Johnson County, TX - Civil War Pension: Mrs. D M Beauchamp Submitted by: Osiris Johnson ************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter,and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************** Delmedia' Beauchamps second wife applied for a civil war pension in Texas. What follows is what I received with the Widow's Application For a Pension information. I'll put all handwritten stuff in these brackets {like this}. I'll put my own special comments in [brackets like this] Some of the handwritten stuff was extremely hard to read and is likely to have some errors. Where as some is crystal clear. When i was unable to guess a word, I'll put this, XXXX. Those guesses that I am unsure about will be followed by a question mark, like this. Unknown? " Reproduced from the holdings of the Texas Archives Comptrollers Office RECEIVED May 31 1927 {43038} Form B {Dead} Widow's Application for a pension. The Comptrolled of Public Accounts reserves the right to call for additional testimony if he deems it necessary. {Dead} {6-30--33} Name of Applicant. {Mrs. D M Beauchamp} {Johnson} County. R.F.D. [crossed out] or Street No. {315 College} Postoffice {Cleburne Tx} Filed {May 31 - 1927} Approved {May 31 - 1927} Pension allowed from {Mar 1 - 1927} Rejected_________ {S. H. Terrell} Comptroller of Public Accounts [next page] Form 111B Form 2327b---S47-124-2m Widow's APplication for Confederate Pension THE STATE OF TEXAS County of {Johnson} I, Mrs {DM Beauchamp} do hereby make application to the Comptroller Of Public Accounts for a pension, to be granted me under the Act passed by the Thirty-third Legislature of the State of Texas , and approved, April 7, A. D. 1913, on the following grounds: I am the widow of {D M Beauchamp} deceased, who departed this life on the {13th} day of {May}, A. D. {1899}, in the county of {Bell} in the state of {Texas} I have not remarried since the death of my said husband, and I do solemnly swear that I was never divorced from my said husband, and that I never voluntarily abandoned him during his life, but remained his true, faithful and lawful wife up to the date of his death. I was married to him on the {7th} day of {Nov}, A. D. {1897}, in the county of {Bell} in the state of {Texas} My husband, the said {D M Beauchamp} enlisted and server in the military service of the Confederate States during the war between the States of the United States, and that he did not desert the Confederate service. I have been a resident of the State of Texas since prior to January 1, A. D. 1900, and have been continuously since a citizen of the State of Texas. I do further state that I do not receive from any source whatever money or other means of support amounting in value above the sum of $300.00 per annum, nor do I own in my own right, nor does anyone hold in trust for my benefit or use, estate or property, either real, personal or mixed, either in fee or for life, of the value of one thousand dollars, exclusive of the home of the value not over $2000; nor do I receive any aid or pension from any other State, or from the United States, or from any other source, and I do further state that the answers given to the following questions are true: 1. What is your age? {70 years} 2. Where were you born? {Scott County Tenn} 3. How long have you resided in the State of Texas? {66 years} 4. How long have you resided in the county of your present residence? {10 years} 5. What is your post office address? {315 College St Cleburne Texas} 6. Did your husband draw a pension? {no} If so, give his file number {none} 7. What is your husband's full name? {Dell Meta Beauchamp} 8. In what state was your husband's command originally organized? {Mississippi} 9. How long did your husband serve? {about 3 1/2 years} If known to you, give the date of enlistment and discharge {He said he enlisted in the Spring of 1862. He was discharged and disbanded in May 1865} 10. What was the name or letter of the company, or number of the regiment in which your husband served? If he was transferred from one branch of service to another, give time of transfer, description of command and time of service, (If applicant's husband was a pensioner give his file number, which is evidence sufficient for proof of service.) {I of course doubt about his being transferred Co. K. 31st Miss Inft.} 11. Name of branch of service in which your husband served, whether infantry, cavalry, artillery, or the navy, or if commisioned as an officer by the President, his rank and line of duty, or if detailed for special service, under the law of conscription, the nature of such service, and time of service. {Co. K. 31st Miss. Volunteers. Inft. Featherstone's Brigade Lorings Division Confederate State Army} 12. Have you transferred to another any property of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this lay? {I have not} Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for a pension May be approved and such other preceedings to be had in the premises as required by law. {X Her mark} Signature of Applicant {Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp} Sworn to and subscried before me this {31st} day of {Dec} A. D. 192{6} {O. B. McPherson?} County Judge {Johnson} County, Texas [end of page] Affidavit of Witnesses Note.