GILES COUNTY VA PENSION APPLICATION:  WILLIAMS, G. F.
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WIDOW OF A DECEASED
SOLDIER, SAILOR OR MARINE FOR A PENSION. 

NAME: G. F. Williams, age 72 in 1920, farmer

GILES COUNTY, VA--Berton

MEMBER OF:  Lowry's Regt,

**War Dept. records replied that his name appeared as a rebel deserter who
took the Oath of amnesty in Tennessee in 1864 and asked if he was the same
George Williams, company A, 29th North Carolina Command.  Response to the War
Department from G. F. Williams said he was not., and had never been in NC or
Tennessee.

**War Dept. then answered that they did not understand how George Williams and
G. F. Williams could be that coincidental in that G. F. Williams listed his
Col. as Lowry and that was who George Williams served under; then asked for
reliable sources to dispel the information.  They suggested that comrades, D.
J. Grey and I. S. Williams, make sworn statements to help his claim.  After
comrades made statements (which are unreadable for transcriber), the War Dept.
disallowed claim because income of $200 was too much.

**Letter from Williams stated that he did not make $100 a year; **transcriber
could not read the letters from comrades for details on Regt. and Company.
Evidently, the claim was allowed.