Jack County, TX - Civil War Pension Application - Andrew Boatman (rej) **************************************************************** Contributed by John R. Peterson Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************** Application of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for Jack County, in the State of Texas, and that he makes this application for the purpose Pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. FORM No. 2 The State of Texas County of Jack To the Honorable County Judge of Jack County, Texas. Your petitioner Andrew Boatman represents that he is a resident Citizen of Jack 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 Therefore 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: Andrew Boatman Q. What is your age? Answer: I am 54 years old Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Jack Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: 3 years, Bryson, 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: During the war, I Contracted fever and cold-settling in my lungs. I then became Partially paralyzed-from which I am now suffering. Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate Army and the time of your service? Answer: Co. E Col. Border's Regiment Dismounted Cavalry Texas Volunteers and served 2 Years. Q. If you served in the Confederate navy, state when and where, and the time of such 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: I have not Q. What real and personal properties do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such property and value. Answer: I am in possession of 125 acres of land, worth in in the aggregate $300.00. I owe $125.00 purchase money on this land. I also own (2) two horses worth $20.00 each. And one wagon worth $10.00. 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: 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: No Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? Answer: No Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a Bonafide resident citizen of this State? Answer: I have since 1854. Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as as required by law. (Signature of Applicant) Andrew B. X (His Mark) Boatman Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of August AD 1899 Thomas F. Horton [Seal] County Judge Jack County, Texas Affidavit of Witnesses (Note--There must be at least two credible witnesses) The State of Texas County of Jack Before me, Thomas F. Horton County Judge of Jack County, State of Texas, this day personally appeared Louisa Peterson, L.A. Barnes and P. Boatman who are personally known to me to be credible citizens who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know that Andrew B. Boatman, applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said Andrew B. Boatman, 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 Andrew B. Boatman, deceased, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness): Louisa (her x mark) Peterson (Signature of Witness): L.A. (her) X mark) Barnes (Signature of Witness): P. (her X mark) Boatman Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of August AD 1899. Thomas F. Horton Attest [seal] County Judge Jack County, Texas R.S. Blair AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN THE STATE OF TEXAS} County of Jack } before me Thos. Horton County Judge of Jack County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared E. Hughes, 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 Andrew Boatman 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: Paralysis, had first attack in 1877 and was sick for eighteen months, suffered from attacks of neuralgia which he says he has had since the war, and he also suffers from chronic bronchitis. (Signature of Physician) E. Hughes M.D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of August AD 1899 Thomas F. Horton County Judge Jack County, State of Texas _______________ ____ CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE THE STATE OF TEXAS, } I, Thomas F. Horton, COUNTY JUDGE OF JACK County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 14th day of August, AD 1899, before me came on to be heard the application of Andrew B. Boatman, for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law of the State, approved May 12, AD 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 herein before appear, and that the foregoing affidavit of Doctor E. Hughes who is a reputable physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant Andrew B. Boatman is not an inmate of The Texas Confederate Home, nor otherwise disqualified under any of the provisions of Section 12, if the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify that after considering all of the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said Andrew B. Boatman. I find the said 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 Jacksboro this 14th day of August AD 1899 Thomas F. Horton CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Jack We the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Jack County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of Andrew B. Boatman, for a pension together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. Thomas F. Horton County Judge of this Jack County, to the Commissioners Court of this Jack County, at a regular term thereof on the 18th 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 Jacksboro this 18th Day of August AD 1899 J.G. Milburn Pre. No.1 F.D. Gilmore Pre No. 2 F.M. Christopher No. 3 (Seal) Jesse Smith