HILL COUNTY TX – REPUBLIC OF TEXAS PENSION:  MARY ANN ABLES

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

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REPUBLIC OF TEXAS CLAIMS

PENSION CLAIM APPLICATION FILE FOR MARY ANN ABLES


The State of Texas
County of Hill

To the Hon:  J. W. Stevens
County Judge of Hill County A.D. 1877

The Petition of Mary Ann Ables a resident of Hill County and said state would 
respectfully represent that she is the surviving widow of Harrison Ables and 
that the said Harrison Ables died in the year 1860.

That she has now married since his death.  That the said Harrison Ables cause to 
the Republic of Texas in the latter part of the ear 1835 and was a soldier in 
the army of the Republic of Texas during the war between Texas and Mexico 
between the years 1835 and the first of January 1837.  And petitioner further 
avers that she is in indigent circumstances and needs the pension which has been 
granted by the State of Texas to old veterans or their widows for the purpose of 
an actual support, wherefore she prays for Judgement for a pension.

Mary Ann Ables

State of Texas
County of Hill

Personally appeared before me James M. Duncan, Clerk of the County  Court in and 
for Hill County, Mary Ann Ables who being by me duly sworn says that all the 
facts stated by her in her application for a pension to the County Court are 
true and correct, which said facts are set forth in the foregoing petition.
James M. Duncan
Co., Clerk, Hill Co., Texas

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CONTRIBUTOR’S NOTE:
Listed below are those that provided affidavits towards the identity of Mary  
Ann Ables.

J. S. Able – Travis County
D. C. Worrel – Hill County
Alexander C. Kellum – Hill County

No other information was offered by the affiants.

Mary Ann Ables Pension was approved in Nov. 1877 for $187.50.

Also enclosed is a affidavit from  J. W. Stevens, Judge in Hill Co., Texas noting that Mary Ann Ables was still residing in Hill Co. as of March 1978.

There are also several handwritten letters from Mary Ann Ables to the Comptrollers Office in regards to her quarterly payments.

A handwritten letter dated Jan. 1898 in regards to a move from Callahan Co. to 
Taylor Co.

Notice of change of address to Dublin, Erath Co., dated July 1900.