CW Widow's Pension App. of Mary Eliza(Hagan)Johnston, Claiborne Parish, LA
Submitted by: Kelly Priestly, Simsboro, LA


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Widow's Application For Pension
State of Louisiana
Parish of Bienville

     On this 2nd day of June 1923, personally appeared before me, R. L.
Williams, Notary Public, within and for said Parish and State, Mrs. Mary
Johnson, aged 75 years, a resident of the town of Arcadia, Parish of Claiborne
and State of Louisiana, who being duly sworn according to law, declares she is
the widow of J. C. Johnson who entered the services of the Confederate
States during the civil war under the name J. C. Johnson at Monroe on the
16th day of April 1862, in Company G, 25th LA Infantry from the State of
Louisiana that he served honorably until discharged at Shreveport LA on the
7th day of June 1865; and that he remained true to the Confederate States,
until the surrender, at which time he was in same Co., as Private, that she
was married to the said soldier under the name of Mary Hagan on the 18th  day
of November 1866, by Rev. Harris at near Arcadia, 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 ___ day of Sept. 1900, at near Arcadia,
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 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?
     Cancer of Liver
2.  Where is he buried?
     Near Arcadia, Louisiana
3.  What are your means of support?
     None
4.  What is the value of your property, real and personal, if any?
     None
5.  Have you conveyed property to anyone in the past few years?
     No
6.  If any, how much and to whom conveyed?
     None
7.  Give your post office address and that of your two witnesses.
     Arcadia

Witness my hand on this 2nd  day of June 1923.
                              Mrs. Mary Johnson
Witness:
J. J. Harrell
R. M. Jones


Office of Board of Pension Commissioners
Baton Rouge, LA, June 6, 1923

To Chief of the Record and Pension Office
War Department, Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:
     This Board, in the discharge of its duties under Article 303 of the
Constitution of 1898 of the State of Louisiana, and of Act No. 125 of its
General Assembly of the same year, creating a Board of Pension Commissioners,
respectfully apply for information from your records, relative to 
     John C. Johnson of Company G, 25th Louisiana Infantry C. S. A.  He
claims to have been discharged from hospital at Grenada, Mississippi.  Date
not given.  Please follow this man through his service and give the record and
oblige yours.
                         Very Respectfully,
                         John McGrash

War Department
The Adjutant General's Office
Washington, May 5, 1915

Board of Pension Commissioners
State of Louisiana
Baton Rouge, LA

     J. C. Johnson (not borne as John C. Johnson) pvt. Co. G, 25th Regt.
LA Inf. C. S. A. Enlisted Apr. 16, 1862, at Monroe, LA, and on muster roll
July & Aug. 1863, is shown absent sick Grenada, Miss., May 28, 1862, by Dr.
Laster.  Must. Roll Sept. & Oct. 1863, (last on file) shows him dropped from
the roll Oct. 1, 1863.  Sent to hosp. Last heard from in LA.  Name
appears on a Roll of Pris. Of War, of Co. of Ordnance C. S. A. commanded
by Capt. C. W. Warley, surrendered at New Orleans, La., by Gen. E. K. Smith,
C. S. A. to Gen. E. R. S. Canby, U. S. A. May 26, 1865, and paroled at
Shreveport, La. June 7, 1865.
                         Robert C. Davis
                         The Adjutant General