Cooke County, TX - Civil War Pension Application - Elizabeth E. Boatman, widow of Jesse J. Boatman **************************************************************** Contributed by John R. Peterson Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************** FORM No2 Amended October 1, 1902 APPLICATION of Indigent Widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. Hereafter use no other blank but this. THE STATE OF TEXAS } County of Grayson } To the Honorable County Judge of Cook County, Texas. Your petitioner, Elizabeth E. Boatman respectfully represents that she is a resident Citizen of Cook County, in the State of Texas, and that she is the widow of Jesse J. Boatman, deceased, who was a Confederate Soldier (or Sailor), and that she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension as the widow of said Jesse J. Boatman,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 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 Therefor," 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: Elizabeth E. Boatman Q. What is your age? Answer: Sixty-five years Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Cook Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: 20 years, P.O. address Tioga, Grayson County,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: Not able to work. Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: fairlie good. Q. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer: Jesse J. Boatman Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date were you married to him and where? Answer: On April 20,1864. Hopkins County, Texas Q. What was the death of his death? Answer: Nov. 3rd 1888 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: Unmarried -Yes. Q. In what state was your husband's command originally organized. Answer: Texas Q. How long did your husband serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer: Cannot remember. Q. What was the name or letter of your husband's company and name or number of his regiment? Answer: Co. B. 21 Tex. Infantry. Q. State whether he 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 lands certificate you Have received. Answer: None. Q. What real and personal properties 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 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: 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 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. 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) Elizabeth E. Boatman Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of January AD 1908. George W. Raines [Seal] Notary Public, Grayson County, Texas ---------------------------------------------------- Affidavit of Witnesses (Note--There must be at least two credible witnesses) The State of Texas County of Cooke Before me, C.R. Peorman Judge of Cooke County, State of Texas, this day personally appeared J.F. Rogers and A.C. Lumbord who are personally known to me to be credible citizen who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know that Mrs. Elizabeth E. Boatman, applicant for a pension as the widow of the said J.J. Boatman, deceased is in truth and fact the widow of the said J.J. Boatman, deceased: that they personally know that the said Mrs. Elizabeth Boatman, said Mrs. Elizabeth E. boatman, widow of the said J.J. Boatman, deceased, is unable to support herself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness): J.F. Rogers (Signature of Witness): A.C. (His Mark) Lumford Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of March AD 1908. C.R. Pearman [seal] County Judge Cooke County, Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE THE STATE OF TEXAS I, C.R. Pearman County of Cooke County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 15th day of May AD 1908, before me came on to be heard the application of Mrs. Elizabeth E. Boatman, widow of J.J. Boatman, deceased, for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law of this State, approved May 12, AD 1889: 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 herein before appear. I also certify that the said applicant Elizabeth E. Boatman is not disqualified under any of the provisions of Section 12, if 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. Elizabeth E. Boatman as widow of J.J. Boatman, 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 Gainsville this 15th day of May AD 1908. C.R. Pearman County Judge Cooke County, Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Cooke We the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Cooke County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of Mrs. Elizabeth E. Boatman, Widow of J.J. Boatman, deceased, for a pension together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. C.R. Pearman County Judge of this Cooke County, to the Commissioners Court of this Cooke County, at a regular term thereof on the 15th day of May A.D. 1908, 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 Gainesville this 15th Day of May AD 1908 C.R. Pearman John McClure W.M. Slaughter (Seal) W.E. Pybos COMPTROLLER'S DEPARTMENT STATE OF TEXAS AUSTIN September, 8, 1908 To the Adjutant General War Department Washington D.C. Dear Sir; I have the honor to request the military record of Jesse J. Boatman Who is reported to have enlisted in Company B, 21st Regiment Texas Infantry, in the service of the Confederate States Army. Purpose: The 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 State Stats of Texas September 8, 1908 J.W. Stephens Comptroller Requests military record of James J. Boatman Co. B, 21st Regt., Tex Inf., C.S.A. WAR