Camp County, TX - Civil War Pension Application - Martha Reeves, Widow of A. A. Reeves **************************************************************** Contributed by C. M. Wright Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************** A72 Endorsements Hereon for Comptroller's Use Exclusively Form No.2 (* = added by transcriber-C.M. Wright) Confederate Pension Application Name of Applicant, Mrs. Martha (* BAILEY) REEVES Camp County. Postoffice Pittsburg, Texas Comptrollers File No. 678 *********************************** 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 23rd day of Sept. A.D. 1899 Wm. J. SWAIN, Pension Clerk *********************************** I hereby approve the within application for pension, this 23rd day of September A.D. 1899, R.W. FINLEY-Comptroller ********************************** No application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should be Forwarded to Comptroller. *********************************** Clarke & Courts, Manufacturing Stationers, Galveston-6-99-5 COMPTROLLER'S FORM No. 2. Class 5 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 Camp} To the Honorable County Judge of Camp County, Texas. Your petitioner, Mrs. Martha REEVES, respectfully represents that she is a resident citizen of Camp County, in the State of Texas; that she is a widow of A.A. REEVES (* Agrippa Alexander Reeves), deceased, who was a Confederate soldier, and that she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension as the widow of said A.A. Reeves 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 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: Martha REEVES. Q. What is your age? Answer: Sixty-nine 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: Twenty-five years-Pittsburg, Texas. 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: Not able to engage in any. Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: Bad. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer: A.A. REEVES Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date were you married to him and where? Answer: Yes, married in Campbell Co. GA 3/Nov/1847. Q. What was the date of his death? Answer: Died May, 1864. 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: Company G, TERRY'S Regiment, One and a half years. 1 1/2 Q. If your husband served in the Confederate Navy, state when and where, and the time of such service? Answer: ------------- Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation land certificate you have so received? Answer: Got a land certificate for 640 acres of land . Never located it, sold said certificate for 65 dollars, sold to one Mr. WRIGHT at Quitman, TX. 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 at all. 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 at all. 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 this application? 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, came to Texas in 1858. 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: Martha REEVES. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12 day of August A.D. 1899 {SEAL} Sam D. SNODGRASS County Judge Camp County, Texas ************************************************* AFFIDAVIT Of WITNESSES (Note- There must be at least two credible 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 E.H. REEVES, who is personally known to me to be a credible citizen, who being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he personally knew that Mrs. Martha REEVES, applicant for a pension, as widow of A.A. REEVES, deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of the said, A.A. REEVES, deceased: that he personally knows that the said A.A. REEVES, deceased, enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier as claimed by his said widow in the above and forgoing application, and that he further knows that the said Mrs. Martha REEVES, widow of the said A.A. REEVES, deceased, is unable to support herself by labor of any sort. Signature Of Witness: E. H. REEVES Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12 day of August A.D. 1899 {SEAL} Sam D. SNODGRASS 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 12 day of August A.D. 1899, before me came on to be heard the application of Mrs. Martha REEVES widow of A.A. REEVES 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 herein before appear. I also certify that the said applicant Mrs. Martha REEVES 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. Martha REEVES as widow of A.A. REEVES deceased, I find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and I hereby approve said application. Witness my hand and seal of office at Pittsburg, this 14 day of August 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 ________ County, Texas hereby certify that the foregoing application of Mrs. Martha REEVES widow of A.A. REEVES deceased, for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. Sam D. SNODGRASS County Judge of this Camp County, to the Commissioners Court of this Camp County, at a regular term thereof on the 15th day of August A.D. 1899, 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 Pittsburg this 24th day of August A.D. 1899 Signatures of Commissioners: J.F. HARRISON, J.M. BAXTER, M.H. ELLISON, J.H. ROGERS {SEAL} ******************************************** E 532- Interrogatory For Confederate Pensions Class 6- H.F. Lange, Printing Co., LaGrange, Texas In Re. Confederate Pension Application of ______ Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12th, 1899 ********************************************* Commission To Take Testimony Of Witness: The State of