Pension Application for Fleming A. Noble. East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
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Pension Application No. 7989
Parish of E.B. Rouge
Soldier's Application for Pension
The Board Reserves the Right to Call for Additional Testimony.
Fleming A. Noble
P.O. Pride
Company and Regiment: Wests' Battery
Filed: Apr. 28th 1911
Allowed: Dec. 9th 1913
Quarterly Allowance, $: (Blank)
Pension Allowed from: Dec. 9th 19?? (Year written over)
Rejected: (Blank)
A. Carlton, President ( Name may be incorrect)
E. Fanian, Secretary, Board of Pension Commissioners.
(Name may be incorrect)

Company and Regiment or Naval Service? Wests Horse Artillery
Date, Place and Nature of Wound Received? None
Disability- Where and How Occasioned? (Appears to be Apr.?)
Where and When Paroled or Discharged? In Texas
If Discharged, Where Remaining with Surrender? (Blank)
Age? 67

SOLDIERS APPLICATION FOR PENSION

I, Fleming A. Noble, a native of Louisiana and now a citizen of Louisiana,
resident at Pride, in the Parish of East Baton Rouge in said State of
Louisiana, and who was a soldier (sentence marked out) from the State of
Louisiana in the Confederate States army (sentence marked out) in the war
between the United States and the Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid
under Act 125 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana of 1898; and I
do solemnly swear that I served the Confederate States honorably from the day
of my enlistment until the close of the civil war, (sentence marked out) as
shown by my answers below, and that I remained true to the Confederate cause
until the surrender, and that I am now in indigent circumstances, and unable
to earn a livelihood by my own labor or skill, and that I am not salaried or
otherwise provided for by the State of Louisiana or by any other State or
government, and am entitled to receive the benefits of said Act No. 125 of
1898, as further shown by my answers to the questions below, which I swear to
be true and correct:

1. When were you born?
Answer: Jany. 26th 1844
2. Where were you born?
Answer: East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
3. When did you enlist in the Confederate service?
Answer: In the fall of 1862
4. Where did you enlist?
Answer: Baton Rouge
5. In what command?
Answer: Winfield's Battalion
6. Give the letter of your Company?
Answer: F.
7. Give the number of your regiment?
Answer: Winfields Battalion
8. Give branch of service, Artillery, Infantry, Cavalry or Navy: if in navy,
give name or names of vessels you served in, or in what capacity?
Answer: First Cavalry, afterward transferred to Artillery
9. Give the names of the regimental and company officers under whom you
enlisted, and under whom you were serving at the date of your discharge or
parole?
Answer: Enlisted under Col. Winfield, Capt. Wilson Tate, at surrender was a
member of Wests' Battery, first Capt. West and after when Capt. West was
promoted, was under Capt. John Youist (?) in the same Company.
10. Were you wounded? If so, in what battles, and if not, state under what
circumstances during the war you received injury or injuries.
Answer: No
11. What was the precise nature of your wound or wounds, if any?
Answer: (checked)
12. If you have lost a limb or an eye, state when, where and how?
Answer: (checked)
13. Were you discharged from the army by reason of wound, wounds, or from the
effects of service?
Answer: No
14. If discharged or paroled from the army, where were you, and what did you
do until the close of the war?
Answer: (checked)
15. What was the name of the surgeon who attended you when discharged?
Answer: (checked)
16. Where were you at the surrender?
Answer: In Texas on sick furlough
17. If a prisoner, in what camp, and where were you released, and to where
sent?
Answer: Never was a prisoner
18. Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government at any
time during the war?
Answer: No
19.  If so, when, where and under what circumstances?
Answer: Not at all, until war was over.
20. How long have you been a resident of the State of Louisiana next preceding
the date of this application?  Where have you resided during that period?
Answer: All my life, in East Baton Rouge, except a few years in Pointe Coupee
Ph.
21. Are you married, or have you been married?
Answer: I am married
22. If so, what is the size of your family?
Answer: Self and wife - two children grown & married
23. What are the pespective ages of your wife and children?
Answer: wife's age 64 years, daughter 39, son 34
24. How many children have you, and how many of each sex?
Answer: 1 son, 1 daughter
25. Are you engaged in any business? If so, what do you earn?
Answer: Farming, very little
26. Have you any estate in your own right, real or personal, and what is its
value?
Answer: Have some land and a little stock, altogether about $600.
27. Has your wife any estate in her own right, real or personal, and what is
its value?
Answer: No
28. How have you derived support for yourself, and family if you have one, for
the last five years?
Answer: By my labor
29. What prevents you from earning a living now?
Answer: Advancing years and infirmities
30. Do you use intoxicants to any extent?
Answer: No
31. Have you an attorney to look after this application?
Answer: No
32. Give his name, address, and the compensation agreed between you?
Answer: (checked)
33. Give name of two or more of your comrades with their post office
addresses.
Answer: A. Scarborough, Baton Rouge, La., F.L. Scarborough, (can't read P.O.),
F.H. Smith & H. Smith & CE. Clarke, Lottie, La.
34. Give your postoffice address and that of the two witnesses?
Answer: My address: Pride, La., Allen Scarborough, Baton Rouge, La.

