Chickasaw County MsArchives Military Records.....Cole, Mary Ann August 16, 1906 Civilwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/ms/msfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jackie Rhodes chick_chock_web@yahoo.com February 16, 2006, 10:25 am Widow's Pension, Form 6 The following information transcribed from Pension Applications on file at the Chickasaw Co Courthouse, Houston, MS. Actual applications copied and transcribed by Jackie Rhodes.. APPPLICATION OF MARY ANN COLE: PENSION APPLICATION Chickasaw County Name of Applicant Mary Ann Cole Post-Office Okolona, Miss. No. of Application (blank) Form No. 6 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO CHANCERY CLERK: No application will be entertained unless made on the proper form and every blank in the form properly filled out. PENSIONERS now on the LIST are NOT required to make new applications, but the CHANCERY CLERK must certify their names to the Auditor of Public Accounts. THIS APPLICATION Must be Filed with the Chancery Clerk on or before the First Monday in Septermer. (no application will be entertained not on the printed form) FORM NO. 6 (GENERAL PROBATE CLASS) APPLICATION for Indigent Widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy Under Chapter 102, Code of 1906 Applicant must make Answer to all of the following Questions and have ity written out Plainly in Ink. Q. What is your name? Answer: Mary Ann Cole Q. What is your age? Answer: 57 years Q. Are you a bona fide resident of the State of Mississippi? Answer: yes Q. How long have you resided in Misissippi? Answer: All my life Q. In what county do you reside? Answer: Chickasaw Co, Miss. Q. What is the name of your post office? Answer: Okolona, Miss. Q. What was your husband's name? Answer: Joseph Cole Q. When were you married? Answer 1862 Q. In what State and county did he reside when he enlisted in the service of the Confederate States? Answer: Chickasaw County Q. What was the date of his enlistment? Answer: (blank) Q. What was the name of the company and regiment or vessel in which he enlosted? Answer: John D. Smith, Col. (illegible) Reg Q. How long was he in the actual service of the Confederace? Answer: (blank) Q. What were the names of the officers of the company, or regiment, or vessel, furing the time he was in the service? Answer: Capt. John D. Smith Q. Did he die in service or did he serve till close of the war? Answer: till close of war Q. Was he honorably discharged? Answer: yes Q. When was he discharged? Answer: 1865 Q. Where was he discharged? Answer: Don't Know Q. Did he serve until the surrender? Answer: No Q. When did he die? Answer: Thornton/Coleville, Chickasaw County, Mississippi Q. What regiment or vessel did your husband belong to at the time of his death? Answer: (blank) Q. The name of the commander? Answer: (blank) Q. What company did your husband belong to at the time of his death? Answer: (blank) Q. Who was the captain of the ompany? Answer: (blank) Q. When did he die? Answer: Feby 1905 Q. Have you married since your husband's death? Answer: No Q. Do you apply for a pension because you are indigent and unable to earn a livelihood? Answer: Yes Q. Do you hold and State, United States, County or City office from whicy you are receiving as salary or fees the sum of three hundred dollars per annum? Answer: No Q. Have you any property in your own right? Answer: None except 1 uncle, 3 cousins, four boys Q. What is the true, just and correct value? Answer: about $125.00 Q. Have you a home of your own? Answer: No Q. If not, with whom do you now live? Answer: my children Q. Is the person you are now living with a relation? Answer: Yes Q. If so, what relation? Answer: children Q. Have you any relations; if so, what relation? Answer: 3 brothers & 3 sisters Q. Have you any relations or connections whose legal or moral duty it is to provide for you? Answer: No Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 16th day of Sept A.D. 1906 G. W. Bean, Clerk Mary Ann Cole ( Signature of Officer) (Signature of Applicant) "I, (blank), widow of (blank), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a widow of a Confederate soldier or sailor, who was honorably discharged or paoled, or who did not desert the Confederate service (as the case may be); that I was married to him prior to the first day of Januarty, 1875; that I reside in this State; that I am indigent and unable to earn a support; that I have no relatives, able, whose duty it is to support me; that I do not own property to the value of four hundred dollars ($400) and that I have not conveyed any property to anyone with a view to drawing a pension, so help me God." Sworn to and subscribed before me this (Signature of Pensioner) Mary Ann Cole 16th day of Aug, 1906 G. W. Bean. Circuit Chancery Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF TWO WITNESSES We, the undersigned, verily believe the fatct stated in the above application to be true and the applicant to be the identical person named in the said application. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 4th day of J. E. Reeder Sept A. D. 1906 (Signature of Witness) G. W. Bean, Circuit Clerk T. C. Davis (Signature of Officer) (Signature of Witness) Office of Chancery Clerk and County Board of Inquiry Chickasaw County Houston, Miss Sept 4, 1906 We, the undersigned, members of the Board of Inquiry, hereby APPROVE the foegoing application of Mary Ann Cole for pension, because we know the applicant to be indigent and unable to earn a livelihood, and that we believe the facts stated in the above application are true and the party should recieve the pension. Given under our hands and seals of office, this 4 day of Sept 1906. J. A. Lewis (Seal) (President of Board) S. L. Wilson (Seal) W. D. Reid (Seal) J. L. Pulliam (Seal) T. W. Harrellson (Seal) (Chancery Clerk) (Affixed along the left side og the sworn statement is the following:) ATTEST: T. W. Harrrilton, Chancery Clerk (Attach Seal of office) N. B.--If the Board approves this application, the Chancery Clerk will so certify, after recordg in a name in a book kept for that purpose, and forward all of the approved applications in a body (not one at a time) to the Auditor's office by the first day of October. No application forwarded after that time will be received. Rejected applications should not be forwarded to this office. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ms/chickasaw/military/civilwar/pensions/cole10gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/msfiles/ File size: 7.4 Kb