S. W. Derryberry, Confederate Pension Application, GREGG County, TX SUBJECT: S. W. Derryberry SUBMITTER: Carolyn EMAIL: carjoy@neosoft.com DATE: Mar 17, 1999 SURNAMES: Derryberry, Smith Endorsements Hereon for Comptroller’s Use Exclusively. ------------------------------------------------------------ FORM No. 1. ------------------------------------------------------------ CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION. ------------------------------------------------------------ Name of Applicant, S. W. Derryberry Gregg County. Post Office Gladewater, Texas ------------------------------------------------------------ Comptroller’s File No. 1661 ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 4 day of Oct, A. D., 1899. /s/ Wm. J. Swain Pension Clerk. ------------------------------------------------------------ I hereby approve the within application for pension this 4th October A. D. 1899. /s/ Comptroller. ------------------------------------------------------------ No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should be Forwarded to Comptroller. FORM No. 1. APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. ------------------------------------------------------------ THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF GREGG To the Honorable County Judge of Gregg County, Texas. Your petitioner, S. W. Derryberry respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Gregg 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 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 S. W. Derryberry Q. What is your age? Answer 66 years Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Gregg County Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer for more than 25 years, Post Office, Gladewater, 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 Bad 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 bad health and old age Q. State in what county and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer Co. “A” 1st Texas Cavalry - served more than 3 yrs Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where, and the time of your service. Answer no 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 no 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 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 of 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 yes Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law. (Signature of Applicant) /s/ S. W. “X” Derryberry Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21 day of July A. D. 1899 /s/ J. N. Campbell County Judge Gregg County, Texas. ---------- AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES. (NOTE--There must be at least two credible witnesses.) THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Gregg Before me, J. N. Campbell County Judge of Gregg County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared J. M. Prothro and R. H. Tutt who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know S. W. Derryberry, the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said S. W. Derryberry enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier (or sailor) as claimed by him in the above and foregoing application, and that they further know that he, the said applicant, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) /s/ J. M. Prothro (Signature of Witness) /s/ R. H. Tutt Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 day of July A. D. 1899 /s/ J. N. Campbell County Judge Gregg County, Texas ---------- AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN. THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF Gregg Before me J. N. Campbell County Judge of Gregg County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared T. J. Allison, 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 S. W. Derryberry 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 support for himself: Physical weakness and old age (Signature of Physician) /s/ T. J. Allison, M. D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 day of July A. D. 1899 /s/ J. N. Campbell County Judge Gregg County, State of Texas. ---------- CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE. THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Gregg I, J. N. Campbell County Judge of Gregg county, of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 14 day of August A. D. 1899, before me came on to be heard the application of S. W. Derryberry 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 o the witnesses who are credible citizens were made before me as the same hereinbefore appear, and that the foregoing affidavit of Doctor T. J. Allison who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant S. W. Derryberry, 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 S. W. Derryberry 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 Longview this 14 day of August A. D. 1899 /s/ J. N. Campbell County Judge Gregg County, State of Texas. ---------- CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Gregg We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Gregg County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of S. W. Derryberry for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. J. N. Campbell County Judge of this Gregg County, to the Commissioners Court of this Gregg County, at a regular term thereof on the 14 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 Longview this 14 day of August A. D. 1899 /s/ O. A. Foster /s/ O. J. Bruce (Signature of Commissioners.) /s/ E. B. Penick /s/ W. J. Blackburn ---------- (End of Pension Application) Note: This application appears to be for Samuel Whitfield Reagan Derryberry who was born 10 January 1832 in North Carolina and died 6 November 1908 in Gregg County, Texas. He is buried in Rock Springs Cemetery, one mile south of Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas. His grave marker has the inscription “Pvt Co A 6 Bn Texas Cavalry CSA.” A Widow’s Application for Pension was filed for his wife, Mary Ann Derryberry, being No.15295, in 1909. ----------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. 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