Panola County, TX - Civil War Pension Application - John Pickens Payne **************************************************************** Contributed by Linda Lapinski Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************** 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