APPOMATTOX COUNTY, VA - MILITARY - Jno. J. Durrum, Civil War Pension Application ----¤¤¤---- Confederate Pension Roll Page 1 Appomattox County, Va. Name: Jno. J. Durrum Post-office: West Appomattox Va. The Circuit Court of the county of Appomattox, from an examination of the within application of Jno. J. Durrum and of the affidavits and certificates therewith filed, and hereto annexed, and of such witnesses as were required and called by the court, being satisfied that the said application is supported by the affidavits and certificates, and oral testimony (if any oral testimony is required by the court) of persons of well-known reputation for truth, honesty and integrity, and that the claim of the said applicant is just, and is due form, doth certify the same to the Auditor of Public Accounts, this 12th day of May 1904 J. Hundley Judge ---------------- filed April 1 1904 Approved by Pension Board of Appomattox Co. J. F. Dickenson Clerk J.R. Atwood clerk 15.00 =============================== Confederate Pension Roll Page 2 FORM NO. 1 John J. Durrum resident at West Appomattox, in the County of Appomattox in the said State member of Capt. C.H. Jones Company afterwards in Capt. Marmaduke Johnsons Battery McIntosh Battalion A.P. Hills Division 1. What is your age? 62 years 2. Where were you born? Appomattox County 3. How long have you resided in Virginia? All my life 4. How long have you resided in the city or county of your present residence? All my life 5. What is your usual and ordinary occupation for earning a livelihood? Farming 6. How long have you followed such occupation or employment? All my life except when in the Army 7. Have you followed such occupation or employment, or any other occupation or employment, within the last two years? If so, state when and where, and the amount of your annual income from the same. None but farming 8. Are you totally disabled from following your usual and ordinary occupation or employment, or any other occupation or employment, by which you can earn a livelihood? If not totally disabled, but partially, state the extent of your partial disability. Not totally but partially from old age and consequent infirmity 9. When and where did you enter the service of Virginia, or of the Confederate States? In Appomattox County mustered in at Richmond 10. To what command and service were you assigned, and who were your immediate superior officers? Capt. C.H. Jones Infantry 11. In what command and service were you when wounded, and who were your immediate superior officers? I was not wounded 12. How long were you in the service? Three years (questions 13 - 16 concerning nature of wounds) 17. If sight or limb was not lost, what is the precise nature of your disability, excused by any wound or wounds, received in said service, and in what way are you disabled by it? From exposure in the service 18. Give the names and addresses of two or more survivors of your command when you were wounded, if any such be living, and if not, so state. W. A. Martin, West Appomattox Va. and Thomas A. Smith, West Appomattox Va. 20. Is there any camp of Confederate Veterans in the city or county of your residence? yes 21. Is there any one living, the residence and address of whom is known to you, either comrade or otherwise, who has knowledge of your service, and of the cause of your disability? If or not, state. yes. W. A. Martin, West Appomattox Va. and Thomas A. Smith West Appomattox Va. Witness my hand the 14th day of March, 1904. John J. Durrum I, H. W. McKinney, a Notary Public, in and for the county of Appomattox, in the state of Virginia, do certify that John J. Durrum, whose name is signed to the foregoing application, personally appeared before me in my county, aforesaid and having the aforesaid application read to him and fully explained, as well as the statements and answers therein made, the said John J. Durrum made oath before me that the said statements and answers are true. Given under my hand the 14th day of March, 1904 H. W. McKinney, N.P. my commission expires January 20th, 1908 (A) OATH OF RESIDENT WITNESSES Geo. T. Peters S. L. Ferguson knew John J. Durrum over thirty years =============================== Confederate Pension Roll Page 3 {B} AFFIDAVIT OF COMRADES Thomas A. Smith W. A. Martin knew him for forty years soldiers together in Capt. Crawford H. Jones Company from Appomattox County (D) CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN J. H. Abbitt, M.D. I think Mr. Durrum is about 1/4 disabled on acc. of his age and rheumatism (G) CERTIFICATE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE REVENUE Homer C. Babcock property estate, real, personal and mixed, of the value of One Hundred & Twenty six dollars. H. W. McKinney, a Notary Public, in and for the county of Appomattox, in the state of Virginia