Texas: To: Any Notary Public of Camp County, State of Texas GREETING: You are hereby authorized and empowered to cause to come before you- Jas NEWSOM, resident of Leesburg, Texas of your County, and his answers to take to the accompanying interrogatories propounded to Jas NEWSOM in the matter of application of Mrs. Martha REEVES for Confederate Pensions under Act of May 12, 1899, made and now pending before the County Judge of Camp County in the State of Texas, and having reduced the said answers to writing, you will cause the said witness, to swear to and subscribe them before you, to which you will Certify officially, after which you will seal up said Interrogatories and answers together with this commission, in a package directed to the Judge of the County Court of Camp County, at Pittsburg, in the State of Texas, Witness: Sam D. SNODGRASS, Judge of the County Court of Camp County, and the seal of said Court at my office, in the City of Pittsburg, State of Texas, this the 12th day of August A.D. 1899. Sam D. SNODGRASS County Judge of Camp Co. Texas Issued this the 12th day of August A.D. 1895 Co. Judge Camp County. ********************************************** Ex-Party, Mrs. Martha REEVES, Applicant for Confederate Pension} In the manner of an application for Confederate Pension pending before the County Judge of Camp, County of Texas. Under Act of May 12th 1899. Statement of the Case: Applicant Martha REEVES for Confederate Pensions under Act of May 12, 1899, of the State of Texas, applied for pensions and made Affidavit before me on the 12th day of August A.D. 1899 to the following facts: That her name is Martha REEVES Age 69 years resides in Camp County, in the State of Texas, and resided in said county for 25 years. Post Office address is Pittsburg: That she never heretofore Applied for pension and been rejected. That her occupation is not able to engage in any. That her physical condition is Bad and is unable to earn a support by her own labor; cause of her disability is old age. That her, husband enlisted in the Confederate Army in Company G, Regiment Terry's Regiment on or about the ___day of ___ 1863, and served for a term of one and a half years, That she has no income. That she is in indigent circumstances; in actual want and destitute of property and means of Subsistence. That he-husband never deserted the Confederacy, and that she has been a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas, continuously since January 1 st 1880, that she married to her dec'd husband in Campbell Co. GA-Dec. 1847 Attest: Sam D. SNODGRASS, County Judge of Camp Co. Texas. ************************************************ Ex-Party, Mrs. Martha REEVES, Applicant for Confederate Pension} In the matter of an application for Confederate Pension, pending before the County Judge of Camp County, State of Texas. Under Act of May 12, 1899. Depositions and answers of Jas NEWSOM, to the following interrogatories propounded to Jas Newson, in the above entitled Pension claim, taken before Geo. W. Keeling, Notary Public in and for Camp County State of Texas, in accordence with the accompanying commission, issued by the County Judge of Camp County, State of Texas. Q. 1. What is your name? Answer: Jas F. NEWSOM Q. 2. What is your age? Answer: 81 Eighty one years Q. 3. In what County and State do you reside? Answer: Camp Co. Texas Q. 4. What is your Post Office address? Answer: Leesburg, Texas Q. 5. Do you personally know Mrs. Martha Reeves, who is an applicant for a pension? Answer: Yes, I got aquainted with her in about 1858, 59 or 60 Q. 6. Do you personally know that the said Mrs. Martha Reeves, deceased husband A.A. Reeves, enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a Soldier? Answer: Yes Sir, I knew him personally, I was in the same Company with him about one and a half years. Q. 7. Do you personally know in what Company and Regiment said A.A. Reeves enlisted in the Confederate Army, and the said time of service? Answer: Company G, Terry's Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Maxeys Div. INF. Q. 8. Do you further know that she, the said applicant, is unable to support herself by labor of any sort? Answer: Yes, from what I know, I am sure she is not able to work at. Q. 9. Do you know of your own knowledge that Mrs. Martha Reeves is in truth and in fact the widow of A.A. Reeves, that you have testified about above? Yes, she has been living here in Camp County nearly ever since her husband A.A. Reeves died. Signature of Applicant: Martha Reeves. ************************************************** Cross Interrogatories By the County Judge: Q.1. If you answered that you know that Mrs. Martha Reeves was the wife of A.A. Reeves, then state how you know? Answer: I know that they were living together as man and wife at the time he enlisted and had been for some time before. I did not see them marry, as they were married in Georgia, before they came here. Sam D. Snodgrass County Judge of Camp County, Texas. Signature of witness: James F. Newsom The State of Texas, County of Camp} I, Geo. W. Keeling, Notary Public in and for Camp County, State of Texas do hereby certify that Jas F. Newsom is personally known to me to be a credible citizen of my County and State, that the foregoing answers of Jas F. Newsom, the witness before named, was made before me and was sworn to and subscribed before me on the 14th day of August A.D. 1899 by the said witness. Given under my hand and seal this the 14th day of August A.D. 1899 {Seal} Geo. W. Keeling, Notary Public in and for Camp Co. Texas ****************************************************