Nacogdoches County, TX - Civil War Pension Application - A. B. Boatman **************************************************************** Contributed by John R. Peterson Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************** Application of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for Jack County, in the State of Texas, and that he makes this application for the purpose Pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. FORM No. 2 The State of Texas County of Nacogdoches To the Honorable County Judge of Nacogdoches County, Texas. Your petitioner A.B. Boatman represents that he is a resident Citizen of obtaining a pension, under the act passed by the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved May 12, A.D. 1899, the same being an act entitled "An act to carry into effect the amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that aid may be granted to disabled and dependent Confederate soldiers, sailors, and their widows under certain conditions, and to make an appropriation Therefore," and I do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true. ---------------------------------------------- Note--Applicant must make answer to all of the following questions, and Such answers must be written out plainly in ink. ---------------------------------------------- Q. What is your name? Answer: A.B. Boatman Q. What is your age? Answer: I am 57 years old Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Jack Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: 6 years, Bryson, Texas Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so state when and where. Answer: In a short time after the pension law was passed, I applied from Jack County. Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: Farmer Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: Paralysis and general Disability, bronchitis. Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate Army and the time of your service? Answer: Col. Border's Regiment Texas Cav. (See his discharge on his former application) & served 2 Years. Q. If you served in the Confederate navy, state when and where, and the time of such service? Answer: No Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state what pension or veteran donation land certificate you have received. Answer: I have not Q. What real and personal properties do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such property and value. Answer: Don't own any land. I own one horse. At the time I made my former application, I thought I owned 125 acres of land, but I had not-paid it out. And have since been compelled to give it up for the unpaid purchase money. The horse is all the property I own in this world and he is worth $40.00. Q. What property, and what was the value thereof have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to the date of this application? Answer: None Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer: None Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, And destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer: I am. Q. Are you unable, by your labor to earn a support? Answer: Yes, I am Now. 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 your deceased husband ever desert the Confederacy? Answer: No Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a Bonafide resident citizen of this State? Answer: I have since 1854. Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as as required by law. (Signature of Applicant) A.B. X(His Mark) Boatman Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of October AD 1901 R.S. Blair [Seal] County Judge Jack County, Texas Affidavit of Witnesses (Note--There must be at least two credible witnesses) The State of Texas County of Jack Before me, R.S. Blair County Judge of Jack County, State of Texas, this day personally appeared Joshua Barnes, Abigale Barnes who are personally known to me to be credible citizens who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know that A.B. Boatman, applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said A.B. Boatman, enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier(or sailor) as claimed by him in the above and foregoing application, and that they further know that he the said applicant A.B. Boatman, deceased, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness): Joshua Jacobs (Signature of Witness): Abigale Barnes Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of October AD 1901. R.S. Blair [seal] County Judge Jack County, Texas AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN THE STATE OF TEXAS} County of Jack } before me R.S. Blair County Judge of Jack County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared F.G. Huckabay, Who is a reputable practicing physician of this county, who being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and thoroughly examined Andrew Boatman applicant for a pension, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities which render him unable to labor at any work or calling sufficient to earn a support for himself: Has had pneumonia three times and has never fully recovered. Has cough and shortness of breath due to a weak and dilated heart. (Signature of Physician) F.G. Huckabay M.D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of November AD 1901 R.S. Blair County Judge Jack County, State of Texas _______________ ____ CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE THE STATE OF TEXAS, } I, R.S. Blair, COUNTY JUDGE OF JACK County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 16th day of November, AD 1901, before me came on to be heard the application of A.B. Boatman, for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law of the State, approved May 12, AD 1899; that the answers of said applicant to the questions propounded were made under oath as the same appear in writing in the foregoing application: that the affidavits of the witnesses who are credible citizens were made before me as the same herein before appear, and that the foregoing affidavit of Doctor F.G. Huckabay who is a reputable physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant A.B. Boatman is not an inmate of The Texas Confederate Home, nor otherwise disqualified under any of the provisions of Section 12, if the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify that after considering all of the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said A.B. Boatman. I find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and I hereby approve said application. Witness my hand and seal of office at Jacksboro this 16th day of November AD 1901 R.S. Blair County Judge Jack County, State of Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Jack We the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Jack County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of A.B. Boatman, for a pension together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. R.S. Blair County Judge of this Jack County, to the Commissioners Court of this Jack County, at a regular term thereof on the 16th day of November A.D. 1901, and after a careful consideration of the same we find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate Pension Law of this State and we hereby approve said application. Witness our hands and seal of office at Jacksboro this 16th Day of November AD 1901 M.A. Graus Pre. 1 W.A. Johnson 2 F.M. Christopher (Seal) G.M. Vance EX PARTE } IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERATE PENSION A.B. BOATMAN }Under Act M ay 12, 1899, pending in County }Commissioners' Court of JACK COUNTY Answers and depositions of (1) L.A. BARNES and LOUISA PETERSON to the accompanying interrogatories (2) propounded to them in the above entitled cause taken before (3) R.S. BLAIR, County Judge of Jack County, Texas, in accordance with the accompanying (5) commissioners To the first Interrogatory the said L. A. Barnes, Witness answers: My name is L.A. Barnes, my age is 48 years. I reside in Jack County, Texas and my post office is Jacksboro. To the 2nd Direct Int. the answers: Yes, I know the applicant, A.B. Boatman, have known him intimately all of my life. To the 3rd Direct Int. the answers: As I answered above, I have known him since I can remember- over 40 years. I first knew him in Rusk, County, Texas. To the 4th Direct Int. she answers: I know that he enlisted and served in the Confederate Army and performed the duties of a soldier. To the 5th Direct Int. the answers: He enlisted in Capt. Moseley's and Col. Border's Reg. Texas Cav. To the 6th Direct Int. she answers: I know that he is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. To the 7th Direct Int. she answers: I know that since he returned home from the Army, he has been broken in health. It has always been said that his physical condition was-is caused by a severe spell of sickness that he had while in the Army. This has been the understanding belier of his family and those who were with him while in the Service. I know that since he came home from the war that he has been almost a physical wreck. L. A. (her mark)X Barnes Mrs. Louisa Peterson testifies as follows: To the 1st Direct Int. she answers: My name is Louisa Peterson, my age is 78 years, and I reside in Jack County, Texas. My post office is Jacksboro. To the 2nd Direct Int. she answers: I know the applicant A.B. Boatman, have known him all his life. To the 6th Direct Int. she answers: I know he is physically unable to support himself by labor of any sort. To the 7th Direct Int. she answers: I know that when e joined the army he was in good health, strong and vigorous. I know that during his term of service he had a very lengthy, severe spell of sickness brought about-by hunger and exposure, and that he never recovered from it. He went into the Confederate Army a strong, stalwart man and came out-broken in health and has never regained it. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 17th day of March 1902 R.S. Blair County Judge THE STATE OF TEXAS } COUNTY OF JACK } I, R.S.Blair, County Judge, Jack County do hereby certify Mrs. L.A. Barnes and Mrs. Louisa Peterson are personally Known to me to be credible citizens of said county and State, and that the foregoing answers of L.A. Barnes and Louisa Peterson the witnesses before named whose name appears signed to the foregoing deposition, were made before me, and were sworn to and subscribed before me by said witness (4) L.A. Barnes and Louisa Peterson Given under my hand and official seal, the 17th day of March 1902 R.S. Blair, County Judge, Jack County, Texas