Houston County, TX - Civil War Pension Application -T. W. Dunham **************************************************************** Contributed by Glenda Sheppard Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************** Front 9485 FORM No. 1 CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION Name of Applicant T. W. Dunham (he spelled his name Dunnam) Houston County Post Office Grapeland ================================ Comptroller’s File No. 9485 ================================ 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 16 day of February A. D. 1903 E. A. Bolmes Pension Clerk ================================= I herby Approve the within application for pension, this 16 day of February, A.D. 1903 R. M. Love Comptroller ================================= No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioner’s Should be forwarded to Comptroller ==================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Form No. 1. THE STATE OF TEXAS County of ___________ To the Honorable County Judge of Houston County, Texas. Your Petitioner, T. W. Dunnam, respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Houston 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: T. W. Dunnam Q. What is your age? Answer: 66 years old Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Houston Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: 25 years Percilla, 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: Farmer 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: Rheumatism Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service Answer: 2nd Ala Cavalry Regt -- 3 years - Company E Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where, and the time of your service. Answer:___ 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: none 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: I am 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 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: T. M. Dunnam Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16 day of Aug A. D. 1902 E. Winfree County Judge Houston County, Texas ________________________________ AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES, (NOTE--There must be at least two credible witnesses.) THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Houston Before me, E. Winfree County Judge of Houston County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared E. F. Dunnam, J. W. Dunnam who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know T. W. Dunnam the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know the said T. W. Dunnam 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) E. F. Dunnam (Signature of Witness) J. W. Dunnam Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16 day of August A. D. 1902 E. Winfree County Judge Houston County, Texas _________________________________ AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Houston Before me, E. Winfree County Judge of Houston County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared F. C. Woodard, 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 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: I have known Mr. T. W. Dunnam for a number of years and he has been afflicted with Rheumatism and is not an able bodied man neither has he been since I first became acquainted. He is not able to do hard manual labor. (Signature of Physician) F. C. Woodard M. D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16 day of August A. D. 1902 E. Winfree County Judge Houston County, State of Texas. ___________________ CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Houston I, E. Winfree county Judge of Houston County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 16 day of August A. D. 1902, before me came on to be heard that application of T. W. Dunnam 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 F. C. Woodard M.D. who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant T. W. Dunnam, 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 T. W. Dunnam 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 Crockett this 16 day of August A. D. 1902 E. Winfree County Judge Houston County, State of Texas. __________________________ CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Houston We the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Houston County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of T. W. Dunnam for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. E. Winfree county Judge of this Houston County, to the Commissioners Court of this Houston County, at a regular term thereof on the 17 day of August A. D. 1902, 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 Crockett this 16 day of August A. D. 1902 T. C. Lindy No. 1 W. E. Hart 2 Signature of commissioners Jas E. Smith 3 E. __. Callaway 4