Panola  County, TX - Civil War Pension Application - John Pickens Payne

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THE STATE OF TEXAS

COUNTY OF PANOLA

To the Honorable County Judge of Panola County, Texas

Your petitioner, J.P. Payne respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of
Panola County, in the State of Texas, and he makes this application for the purpose of
obtaining a pension under the act passed by the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of
Texas, and approved May 12, A.D. 1899, the same being an act entitled "An act to carry
into effect the amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that aid
may be granted to disabled and dependent Confederate soldiers, sailors, and their widows
under certain conditions, and to make an appropriation therefore," and I do solemnly swear
that the ansers I have given to the following questions are true.

What is your name?  Answer: John Pickens Payne

What is your age?  Answer: Sixty one years (Born January 27, 1838)

In what County do you reside?  Answer: Panola

How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address?  
Answer: Eighteen (18) months.  P.O. Clayton, Panola Co. Texas

Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been
rejected?  If so state when and where.  Answer:  No

What is your occupation if able to engage in one?  Answer: Farming

What is your physical condition?  Answer: Bad

If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn a
support, state what caused such disability.  Answer: Piles and Dipfrefsia(sic) causing
general bad health

State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army and the time of
your service?  Answer: Co F. 11th Texas Infantry - O.M. Roberts Colonel.  Served 2 years
and 11 months - beginning May 1862 and Ending April 1865

If you served in the Conferate navy state when and where, and the time of your service.
Answer:  (left blank)

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 your have received.  Answer: None

What real and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such
property?  Give list of such property and value. Answer:  None at all.

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

What income, if any, do you receive? Answer:  None

Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property
and means of subsistence?  Answer:  I am

Are you unable by your labor to earn a support?  Answer:  I am

Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of
becoming of becoming a beneficiary under the law?  Answer: No

Did you ever desert the Confederacy?  Answer: No

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)  J. P. Payne

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of July A.D. 1899 

J. H. Long  County Judge Panola County, Texas

Witnesses:  Daniel Koonce,  L.H. Weaver, S.P. Page and W.R. Page

There are 3 affidavit's of Physicians in the file:

J.B. Bussey - signed December 7, 1897
Drs. Clements and Johnson - signed December 7, 1897
A.S. Wall - signed August 12, 1899


Pension application was approved on October 13, 1899
Comptroller's File No. 3268