Pension Application for T.R. Chapman, Tallahatchie Co., MS SUBMITTER: Kathy Stupp EMAIL: med1@tecinfp.com DATE: May 27, 1999 SURNAMES: Chapman THIS APPLICATION Must be Filed with the Chancery Clerk on or before the First Monday in September. (NO APPLICATION WILL BE ENTERTAINED NOT ON THE PRINTED FORM) FORM No. 2 Application of indigent soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy under Chapter 73, Acts of 1900 for $50.00. Applicants must make Answer to all of the following Questions and have it written out Plainly in ink. Q. What is your name? T.R. Chapman. Q. What is your age? 62 years. Q. In what county do you reside? Tallahatchie Q. What is the name of your postoffice? Charleston Q. How long have you been a bona fide resident of Mississippi? 44 years. Q. Are you married or unmarried? Married. Q. In what State and County did you reside when you enlisted in the service of the Confederat Staes? Tallahatchie County, Miss. Q. What was the date of your enlistment? May 1861. Q. What was the number of the regiment ot the name of the vessel in which you fisrt enlisted? 21st Miss. Infantry. Q. The name of it's Commander? B. Humphreys. Q. Letter od designationof the company in which you served. F. Q. The name of it's Captain? W.H. Fitzgerald. Q. The length of thime you served in the above company or regiment? About 4 years. Q. Where you discharged or transferred from the above commands? No. Q. Give the date of the discharge or transfer from the above commands. None. Q. If discharged on what grounds? None Q. If transferred, to what command? None Q. Did you enlist the second time in the Confederate service? No. Q. If so, into what regiment or company. None. Q. Were you discharged from this command before the surrender in 1865? No. Q. If so, for what cause? None Q. Where you ever wounded while in active service? Yes. Q. Give date on which you received you wound. July 1, 1862. Q. At what place were you wounded? Malvern Hill, VA. Q. What is the nature of your wound? Shot throught the neck causing neuralgia and shot through the left hand at the battle of Cetar Creek. Q. Have you lost one foot or one hand? No. Nearly lost the use of both arms and legs of one hand allmost ** the rest is unreadable** Q. Have you lost the entire use of one foot or one hand? No. Q. Is you have lost one one foot or one hand was the loss caused by wounds or injuries received while enlisted in the Confederate Army? Lost use of both arms and one hand as above mentioned. Q. If wounded otherwise,so as to disable you in earning a support, state in what manner. No but disabled by **mostly unreadable but says something about seizures caused by neuralgia of the head and eyes** Q. Where you at any time absent from your command without leave? No. Q. If yes, how long and why? No. Q. Did you ever absent yourself from your command without leave and join another? No. Q. Where you with your command in active service at the surrender in 1865? Yes Q. Where did your command surrender? Appomattox, Va. Q. Were you absent from it when it surrendered? No. Q. Where you absent from it when it surrendered? No. Q. Why were you absent? No. Q. How long had you been absent? Not at all. Q. What is your occupation at present? Farmer. Q. Do you apply for pension because you are indigent and unable to earn support by your own labor? Yes. Q. Do you receive income from the State, United States, County, City, or from any other source? No. Q. How much is it per annum? Nothing. Q. Have you sons over and under 21 years of age? No. Q. If yes, how many? None. Q. Have you any property in your own right or in the right of your wife? Yes. Q. What is it's assessed value? $200.00 including personal property and home. Q. Have you a home of your own? Yes as above mentioned. Q. If not, with whom do you live? My wife and children, Q. Is the person who you are now living with a relation? Wife and children. Q. Have you any realtions? If so, what relations? Wife & children. Q. Have you any relations or connections whose legal and moral duty to provide for you? No. Q. Have you any relations? If so, what relations? One son married & 3 daughters married with their children to care for. I do solemnly Swear or affirm that I was a Confederate soldier, sailor, or servant, that I was honorably discharged or paroled or did not desert from the Confederate service, that I reside in the State, that I am indigent and infirm by reason of service while int he Confederate army or navy that I am not able to earn a support and have no relatives able whose legal and moral duty to support me. And I do not own property, real or in my own name or that of my wife to the value of four hundred dollars, that I have not conveyed any of my property to anyone with a view of drawing a pension. So help me God. (Signature of pensioner) T.R. Chapman (his mark) Sworn in and subscribed before me this 30 day of July 1900 (signed)Jno F. Neeley, Chancery Clerk AFFIDAVIT We the undersigned, verily believe the facts stated in the above application to be true and the applicant to be the identical person named in the said application. Signature of applicant - T.R. Chapman (his mark) Witnesses: (signed) R. J. Thompson (signed) ? H. Roberson Sworn and subscribed before me this 30 day of July 1900 (signed) Jno F. Neely, Chancery Clerk CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER The undersigned hereby certify that the applicant is indigent and physically unable to earn a support by his own labor. (signed) T.B. Harrison M.D. Office of Chancery Clerk and County Board of Inquiry Tallahatchie County, Charleston, Miss. Sept 3, 1900 We, the undersigned members of the Board of Supervisors, Sheriff, and Chancery Clerk, here by approve the above foregoing application of T.R Chatman for pension, because we know the applicant to be indigent and physically unable to earn a support by his own labor, caused by wounds or injuries received during the civil war, and that we believe the facts stated in the above application are true and the party should receive this pension. Given under my hane this 3 day of Sept 1900. (signed) N.J. McMullin (signed) J.A. Shore (signed) J.A. Morgan (signed) Mike Hey (signed) J.J. Willingham (signed) R.J. Thompson (signed) Jno F. Neely Certificate for Pension TO BE MADE BY CLERK OF THE CHANCERY COURT. Chancery Clerk's Office Tallahatchie County, State of Miss. T.J.Mauley, Clerk of the Chancery Court of said County, to Ceritfy that T.R. Chapman is the identical person named in the original application which is on file in the Auditor's Office, and that the applicant is alive but still disabled* and a citizen of this State, and still entiltled to benefitsof "An Act fot the relief of certain soldiers and sailors and servants of officers, soldiers, and sailors of the late war between the States, approved March 3, 1888, and amendment thereto approved February 22, 1890. Given under my hand and Seal of Office this 4 day of August A. D. 1890. Signed T. J. Mauley, Chancery Clerk The State of Mississippi TO T.R. Chapman Charleston Postoffice, Tallahatchie County (The amount cannot be stated until all the applications are in.) Received of W. W. Stone, Auditor of Public Accounts Warrant No 277 for the sum of $123.36 in full. Signed T.R. Chapman January 28, 1891 SPECIAL IN STRUCTIONS TO THE CHANCERY CLERK If the party for whom this is identified is still entitled for a pension under the law the Chancery Clerk will make proper certificate above, secure the signature of the pensioner to the blank receipt attached and return ALL of the certificates and receipts herewith sent him IN A BODY (not one at a time) to the Auditor's Office by the first Monday in September next. The warrant can in no case be issued until after the first day of October next. The pensioner's instructions must be written below as to the disposition of the warrant when issued. Instructions: Send to Charleston ----------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non- commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. 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