Pension Application: Mrs. M. A. Dowdle: Alto, Cherokee, Texas


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Mrs. M. A. Dowdle Pension Application Information

Comptroller of Public Accounts 
State of Texas
Austin
January 3, 1961

Mrs. A. R. Parrott
P. O. Box 748
Nacogdoches, Texas

Dear Mrs. Parrott:

the records of this office reveal that a Mrs. M. A. Dowdle applied from Rusk, 
Cherokee County, Texas, for a Confederate pension on the 23rd day of September, 
1899.  the request was granted.

Her application states that her husband's name was D. M. Dowdle.  She was 61 
years old at the time she applied for the pension and had resided in Rusk, Texas 
for 29 years.

She stated that she was married in Mississippi in 1853.  Her husband died in 
Cherokee County in 1870.

The application states that her husband served in Company "A" Ochiltree's 
Regiment, and that he served for a period of eighteen months.

Hoping the above information may be of some benefit to you, I am,

Sincerely yours,
sign.
Robert S. Calvert
Comptroller of Public Accounts

Note: David Martin Dowdle was a Private Co. A, 18th Regt. Texas Inf.