Pension Application for William T. Worsham Grimes County Texas Submitted by Eleanor Colson 1 Aug 2000 ==================================================================== USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Eleanor Colson EleanorCol@aol.com ==================================================================== Pension Application for W. T. Worsham: Reproduced from the holdings of the Texas State Archives Endorsements Hereon for Comptroller's Use Exclusively. Form No. 1 Confederate Pension Application Name of Applicant W. T. Worsham Grimes County. Post Office Mesa Comptroller's File No 10802 I have carefully examined the within application for pension together with the proof in support thereof and I recommend that the application by approved this 31 day of Mar A. D. 1905 (Signed) E. A. Bolmes Chief Pension Clerk I hereby approve the within application for pension this 31 day of March A.D. 1905 (Signed) J. W. Stephens Comptroller No application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should be Forwarded to Comptroller ******************** 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 11902 APPLICATION of Indigent 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 Grimes } To the Honorable County Judge of Grimes County Texas. Your petitioner William T. WORSHAM respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Grimes 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: William T. WORSHAM Q. What is your age? Answer: Sixty-eight years old on the 15th day of Nov 1903 Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Grimes County Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: Twenty Seven years Mesa Grimes 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: Filled out application in 1901. Rejected for defect in papers. Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: Farmer Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: Defect in sight and feeble condition generally. 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 and disease Q. In what State was your command originally organized? Answer: Louisiana Q. How long did you serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer: Enlisted March 29th 1862 and served two or three years. Don't remember date of Discharge. Q. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? Answer: Company A 27th Louisanna 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: Have received nothing whatever. 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: One horse valued at fifty Dollars. 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: Eleven head of cattle for the sum of Eighty Eight Dollars. Q. What estate has your wife in her own right real and personal and what is its value? 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: I am 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: I have not Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? Answer: NO SIR 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 the passage of this act a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas? Answer: Enlisted in Louisanna and have been a resident of Texas since 1875 Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension by approved and that such other proceedings by had in the premises as are required by law. (Signature of Applicant) W. T. Worsham Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of May A. D. 1904 (Signed) J. G. McDonald County Judge Grimes County Texas AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES THE STATE OF TEXAS } County of Grimes } Before me J. G. McDonald County Judge of Grimes County State of Texas on this day personally appeared W. M. Hensly and J. H. Hensly who are personally known to me to be credible citizens who being by me duly sworn on oath state that they personally know William T. Worsham the above named applicant for a pension and that they personally know that the said William T. Worsham is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) W. M. [his X mark] Hensly (Signature of Witness) J. H. [his X mark} Hensly Sworn to an subscribed before me this 9th day of May A. D. 1904 (Signed) J. G. McDonald County Judge Grimes County Texas AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN THE STATE OF TEXAS } County of Grimes } Before me (blank) County Judge of Grimes County State of Texas on this day personally appeared (blank) 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 William T. Worsham 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: Defective eyesight which can not be remedied with glasses. Chronic cystitis Prostitis and general debility. (Signature of Physician) W. H. Haynie M.D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of May A.D. 1904 (signed) J. G. McDonald County Judge Grimes County Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE THE STATE OF TEXAS } County of Grimes } I (blank) County Judge of Grimes County State of Texas do hereby certify that on the (blank) before me came on to be heard the application of William T. WORSHAM 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 W. H. Haynie who is a reputable practicing physician of this County was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant William T. WORSHAM 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 A. F. Herring 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 Anderson this 9th day of May A. D. 1904 (signed) J. G. McDonald County Judge Grimes County Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSINERS THE STATE OF TEXAS } County of Grimes } We the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Grimes County Texas hereby certify that the foregoing application of William T. WORSHAM for a pension together with the proof in support thereof was duly submitted by Hon. (blank) County Judge of this Grimes County to the Commissioners Court of this Grimes County at a regular term thereof on the (blank) and after a careful consideration of the same we find the said applicant 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 Anderson Tex this 9th day of May A. D. 1904 (Signatures of Commissioners) S. A. Isbell No. 1 H. L. Green No. 2 R. M. West No. 3 W. S. Ashe In the matter of the Application} of Wm. T. Worsham for Pension} Pending before the Hon. J. G. McDonald County Judge of Grimes County Texas. Interrogatories propounded to H. M. Poole who resides in East Feliciana Parish Louisanna the answers and depositions of said witness to be used in behalf of Wm. T. Worsham in the hearing of the above application for Pension- {signed} Wm. T. Worsham acting for himself A second one was sent to E. F. Brian who resided in Baton Rouge Louisanna. EX PARTE } (blank) Applicant for Confederate Pension} Pending in the Honorable Commissioners' Court of (blank) County Texas before the Honorable County Judge of said County. The Honorable County Judge of Grimes 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 E. F. Brian and (blank) who resides in the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the State of Louisanna 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 Grimes and State of Texas of which he is a bona fide resident. {signed} Wm. T. Worsham (applicant) DIRECT INTERROGATORIES TO BE PROPOUNDED TO THE WITNESS E. F. Brian of East Baton Rouge Louisanna Int. 