Witness my hand on this 28th day of April, 1911
(signed) Applicant, Fleming A. Noble

Witnesses:
(Signed)
A. Scarborough
J.N. Ogden

APPLICANT MUST GO BEFORE CLERK OF COURT

State of Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish
Personally appeared before me, T.E. (?) McHugh
Clerk of the District Court of said Parish, the above named Fleming A. Noble
the applicant, with whom I am personally acquainted, and having the
application read and explained to him as well as the statements and answers
therein made, made oath that the statements and answers are true.
Witness my hand and seal of office, this 28th day of Apri 1911
(Signed) T.E. McHugh, Clerk

(If possible, the two witnesses as to character should have served with the
applicant in the army, anf id so, let them, or either, state it in their oath;
also any other information regarding the applicant's army service.)

State of Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
Personally appeared before me, T.E. McHugh, Clerk of the District Court of
said Parish, the above named Allen Scarborough and J.N. Ogden, two of the
subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, with whom I am personally
acquainted and know to be citzens of veracity and standing in this community,
and who make oath that they are personally acquainted with the foregoing
applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in his application
are correct and true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they
have no interest in this claim, and that said applicant's habits are good and
free from dishonor.

Witness my hand and seal of this office, this 28th day of April, 1911
(Signed) T.E. McHugh, Clerk of Court



(Following are letters written to attest to Fleming A. Noble's service)

(Undated)
This is to certify that F.A. Noble was a member of Captain John Yoist Battery
(1st ?) battalion of light artillery and was present with the company all the
time and all of its engagements until the surrender except when he was on sick
furlough when the surrender came and as to his services and loyalty to his
country he was a good soldier.
(Signed)
(Appears to read ?) Prun Jurious Bell,
Witness D. R. Posey
Winnsboro, La.



(Letter)
April 15, 1911
This is to certify that F.A. Noble was a member of Captain John Yoist Battery,
(1st?) Battalion of light Artillery and was present with the company all the
time and all of its engagements until the surrender except when he was on sick
furlough when the surrender came and as to his services and loyalty to his
country he was a good soldier.
(Signed)
Witness
A.C. Noble
F.L. Scarborough
H.W. Smith
H. Smith
(Can't read last name)



(Letter)
2414 Elm Street, Telephone Bell Main 7116
Dallas, Texas, September 13th, 1913

To All Whom It May Concern

I hereby certify that F.A. Noble was a member of the 6th Louisiana Battery
Horse Light Artillery, Confederate States Army.  That he ws always a faithful
soldier, and never during his term of service, absented himself from his
command without permission.  That at the time of the surrender and parolling
of the Confederate troops at Alexandria, La. Where our Battery was then
stationed, the said F.A. Noble was absent from the command on sick furlough,
and could not therefore secure a parole as did other members of the Company.
(Can't read last few sentences)
(appears to be) W.H. Lyne (?), 1st Lieut.
6th La. Battery Horse Artillery
at time of surrender.



(Letter)

J.N. Ogden, Assessor
Baton Rouge, La., Nov. 10th, 1913
To the Board of Pensions
of the State of Louisiana

Gentlemen:
This is to certify that Mr. F.A. Nobles, stands assessed for the year 1913, in
the sum of Six hundred and ten ($610.00) Dollars, consisting in 2 small tracts
of land, valued at Three hundred and Fifty ($ 350.00) Dollars, and One hundred
and fifty ($150.00) Dollars respectively, besides One hundred and ($110.00)
Dollars, cattle and stock, making total of $ 610.00.
(Signed)
G.L. Vay, Deputy Assessor

N.B. From this amount it appears of Record that F.A. Noble, sold on the 28th
day of February 1913, as duly Recorded in Book # 48 folio 448 of the
Conveyances of this Parish, one tract of land containing 40 acres assessed at
$ 150.00.
(Signed)
G.L. Vay, Deputy Assessor