Franklin County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Military Records.....SHILLING, Jeremiah Jerdan 1904
Civilwar - Pension Co B 42 Regt VA Infantry 
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Application To Classify As Totally Disabled Pensioner

FORM NO. 8.
Application for Soldier, Sailor, or Marine, who is on the Pension Rolls of 
Virginia, cvlassed as partially disabled, to be rerated and placed on said 
Rolls under the class of totally disabled pensioners.
I,  J J Shilling, who am now on the pension rolls of Virginia, as a resident 
in the County of Franklin and claimed on said rolls as partially disabled, do 
hereby apply to be rerated and placed on said rolls as totally disabled, and I 
do solemnly swear that since I was placed on said rolls I have become totally 
disabled by disease (have state nature of the disease):  old wound received 
during war as well as injuries resulting from (illegible) sustained May 1902 
and that I am now totally permanently disabled from following any occupation 
for a livelihood (in case the total disability is caused by the infirmities of 
age, strike out all relating to disability by disease, and proceed as follows) 
and that such total disability is the result of the infirmities of age, which 
permanently disable me from following any occupation for a livelihood and that 
my reason  of such total disability I now entitled to receive the sum of  
(blank) dollars annually.
Witness my hand this 13th day of April 1904.
Witness (signed) SSS B(illegible)   (signed) JJ Shilling
I, SSS B(illegible) Clerk Corporation Court in the City of Roanoke , in the 
State of  Virginia, do certify that J.J. Shilling, whose name is signed to the 
foregoing application, personally appeared before me in my office, aforesaid 
and having the aforesaid application read to him and fully explained, as well 
as the statements and answers therein made, the said J.J. Shilling made oath 
before me that the said statements and answers are true.
Given under my hand this 13th day of April 1904  (signed) SSS B(?) Clerk
CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN
I, GP G(?)s, a practicing physician in the City of Roanoke, in the state of 
Virginia, do certify that I am personally acquainted with Mr.  J.J. Shilling, 
whose name is signed in the annexed application for rerating his pension under 
the act of the General Assemby of Virginia, approved December 21, 1903, and 
that from a personal examination of the said Mr. J.J. Shilling, as to the 
disability set forth in this application and the cause thereof, I am clearly 
of the opinion that he is disabled thereby of all ability to pursue his usual 
and ordinary occupation for a livelihood, or any other occupation for a 
livelihood and the disability be partial, to what extent that the applicant is 
hindered thereby from pursuing such occupation as aforesaid.  (Illegible 
description of disability from doctor) and that I verily believe his 
disability is wholly due to causes assigned in the said application, and that 
he is entitled to aid under the said act, and that I have no personal 
interests in the allowances of the applicant’s claim.
Given under my hand this 13th day of April 1904
(signed) G. P. G(?) MD
APPROVAL OF BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PENSIONS
I, I. Johnson, chairman of the Board of Commissions to examine applications 
for pensions, do certify that the foregoing application has been examined and 
approved by the board.
In testimony whereof I hereto and my hand this 30th day of April 1904
Transcribed by Kathie Trent Kingery, UDC Chesterfield Virginia Chapter, 21 FEB 
2010





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