Malky Bass, Widow's Application For Pension
Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Chere Lee
Date: April 2, 2012

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WIDOW'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION

STATE OF LOUISIANA
PARISH OF Rapides
On this 6 day of Sept, 1912, personally appeared before me, W.J. 
Calvit, Clerk of the District Court, within and for said Parish
and State, Mrs Malkey Bass, aged 72 years, a resident of the
[blank] of Sycamore Parish of Rapides and State of Louisiana,
who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the
widow of Lewis C. Bass, who entered the service of the
Confederate States during the civil war under the name of L C 
Bass, at Alexandria on the 22 day of Dec 1864, in Private Co F.
2nd La. Bat. from the State of Louisiana that he served
honorably until the close of the war at [blank] on the close
of the war; and that he remained true to the Confederate States,
until the surrender, at which time he was in [blank]; as [blank]
that she was married to the said soldier under the name of
Malkey Wetherford on the 12 day of March 1860, by John Strother
J.P. at Calcasieu Ward Rapides Ph La. 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 is not
married or otherwise provided for by the State of Louisiana or
by any other State or Government; that her said husband died on
the 21st day of August 1912, at Sycamore Rapides Parish 
Louisiana, that she has resided in the State of Louisiana for 
65 years next preceding the date of this application, and that
she claims the aid and benefit of Article 303 of the
Constitution of 1898 and subsequent Acts of the Legislature of
the State thereunder 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: Indigent
2. Where is he buried?
   Answer: Sycamore Rapides Parish La.
3. What are your means of support?
   Answer: Dependent upon my children who have families
4. What is the value of your property, real and personal, if
   any?
   Answer: I have no property except $40.00 worth of cattle
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: [blank]
7. Give your postoffice address and that of your two witnesses.
   Answer: Sycamore P.O. Rapides Parish, La.

Witness my hand on this 6 day of Sept 1912
Malkey Bass [her mark]
APPLICANT

WITNESS:
T.C. Braddy
W.R. Sanderson

Also personally appeared T.C. Braddy residing at Elmer P.O. La. 
and W.R. Sanderson residing at Sycamore P.O. La. persons whom I
certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who being
by me duly sworn, say that they were present and saw Mrs. Malkey
Bass, the claimant, sign her name to the foregoing declaration,
and that they verily believe that the facts and declaration of
said claimant are true and correct, that their acquaintance with
her for 19 years and 26 years respectively, justify them in 
making this statement, and that she is the identical person she
represents herself to be, and that they have no interest in the
prosecution of this claim. 

T.C. Braddy
W.R. Sanderson

Sworn to and subscribed before me on this, the 6th of Sept 1912,
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.

W.J. Calvit
CLERK OF COURT.