Jones County, NC - William H. Chase Widow's Pension, 1896

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WIDOW’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
County of Jones

On this 27th day of July, A. D., 1896, personally appeared before me S. 
E. Koonce, C.S.C. in and for the State and county aforesaid, Mrs. C. E. 
Chase, age 55 years, and a resident at Comfort post office, in said 
county and State, and who, being duly sworn, makes the following 
declaration in order to obtain the pension under the provisions of an 
act entitled, “An act for the relief of certain soldiers of the late 
war between the States,”  ratified March 11, 1889; as amended by acts 
of General Assembly of 1891, 1893 and 1895; that she is the widow of 
the late Wm. H Chase, who enlisted in the Co B, 51st  Reg. N.C. State 
Troops on or about the 21st day of March, 1862, to serve in the armies 
of the late Confederate States, and that while in performance of duty 
in said Company and Regiment, in the State of ______, on or about the 
____day of ________ 186_, he received a wound or wounds or injuries 
which terminated his life.

(Applicant will here state very particularly when and where the husband 
died; whether he was in the discharge of his duty as a soldier or 
sailor at the time of the receipt of the wound or injury or contracting 
of the disease; whether the death was the probable consequence of such 
service and all other circumstances necessary to establish the fact of 
service and death of husband, etc.)

W.H. Chase husband of this applicant died November 6th, 1895

She further states that she has never re-married; that she is, and has 
been for twelve months immediately preceding this Application for 
Pension, a bona fide resident of North Carolina; that she holds no 
office under the United States, or under any State or county, from 
which she is receiving the sum of three hundred dollars as fees or as 
salary annually; that she is not worth in her own right, or the right 
of her late husband, property at its assessed value for taxation to the 
amount of five hundred dollars ($500), nor has she disposed of property 
of such value by gift or voluntary conveyance since the 11th of March, 
1885.

Sworn and subscribed to before me this ___day of _______, 189__

_____________ Signature of C. S. C.

(signed) C E. Chase (her mark)  Signature of Applicant.

Also personally appeared before me Margaret McGee, who resides at 
Comfort post office and A. B. Chase who resides at Comfort Post office, 
in said county and State, physician…in good standing whom I know to be 
respectable and entitled to credit, and being by me duly sworn, say 
that they are acquainted with __________ , the widow of the late 
_________, of Co____, ____ Regiment North Carolina State Troops, and 
that they believe her to be the identical person she represents herself 
to be, and that the facts set forth in her affidavit are correct to the 
best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest, 
direct or indirect, in this claim.

Sworn and subscribed to before me this __day of ______.189_

____________ Signature of C. S. C.

________________ Signatures of Physician


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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

_______COUNTY.

To the Auditor of the State of North Carolina

We certify that we have carefully examined the application of ________ 
for the widow of the late ______________ who enlisted in Company ____ 
Regiment North Carolina State Troops, for a pension under the 
provisions of an act entitled “An act for the relief of certain 
soldiers in the late war between the States, “  ratified the 11day of 
March, 1889, and the proofs filed in support thereof; that we are 
satisfied the said __________ is a widow of the late ________ who 
enlisted in Co. ______, ____ Reg. of North Carolina State Troops, on or 
about the ____ day of  _____ 186_, and we certify the following 
allegations set forth in her application to be true, namely:  That she 
has never re-married , that she is and has been for twelve months 
immediately preceding this Application for Pension, a bona fide 
resident of North Carolina; that she holds no office under the United 
States, or under any State or county, from which she is receiving the 
sum of three hundred dollars as fees or as salary annually; that she is 
not worth in her own right, or the right of her late husband, property 
at its assessed value for taxation to the amount of five hundred 
dollars ($500), nor has she disposed of property of such value by gift 
or voluntary conveyance since the 11th of March, 1885, and therefore 
her application is correct and just under the act.

(SEAL) _______________________
Chm’n Board Com’rs.
___________________________________  Commissioner

(IMPRESS COUNTY SEAL HERE).

_______________________________-- Sheriff.

(Seal)  __________________________________ Clerk Superior Court

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Widow’s Application For Pension.

Act of March 11th, 1889, as Amended
By Acts of General Assembly of 1891, 1893 and 1895

Mrs.  _______________

Widow of ______________

Company ___ Regiment North
Carolina State Troop

Filed by Board of Inquiry of ____

County, N.C. _______ day of ______

189___

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