Confederate Pension Application for Amaziah Fogleman Submitted by Glen Davis ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Biographical notes: Amaziah Fogleman was born 18 Aug 1828 in either Avoyelles, the son of John Fogleman and Polly Sandefur. John and his father, George Fogleman were residents of Avoyelles Parish at Bayou Vermillion and Bayou Boef as early as 1803. John Fogleman resided on Bayou Boef near Holmsville at the time of his death. I believe Amaziah also resided in Avoyelles after his war service until he emigrated to Freestone county Texas. Amaziah was married to Fanny Hudson. Amaziah died at Terrell Texas, 19 Sep 1901. In addition to Amaziah, his brothers George H., Elijah and Isaiah Fogleman all were soldiers in the CSA out of St Landry. George H. also qualified for a Texas confederate Veteran's Pension, as did the widow of Elijah, Mary T. Nelson Fogleman. Isaiah Fogleman remained in Louisiana. (gd) The following material is reproduced from the holdings of the Texas State Archives, Austin Texas. [NOTE: responses to questions are in ALL CAP format, as are signatures, etc gd.] # 4707 Form No. 2 - Confederate Pension Application Name of Applicant: Amaziah Fogleman County: Freestone, TX Post Office: Dew, Texas Comptroller's File No. 04707 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 22 day of NOVEMBER A. D. 1899. (s) WM. J. SWAIN, Pension Clerk I hereby APPROVE the within application for pension the 22 day of NOVEMBER A.D. 1899 (s) R M FINLEY (?) The State of Texas County of Freestone Before me H. B. Davis County Judge of Freestone County Texas on this day personally appeared Dr. F. P. Peyton who is a reputable physician of this county, who being by me duly sworn deposes and says on his oath, that he has carefully and thoroughly examined Amaziah Fogleman the 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, to wit: - IN 1899 MR. FOGLEMAN HAD AN ATTACK OF PARALYSIS FROM WHICH HE HAS NEVER RECOVERED. HE IS UNABLE TO ATTEND TO ANY BUSINESS OR DO WORK OF ANY SORT. F. P. PEYTON, MD Subscribed and sworn to before me this Aug 19th AD 1899 (s) H. B. Davis, Co Judge Freestone Co. Texas [NOTE: The wrong Form was used in making this application. The widow's application was substituted in error for the Veteran's Form. gd] Form No. 2 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 FREESTONE To the Honorable County Judge of FREESTONE County Texas. Your petitioner AMAZIAH FOGLEMAN respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of FREESTONE County, in the State of Texas; 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 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: AMAZIAH FOGLEMAN Q. What is your age? Answer: 71 YEARS OLD Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: FREESTONE Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: SINCE 1873. POST OFFICE IS DEW 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 WAS A FARMER Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: VERY BAD INDEED, AM AN INVALID. HAVE A COMPLICATION OF DESEASES (sic). SUFFER FROM EPILEPSY SOMETIMES. ALSO FROM KIDNEY AND BLADDER TROUBLE. AND AM GENERALLY DEBILITATED. Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate Army, and the time of his service therein? Answer: ENLISTED IN CO. A 2cd LOUISIANA CAVALRY, SEPT 1861 AND SERVED TO THE SURRENDER ORDER. DISBANDED IN ST. LANDRY PARISH. 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 so received. Answer: NO. NEVER APPLIED FOR ANYTHING IN WAY OF HELP BEFORE IN ALL MY LIFE. 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: NONE OF ANY DESCRIPTION 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: YES! Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn support? Answer: YES! I AM Q. Have you transferred to others property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer: I HAVE NOT. 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: YES! SINCE 1873. Wherefore your petitioner prays that her (sic) pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law. (Signature of Applicant) AMAZIAH FOGLEMAN Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of AUGUST A. D. 1899. (L/S) H. B. DAVISS County Judge FREESTONE County, Texas Affidavit of Witnesses. (Note: there must be at least two credible witnesses.) THE STATE OF TEXAS County of FREESTONE Before me H. B. DAVISS County Judge of FREESTONE County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared A. G. ANDERSON AND (J. C. ANDERSON) who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know that AMAZIAH FOGLEMAN applicant for a pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and that they further know that the said AMAZIAH FOGLEMAN is unable to support herself (sic) by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) AG ANDERSON (Signature of Witness) J. C. ANDERSON Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of AUGUST A. D. 1899 (L/S) H. B. DAVISS County Judge FREESTONE County, Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF FREESTONE I, H. B. DAVISS County Judge of FREESTONE County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 26th day of August A.D. 1899, before me came on to be heard the application of AMAZIAH FOGLEMAN 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. I also certify that the said applicant AMAZIAH FOGLEMAN 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 pension by the said AMAZIAH FOGLEMAN I find the 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 FAIRFIELD TEXAS this 26th day of AUGUST A. D. 1899 (L/S) H. B. DAVISS County Judge FREESTONE County Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THE