Military: Civil War Pension Application for Mary Ann (Johnston) Hooton, widow of John Sperling Hooton, Claiborne Parish, LA Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Kelly Priestly, Simsboro, LA Date: Jan. 2000 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** [Submitter's note: These say "Bienville Parish" but they lived in Claiborne Parish. The area they lived was closer to Arcadia so that's where they did all their business.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Widow's Application For Pension State of Louisiana Parish of Bienville On this 23rd day of January 1899, personally appeared before me, Jas. W. Tooke, Clerk of the District Court within and for said Parish and State, Mrs. Mary A. Hooton, aged 68 years, a resident of the town of Homer, Parish of Claiborne and State of Louisiana, who being duly sworn according to law, declares she is the widow of John S. Hooton, who entered the services of the Confederate States during the civil war under the name John S. Hooton at Homer, LA on the ______ day of March 1863, in Co. "A," 19th LA Regiment from the State of Louisiana that her said husband lost his life prior to June 1st, 1865 from wounds received, or disease contracted in the service (as the case may be) at Near Mobile Ala from disease prior to June 1st 1865; that she was married to the said soldier under the name of Mary A. Johnston on the 7th day of September 1848 by Mr. Watley, J.P. at Meriwether Co. GA; that she has not married again, and that she is now in indigent circumstances and unable to earn a livelihood by her own labor or skill; that she has resided in the State of Louisiana for 48 years next preceding the date of this application, and that she claims the aid and benefit of Act No. 125 of 1898 as is further shown by her answers to the following questions, which she swears to be true and correct: 1. What are your means of support? I stay around with my children 2. What is the value of your property, real and personal, if any? Have none 3. How have you derived a support during the last five years? I just stayed with my children 4. Did your husband die of wounds or disease? State when and where and under what circumstances. Disease In Ala near Mobile, in May 1865, he had chronic diarrhea. 5. Give your post office address and that of your two witnesses. Homer, LA. G. W. Story Arcadia, LA; J. C. Johnston Arcadia, LA Witness my hand on this 23rd day of January 1899. Mary A. (her mark) Hooton Witness: G. W. Story J. C. Johnston # # #