Ga. Volunteers; that his physical condition is as follows:

old and infirm, unable to labor or earn a support in any ----

that his property consists of the following items:  00
of the value of   no property  dollars.  I am now earning, by my labor, 
___________ dollars per month.  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 December 
15th, 1894, and the Acts amendatory thereof, and makes application for the 
pension to which he is entitled for the year 1905.  I have heretofore, as a 
resident of Webster County, been allowed a pension for the year 1904.

John J. Drew

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 11th day of Jany. 1905.

P.E. Taylor, Ordinary


Add'l Info:  John J. Drew and his wife Martha are buried at Ebenezer Baptist 
Church cemetery.

EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH
Drew, J.J. 8-28-1831 10-02-1919 
Drew, Martha E.M.(wf/o J.J.) 7-04-1857 June 1909 

According to church records her maiden name was Ingram and she and John Drew 
were married May 23, 1880.  Mrs. Drew's obit and records of her death from 
Ebenezer Baptist Church minutes can be found in the Schley Obituary Archives.

 

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