Webster-Terrell County GaArchives Military Records.....William B. Brightwell Widow's Pension

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 "Affidavit to be Made by the Widow" 
State of Georgia
County of Terrell (Terrell Marked out Webster written above)

In person came before me the undersigned ordinary in and for the county of Terrell
Mrs. Mary J. Brightwell, who being sworn according to law  says under oath that she 
is the widow of William B. Brightwell, who was a soldier in the service of the
Confederate States, and served as a member of Company A of the 17th Regiment of Georgia
Volunteers that he enlisted in said service on or about the 13th day of August 1861
and was in the Army Virginia Army up to..during the war..
That while in the army he was on the 6th day of May 1864
Wounded through the knee of left leg from the effects of which wound he died 
on the 22nd day of April 1881.
Said wound never did heal up but was continued running save sometimes it would quit 
running ???? into high fevers until by poulticing it could be made to run again.
Pieces of bone would frequently come out of the wound and sometimes scales of lead and
about three days before his death the leg inflammed and the inflamation run up into
his body and turned ??purpleish??  ??? ???.
I am satisfied that the wound was the direct cause of his death.
Deponent further says that she was the wife of said deceased soldier during his term of
service in the Army, and that she never married since his death; that she became his wife on
12th day of November 1858; that Georgia is her home and was such on the 23rd day of December
1890, and since said date she has not lived in any other state or locality.
Deponent as the wido of said deceased soldier husband, applies for the pension provided by
the Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved Dec 23, 1890, for the pension year
ending February 15th, 1892, and herewith tenders the proof of her right to receive the
allowance granted by said Act. 
                                                        Mary Isabelle Brightwell

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this, the                     
6th day of April, 1891
W. H. Cosby 
      Ordinary Webster Co