Caldwell County, TX - Confederate Pension Application - C. V. Ketchum **************************************************************** Contributed by Elaine Nall Bay Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************** Form No. 1 - AMENDED October 1, 1902 CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION Name of Applicant C.V. Ketchum Caldwell County Post Office Lockhart R.4 Comptroller's File No.12757 -------------------------------------- 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 Sep 19 1907 A.D. E.A.Bolmes, ChiefPension Clerk --------------------------------- I hereby approve the within application for pension, this Sep 19 1907 A.D. J.W. Stephens, Comptroller ----------------------------------------------------------- Note: The Law provides that pensions can begin only on the first day of April and October of each year. Form No. 1 Amended October 1, 1902 APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy of pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. Hereafter use no other blank but this. THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Caldwell To the honorable County Judge of Caldwell County, Texas. Your petitioner, C.V. Ketchum, respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Caldwell 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 26th 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 therefore, 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 C.V. Ketchum Q. What is your age? Answer 69 Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Caldwell Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer 56 Lockhart P.O. RFD #4 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 night watching when able Q. What is your physical condition? Answer Bad 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 and rheumatism Q. In what State was your command originally organized? Answer Texas Q. How long did you serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer Inlisted Feb 1862 Discharged spring of 1865. Q. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? Answer Co. A 32nd Texas Cavalry Q. State whether you served in the infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the navy. Answer Cavalry 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 No 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 None Q. What property, and what was the value thereof have you sold or conveyed within 2 years prior to the date of this application? Answer none Q. What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value? Answer Wife dead 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? No Q. Did you 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 his application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law. (Signature of applicant) C.V. Ketchum Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of June A.D. 1907 Jno. W. Gambrell, County Judge Caldwell County, Texas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Affidavit of Witness The State of Texas County of Caldwell Before me, Jno. W. Gambrell County Judge of Caldwell County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared B.E. Keese and A.B. Fergurson who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know C.V. Ketchum, the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said C.V. is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) B.E. Keese (Signature of Witness) A.B. Forgueson Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15 day of June A.D. 1907 Jno. W. Gambrell, County Judge Caldwell County, Texas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN The State of Texas County of Caldwell Before me Jno. W. Gambrell County Judge of Caldwell County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared A.A. Ross, 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 C.V. Ketchum, applicant for 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: ToWit: He complains of rheumatism of left ---- and old age, both of which are manifest and he also has chronic Interstral Nepliritis (Brights Disease) which will probably terminate his life in 3 or 4 years. (Signature of Physician) A.A.Ross M.D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15 day of June A.D. 1907 Jno. W. Gambrell, County Judge Caldwell County, State of Texas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE The State of Texas County of Caldwell I, Jno. W. Gambrell County Judge of Caldwell County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 1st day of July A.D. 1907, before me came on to be heard the application of C.V. Ketchum 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 foregoing affidavit of A.A. Ross who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant C.V. Ketchum, 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 C.V. Ketchum 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 Lockhart this 1st day of July A.D. 1907 Jno.W. Gambrell, County Judge Caldwell County, State of Texas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CERTIFICATE OF CONTY COMMISSIONERS The State of Texas County of Caldwell We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Caldwell County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of C.V. Ketchum for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. Jno. W. Gambrell County Judge of this Caldwell County, to the Commissioners Court of this Caldwell County, at a regular term thereof on the 13 day of Aug. A.D. 1907, 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 Lockhart this 13 day of Aug. A.D. 1907 G.? Blasien B.M. Hughes John Hurst ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The State of Texas County of Caldwell Before me Jno W. Gambrell County Judge of Caldwell County, State of Texas on this day personally appeared Geo. W. Kyser and ________________________ who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath state that they personally know C.V. Ketchum applicant for a confederate pension that they personally know that the said C.V. Ketchum enlisted in the service of the Confederate States and performed honorably the duties of a soldier thereof, and that they personally know that said applicant never deserted the Confederacy and was connected with his regiment 32 Texas cavalry up to the time it was disbanded at the close of the war, and that their knowledge of all the foregoing facts is based on the fact that they served with him in Co. A 32 Texas Cavalry Geo. W. Kyser Subscribed and sworn to before me the undersigned authority at Lockhart, Texas, this 15th day of June, 1907. Jno. W. Gambrell, Co. Judge Caldwell Co., Tex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The State of Texas County of Caldwell Before me Jno W. Gambrell County Judge of Caldwell County, State of Texas on this day personally appeared S.B. Crenshaw, personally known to me to be a credible citizen, who being by me duly sworn on oath state that he personally knows C.V. Ketchum applicant for a confederate pension that he served with him in the 32 Texas Volunteer Cavalry and personally knows that the said C.V. Ketchum neve deserted the Confederacy and was honorably connected with his regiment at the time it was disbanded at the close of the war. S.B. Crenshaw Subscribed and sworn to before me the undersigned authority at Lockhart, Texas, this 29th day of June, 1907. Jno. W. Gambrell, Co. Judge Caldwell Co., Tex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comptroller's Department State of Texas Austin Aug 30, 1907 To the Adjutant General To the Military Secretary War Department, Washington D.C. Dear Sir: I have the honor to request the military record of C.V. Ketchum who is reported to have enlisted in Company A, 36th Regiment Texas Cavalry in the service of the Confederate States army. Purpose: The person above named is an applicant for a Confederate pension granted by this State, and I desire to verify his proof of service. Very respectfully, J.W. Stephens, Comptroller ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - War Department The Adjutant General's Office Washington September 14, 1907 Respectfully returned to the Comptroller, State of Texas, Austin It is shown by the records that Chester V. Ketchum, private, Company A, 36th Texas Cavalry, C.S.A. was enlisted March 22, 1861. On the muster roll of his company for January and February 1864, the last on file, he is reported as absent, detached as teamster October 10, 1862. No later record of him has been found. F.C. Ainsworth, The Adjutant General