PENSIONERS now on the LIST are NOT required to make
new applications, but the CHANCERY CLERK
must certify their
names to the Auditor of Public Accounts.
THIS
APPLICATION
Must be Filed with the Chancery Clerk on or before the
First Monday in Septermer.
(no application will be entertained not on the printed
form)
FORM NO. 6
(GENERAL PROBATE CLASS)
APPLICATION for
Indigent Widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy
Under Chapter 102,
Code of 1906
Applicant must make
Answer to all of the following Questions and have ity written out Plainly in
Ink.
Q.
What is your name? Answer: Mary Ann Criddle
Q. What is your age?
Answer: 65
Q. Are you a bona fide resident of the State of Mississippi?
Answer: yes
Q. How long have you resided in Misissippi? Answer: All my
life
Q. In what county do you reside? Answer: Chickasaw
Q. What is the
name of your post office? Answer: Houston, Miss.
Q. What was your husband's
name? Answer: Richard Griffin
Q. When were you married? Answer 1864
Q. In
what State and county did he reside when he enlisted in the service of the
Confederate States? Answer: The State of Mississippi,
Chickasaw County
Q. What was the date of his enlistment? Answer:
March 1862
Q. What was the name of the company and regiment or vessel in
which he enlosted? Answer: Company C, 31st Mississippi Reg.
Q. How long was
he in the actual service of the Confederace? Answer: 2 years
Q. What were the
names of the officers of the company, or regiment, or vessel, furing the time he
was in the service? Answer: Capt. T. J.
Pulliam, 1st Lieut Ben Pulliam, 2nd Lieut J. T. Pulliam, 3rd L:ieut W. B.
Caridine
Q. Did he die in service or did he serve till close of the war?
Answer: died in Service
Q. Was he honorably discharged? Answer: (blank)
Q.
When was he discharged? Answer: (blank)
Q. Where was he discharged? Answer:
(blank)
Q. Did he serve until the surrender? Answer: No
Q. When did he
die? Answer: Chickasaw County, Mississippi
Q. What regiment or vessel did
your husband belong to at the time of his death? Answer: 31st Mississippi
Reg/
Q. The name of the commander? Answer: Col. J. A. Orr
Q. What company
did your husband belong to at the time of his death? Answer: Company C
Q. Who
was the captain of the ompany? Answer: Capt T. J. Pulliam
Q. When did he die?
Answer: 1864
Q. Have you married since your husband's death? Answer:
Yes
Q. Do you apply for a pension because you are indigent and unable to earn
a livelihood? Answer: Yes
Q. Do you hold and State, United States, County or
City office from whicy you are receiving as salary or fees the sum of three
hundred dollars
per annum? Answer: No
Q.
Have you any property in your own right? Answer: No
Q. What is the true, just
and correct value? Answer: (blank)
Q. Have you a home of your own? Answer:
No
Q. If not, with whom do you now live? Answer: a daughter
Q. Is the
person you are now living with a relation? Answer: Yes
Q. If so, what
relation? Answer: a Daughter
Q. Have you any relations; if so, what relation?
Answer: I have brothers & sisters and children
Q. Have you any relations
or connections whose legal or moral duty it is to provide for you? Answer:
No
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 15th day of August A.D.
1910
Joe L. Davis, Circuit
Clerk
Mary Ann Criddle
(
Signature of
Officer)
(Signature of Applicant)
"I, Mary Ann Crittle, widow
of Richard Griffin, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a widow of a
Confederate soldier or sailor, who was
honorably discharged or paoled, or who
did not desert the Confederate service (as the case may be); that I was married
to him prior to the first day of Januarty, 1875; that I reside in this State;
that I am indigent and unable to earn a support; that I have no relatives, able,
whose duty it is to support me; that I do not own property to the value of four
hundred dollars ($400) and that I have not conveyed any property to anyone with
a view to drawing a pension, so help me God."
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this
(Signature of
Pensioner) Mary Annn
Ciddle
15th day of
August, 1910
Joe L. Davis, Circuit
Clerk
(NOTE: Name in the above statement reads Mary Ann Crittle...apparently was
written by the clerk since the handwriting does not match the signature of
pensioner Mary Ann
Criddle)
AFFIDAVIT OF TWO WITNESSES
We, the
undersigned, verily believe the fatct stated in the above application to be true
and the applicant to be the identical person named in the said application.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
15th day of
D. M. Turman
August A. D. 1910
(Signature of
Witness)
Joe L. Davis, Circuit Clerk
S. W.
Williams
(Signature of Officer)
(Signature of Witness)
Office of Chancery Clerk and County Board of Inquiry Chickasaw County
Houston, Miss Sept 5, 1910
We, the undersigned, members of the Board of Inquiry, hereby
APPROVE the foegoing application of Mary Ann Criddle for pension, because
we know the applicant to be indigent and unable to earn a livelihood, and that
we believe the facts stated in the above application are true and the party
should recieve the pension.
Given under
our hands and seals of office, this 5 day of Sept 1910.
______________________
(President of
Board)
J. A.
Lewis
(Seal)
J. L.
Pulliam
(Seal)
W. D.
Reid
(Seal)
W. M. Buchanan
(Seal)
W. E. Brannon
(Seal)
(Chancery
Clerk)
(Affixed along the left side og the sworn statement is
the following:)
ATTEST:
Wl E. Brannan, Chancery Clerk
(Attach Seal of
office)
N. B.--If the Board approves this
application, the Chancery Clerk will so certify, after recordg in a name in a
book kept for that purpose, and forward all of the approved applications
in a body (not one at a time)
to the Auditor's office by the first day
of October.
No application forwarded after that time will be
received.
Rejected applications
should not be forwarded to this office.
