Military Records,Letter Concening E C Smith Pension Application,
Ouachita, LA 
"Submitted for the USGenWeb Archives by DeAnne Norred-Forrest, 
03/07/2004"
Source: June 22,1899
        Monroe, LA

 
 


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Munholland & Munholland
Attorneys at Law
Special Facilities for Collections
Monroe, La.

June 22nd, 1899

Commissioner's Pension Bureau
    Baton Rouge, La.

Dear Sirs: -

     I hand you herewith application of Mrs. E.C. Smith for
pension as widow of Confederate soldier under act of 1898.

     Mrs. Smith is becoming aged and is really in need of the
assistance if you can give it to her.

     Her husband enlisted near Baton Rouge or Donaldsonville, La.
but she does not know the command or the exact time though says it
was some time in September or October, 1861.

     We enclose herewith a number of letters relating to the death
of her husband which should prove without doubt the validity of her
claim.  It seems that deceased went into Gen. Price's army from the
time of his en-listment, going into Arkansas and Missouri.

     We feel satisfied that this claim will be allowed and request
that whatever the decision of you gentlement that you return the
enclosed letters as she prizes them very highly. The news paper
clipping was one she saw in a Texas paper and put into her scrap
book.  The writer knows that for the past ten or fif-teen years the
applicant has been living with her sister, Mrs. Faulk, who has
contributed to her support, but who herself is greatly reduced in
cir-cumstances and barely has enough for her own sussistence.

     Trusting this application will meet with your approval,
Dictated).                             Yours very truly,

                                           John M. Munholland