J. L. Atwell
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Form No.1 - AMENDED
Name of Applicant
Postoffice
Comptroller's File No. 14393 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 ____ day of March 2, 1908 A.D.
E.A. Bolmes
I hereby APPROVE the within application for pension this (unreadable) day of ______ A.D.
J.W. Stephens
No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should be Forwarded to Comptroller |
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Note - The law provides that pensions can begin only on the first day of April and October of each year. FORM No. 1 Amended October 1, 1902 APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899
THE STATE OF TEXAS To the Honorable County Judge of Runnels County, Texas Your petitioner J.G. Baldwin respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Runnels 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 J.G. Baldwin Q. What is your age? Answer 62 years August 22, 1906 Q. In what county do you reside? Answer Runnels Q. How long have you resided in said county? Answer Resided in Runnels County 3 years, P.O. Pumphrey 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 Farming at present Q. What is your physical condition? Answer Badly disabled - cancer & rheumatism 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 Cancer and rheumatism Q. In what State was your command originally organized? Joined Confederate navy at Columbus, Miss, in May 1861; joined heavy artillery at Mobile, Feb. 1864 Q. How long did you serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer In Navy fvrom May 1861 to June 1, 1864, in Artillery from Feb. 1, 1864 to June 1865. Q. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? Answer In various ships on Miss. and James Rivers, and at Mobile, as line officer, in Artillery belonged to Co. B, 22 La. Reg., Gibson's Brigade Q. State whether you served in the infantry, artillery, cabalry, or the navy. Answer Navy and artillery Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or beteran 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 No real property and no personal property. Q. What peoperty, and what was the value thereof, have you sold or conveyed within two years prior ot the date of this application? Answer None Q. What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value? Answer None Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer None Q. Are you in indigent circumstatnces: that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistance? Answer non in actual want, but without property and will soon be unable to work. 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, since 1867. Q. If you originally enlisted in the Confederate service from the State of Texas, were you at the date of the passage of this act, a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas? Answer Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for a pension be approved and such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law.
(Signature of Applicant) J.G. Baldwin
B. B. Stone |
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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Before me, B.B. Stone County Judge of Runnels County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared W. M. Pumphrey and J.R. Cook, who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who, being by me duly sworn, on oath state that they personally know J. G. Baldwin, the above named applicant for pension, and that they personally know that the said J. G. Baldwin is unable to support himself by labor of any sort.
(Signature of Witness) W M Pumphrey Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27 day of Sept. , A.D. 1907
BBStone
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AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN
THE STATE OF TEXAS I, BB Stone, County Judge of Runnels County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared W.B. Hally, 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 J. G. Baldwin 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. skin cancer covering the back and under side of right hand which alone would disable him from work. and also has articular rheumatism in right ankle and foot and left leg
(Signatureof Physician) W. B. Halley M.D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27 day of Sept. A.D. 1907
BB Stone |
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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE
THE STATE OF TEXAS I, BB Stone County Judge of Runnels County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 27 day of Sept., A.D. 1908, before me came on to be heard the application of J. G. Baldwin 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 W.B. Halley who is a reputable practicing physician of this county, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant J.G. Baldwin, 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 J.G. Baldwin, 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 Ballinger, Tex., this 12 day of May, A.D. 1908 B.B. Stone, County Judge, Runnels County, Texas |
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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
THE STATE OF TEXAS We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Runnels County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of J.G. Baldwin for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. B.B. Stone County Judge of this Runnels County, to the Commissioners of this Runnels County, at a regular term thereof on the ____ day of Nov. A.D. 1908, 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 Ballinger this 11" day of Nov. A.D. 1908.
W.H. Weeks |
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| EX PARTE
J. G. Baldwin Pending in the Honorable Commissioners Court of Runnels County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County. The Honorable County Judge of Runnels County, Texas, will please take notice that, five days after the service hereof, applicant herein will apply to the Clerk of the County Court of said County and State, for a commission to take the depositions of Dr. Wm. F. Wilson who resides in the County of Aransas in the State of Texas in answer to the following interrogatories and such cross interrogatories as may be propounded by the County Judge of said County, which will be read in evidence upon the hearing of applicant's claim for pension in behalf of applicant; said testimony is material and indispensable to applicant for which is now pending before the Honorable County Judge, and the facts necessary and required to be proven under the provisions of said Act, applicant believes can not be proven by any witness residing in the County of Runnels and State of Texas, of which he is a bona fide resident.
R. A. Griggs |
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| Direct Interrogatories to be propounded to the Witness
Dr. Wm. F. Wilson
Int. 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and postoffice
address? |
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