Mrs. Almarinda Nash, Widow's Application for Pension 
Vernon Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Chere Lee
Date: April 17, 2012

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WIDOW'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION

STATE OF LOUISIANA
PARISH OF Vernon
On this [blank] day of [blank], 191[blank], personally appeared
before me, [blank], Clerk of the District Court, within and for
said Parish and State, Mrs. Almarinda Nash, aged 66 years, a 
resident of the [blank] of [blank] Parish of Vernon and State of

 Louisiana, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that
 
she is the widow of Benjamin Nash, who entered the service of
the Confederate States during the civil war under the name of
Benjamin Nash, at Alexandris La on the [blank] day of March
186?, in Co. I Cresent Regiment from the State of Louisiana that
he served honorably until discharge at Grand E on the about the
15th of May 1865; and that he remained true to the Confederate
States, until the surrender, at which time he was in Co I
Cresent Reg, as Private that she was married to the said
soldier under the name of Almarinda Johnson about the 8th day
of September 1865, by James Weeks at Conrad Louisiana 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 5th day of Jan. 1902; at
Leesville Louisiana, that she has resided in the State of 
Louisiana for 60 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 of the State 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?
   Answer: From lung disease contracted during the war
2. Where is he buried?
   Answer: At Drak Forks Cemetery
3. What are your means of support?
   Answer: None not able to work
4. What is the value of your property, real and personal, if
   any?
   Answer: 14 acres of land two cattle value $5.00 dollars
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 postoffice address and that of your two witnesses.
   Answer: P.O. Pitkin La. W.R. Perkins P.O. Leesville La

Witness my hand on this 3rd day of Dec 1913
Almarinda Nash [her mark]
APPLICANT.

WITNESS:
W R Perkins
Jerome M Jackson

Also personally appeared W.R. Perkins residing at Leesville La
and Jerome M. Jackson residing at Ritkins La 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.
Almarinda Nash, 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 50 years and 3 years respectively,
justify them in making this statement, and that she is identical
person she represents herself to be, and that they have no 
interest in the prosecution of this claim.

W R Perkins
Jerome M Jackson

Sworn to and subscribed before me on this, the 3 of Dec 1913,
and I hereby certify that the contents of the above declaration
were fully made known and explained to applicant and witnesses,
and that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the 
prosecution of this claim. 

A.Y. Winfree
CLERK OF COURT.