Comanche County TX - Military Civil War Pension Application - C.S. Fritts =============================================================================== Confederate Pension Application of Claiborne S. Fritts (C.S. Fritts) Submitted by Tricia Colcleasure Carothers (bcaroth@jps.net) =============================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. 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Stephens Comptroller No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should Be Forwarded to Comptroller [end of page] 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 for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. Hereafter use no blank but this. (note: Answers to following questions are in CAPS. THE STATE OF TEXAS County of: COMANCHE To the Honorable County Judge of COMANCHE County, Texas. Your petitioner, C.S. FRITTS respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of COMANCHE 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 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.S. FRITTS Q. What is your age? Answer: EIGHTY ONE AND 1/2 YEARS Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: COMANCHE Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your postoffice (sic) address? Answer: 34 YEARS-POST OFFICE COMANCHE TEX, RFD. NO. 1. Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so, state when and where. Answer: HAVE NOT APPLIED BEFORE. Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: WAS A FARMER, ARE TO OLD TO FARM NOW. Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: RUN DOWN FROM OLD AGE. 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. Q. In what State was your command originally organized? Answer: ARKANSAS Q. How long did you serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer: IN THE FALL OF 1861. SERVED ONE YEAR, THEN CAME TO TEXAS AND SERVED AS A RANGER UNTIL CLOSE OF WAR. Q. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? Answer: COMPANY G, 17 ARKANSAS INFANTRY. Q. State whether you served in the infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the navy. Answer: INFANTRY 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: NONE Q. What real and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give a list of such property and value. Answer: ONE PONY WORTH ABOUT $25.00. [end of page] 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 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: AM DEPENDANT UPON MY CHILDREN. 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? Answer: 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. Q. If you originally enlisted in the Confederate service from the State of Texas, were you at the date of passage of this act a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas? Answer: .............. Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as required by law. (Signature of Applicant) C S FRITTS Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27 day of MAY A. D. 1907. (L/S) J.H. MCMILLAN County Judge COMANCHE County, Texas AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES (NOTE ---- There must be at least two credible witnesses.) THE STATE OF TEXAS County of COMANCHE Before me EDWIN DABNEY a County Judge of COMANCHE County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared J.T. BEATY AND E.H. RAUHUT who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know C.S. FRITTS the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said C.S. FRITTS is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) J.T. BEATY (Signature of Witness) E.H. RAUHUT Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2ND day of SEPT. A. D. 1907 (L/S) EDWIN DABNEY, County Judge COMANCHE County, Texas [end of page] AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN THE STATE OF TEXAS County of COMANCHE Before me J.H. MCMILLAN County Judge of COMANCHE County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared L.B. THOMAS 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.S. FRITTS applicant for a 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: GENERAL DISABILITY FROM OLD AGE (Signature of Physician) L. B. THOMAS Sworn and subscribed before me this 28th day of MAY A.D. 1907. (L/S) J. H. MCMILLAN County Judge COMANCHE County, State of Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE THE STATE OF TEXAS County of COMANCHE I, EDWIN DABNEY County Judge of COMANCHE County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 27th day of MAY A. D. 1907, before me came on to be heard the application of C.S. FRITTS 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 Doctor L.B. THOMAS who is a reputable practicing physician of this county, was made before me. I also certify that said applicant C.S. FRITTS, 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.S. FRITTS 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 COMANCHE TEXAS this 12th day of NOVEMBER A. D. 1907. EDWIN DABNEY County Judge COMANCHE County, State of Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THE STATE OF TEXAS County of COMANCHE We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of COMANCHE County, Texas, do hereby certify that the foregoing application of C.S. FRITTS for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. EDWIN DABNEY County Judge of this COMANCHE County, to the Commissioners of this COMANCHE County, at a regular term thereof on the 12th day of NOVEMBER A. D. 1907 and after a careful consideration of the same we find the said applicant is is lawfully entitled to the pension provided by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and we hereby approve said application. Witness our hands and seal of office at COMANCHE Texas this 12th day of NOVEMBER A. D. 1907. Signature of Commissioners C.L. COX B.T. GRAVES J.S. STURKIE W.D. LUSK [end of page] DEPOSITION IN PENSION CLAIMS, WITH CAPTION AND CERTIFICATE EX PARTE IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERATE PENSION C.S. FRITTS Applicant for Confederate Pension Under Act May 12, 1899, pending in County Commissioners Court of Freestone County, Texas before the Honorable County Judge of said county. Answers and depositions of (1) W.A. CANNON, AGED 69 YEARS. PRESENT RESIDENCE & P.O. ADDRESS IS MAYFIELD, WASHINGTON CO., ARKANSAS to the accompanying interrogatories (2)HAVE KNOWN C.S. FRITTS 40 YEARS. propounded to HIM in the above entitled cause taken before (3) .................in accordance with the accompanying (5) YES, CO. K, KINGS (?) REG., JULY 1861, FAYETTEVILLE, AR. To the first interrogatory the said W.A. CANNON, AGED 69. Witness, answers: MY PRESENT ADDRESS IS MAYFIELD, WASHINGTON CO., ARK. (2) YES. KNOWN HIM 40 YEARS. (4) YES. (5) YES, CO K., KINGS(?) REG., JULY 1861 AT FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. SERVED WITHIN THE SAME CO. AND REG. BUT DO NOT REMEMBER THE LEVEL OF SERVICE. DO NOT KNOW THE EXTENT OF HIS