DEPARTMENT The Adujtant General's Office Washington, September 14,1908 Respectively Returned to The Comptroller, State of Texas Austin The records show that Jesse J. Boatman, private, Company B, Griffin's Battalion (also known as 21st Regiment: Confederate States Army, enlisted March 21, 1862, at Houston, to serve for the war, And that he was discharged for disability May 28, 1862, by Special Orders Department of Texas, Houston, Texas, of that date. The Adjutant General Deposition in Pension Claims, with Caption and Certificate EX PARTE } IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERTE PENSION } Under Act May 12, 1889, pending in County ELIZABETH E. BOATMAN } Commisioners Court of COOKE County, Texas, Applicant for Confederate before the Honorable County Judge of said Pension County Answers and depositions of (1) A.C. Lumbard to the accompanying interrogations (2) and cross interrogotories propounded to her in the above entitled cause taken before (3) C.R. Pearman in accordance with the accompanying (5) agreement. To the first interrogatory the said A.CC. Lumbard witness, answers: My name is A.C. Lumbard. I am nearly 81 years old. I live near Collinsville, Texas. Collinsville, Texas, is my post office address. To 2nd. I personally know J.J. Boatman. To 3rd. I knew him from the time he was born to the time of his death, Which was about 56 years. I first knew him in Butler Count, Alabama, in about the year 1831. To 4th. I personally know that the said J.J. Boatman enlisted in the Services of the Confederacy and performed the service of a soldier. To 5th. I don't personally know in what company and regiment the said J.J. Boatman enlisted in the Confederacy. I don't now remember When he enlisted. He enlisted in Elizabeth Town in Denton County, Texas. I cannot now say how long he served in the army. To 6th. I know that Mrs. Boatman is unable to support herself by labor of Any sort. To the cross interrogatories the witness answers as follows: To 1st. I did not know of any other soldier serving the same company and Regiment by the name of J.J. Boatman. To 2nd. I am positively certain that the said J.J. Boatman whose widow is An applicant for a pension is the same person testified about me. To 3rd. I know her physical condition and from that I knew she is not able To earn her living by labor of any sort. To 4th J.J. Boatman never deserted the Confederate Service Mrs. A.C. Lumbard (HerXMark) Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 14th day of March, 1908 C.R. Pearman County Judge, Cooke County, Texas STATE OF TEXAS } I, C.R. PEARMAN, County Judge County of Cooke } Do chereby certify that A.C. Lumbard the witness before named whose name appears Signed to the foregoing deposition, were made before me, and were sworn to and Subscribed before me, by said witness (4) A.C. Lumbard Given under my hand and official seal, this the 14th day of March, 198 C.R. Pearman County Judge, Cooke County, Texas Deposition in Pension Claims, with Caption and Certificate EX PARTE } IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERTE PENSION } Under Act May 12, 1889, pending in County ELIZABETH E. BOATMAN } Commisioners Court of COOKE County, Texas, Applicant for Confederate before the Honorable County Judge of said Pension County Answers and depositions of (1) J.F. Rogers to the accompanying interrogations (2) and cross interrogotories propounded to her in the above entitled cause taken before (3) C.R. Pearman in accordance with the accompanying (5) agreement. To the first interrogatory the said J.F. Rogers Witness, answers My name is J.F. Rogers. I am 69 years old. I reside in Tioga, Grayson County, Texa; and my post office address is Tioga, Texas. To 2nd. I personally knew J.J. Boatman, whose widow is an applicnt for a pension. To 3rd. I personally knew the said J.J. Boatman for about twenty-five years. I first knew him in 1862, and knew him until 1887 when he died. I first knew him in the army in Houston, Texas, some time in the year 1862. To 4th. I personally know that the said J.J. Boatman enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the services of a soldier. To 5th. He was a member of company "B", 21st Texas Infantry, Griffin's Battalion. My recollectio is that Boatman enlisted in the early part of the year, 1862. I think that he enlisted in Denton County, Texas. I do not know how long he did serve in the army but I think for about ten or twelve months. To 6th. I further know that the applicant is unable to support herself by labor of any sort. To the cross interrogatories the witness answers as follows: I know about Boatman serving in the army because I served in the same company and regiment with him, I did not know of any other soldier serving in the same company or regiment. To 2nd. I am personally certain that the said J.J. Boatman, whose widow is an applicant for a pension is the same man about whom I have testified. To 3rd. I know this from having known the applicant for many years and from knowing her physical condition. To 4th. J.J. Boatman never deserted the services of the confederacy. J.F. Rogers Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 14th Day of March, 1908 C.R. Pearman County Judge STATE OF TEXAS } I, C.R. PEARMAN, County Judge County of Cooke } Do chereby certify that J.F. Rogers the witness before named whose name appears Signed to the foregoing deposition, were made before me, and were sworn to and Subscribed before me, by said witness (4) J.F. Rogers Given under my hand and official seal, this the 14th day of March, 198 C.R. Pearman County Judge, Cooke County, Texas