Camp County, TX - Civil War Pension Application - A. E. Bailey **************************************************************** Contributed by C. M. Wright Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************** Form Number 1 Confederate Pension Application Name: A.E. BAILEY (Agrippa E.), of Camp County. Postoffice: Leesburg, TX Comptrollers File No. 5434 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 6th day of February A.D. 1900, Wm. J. INSON?, Pension Clerk. I hereby approve the within application for pension this 7 day of February A.D. 1990, R.W. FINLEY. [Comptroller's Office, Received Dec, 29, 1899, Referred to __ No.__ ] ************************************************************************************** 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 Camp} To the Honorable County Judge of Camp County, Texas. Your petitioner, A.E. BAILEY respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Camp 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 dependant Confederate soldiers, sailors, and their widows under certain conditions, and to make an appropriation thereof," 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: A.E. BAILEY Q: What is your age? Answer: Sixty-six years. Q: In what County do you reside? Answer: Camp. Q: How long have you resided in said County and what is your postoffice address? Answer: About twenty years, Leesburg, Texas. 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: I am unable to work. Q: What is your physical condition? Answer: I am 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 and fever from the service that settled in my left leg which has crippled me. Q: State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate Army, and the time of your service? Answer: Company H, 18th Texas Infantry, about 13 months beginning in June 1862. Q: If you served in the Confederate Navy, state when and where, and the time of your service? Answer: No. 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 received a certificate for 1280 acres of land, which I sold in 1883 for a cow and calf worth about $15.00. 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: I do not own any property whatever. 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: 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? 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: I have since 1859. 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) A.E. BAILEY Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of October A.D. 1899 {Seal } Samuel D. SNODGRASS County Judge Camp County, Texas ********************************************************************************************************************** Affidavit Of Witnesses: The State Of Texas} County of Camp } Before me Sam D. SNODGRASS County Judge of Camp County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared J.C. PORTER and C.M. REEVES, who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know A.E. BAILEY, the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said A.E. BAILEY 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 know that he, the said applicant, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) J.C. PORTER (Signature of Witness) C.M. REEVES Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13 day of October A.D. 1899 {Seal } Sam D. SNODGRASS County Judge Camp County, State of Texas. Affidavit of Physician: The State of Texas, } County of Camp } Before me Sam D. SNODGRASS, County Judge of Camp County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Dr. T.N. PITTS , 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 A.E. BAILEY, applicant for a pension, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities which render him unable to work or calling sufficient to earn a support for himself: A sore leg which has become cronic having been sore since 1863 and is now in such a condition that he can hardly walk. (Signature of Physician) T. N. Pitts, MD Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13th day of October A.D. 1899 Sam D. Snodgrass {Seal} County Judge Camp County, State of Texas. ********************************************************************************************************* Certificate of County Judge: The State of Texas} County of Camp } I, Sam D. SNODGRASS County Judge of Camp County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 7th day of October A.D. 1899, before me came on to be heard the application of A.E. BAILEY 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 here-in before appear, and that the foregoing affidavit of Doctor T.N. PITTS, who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant A.E. BAILEY, 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 has before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said A.E. BAILEY, 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 Pittsburg this 7th day of October A D 1899. {Seal } Sam D. SNODGRASS County Judge Camp County, State of Texas. ***************************************************************************************************************** Certificate of County Commissioners: The State of Texas,} County of Camp } We the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Camp County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of A.E. BAILEY, for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof on the 13th day of November 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 hereby approve said application. Witness our hands and seal of the office at Pittsburg this 13th day of November A.D. 1899. (Signatures of Commissioners) J.F. HARRISON J.M. BAXTER M.H. ELLISON J.H. 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