Carolyn (Tarver) Westbrook, Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana Submitted by Sherry Sanford ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen. 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. Pension Application No. 2623 Widow's Application for Pension Caroline Westbrook Widow of Wm. J. Westbrook Company and Regiment: Co. A (can't read Regt.) P.O. Stony Point Filed: Mar. 24, 1904 Allowed: Quarterly Allowance, $: 1.05 + 4.50= 5.55 Pension Allowed from: Rejected: (Can't Read): President (Can't Read), Secretary, Board of Pension Commissioners Cause of Death of Widow's Husbands? (Blank) When did he Die? Dec. 3, 1903 Where? Stony Point Date of Granting Pension? (Blank) Monthly Amount? (Blank) Date of Application? Mar. 24, 1904 To save delay, Applicants should furnish all documentary evidence, the may possess and sworn statements of comrades of their husbands when obtainable. All applications should be addressed to the Secretary of Pension Commissioners, at Baton Rouge. Blanks will be furnished by the Secretary on request. Regular meetins of the Board, second Tuesdays in March, June, September and December. STATE OF LOUISIANA PARISH of Louisiana (should be Baton Rouge) On this 24 day of March, 1904, personally appeared before me, F.A. Woods, Deputy Clerk of the District Court, within and for said Parish and State, Mrs. Caroline Westbrook, aged 73 years, a resident of the (East, then scratched out) of Indian Mound Parish of East Baton Rouge and State of Louisiana, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of William J. Westbrook who entered the service of the Confederate States during the civil war under the name of William J. Westbrook, at (blank), on the (blank), day of (blank) 18(blank), in (blank) /Here state rank, company and regiment, or veasell/, from the state of (blank), that he served honorably until (blank), at (blank) on the (blank); 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 Caroline Tarver on the 20 day of Oct. 1845, by Edmund Westbrook at Liberty, Miss, 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 3rd day of Dec. 1903; at Stony Point, E. Baton Rouge, La., that she has resided in the State of Louisiana for 40 years next preceding the date of this application, and that she claims the aid and benefit of Act No. 73 of 1900 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: He was very poor when he died. 2. Where is he buried? Answer: At Indian Mound, E. Baton Rouge, La. 3. What are your means of support? Answer: My own labor 4. What is the value of your property, real and personal, if any? Answer: I only have two cows worth about $20. 5. Have you conveyed property to any one in the past few years? Answer: None 6. If any. How much and to whom conveyed? Answer: None 7. Give your post office address and that of your two witnesses. Answer: Indian Mound, Indian Mound, Baton Rouge.l Witness my hand on this 24 day of March, 1904 (Signed) Caroline Westbrook Witnesses: J.W. Bates R.J. Westbrook Also personally appeared J.W. Bates residing at Baton Rouge and R.J. Westbrook residing at Indian Mound 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. Caroline Westbrook, 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 40 years and 42 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. (Signed) J.W. Bates (Signed) R.J. Westbrook Sworn to and subscribed before me on this, the 24 of March, 1904, and I hereby certify that the contents of the above declaration were fully made known and explained to the applicant and witnesses, and that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim. (Signed) F.A. Woods, Clerk of Court.