Limestone County, TX - Mary O. Roberts, Widow of Andrew J Roberts Civil War Widow's Pension Application SUBMITTER: Carolyn JAN 16 1911 988 --------------------------------------- FORM B ----------------------------------- Widow's Application for Pension ------------------------------------ The Commissioner of Pensions reserves the right to call for additional testimony if he deems it necessary. ------------------------------------ Name of Applicant. Mary O. Roberts Limestone County. Postoffice Groesbeck, Tex. ----------------------------------- Filed Jan 7 1911 Approved [blank] "Georgia State Guards" Pension allowed from [blank] --------------------------------------- /s/ E. A. Bolmes, Commissioner of Pensions. ------------------------------------- For Use of Widows of Soldiers Who are in Indigent Circumstances ------------------------------------ THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Limestone I, Mrs. Mary O. Roberts, do hereby make application to the Commissioner of Pensions for a pension, to be granted me under the Act passed by the Thirty-first Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved March 26, A. D. 1909, on the following grounds: I am the widow of A. J. Roberts, deceased, who departed this life on the 28 day of Feb. A. D., 1907, in the county of Kaufman, in the State of Texas. I have not remarried since the death of my said husband, and I 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 6 day of Dec., A. D. 1866 in the county of Whitfield, in the State of Georgia. My husband, the said A. J. Roberts, enlisted and served 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 March 1, A. D. 1880, 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 the value to the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars 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 a value of one thousand dollars; 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? "69." 2. Where were you born? "Franklin County, Georgia." 3. How long have you resided in the State of Texas? "since 1876." 4. How long have you resided in the county of your present residence? And what is your postoffice address? "Two months, Groesbeck, Texas." 5. What was your husband's full name? "Andrew Jackson Roberts." 6. When and where were you married? "Dec 6 1866, Whitfield Co, Ga." 7. What was the date of his death? "Feb 28, 1907." 8. In what State was your husband's command originally organized? "Ga." 9. How long did your husband serve? If known to you, give the date of enlistment and discharge. "Don't know." 10 What was the name or letter of the company, or name or number of the battalion, regiment or battery of artillery 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. "Don't know." 11. Name branch of service in which your husband served, whether infantry, cavalry, artillery or the navy, or if commissioned 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 services, and time of service. "Infantry." 12. Have you transferred to others any property of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? "No." Wherefore, your petitioner prays that her application for a pension be approved and such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law. (Signature of Applicant) /s/ Mary O. Roberts Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 5 day of Jan, A. D. 1911. (Seal) /s/ W. A. Keeling, County Judge, Limestone County, Texas. --------------------------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES [Note.--There must be at least two credible witnesses.] THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Limestone Before me, W. A. Keeling, County Judge of Limestone County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared L. G. Gozzaway and L. B. Alexander, who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who, being by me duly sworn, on oath state that they personally know that Mrs. Mary O. Roberts, applicant for a pension as the widow of A. J. Roberts, deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of A. J. Roberts, deceased; that they personally know that she has not remarried since the death of her husband, for whose service in the army she claims a pension, and that they have no interest in this claim. (Signature of Witness) /s/ L. G. Gazzaway (Signature of Witness) /s/ L. B. Alexander Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 5 day of Jan, A. D. 1911. (Seal) /s/ W. A. Keeling, County Judge, Limestone County, Texas. ----------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES [Note.--There must be at least two credible witnesses.] THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Limestone Before me, W. A. Keeling, County Judge of Limestone County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared L. G. Gazzaway and L. B. Alexander, who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who, being by me duly sworn, on oath state that they personally know the above-named applicant for a pension and that they personally know that the said Mary O. Roberts has been a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas since prior to March 1, A. D. 1880, and that they have no interest in this claim. (Signature of Witness) /s/ L. G. Gazzaway (Signature of Witness) /s/ L. B. Alexander Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 5 day of Jan, A. D. 1910. (Seal) /s/ W. A. Keeling County Judge, Limestone County, Texas. ------------------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES (If possible, the two witnesses should have served 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 applicant's husband.) THE STATE OF TEXAS County of [blank] Before me, [blank] County Judge of [blank] County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared [blank], who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who, being by me sworn, on oath state 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.) [blank -- this portion was not filled in.] (Signature of Witness) [blank] (Signature of Witness) [blank] Sworn to and subscribed before me, this [blank] day of [blank], A. D. 19[blank]. (Seal) /s/ [blank] County Judge [blank] County, Texas. ------------------------------------ CERTIFICATE OF STATE AND COUNTY ASSESSOR I, F. M. Sellers, State and County Assessor in the County of Limestone, State of Texas, do hereby certify that Mrs. [blank] whose name is signed to the foregoing application for a pension, under the Act of the Thirty-first Legislature, approved March 26, A. D. 1909, is charged on the land and personal property rolls of the said county, in her name, or the name of a trustee, with estate, real, personal and mixed, at the assessed value of (nothing) dollars. Given under my hand, this 5 day of Jan, A. D. 1911. /s/ F. M. Sellers, State and County Assessor. -------------------------------------------- **Transcriber's Note** Widow's Application for Pension filed by Mrs. Mary O. Roberts as follows: No. 988, January 16, 1911, Limestone County, Texas. No. 2204, May 20th, 1911, Limestone County, Texas. No. 21066, June 26th, 1912, Taylor County, Texas. No. 24000, June 1st, 1913, Kaufman County, Texas. * * * * * * * * * * * SUBJECT: Civil War Confederate Pension Application of Andrew J. Roberts SUBMITTER: Carolyn EMAIL: carjoy@aol.com DATE: Aug 27, 1999 PASSWORD> SURNAMES: ROBERTS, COX **Transcriber's Note** Notation on jacket: "Enlisted latter part 1862 or first of 1863, served between 4 & 5 months." COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, RECEIVED NOV 27 1899 ------------------------ No. 54 ------------------------ FORM No. 1 DEAD 8/15/10 ------------------------ CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION ------------------------ Name of Applicant, A. J. Roberts Kaufman County. Post Office Terrell. ---------------- Comptroller's File No. 55171 ------------------ 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 9 day of Febry, A. D. 1900. Wm. J. Swain, Pension Clerk. ------------------ I hereby approve the within application for pension, this 9 day of Feby, A. d. 1900. /s/ R. M. Friday, Comptroller. ------------------- No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should be Forwarded to Comptroller. ------------------------ FORM No. 1 APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. ---------------------------- THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Kaufman. To the Honorable County Judge of Kaufman county, Texas: Your petitioner, A. J. Roberts respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Kaufman 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 solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true. ------------------------------------------- NOTE--Applicant may make answer to all of the following questions, and such answers must be written out plainly in ink. -------------------------------------------- Q. What is your name? Answer "A. J. Roberts." Q. What is your age? Answer "70 years old." Q. In what County do you reside? Answer "Kaufman County." Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer "22 years, and my post office address is Terrell." Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so state when and where. Answer "I have not." Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer "farming." Q. What is your physical condition? Answer "very bad indeed." 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, "Asthma & old age." Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer, "Co. E. of 1st Regt. Georgia Vols. and I served between four & five months." Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where, and the time of your service. Answer, "Did not serve in navy." 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, "Received 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, "I own no property of any kind except my personal wearing apparel, which is worth not over $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, "Have sold none except my last mule at $60.00 which was paid on debts." Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer, "none, except that my sons give me my board." 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. 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 the law? Answer, "I have not." 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, "I have." 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) /s/ A. J. Roberts Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of August A. D. 1899. /s/ W. Dorsey Brown, Special County Judge Kaufman County, Texas. (SEAL) --------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESS. (NOTE--There must be at least two credible witnesses.) THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Dallas Before me, Merreth Free, County Judge of Dallas County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared S. G. Roberts and R. G. Cox who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know A. J. Roberts the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said A. J. Roberts enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier 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) /s/ S. G. Roberts (Signature of Witness) /s/ R. D. Cox Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18 day of Aug A. D. 1899. /s/ Merreth Free County Judge Dallas County, Texas. (SEAL) ----------------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN. THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Kaufman Before me W. Dorsey Brown Special County Judge of Kaufman County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared A. J. Stovall, 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 A. J. Roberts 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: Bronchal Asthama & Senility. (Signature of Physician) /s/ A. J. Stovall, M. D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18 day of August A. D. 1899 (SEAL) /S/ W. Dorsey Brown Special County Judge, Kaufman County, State of Texas. ------------------- CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE. THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Kaufman I, John Vesey, County Judge of Kaufman County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 15 day of Nov A. D. 1899, before me came on to be heard the application of A. J. Roberts for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law of this State, approved May 12, A. D. 1899; that the answers of said applicant t 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 A. J. Stovall, who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant A. J. Roberts, 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. J. Roberts 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 Kaufman this 15 day of Nov A. D. 1899. (SEAL) /s/ John Vesey County Judge Kaufman County, State of Texas. ------------------ CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Kaufman We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Kaufman County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of A. J. Roberts for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. John Vesey County Judge of this Kaufman County, to the Commissioners Court of this Kaufman County, at a regular term thereof on the 15th day of November a. D. 1899, and after a careful consideration of the same we find that 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 Kaufman this 15th day of November A. D. 1899. /s/ J. H. Boggs /s/ J. C. Gumer (Signature of Commissioners.) /s/ J. M. Rutledge /s/ T. W. Grubbs ---------------------- Ex-Parte A. J. Roberts No. 54 Application for Pension. Before the Hon. County Judge of Kaufman County. To the Hon. W. Dorsey Brown, Spl County Judge of Kaufman County: You will please take notice that, five days after service hereof, I will apply to the Clerk of the County Court of Kaufman County, Texas, for a commission to take the deposition and answers of S. G. Roberts, resident of Dallas, County of Dallas and State of Texas, and R. D. Cox a resident of Dallas, County of Dallas, State of Texas, to the attached interrogatories, which, when so taken, are to be used as evidence upon the trial o the matter of the application of A. J. Roberts for Pension under the laws of the State of Texas, entitled "AN ACT to carry into effect the amendment to the State Constitution of the State of Texas providing that aid may be granted to disabled and dependent confederate soldiers and their widows under certain conditions, and to make an appropriation therefor." Approved May 12, 1899. /s/ A. J. Roberts Direct interrogatories to be propounded to the witnesses S. G. Roberts and R. D. Cox. Direct Int. 1st -- What is your name and residence? Direct Int. 2nd -- Are you acquainted with the applicant A. J. Roberts. If so, where, and how long have you known him? Direct Int. 3rd -- State, if you know, whether or not applicant A. J. Roberts served in the Confederate army; if so, state when and where he enlisted and how long he served, and to what command he belonged. Give letter of company and number of regiment. Direct Int. 4th -- State whether or not applicant A. J. Roberts is able to support himself by labor of any sort? -------------------- No. 54 ------------------- EX-PARTE A. J. Roberts APPLICATION FOR PENSION. --------------------- Filed 19th day of August 1899. W. Dorsey Brown Spl. Co. Judge of Kaufman Co. Tex. -------------------- I hereby accept service of copy of these interrogatories, waive notice, and agree that commission may issue on original his Aug 19th 1899 with cross interrogatories attached, at once. /s/ W. Dorsey Brown Special County Judge of Kaufman Co., Texas. --------------------- Ex-Parte A. J. Roberts No. 54 Application for Pension Cross