--There must be at least two creditable witnesses. The State of Texas, County of {Johnson} Before me, {O. B. McPherson}, County Judge of {Johnson} County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared {G W Lankford and R W Chafin}, who are personally known to me to be creditable citizens, who, being by me duly sworn, on oath state that they personally know that Mrs. {D M Beauchamp}, applicant for a pension as a widow of {D M Beauchamp} deceased; that they personally know that she has not remarried since the death of her husband, for whose services in the army she claims a pension, and that they have no interest in this claim. (Signature of Witness) {G W Lankford} (Signature of Witness) {R W Chafin) Sworn to and subscribed before me, this {1st} day of {Jan}, A. D. 192{7} {O B McPherson} County Judge {Johnson} County, Texas Affidavit of Witnesses The State of Texas, County of {Johnson} Before me, {O B McPherson}, County Judge of {Johnson} County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -, who are personally known to me to be creditable citizens, who, being by me duly sworn, on oath state that they personally know the above named applicant for pension, and that they personally know that the said {Mrs D M Beauchamp} has been a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas since prior to January 1, A. D. 1900, and that they have no interest in this claim. (Signature of Witness) {G W Lankford} (Signature of Witness) {R W Chafin) Sworn to an subscriber before me, this {1st{ day of {Jan}, A. D. 192{7} {O B McPherson} County Judge {Johnson} County, Texas [End of page] Affidavit of Witnesses (If possible the two witnesses should have server with the applicant's husband in the army, and if so let them, or either of them, state it in their oath; also any information regarding the army service of application's husband.) The State of Texas County of {Johnson} Before me, {O B McPherson}, County Judge of {Johnson} County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared {G W Lankford and R W Chafin}, who are personally known to me to be creditable citizens who, being by me sworn, on oath that they are personally acquainted with the foregoing applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in her application are correct and true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim. And further make oath to the following facts touching the service of the applicant's husband in the Confederate Army: (State fully your source of knowledge) {We each knew Rev D M Beauchamp a Primative Baptist Minister, the deceased Husband of Mrs D M Beauchamp, the applicant, of our own personal? state. He was everywhere known and recognized a Confederate Soldier. Often spoke of XXXX in the XXXX and XXXX at Confederate Reunion meetings Ect.}[Ect. is apparantly an old time version of etc., I THINK mind you.] (Signature of Witness) {G W Lankford} (Signature of Witness) {R W Chafin) Sworn to and subscribed before me, this {1st} day of {Jan}, A. D. 192{7} {O B McPherson} County Judge {Johnson} County, Texas Certifiacte of State and County Assessor I, {R A J Keel} State and County Assessor in the County of {Johnson} State of Texas, do certify that Mrs. {D M Beauchamp} whoe name is signed to the foregoing application for a pension, under the Act of the Thirty-third Legislature, approved April 7, 1913, is charged on the tax rolls of said county with a homestead of the value of {no} Dollars, and of other property, real or personal, or bothm of the value of {no} Dollars. Given under my hand, this {8th} day of {March} A. D. 19{27} {R A J Keel} State and County Assessor [End of page] {Exhibit A} State of Texas Cleburne, Texas, December 31, 1926 County of Johnson Know all men by these presents: [typed] That in conformity with Article 6270, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, making certain provisions in referance to proof required of Confederate Soldiers & Sailors in establishing their claim for Confederate Widow's Pension: I now make oath to the County Judge of Johnson county, Texas, Honorable O. B. McPherson, in writing to the fact that I am at the present time the widow of D. M. (Del Metta) Beauchamp, my deceased husband, who was a confederate soldier to the best of my knowledged in the Mississippi Army in the 30th or 31st Mississippi Volunteers in a Brigade commanded by Featherston. I think his company was company "K" or Company "H", and that he voluntereed and joined the army in the Spring of 1862 and may have been transferred to some other command, others that I cannot now remember, as I have forgotten all he told me about his army life, except I know he served with Featherston's Brigade or Loran's Division. He served about three years and one-half years. I know he did not get back from the army until the latter part of May or first of June 1865. I know it was early roasting-ear time when he came home. Affiant further says she has made a dilligent seach from various sources, and so far is unable to find any surviving comrade of her deceased husband who can assist her in the establishing of her claim to a Confederate Widow's Pension, under the rights of her deceased husband, D. M. or Del Metta Beauchamp, who was a Minister of the Gospel of the Baptist church, and who died on the 13th of May 1899. Affiant has prior to her husbands death known of his attending confederate reunions, and has heard him indulge in many conversations with other confederate soldies about their war time association, particularly Mr. McElroy, who died before Mr. Beauchamp, and who knows they were together in the Army of Mississippi, but don't think they were in the same company, but in the same command, and that one of Mr. Beauchamp's relatives married a relative