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and postoffice address? Answer: E. F. Brian Age 58 Residence Baton Rouge Louisiana Int. 2. Do you personally know or did you at any time know Wm. T. WORSHAM who is an applicant for pension under Act of May 12 1899? Answer: yes Int. 3. How long have you known the said Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant for pension and when and where did you first know him? Answer: Since Oct 1860 Int. 4. Do you personally know that the said Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant for pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor? Answer: yes Int. 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When? Where? And the time of service? If you personally know and so have stated that he enlisted and served in the Confederate navy then state: When? Where? And how long he so served? Answer: yes. Company A 27 LA Infantry. I left him in the compnay in 1863. Int. 6. Do you further know that Wm. T. WORSHAM the said applicant for pension is unable to support himself by labor of any sort? Answer: I have not seen W. T. WORSHAM since he left this State and cannot answer question 6. We enlisted together in the State Service in Jan 1862 and in the Confederate Service in March following _______ through the Siege of Vicksburg Miss. While he was a member of my company we were enlisted in service at Clinton LA. {signed} E. F. Brian CROSS INTERROGATORIES To be Propounded to E. F. Brian of East Baton Rouge Louisanna 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 your source of such knowledge? And state whether or not you know or at any you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of Wm. T. WORSHAM serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said applicant Wm. T. WORSHAM 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 Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant serving in same command? Answer: no 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? Answer: Did not know any other W. T. WORSHAM. Cross Int. 2. Are you positively certain that said Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant for pension is the identical person serving as testified by you? Answer: I never knew any other W. T. WORSHAM and he must be that W. T. WORSHAM. 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? Answer: Did not answer question six. Cross Int. 4. Do you know whether or not the said Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant for pension ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy? Answer: Never deserted that I know of . Sign your name here x {signed} E. F. Brian State of Louisanna} Parish of East Baton Rouge} Before me Thomas A. Moore a Notary Public on this day personally appeared E. F. Brian Known to me to be the person whose ____ is subscribed to the above direct and cross interrogatories and he declared to me under his oath after he the said E. F. Brian had been duly sworn by me that his answers to said interrogatories were true and that he had signed his name to same in instances of the ____ ____. {signed} T. A. Moore Notary Public DIRECT INTERROGATORIES TO BE PROPOUNDED TO THE WITNESS H. M. Poole Woodland LA Int. 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and postoffice address? Answer: H. M. Poole 64 years Woodland LA Int. 2. Do you personally know or did you at any time know Wm. T. WORSHAM who is an applicant for pension under Act of May 12 1899? Answer: yes Int. 3. How long have you known the said Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant for pension and when and where did you first know him? Answer: All of his life in this Parish. Int. 4. Do you personally know that the said Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant for pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor? Answer: yes Int. 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When? Where? And the time of service? If you personally know and so have stated that he enlisted and served in the Confederate navy then state: When? Where? And how long he so served? Answer: "A" 27th LA Infty. in 1862 at Clinton LA. from 1862 till surrender. Int. 6. Do you further know that Wm. T. WORSHAM the said applicant for pension is unable to support himself by labor of any sort? Answer: I have not seen him for a number of years and cannot state given my own personal knowledge. CROSS INTERROGATORIES To be Propounded to H. M. Poole Woodland Louisanna 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 your source of such knowledge? And state whether or not you know or at any you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of Wm. T. WORSHAM serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said applicant Wm. T. WORSHAM 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 Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant serving in same command? Answer: He served in the same compnay I did and I never knew any other Wm. T. WORSHAM. 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? Answer: Knew no other. Cross Int. 2. Are you positively certain that said Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant for pension is the identical person serving as testified by you? Answer: yes 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? Answer: (blank) Cross Int. 4. Do you know whether or not the said Wm. T. WORSHAM applicant for pension ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy? Answer: He never did. Sworn to subscribed before me in Clinton LA this March 1st 1904 J. L. Cravens {signed} H. M. Poole Clerk 24th Distr. Court Rxofficio not public RECORD AND PENSION OFFICE WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON May 31 1901. Respectfully returned to The President Board of Pension Commissioners State of Louisiana Baton Rouge. The records show that W. T. WORSHAM late of Company A 27th Louisiana Infantry C. S. A. was enlisted March 29 1862 at Camp Moore LA to serve for the war and that he was present for duty with his command January 1 1863 the date of the last muster roll of the compnay on file in this office. By authority of the Secretary of War {signed} F. C. Ainsworth Chief Record and Pension Office