interrogatories to be propounded to the witness: Cross Int. 1st -- How do you know that the A. J. Roberts of whom you testify is the same A. J. Roberts who makes application for Pension in Kaufman County, Texas? Cross Int. 2nd -- How do you know when and where A. J. Roberts enlisted in the army, and how long he served? Cross Int. 3rd -- State when and where, and under what circumstances A. J. Roberts left the army? /s/ W. Dorsey Brown Special County Judge, Kaufman Co., Texas. -------------- E 577 -- Commission to Take Deposition Out of the State -- Class 4 THE STATE OF TEXAS, *To The County Judge for the State of Texas in and for the County of Dallas, State of Texas. WE HEREBY AUTHORIZE AND REQUIRE YOU, OR EITHER OF YOU, to Summon S. G. Roberts and R. D. Cox, both residents of your county, to come before you forthwith, and that you then and there take their answers, under oath, to the attached Direct & Cross Interrogatories, and that you return the same, without delay, to the County Judge of Kaufman County, Texas, as herein provided: 1. That you reduce their answers, so taken, to writing, in proper form, and cause the same to be subscribed and sworn to by the said witnesses. 2. That you certify, under your hand and seal of office, that said answers were sworn to and subscribed before you. 3. That you seal up in an envelope the answers so taken, together with the annexed Interrogatories and this Commission, with your name across the seal. 4. That you endorse on the envelope the name of the parties to the suit, and the name of said witnesses. 5. That you direct the package "to the County Judge of Kaufman County, Texas." 6. That if said package is sent by mail, the Postmaster, or his Deputy, shall endorse thereon that he received it from your hands, and sign his name thereto; or if you entrust it to private conveyance, as provided by statute, you will apprise the person receiving it that it must be delivered to the Clerk of this Court by himself in person; which evidence, so taken as above, is to be used on the trial of a suit pending before the County Judge of Kaufman County, Texas, in said State of Texas, wherein A. J. Roberts is applicant for a confederate pension. HEREIN FAIL NOT, but make return of this Writ as the law directs. Witness my hand and seal of office, at Kaufman, Texas, this 11th day of Sept. 1899. /s/ T. J. Broughten, Clerk, County of Kaufman Co., Texas. By [blank] Deputy. ------------------- No. 54 ---------------- In County Court, Kaufman County, To Sept Term, 1899. ---------------- Ex-Parte A. J. Roberts Applicant for Pension -------------------- Commission to Take Deposition OF S. G. Roberts & R. D. Cox ------------------------- Issued 11th day of Sept. 1899. T. J. Broughten, Clerk, County Court, Kaufman Co., Texas, By [blank] Deputy. ------------------------- THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Dallas BEFORE ME, A. S. Lee, Notary Public in and for Dallas County, Texas, on this day personally appeared S. G. Roberts and R. D. Cox known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal of office, this 21st day of Oct A. D. 1899. /s/ A. S. Lee, Notary Public in and for Dallas Co. State of Tex. ------------- Answers to the above direct interrogatories of S. G. Roberts and R. D. Cox. Direct Int 1st Answer, "S. G. Roberts, Dallas, Dallas Co Tex and R. D. Cox same co & State." Direct Int 2nd Answer, "Yes. Know him in Whitfield Co Ga for twenty years or more and about same time as a resident of Kaufman Co Tex." Direct Int 3rd "Yes he served some five months. Enlisted at Dalton Ga was a member of the 1st Georgia Volunteers Co E. Mustered into service at Big Shanty Ga." Ans Int 4th "He is not - has not been able do for himself since discharge from service. /s/ S. G. Roberts /s/ R. D. Cox ------------------------- Answers to the above cross interrogatories of S. G. Roberts & R. D. Cox Ans. Cross Int 1st "I have known him from the time he enlisted up to the present time and even some time before he enlisted." Ans. to Cross Int 2nd "I was a resident of Whitfield Co Ga at time of his enlistment and know by my own personal knowledge of his service in the confederate army" Ans. to Int 3rd "[first part of answer illegible] Ga about last of may or first of June in the year 1863 on account of ill health." /s/ S. G. Roberts /s/ R. D. Cox * * * * * * * * * * * * SUBJECT: Civil War Confederate Pension Application of James R. Roberts SUBMITTER: Carolyn EMAIL: carjoy@aol.com DATE: Aug 27, 1999 PASSWORD> SURNAMES: ROBERTS COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, RECEIVED FEB 2 1900 ----------------------------------------- A 5758 ---------------------------------------- FORM No. 1 --------------------------------------- CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION. --------------------------------------- Name of Applicant, James R. Roberts Burleson County. Post Office Somerille, Tex ---------------------------------------- Comptroller's File No. 5758 ---------------------------------------- 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 9 day of Febry A. D. 1900. /s/ Wm. J. Swain, Pension Clerk. ------------------------------------------ I hereby approve therewith application for pension, this 9 day of Feby A. D. 1900 /s/ Wm Finley, Comptroller. ------------------------------------------- No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should be Forwarded to Comptroller. ------------------------------------------ FORM No. 1 ----------------------------------------- APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. ----------------------------------------- THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Burleson To the Honorable County Judge of Burleson County, Texas. Your petitioner J. R. Roberts respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Burleson County, in the State o 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 answer to all of the following questions, and such answers must be written out plainly in ink. ----------------------------------- Q. What is your name? Answer "James R. Roberts." Q. What is your age? Answer "74." Q. In what County do you reside? Answer, "Burleson." Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer "Since Jan 1899 - before that for 30 years in Washington Co. My P. O. address Somerville, Tx." 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 "weak, and unable to work." 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 "injuries rec'd during war" Q. Sate in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer "Co. B. 1st Sta. Cav. from April 1862 till close of war" Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where, and the time of your service. Answer "[blank]" Q. State whether or not you 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 "no" 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 "No real estate. No personal property." 