WILSON COUNTY TX – REPUBLIC OF TEXAS PENSION: RITA ALEMADA Y GONZALES Contributed by: Joan Renfrow ******************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ******************************************************************************** REPUBLIC OF TEXAS CLAIMS PENSION CLAIM APPLICATION FILE FOR RITA ALEMADA Y GONZALES The State of Texas County of Bexar To November Term A.D. 1870 In County Court To the Honorable Thomas A. Dwyer, Judge The applicant Rita Alameda y Gonzales aged 60 years, a resident of said County with respect represents that she believes herself entitled to the benifits of an Act to provide Annual Pensions for the surviving Soldiers of the Texan Revolution, and the surviving Signers of the Declaration of Texan Independence and the surviving widows of such soldiers and signers. Approved 28th of July 1876 That her husband Antonio Gonzales was a volunteer who served in the war between Texas and Mexico in the Army of the Republic of Texas, between the commencement of the Revolution at Gonzales in 1835 and the first day of January 1837. That he is the identical Antonio Gonzales who was in the Company of Captain Salvador Flores in the Siege of Bexar in December 1835 and other Public Service of Texas his native state, and that he never took up arms against this State and also that he was in the Army of Texas in the year 1836 and served as a messenger or bearer of dispatches under Col. Thomas McKinney (does not claim to have been in the Battle of San Jacinto). She further declares that her maiden name before her said marriage was Rita Alemada and that she was married to the said Antonio Gonzales, on the 20th day of September A.D. 1867 by the Revd. R. Garza in the city of San Antonio and that her said husband died on the Medina River on the 24th day of July 1870, aged about 58 years, and that she is surviving widow and that she has always remained unmarried since the death of her said husband. She also further declares that she is in indigent circumstances. Therefore she prays that this application be received, filed, entered on Docket Notice given as required by law, and such other on further orders as may be necessary and proper enabling her to obtain relief and she will give pray, and as in duty bound to. She appoints Edward Miles her attorney in fact with full power to do such acts in these premises, as if I were present. Rita Alemada y Gonzales her X mark Surviving Widow of Antonio Gonzales Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of September A.D. 1876 James J. Smith Co. Clk, Bexar Co. We, Nepomuceno Navarro and Juan Jimenes residents of Bexar County, Texas and credible witnesses, well known to the Court, who being duly sworn on oath depose and say that the foregoing declaration and acknowledgement was signed by Rita Alemada in our presence and that we know her deceased husband in the Texas Army in 1836 and also know the applicant as the surviving Widow and that she has remained unmarried since the death of her said husband, that he is the identical Antonio Gonzales represented herein and that her statements are true. Nepomuceno Navarro (his X mark) Juan Jimenes (his X mark)