Robert Engledow-Confederate Pension Application - Smith Co, TX Contributed by Gayle Basaldu March 12, 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** DEAD ___________________________________ CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION ____________________________________ Name of Applicant, Robert Engledow Smith County Post Office Troup ____________________________________ Comptroller's File No. 6650 ____________________________________ 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 15 day of March A.D. 1900. Wm. J. Swain Pension Clerk ____________________________________ I hereby approve the within application for pension, this 15 day of March A.D. 1900. ? Finley (unclear signature) Comptroller ____________________________________ No Application Rejected by County Judge of 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 Smith To the Honorable County Judge of Smith County, Texas. Your petitioner, Robert Engledow respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Smith 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, 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 thereof, " and I do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true. _______________________________________________________________ Note-Applicant must make answer to all the following questions, and such answers must be written out plainly in ink. _______________________________________________________________ Q. What is your name? Answer: Robert Engledow Q. What is your age? Answer: 68 years Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Smith County Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: 55 years - Troup, Texas 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: None, not able to engage in one Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: Bad 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: Total Blindness and spinal affliction Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer: I served in the ordinance Department, of Texas, under Col. Hill, 3 years. Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where, and the time of your 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 the affirmative state what pension or veteran donation land certificate you have received. Answer: 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: One House and Lot value $300.00 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: Yes Q. Are you unable by your 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) Robert Engledow Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5 day of Feb. A.D. 1900 Geo. W. Cross County Judge Smith County, Texas _____________________________________________________________________________________ AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES (Note-There must be at least two credible witnesses.) THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Smith Before me, Geo. W. Cross County Judge of Smith County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared H. W. Gradick and J. C. Tarbutton who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know Robert Engledow the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said Robert Engledow 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, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) H. W. Gradick (Signature of Witness) J. C. Tarbutton Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5 day of Feb. A. D. 1900 Geo. W. Cross County Judge Smith County, Texas _____________________________________________________________________________________ AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Smith Before me Geo. W. Cross County Judge of Smith County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared T. J. Bell, 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 Robert Engledow 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: Totally Blind, besides suffers a great deal with his back (Signature of Physician) T. J. Bell Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5 day of Feb. A. D. 1900 Geo. W. Cross County Judge Smith County, State of Texas __________________________________________________________________ CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Smith We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Smith County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of Robert Engledow for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. Geo. W. Cross County Judge of this Smith County, to the Commissioners Court of this Smith County, at a regular term thereof on the 17 day of Feby A. D. 1900, and after 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 Tyler, Texas this 17 day of Feby A. D. 1900 (Signature of Commissioners) U. C. Hairgrove (U. C. Hairgrove) G. A. Brown (G. A. Brown) D. J. Epperson (D. J. Epperson) M. F. Crook (M. F. Crook)