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 "no" Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer "yes - dependent on my children for support" Q. Are you unable by your own 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) /s/ James R. Roberts Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24 day of July A. D. !899. /s/ E. G. Banks County Judge Burleson County, Texas. (SEAL) ------------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES. (NOTE--There must be at least two credible witnesses.) THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Burleson Before me, . G. Banks County Judge of Burleson County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared W. A. Lyons and A. H. Adams who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know James r. Roberts the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally known that the said James R. Roberts is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) /s/ W. A. Lyon (Signature of Witness) /s/ A. H. dams Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of Nov. A. D. 1899. /s/ E. G. Banks County Judge Burleson County, Texas. (SEAL) -------------------------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN. THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Burleson Before me a. H. Adams Not Pub Burleson County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Dr. M. M. Myers, 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 Jas R Roberts 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. "He is very feeble & suffering from old injuries & is unable to do but little if any labor" (Signature of Physician) /s/ M. M. Myers, M. D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17 day of Nov A. D. 1899. /s/ A. H. Adams, Notary Public Burleson County, State of Texas. (SEAL) -------------------------- CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE. THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF Burleson I, E. G. Banks, County Judge of Burleson County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 18th day of Nov. A. D. 1899, before me came on to be heard the application of James R Roberts 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 M. M. M. who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before A. H. Adams, N.P. I also certify that the said applicant James R. Roberts, 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 James R. Roberts I find 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 Caldwell this 18 day of Nov. A. D. !899. /s/ T. J. Newcomb /s/ Surry Smith (Signature of Commissioners.) /s/ G. T. Jackson /s/ A. H. Adams (SEAL) ------------------------------------ INTERROGATORIES TO WITNESSES IN PENSION CLAIMS -- Class 4. EX PARTE J. R. Roberts Applicant for Confederate Pension. Pending in the Honorable Commissioners' Court of Burleson County, Teas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County. The Honorable County Judge of Burleson 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 depositions of Jesse Roberts and Roberts who reside in the Parish of Union in the State of Louisiana in answer to the foregoing 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 witnesses residing in the County of Burleson and State of Texas, of which he is a bona fide resident. ----------------------- Direct Interrogatories to be Propounded to the Witnesses. Jesse Roberts and Roberts INT. 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and postoffice address? INT. 2. Do you personally know, or did you at any time know J. R. Roberts who is an applicant for pension under Act of May 12, 1899? INT. 3. How long have you known the said J. R. Roberts applicant for pension, and when and where did you first know him? INT. 4. Do you personally know that the said J. R. Roberts applicant for pension, enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor? INT. 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said J. R. Roberts applicant, enlisted and served in the confederate army? When? Where? And the time of service? If you personally knew and so have stated that he enlisted and served in the Confederate navy, then state: When? Where? And how long he so served? INT. 6. Do you further know that J. R. Roberts, the said applicant for pension, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort? -------------------------------------- CROSS INTERROGATORIES. TO BE PROPOUNDED TO Jesse Roberts and Roberts 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 time you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of J. R. Roberts serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said applicant, J. R. Roberts, enlisted? If you say that you so knew other soldiers or sailors of the same name as applicant's, then can you and how do you identify and locate the one from the other or others? CROSS INT. 2. Are you positively certain that said J. R. Roberts, applicant for pension, is he identical person serving as testified by you? CROSS INT. 3. If you have answered Direct Interrogator No. 6 in the affirmative, then please state your source of knowledge or information? If not this your answer simply based on conjecture? CROSS INT. 4. Do you know whether or not the said J. R. Roberts, applicant for pension, ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy? --------------------------- THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Burleson I, E. G. Banks, County Judge of said County, in said State, do hereby waive copy of interrogatories, notice, time and issuance of commission, and it is hereby agreed that the answers to the hereinabove direct and cross interrogatories of the said herein named witness may be attached hereto. /s/ E. G. Banks County Judge Burleson County, Texas. /s/ J. R. Roberts (Applicant,) Attorney....for Applicant. ---------------------------------------- DEPOSITION IN PENSION CLAIMS, with Caption and Certificates--Class 5 EX PARTE J. R. Roberts Applicant for Confederate Pension IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERATE PENSION Under Act May 12, 1899, pending in County Commissioners' Court of Burleson County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County. Answers and deposition of (1) Jesse Roberts and Thos Henry Roberts who resident in Lincoln and Union Parishes Louisiana respectively ages 75 and 42 years & Post Office Downsville Union Parish La to the accompanying interrogatories (2) and cross interrogatories propounded to them in the above entitled cause taken before (3) Jas M. Smith Clerk of the 3rd District Court in & for Union Parish La in accordance with the accompanying (5) agreement. To the first interrogatory the said Jesse Roberts, Witness, answers: "My name is Jesse Roberts, age 75 years and reside in Lincoln Parish La and Post Office Downsville La." To 2nd Inty he answers: "Yes." To 3rd Inty he answers: "I have known him from his birth, he is my brother, he is about 74 years of age -- I first knew him in Harris County Georgia in my father's home where he was born." To 4th Inty he answers: "yes" To 5th Inty he answers: "I do -- In Company 'B' 1st Alabama Cavalry. I think he enlisted in 1862 in Russell County Alabama, his Post Office was Crawford Alabama and served until the close of the war." To 6th Inty he answers: "I would think so knowing his age." To 1st X-Inty he answers: "He is my brother & I have known him from his birth & were raised together until we grew to manhood. I know he enlisted & served in said company & regiment during said War as soldier because we were both in the Tennessee Army and saw each other along during our service in the war. I saw him in his command and personally knew his Colonel whose name was Wash Leary. I never knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of J. R. Roberts serving in the same company or regiment in which said applicant J. R. Roberts enlisted." To X-Inty 2nd he answers: "I am" To X-Inty 3rd he answers: "I base answer to direct inty 6th on his age supposing him to be feeble & infirm." To X-Inty 4th he answers: I know he never deserted, but was faithful and true to the close of the war." /s/ Jesse Roberts Subscribed and sworn to before me this August 17th A. D. 1899. /s/ Jas M. Smith Clerk 3rd District Court in & for Union Parish La To the 1st Inty the said Thos Henry Roberts witness answers: Thomas Henry Roberts is my name, age 42 years & reside in Union Parish L & my Post Office is Downsville La." To Inty 2nd he answers: "Yes." To Inty 3rd he answers: "I have known him from my earliest recollection, he is my uncle. I best knew him in Russell County, Alabama." To Inty 4th he answers: "I was a small child during the war and remember my uncle the applicant visiting us, but only know he enlisted & served from having heard