Twiggs County GaArchives Military Records.....Chance, Martha Jane Elizabeth Ellis Sauls October 22, 1920
Civilwar - Pension Company I 6th Regiment Georgia Volunteers
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Widow's Pension
State of Georgia, Twiggs County
 Martha J. Chance states that she has been a resident of Georgia all of her life and
was first married to Theophilus Sauls, Feb 1866 in Twiggs County. She has since
remarried and her first husband died in 1886 in Pulaski County. They were residing
together at the time and she is currently a widow. Sauls was enlisted in the 6th
Georgia regiment as a Private and was present at their surrender at Greensboro,
North Carolina in 1865. She states that he was not captured by the enemy at any
time. She states that her first husband did not receive a pension; however, her
second husband received a Disability Pension.
                                                                                    
       Her
                                                                            Martha
J. (X) Chance
                                                                                    
     Mark
W. C. Faulk, Twiggs County

                       Witnesses as to Service of Husband and Marriage
16th June 1920, Bibb County

C. (Christopher)C. Anderson states that he resides in Macon, Georgia and never knew
the applicant. He states that Mrs. Chance was born and raised in Georgia and was
married to Theo Sauls and William Chance. He knew Sauls and Chance from July 11,
1861 to their graves. William Chance died in Danville, Twiggs County, Ga. in 1919
and that they were living together at the time of his death. William Chance enlisted
in Company I, 6th Ga. Regt on May 20, 1861. He was also in the same Company and
Regiment and thay both served the whole war, 1861-1865. They surrendered at
Greensboro, North Carolina, April 16, 1864. He was not present at the surrender
because he was with Lee's Army by transfer from 6th Regt to Macon Light Artillery,
Aug 1864. He states that William Chance was present at the surrender. He states that
"Chance was a soldier and always at his post".
                                                   Signs his name C.(Christopher) C.
Anderson
 
                                              Ordinary's Certificate
Twiggs County
       W. C. Faulk certifies that he knows Martha J. Chance and that she was a
county resident as of 4th November 1908 and that he also knows C. C. Anderson,
resident of Bibb County, who swears to the service of her husband, and that they are
both truthful and honest....
                                                                     W. C. Faulk,
Twiggs County

NOTE---THE 1910 CENSUS STATES THAT THEY WERE DIVORCED; HOWEVER, THIS DOCUMENT
INDICATES THAT THEY WERE MARRIED AND LIVING TOGETHER AT THE TIME OF THE DEATH OF
WILLIAM C. CHANCE.

Additional Comments:
Source Washington Memorial Library, Genealogy Department, Macon, Georgia; Reel 447,
Confederate Pension Applications for the State of Georgia, Department of Archives &
History in Atlanta, 1962, Twiggs County

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