Military Records,Letter Concening E C Smith Pension Application,
Ouachita, LA 
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Co. F of the Fourth Louisiana Battalion
 


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Parish of Ouachita
No. 2647

Widow's Application for Pension

The Board Reserves the Right to Call for Additional Testimony

Mrs. E. Clementine Smith

Widow of Wm. H. Smith

Company and Regiment: Not given
[written later - Co. B, Genr. Frost's Brig.]

P.O. Monroe

Filed June 24, 1899

WIDOW'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION

STATE OF LOUISIANA

PARISH OF OUACHITA

On this 22 day of June, 1899, personally appeared before me, R.A.
Young,
Clerk of the District Court, within and for said Parish and State,
Mrs. E.C. 
Smith, aged 68 years, a resident of the city of Monroe, Parish of
Ouachita,
and after being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is
the widow 
of William H. Smith who entered the service of the Confederate
States during
the civil war under the name of William H. Smith, at Baton Rouge
or Donald-
sonville in September or October, 1861, and joined near Baton
Rouge or 
Donaldsonville, La., doesn't know regiment or company, from the
State of 
Louisiana that her said husband lost his life prior to June 1,
1865, from wounds
received, or disease contracted in the service (as the case may
be), at or near
Clarksville, Ark, 16th May 1864; that she was married to the said
soldier under 
the name of Miss Elizabeth Clementine Wiseman on the 15th day of
January, 
1850 by Rev. Dr. D. D. Doyle at Boon County, Missouri near Ashland
P.O.,
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, and
that she has re-
sided in the State of Louisiana for 22 years next preceeding 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 the means of your support?  Answer: Serving
2.  What is the value of your property, real and personal, if any?
Answer: Have none 
     whatever
3.  Have you derived a support during the last five years? 
Answer: Serving
4.  Did your husband die of wounds or disease.  State when and
where and under
     what circumstances?  Answer:  Letters from his commander
enclosed herewith
     show he was wounded in battle by a minnie ball and died 9
days after fight near
     Clarksville, Ark, 16 May 1864
5.  Give your postoffice address and that of your two witnesses. 
Answer:  Monroe, La.

Witness my hand on this 22 day of June, 1899

Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Smith, APPLICANT

Also personally appread David W. Faulk residing at Monroe, La. and
Thos. O. Benton 
residing at Monroe, La., persons whom I certify to be respectable
and entitled to credit,
and who being by me duly sworn, say that [torn, illegible], Mrs.
E.C. Smith, the claimant,
sign her name to the foregoing declaration, and that they verily
believe the facts and 
declaration of said claimant are true and correct, that their
acquaintance with her for 24 
years and eight years respectively, justify them in making this
statement, and that she is
the identical persona she represents herself to be, and that they
have no interest in the 
prosecution of this claim.

Signed:  D. W. Faulk
             Thos. O. Benton

Sworn and subscribed before me on this, the 22 day of June, 1899,
and I hereby certify
that the contents of the above declaration were fully made known
and explained to applicant
and witnesses, and that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in
the prosecution of this claim.

Signed:  R.A. Young, Clerk of Court