STATE OF TEXAS County of FREESTONE We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of FREESTONE County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of AMAZIAH FOGLEMAN for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. H. B. DAVISS County Judge of this FREESTONE County, to the Commissioners Court of this FREESTONE County, at a regular term thereof on the 14th day of Nov 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 this State, and we hereby approve said application. Witness our hands and seal of office at FAIRFIELD TEXAS this 14th day of Nov A. D. 1899. (L/S) W.H. MILLER J. A. Wright R. W. Durhow R Y Chancellor [end of page] (following is hand written) EX PARTE EMIZA (sic) FOGLEMAN APPLICATION FOR PENSION IN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT FREESTONE COUNTY TEXAS IN VACATION Interrogatories to be forwarded to OZEMA FONTENOT and WILLIAM E GAY, resident citizens of St Landry Parish State of Louisiana - whose answers to said Interrogatories will be used as evidence before said Court and the Pension Board in behalf of said applicant. You gentlemen are hereby informed that said AMIZA (sic) FOGLEMAN a resident citizen of Freestone County Texas, has made application before the County Judge of said County for a pension under the pension laws of the State of Texas Chapter 107 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 & their widows, under certain conditions and make an appropriation therefor." Interrogatory First: Please state your age, residence and occupation? Interrogatory 2nd: Please state whether or not you know said AMIZA (sic) FOGLEMAN and if you state you know him, state when, where and how long you have known him? Interrogatory 3RD: If in the answer to 3RD (sic) interrogatory you should state that you are acquainted with the said AMIZA (sic) FOGLEMAN and that you knew him in the State of La before and during the Civil War, state whether or not he volunteered and served in said Civil War, as a Confederate soldier? And if you state that he served in said war, state when and where he enlisted - give the number of his co., and the name of his captain - the no. of his regiment, and the name of his colonel - if you know? State whether infantry or cavalry service? And state if you know how long he served in said Confederate (sic) War as a soldier? And state whether of not he made a good or a ?trifling? soldier, and whether or not he was honorably discharged from said service at, or before the close of said War? ANDERSON & MOSES ATTYS [END OF PAGE] I, H. B. Daviss Judge of said County Court and as presiding officer of said Commissioners Court - in behalf of the State of Texas - hereby waive copy time And commission and agree that the answers and depositions of the just above Name of witnesses may be taken to the original interrogatories and that the Dist clerk of ST LANDRY PARISH COURT is agreed upon to **** the same &c H. B. Daviss, Co. Judge Freestone Co. Texas [END OF PAGE] State of Louisiana Parish of St Landry EX PARTE EMIZA (sic) FOGLEMAN Application for Pension In County Commissioners Court Freestone County Texas Depositions of OZUME FONTENOT and WILLIAM E. GAY resident citizens of St Landry Parish, State of La produced sworn and examined on this fifteenth day of August A.D. 1899 before me ALFRED PAUCY Clerk of Court in & for St Landry Parish La whose answers to said interrogatories will be used as evidence before said Court and the Pension Board in behalf of said applicant EMIZA (sic) FOGLEMAN. Mr Ozume Fontenot, who being first duly sworn by me on this 15th day of August A. D. 1899, that the evidence he should give in the above titled cause should be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, doth depose and say as follows: To the First Interrogatory: My name is OZUME FONTENOT, I am fifty three (53) years old, I reside at Old Le*** Prairie St Landry Parish. La. My P.O. is Washington La. My occupation is farmer and merchant. To the Second Interrogatory, he saith: Yes, I know AMIZA (sic) FOGLEMAN, I knew him during the Civil War, have known him since (I think) 1862. I knew him in the state of Louisiana. To the Third Interrogatory, he saith: Yes he did volunteer & served in said Civil War, as a Confederate soldier. I think he enlisted at Washington La, in company "A", the name of his first Captain was James M Thompson, and afterwards, S. D. Prescott, who is now Living at Washington, LA became captain of our company, the number of his Regiment was Second Louisiana (2ND) cavalry. The name of his colonel was GEORGE WILLIAM VINCENT, who is now living in New Orleans, La. I joined the Army in 1862, & he (AMIZA (sic) FOGLEMAN) was a soldier then, and we s surrendered in 1865. He was a good soldier, and was honorably discharged at the close of the War, when we surrendered at Washington, LA. (s) OZUME FONTENOT Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of August A. D. 1899 at Opelousas LA. St Landry Parish LA. (s) ALFRED PAUCY WM E. GAY being duly sworn says: "In Answer to Interrogatory 1st - My Name is William E. Gay, I am 58 years old, I reside at Washington St Landry Pa La & I am a school teacher. In answer to interrogatory 2nd he says: "I have known AMIZIA (sic) FOGLEMAN all my life. In answer to all the other interrogatories, he says:"I corroberate (sic) the answers given in the within and foregoing by MR OZUME FONTENOT in their entirety" (s) WILLIAM E GAY Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of August a. D. 1899 at Opelousas La. St Landry Parish la. (s) D.S. EDWARDS, DY CLK 11TH Dist Court of La