Macon County, NC - Andrew J. Phipps Pension, 1900

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Confederate Pension Application of Andrew J. Phipps

Indigent Pension, 1900
Name-Phipps, A. J.
County-Banks
Approved-July 20, 1900 for 1901
Handwritten on folio cover “Gone Away-can’t find him.”

Questions for Applicant.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
Andrew J. Phipps of said State and County, desiring to avail himself of 
the Pension Act (Section 1254, Code), hereby submits his proofs, and after 
being duly sworn true answers to make to the following questions, deposes 
and answers as follows:
1. What is your name and where do you reside? (Give State, County and 
post office.)
Andrew J. Phipps.  I reside in Banks County, Ga., Bellton P. O.
2. How long and since when have you been a resident of this State?
Since 1856. [incorrect-see Notes]
3. When and where were you born?
Macon County, North Carolina, 1844.
4. When and where and in what company and regiment did you enlist or serve?
In Grady’s Company 25th North Carolina Regiment 1862. [Co. G 25th North 
Carolina Infantry Regiment].
5. How long did you remain is such company and regiment?
Till the surrender.
6. For how long a period did you discharge regular military duties?
Three years.
7. When, where and under what circumstances were you discharged from the service?
I was payroled [sic] at Appomatox.
8. What is your present occupation?
Farming.
9. How much can you earn (gross) per annum by your own exertions or labor?
[blank]
10. What has been your occupation since 1865?
Farming.
11. Upon which of the following grounds do you base your application for pension, 
viz: first, “age and poverty,” second, “infirmity and poverty,” or third, 
“blindness and poverty”?
Infirmity and poverty.
12. If upon the first ground, state how long you have been in such condition that 
you could not earn your support?  If upon the second, give a full and complete 
history of the infirmity and its extent?  If upon the third, state whether you 
are totally blind and when and where you lost your sight?
I have a kitney [sic] trouble, rheumatism.
13. What property, effects or income do you possess, and it gross value?
I have no property except 1 cow, 2 hogs and household goods all about $20.00.
14. What property, effects of income did you possess in 1894, 1895, 1896, 1867, 
1898 and 1899, and what disposition, if any, did you make of same?
I had about what I have now except a mule which died in April, 1899.
15. In what County did you reside during those years, and what property did you 
return for taxation?
In Banks and Hall.  About the same.
16. How were you supported during the years 1898 and 1899?
I kept a little mill part of the time and my wife helped me in work.
17. How much did your support cost for each of those years, and what portion 
did you contribute thereto by your own labor or income?
I don’t know what it cost.  About ˝.
18. What was your employment during 1898 and 1899?  What pay did you receive 
each year?
I kept a mill and received a few bushells [sic] of corn.
19. Have you a family?  If so, who composes such family?  Give their means of 
support?  Have they a homestead?
I have a wife and one small girl aged 8 years old.  They have no property.
20. Are you receiving any pension?  If so, what amount, and for what disability?
I am not receiving anything.
Signed: Andrew J. Phipps
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 31st day of March 1900.
T. F. Hill Ordinary,
of Banks County.

Power of Attorney.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
I, Andrew J. Phipps, hereby authorize T. F. Hill of Homer, Ga., to receive and 
receipt for the pension allowed, and request that he remit the same to me at 
Homer, Ga.
Witness my hand and seal this the 4th day of April 1900.
Signed and sealed: Andrew J. Phipps
Executed in the presence of J. J. Holder.

Notes- Andrew J. Phipps appears in the 1850 Macon County, N. C., census as the 
son of Ezekiel Phipps and Clarissa Phipps as a 6 year old.  He is also in Macon 
County in the 1860 Census with his parents and siblings as a 16 year old.  His 
record shows he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 25th Infantry Regiment North 
Carolina on 01 April 1863 at the age of 18 and was on the rolls through February 
1865.  In the 1870 Census Andrew J. Phipps, age 24, is found in Monroe, Indiana, 
with a brother, John K. Phipps, 26.  In 1880, Andrew J. Phipps was in Rabun 
County, Georgia, with his parents again.  In the 1900 Census Andrew J. Phipps 
was in Banks County with a wife, Mary, and a daughter May, born 1892.  In 1910 
Andrew J. Phipps was in Custer County, Oklahoma with wife, Mary, and living with 
his son in law Ed Mason and wife, May.  
Andrew J. Phipps is buried at the Wade Cemetery in Habersham County.  His 
tombstone dates are 4-26-1843 to 5-14-1917.  Also buried in the Wade Cemetery in 
Habersham County is his brother, James W. Phipps, C. S. A. [no dates].

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