of McElroy. [The fact that Mr. McElroy died before D. M Beauchamp is untrue. The McElroy in question is Cyrus Decatur McElroy, who lived until early 1908 in Runnels Co., TX just 200 miles to the west. Cyrus's daughter May married Delmedia's son Haws, and Cyrus's son Walter married Delmedia's daughter Harriet.] Affiant further avers that this affidavit is submitted as required by law, as her best efforts at this time to comply with the statutes governing such matters, and is probably the best evidence now available and perhaps the only way this affiant has of establishing under her oath, before the County Judge of Johnson County, Texas, and filed with the County Clerk of Johnson County, Texas, in her best endeavor to meet the statutory requirement. Wherefore, premises considered, affiant very respectfully prays the Honorable Commisioner of Pensions and the Pension Department of the State of Texas to accept the proof herein submitter in this establishment of her claim for a confederate widow's pension, as provided by law, and she will, in duty bound, ever pray. {X her mark} {Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp} Sworn and subscribed to me this the {31} day of {Dec} 192{6} {O B McPherson} County Judge, Johnson County, Texas [End of page] O. O. Chrisman Attourney-At-Law Woolworth Bldg. Cleburne, Texas [This isn't handwritten but typed] {May 28, 1927. Hon. S. H. Terrell, Com. Pensions, Austin, Texas. Dear Sir: Well here we are again asking consideration of you and your obliging department force on behalf of an aged Confederate Widow Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp of 315 College St Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas. Her application on Form B 111 and afidavit in conformity with Art. 6270 are executed before Judge OB McPherson under date Dec. 31st, 1926 and on page two of the form is statements of two attesting witnesses who have know her and her deceased husband most all their lives, and who on page 3 also attest their knowledge of the fact that they personally knew the husband of the deceased and that he was during his lifetime everyknown and recognized as a loyal and faithful Confederate Soldier by his neighbors, friends and Confederate Comrades at re-unions etc. The County Tax Assessor's Certificate also appears on page three. An affidavit of a surviving Comrade age 91 years W. A. Witt of Pontotoc County Miss, which we were able to secure for her is also enclosed herewith marked enhibit B. and was acknowledged before W. T. Brown N. P. Pontotoc County Miss, May 14th, 1927. Also a Service letter from the War department under date May 25th, 1927 marked Exhibit C which we have just procured for her and hasten to forward on to your office hoping it may reach there in time to be considered and approved so as this deserving old woman may be permitted to share in the present distribution of the Pension Fund as she has been unable to locate any-one earlier to verify her husbands service. Thanks a Thousand times for these Deserving Veterans. Very truly yours,} O. O . Chrisman} [End of page] [Also typed] {May 31, 1927 Hon . O. O. Chrisman, Attourney At Law, Cleburne, Texas, Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your favor of May 28, enclosing application of Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp for Confederate Pension. This application is being approved today since all of the Requirements of the Laws have been complied with. Mrs. Beauchamp will receive formal notice of approval within the next few days at which time an affidavit will me mailed her to be executed covering issuance of first quarterly warrant to which she is entitled, which will be for the present quarter ending May 31. The Application of Mr. A. D. Hadlet is also being approved today, since Mr. Hadley has preduced sufficient proof of servie. Since there are no records of his organization during the term of His enlistment, no report may be had showing service, and application approved on account of the satisfactory proof furnished. Yours very truly, Comptroller of Public Accounts} [End of page] {Exhibit B} [typed] [I, W. A. Witt, a citizen of Pontotoc County, State of Mississippi, being ninety one years of age, hereby make oath that I served in the Confederate Army in Company K, 31st Mississippi Volunteers, Featherston's Brigade, Loran's Division; and that D. M. or (Del Metta) Beauchamp served in the same company with me, and we both enlisted as to the best of my knowledge in the spring of 1862 in the little town of Saltillo, Miss., serving until the surrender. Pontotoc County, Mississippi.} {W. A. Witt} [typed] {Sworn to and subscribed before me, this undersigned authority by the said W. A. Witt, this the 14 th day of May, A. D. 1927.] {W. Brown} [typed] {Notary Public} My Com. Exprs. Aprl. 7, 1931 [End of page] {Exhibit C} [War Department letter head] In reply to A. G. 201 Beauchamp, D. M. (5/21/27) ORD May 25, 1927 [typed] {Honorable Fritz G. Lanham House of Representatives. My dear Mr. Lanham: I have your letter of May 21, 1927, in which you request to be furnished the record of D. M. (Del Metta) Beauchamp, who, it is stated served in Co. K, 31st Mississippi Volunteers, Confederate States Army, naming W. A> Witt as one of the comrades. The records show that D. M. Beauchamp )also borne as Dilmeda Beauchamp)enlisted March 19, 1862, in POntotoc County, Miss., as a private and seargeant of Co. K, 31st Mississippi Infantry, Lorings Division, Featherstone's Brigade, C. S. A. He is shown present on the company muster rolls which partially cover the period from enlistment to August 31, 1864 (the date of the last roll on file) which shows him absent, "Supposed captured in the battle of 20th July." The Union Prisoner of War records show that he was captured July 20, 1864, near Atlanta, Ga.; was received at Military Prison, Louisville, Ky., July 20, 1864; was forwarded to camp Douglas, Ill., August 1, 1864, and was discharged at that place on taking the oath of allegiance May 16, 1865. His residence is shown as Allenton, Miss. The records show that William A. Witt served as a member of the Above named organization. Very resepctfully,} {Petty Wahl?