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Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gina Heffernan - ginagale@bigfoot.com February 14, 2001 Page 1 9667 FORM No. 2 CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION Name of Applicant Mrs. Mary Holder Bexar County, Post Office: San Antonio Comptroller's File No. 9667 I have carefully examined the within application for pension, together with the proof in support thereof, and I recommend that the application be________________ APPROVED on this __ day of JUL 16 1903 E.A. Bolmes Chief Pension Clerk I hereby APPROVE the within application for pension, this ______________ day of SEP 25 1909____A.D.________ J.W. Stephens Comptroller Page 2 FORM No. 2 APPLICATION of Indigent widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. ================================================================= The STATE OF TEXAS County of Bexar To the Honorable County Judge of Bexar County, Texas: Your petitioner, Mrs. Mary Holder respectfully represents that she is a resident citizen of Bexar County, in the State of Texas; and that she is the widow of William Holder, deceased, who was a Confederate soldier (or sailor), and that she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension as the widow of said William Holder, deceased, 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 Confederate 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____Mrs. Mary Holder________ Q. What is your age? Answer__71______ Q. In what County do you reside? Answer__Bexar____ Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your postoffice address? Answer__4 years, 1231 North Olive Street, San Antonio____ Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so, state when and where? Answer__no____ Q. What is your occupation, if able to engage in one? Answer__none not able____ Q. What is your physical condition? Answer__crippled____ Q. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer__William Holder____ Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date were you married to him and where? Answer__February 23 1847____ Q. What was the date of his death? Answer__December 23 1872.____ Q. Are you unmarried, and have you so remained unmarried since the death of your said husband for whose services you claim a pension? Answer__yes____ Q. State in what company and regiment your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension enlisted in the Confederate Army, and the time of his service therein? Answer__Co. K 17th Reg Tex Vols Mar 24 1862 to Aug 26 1863____ Q. If your husband served in the Confederate Navy, state when and where, and the time of such service? Answer__Mar 24 1862 to Aug 26 1863 R Waterhouse Col Commanding Brig. discharged on account of illness____ 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 land donation certificate you have received. Answer__no____ Page 3 Q. What real and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of property and such value. Answer__none____ 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__none____ Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer__none____ Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer__yes____ Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support? Answer__yes____ Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer__no____ Q. Did your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension, ever desert the Confederacy? Answer__no.___ Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer__Yes____ Q. If you originally enlisted in the Confederate service from the State of Texas, were you at the date of the passage of this act, a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas? Answer__yes____ Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law. (Signature of Applicant) __Mrs. Mary Holder____ Sworn and subscribed before me this 4 day of April_____A.D. 1903. [SEAL] Robt. B Greer County Judge Bexar County, Texas. ----------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES. (NOTE--There must be at least two credible witnesses.) THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Bexar Before me Robt. B. Greer County Judge of Bexar County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared____Peter L. Watkins and W. A. Holder_____ who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know__Mrs. Mary Holder__ the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that __Mrs. Mary Holder____, applicant for a pension as the widow of __William Holder, deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of the said __William Holder____, deceased; that they personally know that the said __William Holder____, deceased, [marked out] enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier (or sailor) as claimed by his said widow in the above and foregoing application,[] and that they further know that the said __Mrs. Mary Holder____, widow of the said William Holder, deceased, is unable to support herself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness)__Peter L. Watkins____ (Signature of Witness)__W. A. Holder____ Sworn and subscribed before me this 4 day of April A.D. 1903 (SEAL) __Robt. B. Greer____ County Judge Bexar, County, Texas. Page 4 CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE. THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Bexar I __Robt B Greer____ County Judge of Bexar County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 4 day of April A.D. 1903, before me came on to be heard the application of Mrs.__Mary Holder____ widow of __William Holder____, deceased, 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. I also certify that the said applicant __Mrs. Mary Holder____, is not disqualified under any of the provisions of Section 12, of the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify that after considering all of the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said Mrs. __Mary Holder____ as widow of __William Holder____, deceased, 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 __San Antonio___ this 4 day of April A. D. 1903 (SEAL) Robt B Greer County Judge Bexar County, Texas. -------------------- CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Bexar We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Bexar County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of Mrs. __Mary Holder____ widow of __William Holder___, deceased, for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. Robt B Greer County Judge of this Bexar County, to the Commissioners of this Bexar County, at a regular term thereof on the 14 day of May A.D. 1903, and after a 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 hereby approve said application. Witness our hands and seal of office at San Antonio this 14 day of May A.D. 1903 A. J. Avent (Signature of Commissioners) Chas Wernett Albert H. Potter # (3) (SEAL) Gus F Higgli???? Page 5 - 6 SOLDIER'S DISCHARGE. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Know Ye, That William Holder a Private of Captain Thos H. Gatlins Company, Seventeenth Regiment of Texas Vol Inf, who was enlisted the twenty fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, to serve three years is hereby HONORABLY discharged from the Army of the Confederate States. By recommendation from Medical Board and by an order from Brigd Genl Hurvis Comd Division. Said William Holder was born in the County of Warren in the State of Kentucky, is Forty two years of age, Six feet one inches high, dark complexion, black eyes, black hair, and by occupation when enlisted, a farmer. Given at Camp Texas, La this twenty sixth day of August 1863. Approved S.T. Risler Saml. J. McDonnell 2nd Lt. Comd Co C Capt C(ok) Comdg Regt. 17th Regt Tex Vol Inft Approved R. Waterhouse Col Comd Brig Money in lieu of transportation furnished to Bastrop, Texas. Paid in full to date including clothing Camp Texas, LA D.D. Roseborough August 27/63 Capt & Ag M William Holder b. 1821 d. 12/23/1872 Mary Black Holder b. 1832 d. 1919