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Comptroller's File No. 1099 I have carefully examined the within application for pension, together with the proof in support thereof. and I recommend that the application be Disapproved this Sep 30, 1904 A. D. - E. A. Bolmes, Chief Pension Clerk. --------I hereby ( =blank= ) the within application for pension, this Sep 30, 1904 A.D. J. W. Stephens Comptroller. Notified Co. Judge 9/3/04: 320 Acres Land; 35 hd. cattle; Not indigent within the meaning of the law. = 1902= 320 A 320.00; 5 H. 70.00; 1 W 25 = $655.00.// 1904 320 A 320.00; 5 H 110.00; 36 C 288.00 1 W 15.00 = $733.00. Form #1. Amended October 1, 1902. APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. Hereafter use no other blank but this. THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Borden} To the Honorable County Judge of Borden County, Texas. Your Petition, J. A. Snelling respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Borden County, in the state of Texas, and that he makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pensioin 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. Q. What is your name? Answer = J. A. Snellings Q. What is your age? Answer = Sixty Six years old Q. In what County do you reside? Answer = Borden County, Texas Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address: Answer = Eight years. Post Office Light, Texas 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 = Farmer. Q. What is your physical condition? Answer = Very Bad. Q. If your physican condition is such that you are unable by your own labaor to earn a support, state what caused such disability. Answer = Shot through the ankle in the war. Q. In what State was your command originally organized? Answer = Alabamma. Q. How long did your serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer = Two years Spring of 1862, discharged 13 day of June 1865. Q. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? Answer = Company B. 33 Alabamma Regiment. Q. State whether you served in the infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the navy. Answer = Infantry. 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 verteran donation land certificate you have received. Answer = have not. 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 = 320 acres of western land valued at $320.00 and 35 head of stock $280.00. 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 not. Q. What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value? 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 = I am. Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer = have not. Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? Answer = No Sir. Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this state? Answer = I have. Q. If you origianlly enlisted in the Confederate service from the State of Texas, were you at the date of passage of this act, a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas? Answer = I was. Wherefore your petitioner prays that his applicatrion for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law. (Signature of Applicant) J. A. Snellings Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15 day of June A.D. 1904 (seal) (signed) J. M. Searcy County Judge Borden County, Texas AFFIDAVIT OF WITENSSES. (Note-There must be at least two creditable witnesses.) THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Borden} Before me J. M. Searcy County Judge of Borden County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared W. K. Clark and J. L. Snelling who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state they they personally know J. A. Snelling the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said J. A. Snelling is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) J. L. Snellings (Signature of Witness) W. K. Clark Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15 day of June A.D. 1904 (seal) J. M. Searcy County Judge Borden County, Texas. AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN: THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Scurry} Before me. J. D. Licher of Scurry County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared A. W. Browning, M.D., who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, wh( blanked out) me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and thoroughly examined J. A. Snellings appalicant for a pension, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities which render him unable to labor at any w(blanked out) calling sufficient to earn a support for himself: Consumption and a crippled leg acquired as stated in the preceding statements. (Signature of Physician) A. W. Browning M. D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20 day of June A.D. 1902. (seal) (signed) J. D. Letcher J.P. and Ex Officer Notary Public Scurry County. CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE: THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Borden} I J. M. Searcy County Judge of Borden County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 15 of June A.D. 1904, before me came to be heard the aplication of J. A. Snellings 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 before me as the same hereinbefore appear, and that the foregoing affidavits of Dr. A. W. Browning who is a reputable practicing physician of this county. I also certify that the said applicant J. A. Snellings 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 J. A. Snellings 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 Gail this 15 day of June A.D. 1904 (signed) J. M. Searcy County Judge Borden County, State of Texas. (seal) CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIOINERS: THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Borden} We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Borden County, Texas, do hereby certify that the foregoing application of J. A. Snellings for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon J. M. Searcy County Judge of this Borden County, to the Commissioners of this Borden County, at a regular term thereof on the 9th day of Aug, A.D. 1904, 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 Gail This 9 day of Aug. A.D. 1904. Signed: J. N. Hopkins (seal) (Signature of Commissioners) W. P. Coates - J. S. York DIRECT INTERROGATORIES TO BE PROPOUNDED TO THE WITNESS..... Int. 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of Residence and postoffice address? Int. 2. So you personally know, or did you at any time know J. A. Snellings who is an applicant for pension under Act of May 12, 1899? Int. 3. How long have you known the said J. A. Snellings Applicant for Pension, and when and where did you first know him? Int. 4. Do you personally know that the said J. A. Snellings 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. A. Snellings 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. A. Snellings, the said applicant for pension, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort? CROSS INTERROGATORIES. To be propounded to Mrs. Mattie Segrest and Mrs. M. A. Snellings. 