Macon County, NC - Thomas S. Potts Civil War Pension, 1901
                   Sarah Potts, Widow's Application

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North Carolina Archives and History
Auditor's Office
Applications for Confederate Pensions (after 1901)
Vol. 3, M-R

                   Widow's Application for Pension

State of North Carolina }
County of Macon         }

On this 31st day of May A.D. 1901, personally appeared before me, John
E. Rickman Justice of Peace, C.S.C., in and for the State and County 
aforesaid, Sarah Potts age 62 years, and a resident at Leatherman
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 to amend chapter 198 of the Laws 
of 1889, for the relief of certain Confederate Soldiers and Widows," 
ratified March 2, 1901: That she is the widow of the late Thomas S.
Potts, who enlisted in Co. A, 65th Reg. N.C. State Troops, on or about 
the 15th day of June, 1862, to serve in the armies of the late Confederate 
States. She further states that she was married to said Soldier before 
the first day of April, 1865, and 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.

"My husband Thomas S. Potts died in April 1900."

Sworn and subscribed before me, this 31st }
day of May, 1901                          }   Sarah X Potts
                  John E. Rickman J.P.    }   Signature of Applicant
                     Signature of C.S.C.  }


                      Physician's Certificate

Also personally appeared before me Dr. F.L. Siler a physician who resides
in Franklin post-office, and Joseph C. Gilbrun who resides at Leatherman
post-office, in said County and State, in good standing, whom I know to
be respectable and entitled to credit, and being duly sworn, say they are
acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Potts, the widow of the late Thomas S. Potts,
of Co. A, 65th Regiment North Carolina 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 3rd }
day of June, 1901                           }   F.L. Siler and
                      Lee Crawford          }   J.C. Gilbrun
                      Signature of C.S.C.   }   Signature of Physician


[Pension application was sent to the State Auditor's office signed by 
the Chairman of Board of Commissioners, Commissioners, Sheriff and
Clerk of Superior Court and approved by the County Advisory Board - no
record of pension being granted is in this record]

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