DISABILITIES. [end of page] Signed: W.A. CANNON Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 3rd day of June, 1907 Signed: Thomas Mayes, Notary Public DEPOSITION IN PENSION CLAIMS, WITH CAPTION AND CERTIFICATE EX PARTE IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERATE PENSION C.S. FRITTS Applicant for Confederate Pension Under Act May 12, 1899, pending in County Commissioners Court of Freestone County, Texas before the Honorable County Judge of said county. Answers and depositions of (1) W.H. ALLISON, AGED 70 YEARS. PRESENT RESIDENCE & P.O. ADDRESS IS MAYFIELD, WASHINGTON CO., ARKANSAS to the accompanying interrogatories (2)YES propounded to HIM in the above entitled cause taken before (3) SINCE 1851 in accordance with the accompanying (5) YES To the first interrogatory the said (1) W.H. ALLISON, AGED 70 YEARS Witness, answers: MY PRESENT RESIDENCE AND P.O. ADDRESS IS MAYFIELD, WASHINGTON CO., ARK. (2) YES. C.S. FRITTS SINCE 1851 (4) YES. SERVED AS SOLDIER (5) YES, CO K., KINGS(?) REG., JULY 1861 AT FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. I ENLISTED WITH HIM IN THE SERVICE IN SAME COMPANY AND REGIMENT, BUT DO NOT REMEMBER THE LEVEL OF SERVICE. DO NOT KNOW THE EXTENT OF HIS DISABILITIES. [end of page] Signed: W.H. ALLISON [his mark] Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 3rd day of June, 1907 Signed: Thomas Mayes, Notary Public [end of page] Comptroller's Department State of Texas Austin To the Military Secretary War Department, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I have the honor to request the military record of C.S. FRITTS who is reported to have enlisted in Company G , 17th Regiment ARKANSAS INFANTRY 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 [end of page] Address: " The Adjutant General War Department, Washington D.C. " 1350871 WAR DEPARTMENT, THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington March 10, 1908 Respectfully returned to The Comptroller State of Texas, Austin. The records show that C.S. FRITTS, 1ST LIEUTENANT, Company G, 17th (GRIFFITH'S) ARKANSAS Infantry, C.S.A., was enlisted NOVEMBER 22, 1861. On the company muster roll for January and February, 1862, (the last on file), he is reported present sick. No later record on him has been found. F. C. Ainsworth The Adjutant General [end of page] INTERROGATORIES TO WITNESSES IN PENSION CLAIMS EX PARTE C.S. FRITTS Applicant for Confederate Pension Pending in the Honorable Commissioners' Court of ........ County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County. The Honorable County Judge of ........ County, Texas will please take notice that, five days after the service hereof, applicant herein will apply to the Clerk of the County Court of said County and State, for a commission to take the deposition of ..............who resides in ..............., ......... in the State of ........ in answer to the following Interrogatories and such cross- interrogatories as may be propounded by the County Judge of said County, which will be read in evidence upon the hearing of applicant's claim for pension in behalf of applicant; said testimony is material and indispensable to applicant in furnishing the required proof to his claim for a pension under the Act of May 12, 1899, the application for which is now pending before the Honorable County Judge, and the facts necessary and required to be proven under the provisions of said Act, applicant believes can not be proven by any witness residing in the County of .......... and State of Texas, of which he is a bona fide resident. (Applicant.) Attorney ........ for Applicant Direct Interrogatories to be Propounded to the Witness WM. CANNON AND POLK LAUGHLEY Int. 1 What is your name? Age? Present place of Residence and postoffice...... Int. 2 Do personally know, or did you at any time know C.S. FRITTS who is an applicant for pension under Act of May 12, 1899? .............. Int. 3 How long have you known the said C.S. FRITTS applicant for pension and when and where did you first know him? ............. Int. 4 Do you personally know that the said C.S. FRITTS applicant for pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor? ............ Int. 5 Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said C.S. FRITTS applicant, enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When? Where? And time of service? If you personally knew and so have stated that he enlisted in the Confederate Navy, then state: When? Where? And how long he so served? ................................ Int. 6 Do you further know that C.S. FRITTS the said applicant for pension, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort? ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ..................... Cross Interrogatories. To be propounded to WM. CANNON AND POLK LAUGHLEY (My note:POLK LAUGHLEY is crossed out here and another name put in) W.H. ALLISON. Cross interrogatory 1. If, in answer to the foregoing direct interrogatories, you have stated that you personally know or did know said applicant, and that you know that he enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor, and having named the company and regiment in which applicant so enlisted and served, then please state fully what is the source of such knowledge? And state whether or not you know or at any (sic) you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of C.S. FRITTS serving in the same company or regiment in which you said the applicant C.S. FRITTS enlisted or if you have stated that said applicant enlisted and served in the navy of the Confederacy, then state whether or not you know any other sailor of the same name as said C.S. FRITTS applicant, serving in the same command? ............................................ If you say that you so knew other soldiers or sailors of the same name of applicant's, then can you and how do you identify and locate the one from the other or others? ............................................. Cross Int. 2. Are you positively certain that said C.S. FRITTS applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you? ..................................... Cross Int. 3 If you have answered Direct Interrogatory No. 6 in the affirmative, then please state your source of knowledge or information? Is not this your answer simply based on conjecture? ........................... Cross Int. 4 Do you know whether or not the said C.S. FRITTS applicant for pension ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy? The State of TEXAS County of........... I, ......................., County Judge of the city of said County do hereby waive copy of interrogatories, time and issuance of commission, and it is hereby agreed that the answers to the herein above direct and cross interrogatories of the said witness may be attached hereto. ................. County Judge...............County, Texas [end of page] [end of this file]