my father Jesse Roberts & family talking about it." To Inty 5th he answers: "I do not, all I know about his enlistment and service is the information I received from hearing my father & family talking about it, as above stated." To Inty 6th he answers: "I would think so on account of his age." To X-Inty 1st he answers: "I personally know applicant, as he is uncle and my father's brother and when he & his family & my father & family all lived in Russell County Alabama, we would visit each other. I only know about his enlistment & service in confederate army in company 'B' 1st Alabama Cavalry from what I would hear my father & family say about it. I have never heard of any other soldier or sailor by the name of J. R. Roberts serving in the same company or regiment in which said applicant served." To Inty 2nd he answers: "I am morally certain and believe it." To Inty 3rd he answers: "It is based upon conjecture on account of his old age." To Inty 4th he answers: "I am morally certain he did not & was faithful and true to the close of the war from what I heard from my father & family say about him." /s/ Thomas Henry Roberts Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 17th day of August 1899. /s/ James M. Smith Clerk 3rd District Court Union Parish La THE STATE OF LOUISIANA County of Union I, Jas M. Smith Clerk 3rd Dist Court in & for Union Parish La do hereby certify that Jesse Roberts and Thomas Henry Roberts are personally known to me to be credible citizens of said County and State, and that the foregoing answers of Jesse Roberts and Thomas Henry Roberts the witnesses before named, and whose names appear signed to the foregoing depositions respectively were made before me and were sworn to and subscribed before me, by said witnesses respectively. Given under my hand and official seal, this the 17th day of August 1899. /s/ Jas M. Smith Clerk 3rd District Court Union Parish, La [L. S.] * * * * * * * * * * SUBJECT: Civil War Pension Application of Hannah Elizabeth Roberts (widow of William Andrew Roberts) Part 1 SUBMITTER: Carolyn EMAIL: carjoy@aol.com DATE: Aug 27, 1999 PASSWORD> SURNAMES: ROBERTS, COPELAND, DAVIDSON, BARCLAY 41510 ----------------------------------- FORM B DEAD 2-11-35 ----------------------------------- WIDOW'S APPLICATION FOR A PENSION ----------------------------------- The Comptroller of Public Accounts reserves the right to call for additional testimony if he deems it necessary. ----------------------------------- Name of Applicant. Mrs. Hannah E. Roberts Parker County R. F. D. or Street No. 109 BuBellett Postffice Weatherford, Texas. ------------------------------------ Filed 12-6-24 Approved Nov 9, 1925 Pension allowed from Sept 1, 1925 ------------------------------------- /s/ S. H. Terrell Comptroller of Public Accounts. -------------------------------------- Widow's Application for Confederate Pension -------------------------------------- THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Parker. I, Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth Roberts 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, . D. 1913, on the following grounds: I am the widow of W. A. Roberts deceased, who departed this life on the 3rd day of November, A. D. 1918, in the county of Parker in the State of Texas, where he and I then resided for many years. 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 12th day of November, A. D. 1868, in the county of Audrain in the State of Missouri. My husband, the said W. A. Roberts, enlisted and served 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 of 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? "am nearly 74, will be next month, i. e. in Dec." 2. Where were you born? "In Wayne County, Tenn." 3. How long have you resided in the State of Texas? "Since 1873" 4. How long have you resided in the county of your present residence? "Since 1876" 5. What is your postoffice address? 109 BuBellett St. Weatherford, Texas." 6. did your husband draw a pension? "No" If so, give his file number "never applied." 7. What is your husband's full name? "William Andrew Roberts" 8. In what State was your husband's command originally organized? "Missouri" 9. How long did your husband serve? "about a year, I think" If known to you, give date of enlistment and discharge "From early 1861 to some time in 1862, after battle of Pea Ridge." 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 and 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.) "Cannot give, Letter or Co. nor Regiment, but Missouri Cavalry." 11. Nam branch of service in which your husband served, whether infantry, cavalry, artillery, or the navy, or if commissioned 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. "Cavalry" 12. Have you transferred to another any property of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? "No sir." Wherefore, your petitioner prays that her application for a pension may be approved and such other proceedings be had in the premises as required by law. (Signature of applicant) /s/ Hannah Elizabeth Roberts Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of November A. D. 1924. /s/ Charlie Sullivan County Judge Parker County, Texas. [Seal.] ---------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES [Note.--There must be at least two credible witnesses.] THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Parker. Before me, Charlie Sullivan, County Judge of Parker County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared D. C. Bratton and J. C. Massey, who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who, being by me duly sworn on oath state that they personally knew that Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth Roberts, applicant for a pension as the widow of W. A. Roberts, deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of W. A. Roberts 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) /s/ D. C. Bratton (Signature of Witness) /s/ J. C. Massey Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 24th day of November, A. D. 1924. /s/ Charlie Sullivan County Judge Parker County, Texas. [Seal.] -------------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES [Note.--There must be at least two credible witnesses.] THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Parker. Before me, Charlie Sullivan, County Judge of Parker County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared D. C. Bratton and J. C. Massey, who are personally known to me to be credible 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. Hannah Elizabeth Roberts 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) /s/ D. C. Bratton (Signature of Witness) /s/ J. C. Massey Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 24th day of November, A. D. 1924. /s/ Charlie Sullivan County Judge Parker County, Texas. ---------------------------- AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES (If possible the two witnesses should have served 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 applicant's husband.) THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Parker. Before me, Charlie Sullivan, County Judge of Parker County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Mrs. B. L. Copeland, who is personally known to me to be a credible citizen, who, being by me sworn, on oath states that she is 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 her knowledge and belief, and that she has no interest in this claim. And further make oath to the following facts touching the service of applicant's husband in the Confederate Army: (State fully your source of knowledge) I was a child about 12 years old and lived in the same home with W. A. Roberts, when in the summer of 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, in a Missouri Regiment of Cavalry; he went away, and