Pike County Alabama Military..Civil War - Mary Cockcroft Terry wife of John Stringer Terry, Pension Application ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.genrecords.net/alpike/ ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb by: Linda Davis Jenkins ronjenk@flash.net Jul 2003 This is the application of Mary Cockcroft Terry wife of John Stringer Terry who was a brother of William Strom Terry. ****************************************************************** Form No. 2. CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION Name of Applicant Mrs. Mary Terry Hill County Post Office Itasca R. R. ======================================= Comptroller's File No. 8944 ======================================= 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 31 day of March A.D. 1902 E. A. Dolmes (?) Pension Clerk ======================================= I hereby Approve the within application for pension, this 31 day of March A. D. 1902 R. M. Love (?) Comptroller --------------- FORM No. 2. APPLICATION of Indigent widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. ========================================================== THE STATE OF TEXAS, } County of Hill } To the honorable County Judge of Hill County, Texas: Your petitioner, Mrs. Mary Terry respectfully represents that she is a resident citizen of Hill County, in the State of Texas; that she is the widow of John 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, 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. ========================================================== 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 Mary Terry Q. What is your age? Answer 74 years Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Hill Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer Since 1880 Itasca Rural Route 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 Poor Q. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer John 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, In Alabama 57 years ago. Q. What was the date of his death? Answer 1886 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 "B" 18th Alabama., 3 years Q. If your deceased husband served in the Confederate Navy, state when and where, and the time of such service? Answer no 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 no property 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 Yes, since 1875 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) Mary Terry Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10 day of January A. D. 1902 Signed L. C. Hill (SEAL) County Judge Hill County, Texas --------------- AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES (Note--There must be at least two credible witnesses) THE STATE OF TEXAS } County of Hill } Before me L. C. Hill County Judge of Hill County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared S. C. Terry and W. J. Brown 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. Mary Terry, applicant for a pension as the widow of John S. Terry, deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of the said John S. Terry, deceased; that they personally know that the said John S. Terry, deceased, enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier as claimed by his said widow in the above and foregoing application; and that they further know that the said Mrs. Mary Terry, widow of the said John S. Terry, deceased, is unable to support herself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) S. C. Terry (Signature of Witness) W. J. Brown (Signature of Witness) (Signature of Witness) Swore to and subscribed before me this 10 day of January, A. D. 1902 L. C. Hill (SEAL) County Judge Hill County, Texas --------------- CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE THE STATE OF TEXAS } County of Hill } I, L. C. Hill County Judge of Hill County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 14 day of Feby, A. D. 1902, before me came on to be heard the application of Mrs. Mary Terry, widow of John 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 Mary 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. Mary Terry as widow of John 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 Hillsboro this 14th day of Feby, A. D. 1902. L. C. Hill (SEAL) County Judge Hill County, State of Texas --------------- CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THE STATE OF TEXAS } County of Hill } We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Hill County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of Mrs. Mary Terry, widow of John S. Terry, deceased, for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. L. C. Hill, County Judge of Hill County, to the Commissioners Court of this Hill County, at a regular term thereof on the 14th day of Feby, A. D. 1902, 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 Hillsboro this 14th day of Feby, A. D. 1902. (Signatures of Commissioners.) J Connolly W. R. Robinson T. A. Bolt (SEAL) Miles F. Stine --------------- DPC_NOTE: Pension file graciously provided by Linda Davis Jenkins.