LINCOLN COUNTY TN - MILITARY - Civil War Pension for Thursday A. Renegar
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Thursday A. Renegar, Tennessee Widow's Pension, No. 10216 Filed 21 July 1931 Widow
of Sanford Renegar, 41st Tennessee Regt.

Questions for Applicant

State of Tennessee County,

Question 1:  What is your full name and where do you reside? Answer:  Thursday A.
Renegar and live in Lincoln Co., Tenn at Fayetteville.

Question 2:  How long and since when have you been a resident of this State?
Answer:  All my life except first 12 years of my life.

Question 3:  When were you born and what was your maiden name? Answer: August 11,
1846, Thursday A. Martin.  I was born in Marion Co., Miss and lived there 12 years
moving to Tennessee.

Question 4:  When and where was your husband born, state his full name and where
were you and he married and who performed the marriage ceremony? Answer:  (blank)

Question 5:  When and where and in what Company and Regiment did your husband
enlist or serve during the war between the States? Answer:  41st Tennessee Reg.
Company made up in Mulberry, Tennessee.

Question 6:  How long did your husband serve in said Company and Regiment? Answer:
Two years or longer.

Question 7:  When and where did your husbands Company and Regiment surrender?
Answer:  Captured at Ford Donaldson and was sent to prison.

Question 8:  Was your husband present at the time and place when his Company and
Regiment surrendered? Answer:  blank

Question 9:  If not with his command at surrender, state clearly and specifically
where he was, when he left command, for what cause and by what authority? Answer: 
blank

Question 10:  Was your husband a pensioner or an applicant for pension under the
laws of Tennessee? Answer:  No

Question 11:  Have you heretofore applied for a pension in this State? Answer:  no

Question 12:  When and where did your husband die? Answer:  in Lincoln County,
Tenn in 1894

Question 13:  At the time of your husbands death were you living with him as his
lawful wife? Answer:  yes

Question 14:  Have you married since the death of your soldier husband? Answer:
no

Question 15:  What property, real or personal, or income do you have or possess
and its gross value? Answer:  none

Question 16:  Name some friend, giving his name and post office address, who will
be willing to have us write to him about your case if necessary.

Answer:  F.B. Kelso Sworn and subscribed before me this the 18 day of July 1931
Clerk of  Lincoln County.

Supporting letters:

1.  Fayetteville, Tennessee, July 22, 1931.  To Tennessee Board Pension Examiners:
Replying to your letter of the 22nd, inst. Will state that in compliance with your
request, I ask that you complete my application for pension by inserting the name
of my husband, Sanford Renegar.  I also state that while I omitted to state when I
married Sanford Renegar, I call your attention to the certificate of  the County
Court Clerk showing the date of the issuance of the license of Sanford Renegar to
Thursday A. Martin to have been Sept. 28, 1864.  Being License No. 71 on page 41
of marriage license book for the years January 1, 1861 to October 14, 1871.      

From Mrs. Thursday A. Renegar (her mark)

2. January 13, 1934, Fayetteville, Tennessee.  In re: Mrs. T.A. Renegar.  At the
request of Mrs. Jennie L. Sullivan, I am writing to advise you that on January 12,
1934, Mrs. Jennie L. Sullivan was duly qualified as Administratrix of the estate
of Mrs. T.A. Renegar, her mother, as shown by bone and letters, book no. 9, page
459, and therefore entitled to receive, as administratrix of said any check due
her mother, Mrs. T.A. Renegar, who died December 24, 1933.  County Court Clerk
C.F. Higgins.

3. Witness letter: of  J.B. Ramsey.  Sanford Renegar died in Lincoln County in
1894, he lived in Lincoln County when he died and had never lived anywhere else. 

4. Witness letter of D.R. Scott and M.B. Franklin, 25 July 1931.  We personally
knew Mr. Sanford Renegar and wife for a number of years and know them to be man
and wife and that they were known in this county for years as man and wife and
they lived together as such, until his death.