Travis County, TX - Civil War Pension Application - Joseph Jackson **************************************************************** Contributed by Glenda Sheppard Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************** *NOTE - Some names may be misspelled, it is hard to read the signatures. (Front) top has handwritten - $2.00 paid 8024 Endorsements Hereon for Comptroller’s Use Exclusively Form No. 1 Confederate Pension Application Name of Applicant Joseph Jackson Travis County Post Office Manor Comptroller’s File No 8024 I have carefully examined the within application for pension, together with the proof in support thereof, and I recommend that application be Approved this 25 day of March A. D. 1901 Pension Clerk signed E. A. Rolives (that’s what it looks like) I hereby approve the within application for pension this 25 day of March A. D. 1901 R. M. Love, Comptroller Page 1 APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier of Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under that Act of May 12, 1899. THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Travis To the Honorable County Judge of Travis County, Texas. Your petitioner, Joseph Jackson respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Travis 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, 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. 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: Joseph Jackson Q. What is your age?Answer: Sixty three (63) years Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Travis Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: About 47 years. P. O. Webberville Travis Co, Tex. 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: Not able to engage in one. Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: feeble. 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: Typhoid fever. Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer: Allen’s 17th Texas Regiment - don’t know the company - served four years - Mabory Company, Co. E Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where, and the time of your service. Answer: Didn’t serve in Navy (this is smeared) Q. State whether or not you have received any pensions 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 did not receive anything. Page 2 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: I own no property. 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 Nothing at all. 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 I have. Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved (this part smeared) er proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law. (Signature of Applicant) Joe Jackson Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of September A. D. 1900 A J Walker County Judge of Travis County, Texas Affidavit of witnesses THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Bastrop Before me, W.(might be N.) P. Burns a J. P. and Ex officer notary public of Bastrop County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared C. S. Shelp. who is personally known to me to be a credible citizen, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that he personally knows Joseph Jackson the above named applicant for a pension and that he personally know that the said Joseph Jackson was detailed by the confederate Government as a teamster, and performed the duties of a teamster as claimed by him in the above and foregoing application and that he further know that he, the said applicant, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. Signature of Witness C. S. Shelp Signature of Witness Louisa Jackson sworn to and subscribed before me by Louisa Jackson Dec 22/1900 Signature of Witness Groleachauer co Judge Travis Co Texas Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of May 1900 W. (or N.) P Burus J.P. & Ex officer Notary Public Bastrop County, Texas. Page 3 AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Travis Before me Geo Leachaum.. can’t read this last name well it may be misspelled -(I think this is George Calhoun, hard to read the writing) County Judge Travis County, State of Texas. County Judge of Travis County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared T. J. Burnett, 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 Joseph Jackson 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: Chronic dislocation of left shoulder (I mean by this that applicant’s shoulder has been dislocated so many times that at least effort at lifting or working causes the head of humurus to slip out of socket) The ulner of left arm shows old fractures and dislocation at wrist. These two disabilities at his age render him too weak to earn a support for himself. Besides these disabilities the applicant has poor nutrition from impaired digestive whist condition of the stomach is apparently of long standing.. Signature of Physician T. J. Bennett M. D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25 day of March A. D. 1901 Geo Leachauam (I think this is George Calhoun, hard to read the writing) County Judge Travis County, State of Texas. County Judge Travis County, State of Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE. THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Travis I, Groleachaum (I think this is George Calhoun, hard to read the writing) County Judge Travis County, State of Texas. County Judge Travis County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 11th day of Feby A. D. 1901, before me came on to be heard the application of Joseph Jackson 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 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 hereinbefore appear, and that the foregoing affidavit of Doctor T. J. Burnett who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant Joseph Jackson 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 Joseph Jackson 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 Austin This 25 day of March A. D. 1901 Geo Leachaum (I think this is George Calhoun, hard to read the writing) County Judge Travis County, State of Texas. CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Travis We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Travis County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of Joseph Jackson for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. George Calhoun county Judge of this Travis County, to the Commissioners Court of this Travis County, at a regular term thereof on the 11 day of February 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 Austin this 11 day of Feby A. D. 1901 J. B. Rogers R. W. Riley com. Pr. 2 Charles Pace 3 Dan Ross 4 *Note: Louisa Jackson who signed as witness was his wife. She was Louisa Baker married Joseph Jackson Sept 19, 1860 in Travis County, Texas. Joseph was the son of James A. Jackson and Jemima Jackson. The family came to Texas about 1848. -- They were listed in Perry Co, TN in 1840, Burnet TX in 1850, Burnet TX in 1860 Glenda Sheppard