APPLICATION OF MARY ANN
COLE:
PENSION
APPLICATION
Chickasaw
County
Name of
Applicant
Mary Ann
Cole
Post-Office
Okolona,
Miss.
No. of
Application (blank)
Form No.
6
SPECIAL
INSTRUCTIONS TO CHANCERY CLERK:
No application will be entertained unless made on the
proper form and every blank in the form properly filled out.
PENSIONERS now on the LIST are NOT required to make
new applications, but the CHANCERY CLERK
must certify their
names to the Auditor of Public Accounts.
THIS
APPLICATION
Must be Filed with the Chancery Clerk on or before the
First Monday in Septermer.
(no application will be entertained not on the printed
form)
FORM NO. 6
(GENERAL PROBATE CLASS)
APPLICATION for
Indigent Widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy
Under Chapter 102,
Code of 1906
Applicant must make
Answer to all of the following Questions and have ity written out Plainly in
Ink.
Q.
What is your name? Answer: Mary Ann Cole
Q. What is your age?
Answer: 57 years
Q. Are you a bona fide resident of the State of Mississippi?
Answer: yes
Q. How long have you resided in Misissippi? Answer: All my
life
Q. In what county do you reside? Answer: Chickasaw Co, Miss.
Q. What
is the name of your post office? Answer: Okolona, Miss.
Q. What was your
husband's name? Answer: Joseph Cole
Q. When were you married? Answer
1862
Q. In what State and county did he reside when he enlisted in the
service of the Confederate States? Answer: Chickasaw County
Q. What was the
date of his enlistment? Answer: (blank)
Q. What was the name of the company
and regiment or vessel in which he enlosted? Answer: John D. Smith, Col.
(illegible) Reg
Q. How long was he in the actual service of the Confederace?
Answer: (blank)
Q. What were the names of the officers of the company, or
regiment, or vessel, furing the time he was in the service? Answer: Capt. John
D. Smith
Q. Did he die in service or did he serve till close of the war?
Answer: till close of war
Q. Was he honorably discharged? Answer: yes
Q.
When was he discharged? Answer: 1865
Q. Where was he discharged? Answer:
Don't Know
Q. Did he serve until the surrender? Answer: No
Q. When did he
die? Answer: Thornton/Coleville, Chickasaw County, Mississippi
Q. What
regiment or vessel did your husband belong to at the time of his death? Answer:
(blank)
Q. The name of the commander? Answer: (blank)
Q. What company did
your husband belong to at the time of his death? Answer: (blank)
Q. Who was
the captain of the ompany? Answer: (blank)
Q. When did he die? Answer: Feby
1905
Q. Have you married since your husband's death? Answer: No
Q. Do you
apply for a pension because you are indigent and unable to earn a livelihood?
Answer: Yes
Q. Do you hold and State, United States, County or City office
from whicy you are receiving as salary or fees the sum of three hundred
dollars
per annum? Answer: No
Q. Have you
any property in your own right? Answer: None except 1 uncle, 3 cousins, four
boys
Q. What is the true, just and correct value? Answer: about $125.00
Q.
Have you a home of your own? Answer: No
Q. If not, with whom do you now live?
Answer: my children
Q. Is the person you are now living with a relation?
Answer: Yes
Q. If so, what relation? Answer: children
Q. Have you any
relations; if so, what relation? Answer: 3 brothers & 3 sisters
Q. Have
you any relations or connections whose legal or moral duty it is to provide for
you? Answer: No
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 16th day of Sept A.D. 1906
G. W. Bean, Clerk
Mary Ann Cole
( Signature of
Officer)
(Signature of Applicant)
"I, (blank), widow of
(blank), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a widow of a Confederate
soldier or sailor, who was honorably discharged or paroled, or who did not
desert the Confederate service (as the case may be); that I was married to him
prior to the first day of Januarty, 1875; that I reside in this State; that I am
indigent and unable to earn a support; that I have no relatives, able, whose
duty it is to support me; that I do not own property to the value of four
hundred dollars ($400) and that I have not conveyed any property to anyone with
a view to drawing a pension, so help me God."
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this
(Signature of Pensioner) Mary Ann Cole
16th day of Aug, 1906
G. W. Bean. Circuit Chancery
Clerk
AFFIDAVIT OF TWO WITNESSES
We, the
undersigned, verily believe the fatct stated in the above application to be true
and the applicant to be the identical person named in the said application.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
4th day of
J. E. Reeder
Sept A. D. 1906
(Signature of
Witness)
G. W. Bean, Circuit Clerk
T. C.
Davis
(Signature of Officer)
(Signature of Witness)
Office of Chancery Clerk and County Board of Inquiry Chickasaw County
Houston, Miss Sept 4, 1906
We, the undersigned, members of the Board of Inquiry, hereby
APPROVE the foegoing application of Mary Ann Cole for pension, because we
know the applicant to be indigent and unable to earn a livelihood, and that we
believe the facts stated in the above application are true and the party should
recieve the pension.
Given under our
hands and seals of office, this 4 day of Sept 1906.
J. A.
Lewis
(Seal)
(President of Board)
S. L.
Wilson
(Seal)
W. D. Reid
(Seal)
J. L. Pulliam
(Seal)
T. W. Harrellson
(Seal)
(Chancery
Clerk)
(Affixed along the left side og the sworn statement is
the following:)
ATTEST:
T. W.
Harrrilton, Chancery
Clerk
(Attach Seal of
office)
N. B.--If the
Board approves this application, the Chancery Clerk will so certify, after
recordg in a name in a book kept for that purpose, and forward all of
the
approved applications
in
a body (not one at a time) to the
Auditor's office by the first day of October.
No application forwarded after that time will be
received.
Rejected applications should not be forwarded to this
office.
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