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.A. Snellings serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said applicant, J. A. Snellings, enlisted? or if you have stated that said applicant enlisted and served in the navy of the confederacy, then state whether or not you know any other sailor of the same name as said applicant, serving the in the same command? 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. A. Snellings, applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you? Cross Int. 3. If you have answered Direct Interrogatory No. 6 in the affirmative, then please state your source of knowledge or information? Is not this your answer simply based upon conjecture? Cross In. 4. Do you know whether or not the said J. A. Snellings applicant for pension, ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy? THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Borden } I, J. M. Search, County Judge of said County in said state, do hereby wave copy of interrogatories, notice, time and issuance of commissioin, 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. (signed) J. M. Searcy County Judge Borden Count, Texas. J. A. Snellings, (applicant) A70-Deposition in Pension Claims, with Caption and Certificates- Class 5 EX PARTE J. A. Snellings (Applicant for Confederate Pension} IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERATE PENSION Under Act May 12, 1899, pending in County Commissioiners' Court of Borden County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County. Answers and deposition of (1) J. L. Snellings of Light Texas, Borden Co. to the accompanying interrogatories (2) and cross interrogatories propounded to him in the above entitled cause taken before (3) J. M. Searcy Co. Judge in accordance with the accompanying (5) Commission record. To the first interrogatory the said J. L. Snellings Witness, answers: 1st J. L. Snellings - 56 years old Borden County Tex. Light Texas. Int. 2nd. I Do. Int 3rd. Fifty Years Int 4th. I Do. Int 5. Company B 33 Allabamma Regiment. Clapton Allabamma in the spring of 1862. Two years Int. 6th. I do. Answers to Cross interrogatories 1st cross int. I know of my own knowledge being his Bro all about his enlisting. I knew no other by that name. Cross 2. I am Cross 3. Being a neighbor I know he is not able to do any kind of manual labor. is not able to wait on himself. I see him every day. Cross. I am certain he never did. Signed: J. L. Snellings. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 15 day of June, 1904. J. M. Search County Judge Borden Co., Tex. THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Borden} I, J. M. Searcy Co. Judge do hereby certify that J. L. Snellings is personally known to me to be credible citizen of said County and State, and that the foregoing answers of J. L. Snellings the witness before named, and whose name appear signed to the foregoing deposition, were made before me, and were sworn to and subscribed before me, by said witness (4) (signed) J. L. Snellings. Given under my hand and official seal, this the 15 day of June, 1904. (signed) J. M. Searcy County Judge. (L. S.) EX PARTE J. A. Snellings (Applicant for Confederate Pension} IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERATE PENSION Under Act May 12, 1899, pending in County Commissioiners' Court of Borden County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County. Answers and deposition of (1) Mattie Segrest, to the accompanying interrogatories ( blank) (2) and cross interrogatories (blank) propounded to him in the above entitled cause taken before (3) ( blank) in accordance with the accompanying (5) (Blank) To the first interrogatory the said (blank) Witness, answers: Mattie Segrest. 1st Cross interrogatory I donot remember the date of enlistment and he being my brother a correspondence was kept up between us. While so serving as a soldier. I do not know of any other soldier by the name of J. A. Snellings. 2nd. yes 3. My information is based on personal knowledge. 4th. I know that he never deserted. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22nd. day of June 1904 (signed) Mattie Segrest. THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Hamilton} I, S. W. Farrow JP and Notary do hereby certify that Mrs. Mattie E. Segrest is personally known to me to be credible citizen of said county and State, and that the foregoing answers of Mrs. Mattie E. Segrest the witness before named, and whose name appears signed to the foregoing deposition, were made before me, and were sworn to and subscribed before me, by said witness (4) Mrs. Mattie E. Segrest. Given under my hand and official seal, this the 22 day of June 1904 (L. S.) S. W. Farrow JP & Notary Public. A70-Deposition in Pension Claims, with Caption and Certificates- Class 5 EX PARTE J. A. Snellings (Applicant for Confederate Pension} IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERATE PENSION Under Act May 12, 1899, pending in County Commissioiners' Court of Borden County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County. Answers and deposition of (1)Mattie E. Segrest 55. yrs. Hamilton County Texas - Hico to the accompanying interrogatories (2) Yes propounded to her in the above entitled cause taken before (3) (blank) in accordance with the accompanying (5) 55 yrs he bing my brother. To the first interrogatory the said Mattie E. Segrest Witness, answers: lst. Mattie E. Segrest Age 55 yrs. 2nd. Yes. She being a sister. 3rd. During the 55 yrs and in the State of Georgia. 4th. Yes. and that he served as a Soldier. 5 th. I do not remember the regiment and company he served in and do not remember where. Nor how long he served. 6th. Yes I know that he is not able to earn a support by labor of any sort. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 22 day of June 1904. (signed) Mattie Segrest THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of (blank) } I, S. W. Farrow JP and Notary do hereby certify that Mrs. Mattie E. Segrest is personally known to me to be credible citizen of said county and State, and that the foregoing answers of Mrs. Mattie E. Segrest the witness before named, and whose name appears signed to the foregoing deposition, were made before me, and were sworn to and subscribed before me, by said witness (4) Mrs. Mattie E. Segrest. Given under my hand and official seal, this the 22 day of June 1904 (L. S.) S. W. Farrow JP & Notary Public. A70-Deposition in Pension Claims, with Caption and Certificates- Class 4 EX PARTE J. A. Snellings (Applicant for Confederate Pension} Pending in the Honorable Commissioners' Court of Borden County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County. The Honorable County Judge of Borden 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 deposition of Mrs. Mattie Segrest and Mrs. M. A. Snellings who reside in the County of Hamilton in the State of Texas in answer to the following 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 blank 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 witness residing in the county of Borden and State of Texas, of which he is a bona fide resident. J A. Snelling (applicant).