was in confederate Uniform, and we all bid him good by to go off to the service. Then in 1862, the exact date I cannot say, he came home on a furlough, got his eye put out; and after this he was sent home to stay because his eye was out. I have frequently heard him talk of his experiences in the Confederate Army, and I am confident he served nearly or may be more than a year; but I do not know his Co. nor Regiment, except that it was Cavalry and from the State of Missouri. My Husband, B. L. Copeland, has told me also that he saw W. A. Roberts in the service. My husband is now dead, but was drawing a Confederate Pension when he died. He applied from Parker County, and I have an application pending as his widow. (Signature of Witness) /s/ Mrs. B. L. Copeland Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 24th day of November A. D. 1924. /s/ Charlie Sullivan County Judge Parker County, Texas. [Seal.] ------------------------- CERTIFICATE OF STATE AND COUNTY ASSESSOR I, Ed R. Newsom State and County Assessor in the County of Parker State of Texas, do certify that Mrs. W. A. Roberts (H. Elizabeth) whose name is signed tot he foregoing application for 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 Twelve Hundred (1200) Dollars, and of other property, real or personal, or both, of the value of Five Hundred (500) Dollars. Given under my hand, this 24th day of November A. D. 1924. /s/ Ed R. Newsom State and County Assessor. /s/ Pec C E Cauafax (?) Deputy --------------- InRe Hannah E. Roberts Claim for Pension. State of Missouri, County of Boone, Now on this the 23 day of October 1925, before me a Notary Public within and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared B. B. Davidson, who being first duly sworn according to law under oath states that he is 83 years old, that he was born in State of Kentucky and that he moved with his parents to Boone County Missouri in 1859 and has been a resident of said Boone County, Mo. ever since 1859, and that Centralia Missouri, is his Post Office address. He states that he was well and personally acquainted with William A. Roberts, known by his comrades in the Confederate Army during the Civil War as One Eyed Bill Roberts, that he served from the fall of 1864 to date of surrender at Shreeveport (sic), La. on or about June 7th 1865 in the same Company and Regiment, under Wash Bryson, as Captain and Cale Perkins as Colonel. and that said William A. Roberts, was in same Company and Regiment and I saw him in the service daily from fall of 1864 to June 1865. and he further states that he is not related to said William A. Roberts, and that he has no interest in the matter at all either directly or indirectly. Witness, /s/ C. C. Sexton /s/ W. T. Cox /s/ B. B. (his X mark) Davidson Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 23 day of October A. D. 1925. My commission expires April 25, 1929. /s/ C. H. Smith Notary Public. ----------------------------------- War Department, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I have the honor to request the military record of William A. Roberts who is reported to have enlisted in Co. [blank] Regiment [blank] Wash Brysons Company Col Perkins Regiment Missouri Cavalry in service of the Confederate States Army. Very respectfully, /s/ S. H. Terrell Comptroller of State of Texas. -------------------------- ORD Address: "The Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, D. C." WAR DEPARTMENT THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, November 5, 1925. Respectfully returned to Comptroller, State of Texas, Austin, Texas. The records show that one William Roberts, Co. C, Perkins' Battn., Mo. Inf., C.S.A. (for which there are no rolls on file), date and place of enlistment not shown, was surrendered May 26, 1865, and paroled at Alexandria, La., June 7, 1865, a Private. Residence: Boone Co., Mo. Not found as William A. Roberts. C. I. Perkins, was Lieu-Col. of the Battn., and G. W. Bryson, Captain of Co. Co. The Battn. was formerly Perkins' Regiment of Mo. Cavalry, C.S.A., and was organized as such in July, August and Sep., 1864, later dismounted and known as Perkins' Bttn. Mo. Infantry, C.S.A. /s/ Robert C. Davis, Major General, The Adjutant General, By T. C. -------------------------------- WAR DEPARTMENT, THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. WASHINGTON. December 12, 1924. Respectfully returned to Comptroller, State of Texas, Austin, Texas. with the information that the name William Andrew Roberts has not been found on the rolls, on file in this Department, or any organization, Confederate States Army, from the State of Missouri. It is deemed proper to remark, however, that the collection of Confederate States Army records on file in the War Department is far from complete, and is not fully indexed, and the failure to find the name of any person thereon (or to find his complete record) is by no means conclusive evidence that such person did not serve during some period not covered by the records on file in this Department. Several men name William Roberts are shown by the records to have served in various Missouri Cavalry organizations, C.S.A., but the record of none has been identified as the one desired. /s/ Robert C. Davis Major General, The Adjutant General. By W. W. 41510 ------------------------------ The State of Illinois, County of McLean. Before me, W. C. Rogers, a Notary Public in and for aforesaid State & County, this day personally appeared S. S. Barclay, who being by me duly sworn, states on oath that he is 73 years of age, that his P. O. Address is Covell, Ill.; and that he is a nephew of William A. Roberts, deceased (some time called W. A. Roberts). That he knows personally that said W. A. Roberts, served for more than Three months during the Civil War in the Confederate Army. That he saw him more than once, but remembers distinctly about W. A. Roberts coming home after he had been in the service for quite a while, saw him come home and saw W. A. Roberts mother take him in her arms, she was glad he was home again alive. That he remembers also that he had lost an eye by accident; and it was on this account that he did not serve till the close of the war. It is his recollection that his uncle, W. A. Roberts, went away to the army early in 1861, but he does not know in what Co. or Regimtnt (sic) he served. /s/ S. S. Barclay Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 17 day of March A. D. 1925. /s/ W. C. Rogers A Notary Public, McLean Co., Ill. 41510 ----------------------------- The State of Texas, County of Parker. Before me, Charlie Sullivan, County Judge of Parker County, Texas, this day personally appeared Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth Roberts, known to me to be a reputable citizen and credible person living in Parker County, Texas, who being by me duly sworn, states on oath that she is the widow of W. A. Roberts, deceased; that her husband, the said W. A. Roberts was a Confederate soldier, enlisting from the State of Mo. and that he rendered valuble (sic) services to the Confederacy as such, that he did not desert; that by accident he lost an eye, and was honorably discharged on that account after serving through 1861 and into the year 1862 up to the thime (sic) of the battle of Pea Ridge, having served more than 90 days. That she has diligently searched, and has been unable to learn the number of his regiment or the letter of his company in which he served; simply being able to learn that he enlisted in a Missouri Regiment of Cavalry, lost his eye by accident, and was sent home. She herewith furnishes the affidavit of J. J. Roberts, a younger brother of Mr. W. A. Roberts, who later served in the Confederate Army, and the affidavit of Mrs. Copeland allowing all she knew of his army record. But she knows by hearsay that he served, and she knows he had only one eye. Wherefore she prays that her claim be considered and she be granted a Confederate Pension. /s/ Hanna Elizabeth Roberts. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this the 20th day of Nov A. D. 1924. /s/ Charlie Sullivan County Judge, Parker County, Texas. The state of Texas, County of Parker. I, W. H. Hutcheson, Clerk of the County Court of said County, certify that the original of the above and foregoing affidavit has been filed and is now on file in my office in Weatherford, Texas. In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and impress my official seal, this the 24 day of Nov A. D. 1924. /s/ W. H. Hutcheson County Clerk, Parker Co., Tex. /s/ By Frank Kirkpatrick Dep 41510 -------------------------------------- The State of Texas, County of Bexar. Before me, the undersigned authority, this day personally appeared J. J. Roberts, who being by me duly sworn, state on oath that he is 77 years of age; that his P. O. address is San Jose, Texas; That he was a Confederate soldier, being in Captain Bryson s Co. A, was dismounted and put in the Infantry in a Division commanded by General Magruder; that he served from 1864 to 1865. That he had a brother by the name of W. A. Roberts, who enlisted in the Confederate Army in the State of Missouri in 1861, and served through that year and on till after the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark. about which time W. A. Roberts had the misfortune of having an eye put out, and he was then discharged and sent home. Affiant knows positively that his brother W. A. Roberts served in the Cavalry of the Confederate Army and from the State of Missouri, but does not now remember the name of his Captain, nor the letter of his Co., nor the No. of the Cavalry Regiment in which he served. He knows however that W. A. Roberts enlisted and served honorably till he lost his eye, and on that account was sent home soon after the battle of Pea Ridge. Affiant further states under oath that W. A. Roberts lived for many years in Parker County, Texas, that he died in or near Weatherford, Parker County, Texas, some years ago, and that his widow, Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth Roberts, still lives in Weatherford, Texas, and has not remarried. /s/ J. J. Roberts Subscribed and sworn to before me by J. J. Roberts, affiant, this the 10 day of Nov A. D. 1924. /s/ Augustus McAutry (?) A Notary Public in and for Bexar County, Texas. (Seal Here) 41510 ------------------- The State of Texas, County of Parker. I, Charlie Sullivan, County Judge of Parker County, Texas, after having conversed with Mrs. Roberts, the widow of W. A. Roberts, and from all that is deducable (sic) from her affidavit and the affidvt (sic) of J. J. Roberts, and from my personal knowledge of all the facts connected with her claim, and from the fact that W. A. Roberts in his life time did affiliated with the Confederate Veterans of this county, and did always appear with them in the Confederate Uniform, and was one-eyed, etc., am of opinion that Mrs. Roberts should be granted a pension, is worthy, and truthful, and simply because all are dead or unknown who served with her deceased husband, do not believe it just to deny her said pension. Therefore, I hereby approve her pension claim and recommend that she be granted a Pension by the Comptroller of Texas. In testimony of all of which I hereto subscribe my name and impress my official seal, this the 24th day of Nov. A. D. 1924. /s/ Charlie Sullivan County Judge, Parker County, Texas. (Seal) 41510 ------------------------- (Continued in Part 2) SUBJECT: Civil War Pension Application of Hannah Elizabeth Roberts (widow of William Andrew Roberts) Part 2 SUBMITTER: Carolyn EMAIL: carjoy@aol.com DATE: Aug 27, 1999 PASSWORD> SURNAMES: ROBERTS (See Part 1 for Application and Affidavits for Pension.) ------------------------------------ APPLICATION FOR MORTUARY WARRANT THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Parker I, Homer Roberts, do hereby certify that I am the person to whom is entrusted the paying of the accounts and indebtedness of the late Mrs. Hannah E. Roberts, who was a pensioner of the State of Texas, and whose file number was 41510 and whose original county was Parker. The said pensioner Mrs. Hannah E. Roberts, died on the 6th day of February, 1935, in the town of Weatherford County of Parker Texas. The pensioner died in the home of her home who was related to the pensioner as son. That the warrant, which application is hereby made for, shall be applied to paying all or part of the funeral expenses incurred by the said pensioner Mrs. W. A. Roberts. I further certify that the warrant for the current month has not been cashed by the pensioner, to the best of my knowledge and belief. I am related to the pensioner as son that my postoffice address is P. O. Box 168 Weatherford Texas. Signed /s/ Homer Roberts Sworn to before me this 12 day of February, 1935. /s/ J. H. White Notary Public in and for Parker County State of Texas. Must return before 40 days expires from date of Pensioners' death ------------------------------------ CERTIFICATE OF UNDERTAKER I, B. F. White, do certify that I am undertaker in the town of Weatherford, County of Parker, State of Texas, that I had charge of the body of Mrs. W. A. Roberts, who died in the town of Weatherford, County of Parker, State of Texas, on the 6th day of February 1935. That said body was prepared for burial by me on the 6th day of February 1935, and that I am of the opinion that warrant herein applied for should be issued to the said Homer Roberts who makes the foregoing application. Signed /s/ B. F. White Undertaker. ---------------------- CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN I, Dr. Dav D. Daily, do hereby certify that I am a practicing physician, and that I attended Mrs. W. A. Roberts in her last illness, and am of the opinion that his ailments were Coronary Occulsion (sic). I further certify that I am of the opinion that the 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 /s/ Dr. Dav D. Daily Physician's Address Weatherford, Texas no Feb. issued Feb. 11, 1935 ------------------------------------------- T. F. TEMPLE LAWYER AND NOTARY PUBLIC Ex-County Judge Parker County OFFICE IN SOUTHWESTERN TELEPHONE BUILDING WEATHERFORD, TEXAS, Oct. 29, 1925. S. H. Terrell, Comptroller, Austin, Texas. Dear Sir:- Herewith find affidavit of B. B. Davidson, 83 of Centralia, Mo. This is in support of the Claim of Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth Roberts for Confederate Pension as the widow of Wm. A. Roberts, deceased,a bout which you wrote me June 4, 1925. I knew he was thought to have enlisted from Centralia, Mo. Boone County, and I have twice advertised in the Papers of Centralia, and this is the result of my last ad. You will observe that Mr. Davidson is 83 yrs. old; that he says he enlisted in the fall of 1864 and served till June 7, 1865, in Capt. Wash Bryson's Co. and under Col. Cale Perkins. (I have an idea it should be Kale Perkins), and that he was well acquainted with William A. Roberts, known by his comrades in the Confederate service as "One Eyed Bill Roberts", that said Wm. A. Roberts was in the same Co and Regt., saw him daily from fall of 1864 to June 1865. You will observe that he gives date and place, Shreveport, La. June 7, 1865 as date he surrendered, etc. Hence I feel sure this is correct. Heretofor (sic) I have never been able to locate anyone who knew his Co or Regt. and all seemed to think he was discharged early because of the lost (sic) of his eye. Being thus discharges seems to have been a conclusion only, from Mr. B. B. Davidson's affidavit, and to have been error. But I personally know he was one eyed the first time I ever saw him, some 30 years ago; and his wife has told me he had but one eye the first time she ever saw him, did not meet him till after the war. I have written to various parties throughout Mo., advertised twice, and Mrs. Roberts has had others writing every where she could get the slightest hint. I hope you can now see your way clear to approve her application, for I have little hopes of any further evidence, and I know Mrs. Hannah E. Roberts is a most worthy and needy widow. Her address is 109 DuBellett St., Weatherford, Tex., but till you can approve her claim, prefer you to let me know, for I do not want her to be disappointed any more. In fact, if approved, you might send the same with first voucher to me, and I will call at her home on my way home and take her affidavit. With best wishes, and hoping you may not think me too importunate, I am, Yours truly, /s/ F. T. Temple Att'y for Mrs. Hannah E. Roberts, wid. of W. A. Roberts. ----------------------------- June 4, 1925. Hon. T. F. Temple, Weatherford, Texas. Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of May 27: The application of Mrs. Hannah E. Roberts, widow of W. A. Roberts, has not been approved because of failure of applicant and witnesses to furnish any definite information concerning company and regiment in which Mr. Roberts served. Report from the he office of the Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, states that the name of William Andrew Roberts cannot be found on the rolls on file in that Department of any organized Confederate States Army, from the State of Missouri. Before approving applications, we desire to investigate record of veteran on whose service record pension is appliable. Therefore, I am requesting more information from applicant in this case; if she cannot give letter of company or regiment, perhaps she remembers where his regiment or company was organized. This information may be helpful in investigating his record. Yours very truly, COMPTROLLER -------------------------- T. F. TEMPLE LAWYER AND NOTARY PUBLIC Ex-County Judge Parker County OFFICE IN SOUTHWESTERN TELEPHONE BUILDING WEATHERFORD, TEXAS, May 27, 1925. S. H. Terrell, Comptroller, Austin, Texas. My Dear Sir:- Some time last year, Mrs. Roberts the widow of W. A. Roberts, who lives here in Weatherford, Parker County, filed an application for a Pension. She had tried very hard to find witnesses of her husband's service, and had not been able to find any one who knew the Co. and Regt. of Missouri troops in which he served. She has continued inquiry; and has only found one more witness. His affidavit, made March 17, 1925, she has secured, and I am sending it herewith. She is a most worthy woman. I knew Mr. W. A. Roberts for years, and had often talked with him of his Confederate service, was with him at the Confederate Reunion in Chatanouga, (sic) Tenn. in spring of 1913; but he at that time was pretty well fixed financially; had no thought of a Pension, and I paid little attention; hence know nothing personally that I can swear to. I know personally he had lost one eye when I first saw him. If you can approve her Claim, after re-examining it, with this affidavit, I shall appreciate it. Yours truly, /s/ T. F. Temple ---------------------------- December 4, 1936 Re: W. A. Roberts, deceased Confederate Veteran File No. 41510 Mrs. J. D. Harvey, 121 Marshall Lane, Austin, Texas. Dear Mrs. Harvey: The records of this office show that MRs. Hannah E. Roberts, widow of W. A. Roberts, draw a Confederate Pension from the State of Texas under file No. 41510, Parker County. The application of Mrs. Roberts states that W. A. Roberts was a private in the Missouri Cavalry, Price's Regiment, C. S. A., serving about one year. The application was approved on the affidavits of witnesses. Yours very truly, COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS --------------------------- December 11, 1936 Mrs. J. D. Harvey 1221 Marshall Lane Austin, Texas. Dear Mrs. Harvey: This will acknowledge receipt of your inquiry for the military service record of W. A. Roberts as a Confederate soldier on whose record Mrs. Hanah (sic) E. Roberts received a Confederate Pension from the State of Texas under file number 41510. The records show that William Roberts, not shown as William A. Roberts was a private in Company C, Perkin's Battalion, Missouri Infantry Confederate States Army. Date of enlistment is not shown but he was paroled at Alexandria, Louisiana on June 7, 1865. This application of Mrs. Hannah E. Roberts may have been approved on the affidavits of witnesses filed in this case. Yours very truly, GEO H. SHEPPARD COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. ---------------------------- July 17, 1936. Miss Ida Roberts 109 Dubellett Street Weatherford, Texas. Dear Miss Roberts: This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of July 16 requesting the military service record of William A. Roberts on whose record as a Confederate Soldier Mrs. Hannah E. Roberts received a Confederate Pension from the State of Texas under file number 41510. The records show that William Roberts, not shown as William A. Roberts was a private in Company C, Perkin's Battalion, Missouri Infantry Confederate States Army. Date of enlistment is not shown but he was paroled at Alexandria, Louisiana on June 7, 1865. Yours very truly, GEO. H. SHEPPARD COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. --------------------------------- 41510 Parker Weatherford Texas July 16th 1936. Geo. H. Sheppard, State Comptroller of Public Accounts. Dear Sir: In making application for membership in U. D. C. organization, I find I need more information in regard to my fathers war record. My mother Mrs. Hannah E. or Hannah Elizabeth Roberts received a pension after his death, and her file no. was 41510. If you can give me this information I shall be very thankful. Yours truly, Miss Ida Roberts 109 Dubellett St Weatherford Tex. ---------------------------------- October 30, 1925. Hon. T. F. Temple, Weatherford, Texas. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your favor of October 29th enclosing affidavit of B. B. Davidson in support of application of Mrs. Hannah E. Roberts for confederate pension. I am today requesting report on the military record of Wm. A. Roberts and immediately on receipt of this report will advise you what disposition will be made of application. Yours very truly, COMPTROLLER. ------------------------------------- November 10, 1925 Hon. T. F. Temple Weatherford, Texas Dear Sir: I am today in receipt of a favorable report on the military record of Wm. A. Roberts and agreeable to my letter of October 30, I am approving application. Mrs. Roberts will be notified of the approval of her application at once and the affidavit to be executed covering issuance of first quarterly warrant due her will be mailed with the notice of approval. Yours very truly, COMPTROLLER ---------------------- Comptroller's Department State of Texas Austin LON A. SMITH, COMPTROLLER W. T. GASTON, CHIEF CLERK To the Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I have the honor to request the military record of William Andrew Roberts, who is reported to have enlisted in Company [blank], Regiment [blank] Missouri Cav. 1861 and served in Price's Reg. for about one year in service of the Confederate States Army. Very respectfully, /s/ Lon A. Smith Comptroller of State of Texas. * * * * * * * * {{TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Widow's Application for Pension filed by Mrs. Mary O. Roberts as follows: No. 988, January 16, 1911, Limestone County, Texas. No. 2204, May 20, 1911, Limestone County, Texas. No. 21066, June 26th, 1912, Taylor County, Texas. No. 24000, June 1st, 1918, Kaufman County, Texas. * * * * * * * * * * * ----------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent.