Military: Civil War Pension Application for Catherine (Johnston) Reynolds,
widow of Larkin Robert Reynolds, Claiborne Parish, LA 
Submitted by: Kelly Priestly, Simsboro, LA


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[Submitter's note: These say "Bienville Parish" but they lived in Claiborne
Parish.  The area they lived was closer to Arcadia so that's where they did
all their business.]


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

     On this 4th day of Dec. 1911, personally appeared before me, P. L.
Davis?, Clerk of the District Court, within and for said Parish and State,
Mrs. Catherine Reynolds, aged 70 years, a resident of the _____ of Arcadia,
Parish of Bienville and State of Louisiana, who being duly sworn according to
law, declares she is the widow of Larkin Reynolds who entered the services of
the Confederate States during the civil war under the name Larkin Reynolds
at Mansfield on the ______ day of ________ 1862, in Private, Co. B of 12 LA,
from the State of Louisiana that he served honorably until the close of the
Civil War at B of River LA on the _____________; and that he remained true to
the Confederate States, until the surrender, at which time he was in
Holinways Parie, as ___________, that she was married to the said soldier
under the name of Miss Catherine Johnson on the 28th day of January 1869, by
Rev. Clampitt at ___________; 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 17th day of Oct. 1909, at near Arcadia, Louisiana; that she has
resided in the State of Louisiana for ___ 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?
     Natural Causes
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?
     -------
7.  Give your post office address and that of your two witnesses.
     Arcadia

Witness my hand on this 6th day of Dec. 1911.
                              Catherine Reynolds
Witness:
Mary Hooton
G. W. Reynolds