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Subject: [AL-PIKE] Al-Pike Co. Military (Mrs. Nancy Terry)
Date: 13 Jul 2003 23:30:15 -0000


Pike County AlArchives Military Records.....Mrs. Nancy Terry Pension Application 1899
Civilwar - Pension
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CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION
Name of Applicant
Mrs. Nancy Terry
Nolan County
Post Office Sweetwater
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Comptroller's File No. 7354
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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 A.D.

Wm. J. Devain (?) Pension Clerk
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I hereby Approve the within application for pension, this 12 day of July
A. D. 1900

J. Ronrl (?) Comptroller

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FORM No. 2.
APPLICATION of Indigent widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for
pension under the Act of May 12, 1899.
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THE STATE OF TEXAS, }
County of Nolan }
To the honorable County Judge of Nolan County, Texas:
Your petitioner, Mrs. Nancy Terry respectfully represents that she is a
resident citizen of Nolan County, in the State of Texas; that she is the
widow of W. S. Terry, deceased, who was a Confederate soldier (or sailor), and
that she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension as the
widow of said W. S. Terry, deceased, 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 therefore," and I do solemnly
swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true.
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NOTE: Applicant must make answer to all of the following questions, and such
answers must be written out plainly in ink.
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Q. What is your name? Answer Nancy Terry
Q. What is your age? Answer Sixty nine (69) years
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Nolan
Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office
address? Answer About 19 months. Sweetwater, Texas
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 None
Q. What is your physical condition? Answer Feble
Q. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer W. S. Terry
Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date
were you married to him and where? Answer Yes. Dec. 23rd 1847 in Ala.
Q. What was the date of his death? Answer 19th day of November 1888
Q. Are you unmarried, and have you so remained unmarried since the death of
your said husband for whose services you claim a pension? Answer Yes
Q. State in what company and regiment your deceased husband for whose
services you claim a pension enlisted in the Confederate Army, and the time of
his service therein? Answer Co. "A" 57th Ala Infantry, served about 2 years,
was wounded at Peach Tree Creek.
Q. If your deceased husband served in the Confederate Navy, state when and
where, and the time of such service? Answer (left blank)
Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation
land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative
state what pension or veteran donation land certificate you have so received.
Answer No
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 I own
neither real or personal property. I have nothing.
Q. What property, and what was the value thereof have you sold or conveyed
within two years prior to the date of this application? Answer None
Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer None
Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and
destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer Yes
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 your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension ever
desert the Confederacy? Answer No
Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of March 1880, a bona fide
resident citizen of this State? Answer I have
Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for pension be
approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required
by law.
(Signature of Applicant) Nancy Terry
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of August A. D. 1899
Signed John H. Cochran
(SEAL) County Judge Nolan County, Texas

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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES
(Note--There must be at least two credible witnesses)

THE STATE OF TEXAS }
County of Nolan }
Before me John H. Cochran County Judge of Nolan County, State of Texas,
on this day personally appeared W. Glass and R. F. Hemby who are personally
known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state
that they personally know that Mrs. Nancy Terry, applicant for a pension as the
widow of W. S. Terry, deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of the said,
deceased; and that they further know that the said Mrs. Nancy Terry, widow of
the said W. S. Terry , deceased, is unable to support herself by labor of any
sort.
(Signature of Witness) W. Glass
(Signature of Witness) R. F. Hemby
(Signature of Witness)
(Signature of Witness)
Swore to and subscribed before me this 16th day of May, A. D. 1900
John H. Cochran
(SEAL) County Judge Nolan County, Texas

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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE

THE STATE OF TEXAS }
County of Nolan }
I, John H. Cochran County Judge of Nolan County, State of Texas, do hereby
certify that on the 16th day of May, A. D. 1900, before me came on to be heard
the application of Mrs. Nancy Terry, widow of W. S. Terry , deceased, 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 witnesses who are credible citizens were made before me
as the same hereinbefore appear. I also certify that the said applicant Mrs.
Nancy Terry is not disqualified under any of the provisions of Section 12 of
the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify that after considering all of
the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by
the said Mrs. Nancy Terry as widow of W. S. Terry, deceased, I find the said
applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate
Pension Law of this State, and I hereby approve said application.
Witness my hand and seal of office at Sweetwater, Texas this
16th day of May, A. D. 1900.
John H. Cochran
(SEAL) County Judge Nolan County, State of Texas

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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

THE STATE OF TEXAS }
County of Nolan }
We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Nolan County,
Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of Mrs. Nancy Terry ,
widow of W. S. Terry , deceased, for a pension, together with the proof in
support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. John H. Cochran , County Judge
of Nolan County, to the Commissioners Court of this Nolan County, at a
regular term thereof on the 16th day of May , A. D. 1900, 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 Sweetwater, Texas
this 16th day of May, A. D. 1900.
(Signatures of Commissioners.) J. R. Brannan
J. F. Dennis
C. W. Boyett
(SEAL) F. E. Abrey

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Additional Comments:
Application of Nancy Terry wife of William Strom
Terry. They were my GGGGrandparents and resided in Pike Co. AL before
the Civil War and TX after the Civil War. Their daughter Mary Elizabeth
Terry b. Oct. 8, 1848 in Pike Co. AL (per family bible), d. March 12,
1900 in Sweetwater, Nolan Co. TX. She married Thomas Moses Boswell
December 12, 1868 in AL. He was the son of William and Nancy Pruitt
Boswell of Bullock and Pike Co. AL

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