} [typed] {Brigadied General, Acting the Adjutant General.} [End of page] [Letter head from the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy with many names and their addresses of the officers of the group. Then a letter follows.] [a stamp] Received Apr 18, 1947 {Mr Geo. H. Sheppard Austin, Texas Dear Sir- Does the name Mrs Perneitie Luevanic Beauchamp, wife of D. M. Beauchamp, Santa Anna, Texas appear on your Pension roll? May I have any information that is available? Sincerely Mrs. Wilson Hardin Chairman 9th District N. D. C. Childress, Texas [End of page] [once again, typed] {April 18, 1947 Mrs. Wilson Hardin, Chairman 9th District Texas Division, U. D. C. Box 733 Childress, Texas. Re: Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp, Dec'd Widow of D. M. Beauchamp, Deceased Confederate Soldier. File No. 43038 Johnson Co. Dear Mrs. Hardin: The records of this office show Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp, widow of D. M. Beauchamp, also borne as Dilmeda Beauchamp, filed application for Confederate Pension in the State of Texas in May, 1927 on the service record of D. M. Beauchamp as a Confederate Soldier. The application was approved under the above file number and she drew a pension until about June, 1933 at which time her death occured. The application for pension of Mrs. Beauchamp was approved on the following report from the office of the Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, D. C. "The records show that D. M. Beauchamp enlisted March 19, 1862, in Pontotoc County, Mississippi as a private and sergeant on COmpany K, 31st Mississippi Infantry, Lorings Division, Featherstone's Brigade, C. S. A. He is shown present on the company muster rolls which partially cover the period from enlistment to August 31, 1864 (the date of the last roll on the file) which shows him absent, "Supposed captured in the battle of 20th July." The Union Prisoner of War records show that he was captured July 20, 1864 near Atlanta, Ga.; was received at Military Prison, Louisville, Ky., July 20, 1864; was forwarded to Camp Douglas, I'll., August 1, 1864, and was discharged at that place on taking the oath of allegiance May 16, 1865. His residence is shown as Allenton, Miss. The records show that William A. Witt served as a member of the Above named organization." Yours very truly, Geo. H. Sheppard Comptroller of Public Accounts} [End of page] Application for mortuary warrant The state of Texas, County of {Johnson} I, {G. W. Lankford} do certify that I am the person to whom is entrusted the paying of accounts and indebtedness of the late {Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp}, who was a pensioner of the State of Texas, and whose file number was {43038} and whose original county was {Johnson} The said pensioner {Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp}, died on the {27} day of {June}, 19{33} in the town of {Cleburne} county of {Johnson}, Texas. The pensioner died in the home of {G. W. Lankford} who was related to the pensioner as {Mother in law} That the warranr, which applicant is hereby made for, shall be applied to paying all or part of the funeral expenses incurred by the said pensioner {Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp} I further certify that the warrant for the current quarter has not been cashed by the pensioner, to the best of my knowledge and belief. I am related to the pensioner as (friend) {Son in law} that my postoffice address is {211 Bellevue St., Cleburne, Texas} Signed {G. W. Lankford} Sworn to before me this {1} day of {June}, 19{33} {G. M. Warren} Notary Public in and for {Johnson} State of Texas. Certificate of Undertaker I, {P. C. Dillon}, do certify that I am undertaker in the town of {Cleburne}, County of {Johnson}, State of {Texas} that I had charge of the body of {Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp}, who died in the town of {Cleburne}, County of {Johnson}, State of {Texas} on the {27} day of {June} 19{33}. That said body was prepared for burial by me on the {27} day of {June}, 19{33}, and that I am of the opinion that warrant herein applied for should be issued to the said {G. W. Lankford} who makes the foregoing application. signed {P. C. Dillon} Undertaker Certificate of Physician I, {W. P. Ball}, do certify that I am a practicing physician, and That I attended {Mrs. D. M. Beauchamp} in her last illness, and am of the opinion that her ailments were {Hyperstatic Pnemenia? with a tumor in her left breast} I further certify that I am of the opinion that Mortuary Warrant Above requested should be issued in the name of the aforementioned applicant, in accordance with Act passed by the Thirty-eighth Legislature and approved March 2, 1923 Signed {W. P. Ball MD} Physician's Address {Cleburne, Texas} -----------------------------------------------------------------------