Schwing, Lilah V of E. Feliciana Parish, Widow's Application for Pension
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Parish of E Feliciana 
No. 5547
Widow's Application for Pension
Lilah V Schwing widow of Samuel C Schwing
Company and Regiment A 1st LA Ca
P.O. Jackson
Filed Feb. 28, 1911
Cause of death of Widow's husband?
? given
When did he die? May 27,1900
Where? Coopers Wells Miss
Date of Application? Feb. 28,1911

State of Louisiana Parish of East Feliciana
On this 24 day of Febuary, 1911,personally appeared before me,
J.L.C?  , Clerk of the District Court, withing and for said Parish
and State, Mrs Lilah V. Schwing, aged 65 years, a resident of the
? of Jackson Parish of East Feliciana and State of Louisiana, who
being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow
of Samuel Cothran Schwing, who entered the service of the Confederate
States during the civil war under the name S.C. Schwing at Baton
Rouge on the....day of July 1861 in Company A as a private in Col.
John ? First Louisiana Cavalry from the state of Louisiana that he
served honorably until the surrender at ........on the ...........
; and that he remained true to the Confederate States, until the
surrender, at whcih time he was in Louisiana, as......... that she
was married to the said soldier under the name of Lilah V. Carter on
the 28th day of March 1872 by Rev. James Godfrey at Jackson, Louisiana
that she has not married again. That her said husband died on the
27th day of May 1900 at Coopers Wells, Miss, that she has resided
in the State of Louisiana for 55 years next preceding the date of 
this application, and that she claims the aid and benefit of Act
No. 73 of 1900 as is further shown by her answers to the following
questions which she swears to be true and correct:
1. Under what circumstances did your husband die?
Answer... (left blank)
2. Where is he buried?
Answer...In the Jackson Cemetery
3. What are your means of support?
Answer...Have no income
4. What is the value of your property,real and personal, if any?
Answer...A home (the rest of the answer unreadable)
5. Have you conveyed property to any one in the past few years?
Answer...No
6. If any. How much and to whom conveyed?
Answer...(left blank)
7. Give your post office address and that of your two witness.
Answer...Jackson, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, Isaac. S. Palmer
Jackson, La, Howell Carter, Baton Rouge, LA.
Witness my hand on this 24 day of Febuary  1911.
Lilah V. Schwing (Applicant Signature)