Widow's Application for Pension, Emeline Bihm Barton, Widow of Alexander Barton; St. Landry Parish, Louisiana Submitted by John A. Young ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Widow’s Application for Pension State of Louisiana Parish of St. Landry On this 27th day of August, 1902, personally appeared before me, [illegible], Clerk of the District Court, within and for said Parish and State, Mrs. Emeline Barton, age 66 years, a resident of the Bayou of Cocodrie, Parish of St. Landry and State of Louisiana, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Alexander Barton who entered the service of the Confederate States during the civil war under the name of Alexander Barton, at Washington, La. on the [blank] day of April 1861, as a private in Co. C, 6th Regiment, Confederate La. Infantry Vols. from the state of Louisiana that he served honorably until the end of the war in Virginia in Stonewall Jackson’s Army; and that he remained true to the Confederate States until, the surrender, at which time he was in Richmond Va. as a paroled prisoner, that she was married to the said soldier under the name of Emeline Bihm on the 27th day of November 1856 by Sebastian Allis, Justice of the Peace at Waxia in St. Landry Parish, 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 an other State or Government; that her said husband died on the 18th day of November 1870; at Big Cane in St. Landry Parish, La., that she has resided in the State of Louisiana all her life 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: My husband died at his home from malarial bilious fever. 2. Where is he buried: Answer: At Waxia in the Parish of St. Landry State of La. 3. What are your means of support? Answer: I have none at all. 4. What is the value of your property, real and personal, if any? Answer: I own no property of any kind. 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: [left blank] 7. Give your post office address and that of your two witnesses. Answer: My post office address is at Long Pine, St. Landry Parish, La. c/o George Sadler Witness my hand on this 27th day of August 1902. s/ Emeline Barton Witnesses: Joachim Joubert [page torn] ----[page torn]---- years respectively, justify them in making ---- the identical person she represents herself to be, and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim s/ Joachim Joubert s/ A. Lacombe (?) Sworn to and subscribed before me on this, the 27th day of August 1902 --- certify that the contents of the above declaration were fully made known and explained to applican--- that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim. [page torn, signature illegible]