Angelina County, TX - William B. Free, Confederate Pension App. #61 Submitter: Cheryl White Confedeate Pension Application Comptrollers File No. 61 William B. Free, Pollock, Angelina Co., TX I have carefully examined the within application for pension, together with the proof in support thereof, and I recommend that the application be approved this 21 day of Sept. A.D. 1899 Wm. J. Sevair, Pension Clerk I hereby approve the within application for pension this 21st day of Sept. A.D. 1899 P. W. Smiley, Comptroller ---------------------------------------------------------- Application of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. The State of Texas, County of Angelina To the Honorable County Judge of Angelina County, Texas. Your petitioner, W. B. Free respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Angelina County, in the State of Texas, and that he makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act passed by the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved May 12, A.D. 1899 , the same being an act entitled "An act to carry into effect the amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that aid may be granted to disabled and dependent Confederat soldiers, sailors, and their widows under certain conditions, and to make an appropriation therefor," and I do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true. -------------------------------------------------------- Note--Applicant must make answer to all of the following questions, and such answers must be written out plainly in ink. -------------------------------------------------------- Q. What is your name? Answer: William B. Free Q. What is your age? Answer: I am 69 years of age, if I live till Nov. 1st 1899 I will be 70 years of age Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Angelina County Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: I have resided in Angelina Co. 18 years, my post office is Pollok, Texas Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so state when and where. Answer: I have not Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: Farming when able Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: My physical condition is very feeble Q. If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn a support state what caused such disability. Answer: old age - ill health - accute rhumatism in left knee Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer: Spates Battalion Company D under Capain Spurlock I served from the 6th day of July 1862 till the close of the civil war Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state what pension or veteran donation land certificate you have received. Answer: I have not Q. What real and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such property and value. Answer: One cow & calf worth $20, 1 cow and three yearlings worth $51, about 30 head of hogs worth about $40, Total value of property $111 Q. What property, and what was the value thereof have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to the date of this application? Answer: I have sold three yearlings for $26 and one calf for $5 Q. What income, if any, do you recieve? Answer: None Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer: I am Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support? Answer: I am Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer I have not Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? Answer: No Q. Have you been continuosly since the first day of January, 1880 a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer: I have Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law. (Signature of Applicant) William B. (X) Free Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of July A.D. 1899 J. T. Maroucy [seal] County Judge Angelina County, Texas --------------------------------------------------- Affidavit of Witnesses (Note-There must be at least two credible witnesses) The State of Texas County of Angelina Before me, J. T. Maroucy County Judge of Angelina County, State of Texas, on this day appeared John N. Coward and E. J. Smith who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know William B. Free the above named applicant for a pension and that they personally know that the said William B. Free enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier (or sailor) as claimed by him in the above and foregoing application, and that they further knew that he, the said applicant, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) John N. Coward (Signature of Witness) E. J. Smith Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of August A.D. 1899 J. T. Maroucy [seal] County Judge Angelina County, Texas ---------------------------------------------------------------- Affidavit of Physician The State of Texas County of Angelina Before me J. T. Maroucy County Judge of Angelina County, State of Texas, on this day appeared Dr. J. M. Sapp, who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, who being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and thoroughly examined William B. Free applicant for a pension, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities which render him unable to labor at any work or calling sufficient to earn a support for himself: Subaccute rhumatism old age and a general failure and breaking down human econonomy (Signature of Physician) J. M. Sapp, MD,D Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of July A.D. 1899 J. T. Maroucy [seal] County Judge Angelina County, State of Texas ------------------------------------------------------------ Certificate of County Judge The State of Texas County of Angelina I, J. T. Maroucy County Judge of Angelina County, State of Texas, do hereby certy that on the 5th day of August A.D. 1899, before me came on to be heard the application of William B. Free for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law of this State, approved May 12, A.D. 1899; that the answers of said applicant to the questions propounded were made under oath as the same appear in writing in the foregoing application; that the affidavits of the witnesses who are credible citizens were made before me as the same hereinbefore appear, and that the forgoing affidavit of Doctor J. M. Sapp who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant William B. Free, is not an inmate of the Texas Confederate Home, nor otherwise disqualified under the provision of Section 12, of the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify that after considering all the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said William B. Free I find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and I hereby approve said application. Witness my hand and seal of office at Lufkin Texas this 5th day of August A.D. 1899 J. T. Maroucy [seal] County Judge Angelina County, State of Texas -------------------------------------------------------- Certificate of County Commissioners The State of Texas County of Angelina We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Angelina County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of William B. Free for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. J. T. Maroucy County Judge of this Angelina County, to the Commissioners Court of this Angelina County, at a regular term thereof on the 17 day of Aug. A.D. 1899, and after careful consideration of the same we find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and we do hereby approve said application. Witness our hands and seal of office at Lufkin this 17 day of Aug. A.D. 1899 (Signature of Commissioners) S. J. Treadwell E. G. Sanders L. C. Russell J. M. Havard [seal] Attest: J. J. Sigleton, Co. Clk. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. 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