Fenton A. Bott
TX Confederate Pension Application #11422

Endorsements Hereon for Comptroller's Use Exclusively.

FORM NO. 1-AMENDED.
OCTOBER 1, 1902.

Confederate Pension Application.

Comptroller's File No. 11422

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 March 20, 1906
A.D.
E. A. Bolmes
Chief Pension Clerk.
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I hereby ______ the within application for pension this March 20, 1906 date of _____ A.D.

J. W. Stephens.
Comptroller

No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should Be Forwarded to Comptroller.

2/6/06 pd. 1.00

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Henry Bratton }Round Rock:

RECEIVED MAR 15, 1906
Comptroller's Office

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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. Hereafter use no other blank but this.
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THE STATE OF TEXAS,

COUNTY OF Ellis

To the Honorable County Judge of ______________ County, Texas.

Your petitioner, F. A. Bott respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Ellis 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 appropriate therefor," and I do solemnly swear that the answer 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 F. A. Bott
Q. What is your age? Answer 75 Sept. 3rd 1905
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Ellis
Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address?
Answer About 3 years. Waxahachie Ellis Co. 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 Farmer
Q. What is your physical condition? Answer Reasonably Good
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 General debility caused by age
Q. In what State was your command originally organized? Answer Texas
Q. How long did you serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer Served with Texas Mounted volunteers 10 mo. & 26 days - Enlisted Oct. 8, 1862 - Discharged Sept 4th 1863, Reenlisted in Greens Brigade under Capt. Burriss & served until surrender.
Q. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? Answer First enlistment T.M.V.-5 Regiment
Q. State whether you served in the infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the navy. Answer Cavalry
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 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 Have no property except clothing - wearing apparel in use -

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Q. What property, and what was the value thereof, have you sold or conveyed swithin two years prior to 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 Am unmarried
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 I am destitute of property & means of subsistence
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, have lived in Texas continuously since 1849.
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 Yes

Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as required by law.

(Signature of the Applicant) F. A. Bott
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of February ---A.D. 1906
F. L. Hawkins
County Judge -Ellis- County, Texas

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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESS.

(NOTE-There must be at least two credible witnesses.)

THE STATE OF TEXAS,

COUNTY OF Ellis

Before me F. L. Hawkins
County Judge of Ellis County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Tom R. Whipper and C. D. Bowsman who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know F. A. Bott the above named applicant for pension, and that they personally know that said F. A. Bott is unable to support himself by labor of any sort.

(Signature of Witness) Tom R. Whipper
(Signature of Witness) C. D. Bowsman

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of February A.D. 1906
F. L. Hawkins
County Judge Ellis County, Texas.

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IN RE
APPLICATION FOR CONFEDERATE
PENSION,

IN COMMISIONERS COURT
Ellis County, Texas,
Pending before County Judge of said County.

EX PARTE
F. A. Bott
Applicant.

INTERROAGATORIES
PROPOUNDED TO
H. B. Sheppard
W. H. Bratton
Witnesses.

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INTERROGATORIES TO WITNESS IN PENSION CLAIMS.

Direct Interrogatories to be Propounded to the Witness.
H. B. Sheppard and Henry Bratton

INT. 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and post office address?
INT. 2. Do you personally know, or did you at any time know F. A. Bott - who is an applicatn for pension under Act of May 12, 1899?
INT. 3. How long have you known the said F. A. Bott applicant for pension and when and where id you first know him?
INT. 4. Do you personally know that the said F. A. Bott applicant for pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier or a sailor?
INT. 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said F. A. Bott applicant enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When? Where? And the time of service? If you personally knew and so have stated that he enlisted and served in the Confederate navy, then state: When? Where? And how long he so served.
INT. 6. Do you further know that F. A. Bott -the said applicant for pension, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort?

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CROSS INTERROGATORIES.

TO BE PROPOUNDED TO H. B. Sheppard and Henry Bratton
CROSS INTERROGATORY 1. If in answer to the foregoing direct interrogatories, you have stated that you personally know or did know said applicant, and that you know that he enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor, and having named the company and regiment in which applicant so enlisted and served, then please state fully what is your source of such knowledge. And state whether or not you know or at any time you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of F. A. Bott serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said applicant F. A. Bott enlisted, or if you have stated that said applicant enlisted and served in the navy of the Confederacy, then state whether or not you

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know any other sailor of the same name as said F. A. Bott applicant serving in the same command.

If you say that you so know other soldiers or sailors of the same name of applicant's, then can you and how do you identify and locate the one from the other or others?

CROSS INT. 2. Are you positively certain that said F. A. Bott applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you?

CROSS INT. 3. If you have answered Direct Interrogatory No. 6 in the affirmative, then please state your source of knowledge or information. Is not this your answer simply based on conjecture?

CROSS INT. 4. Do you know whether or not the said F. A. Bott applicant for pension, ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy?

THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF Ellis

I, F. L. Hawkins County Judge of said County, in said State, do hereby waive copy of interrogatories, notice, time and issuance of commission, and it is hereby agreed that the answers to the hereinabove direct and cross interrogatories of the said herein named witness may be attached hereto.

F. L. Hawkins
County Judge Ellis County, Texas

F. A. Bott
(Applicant) Attorney for Applicant.

to the accompanying interrogatories (2) and cross interrogatories,
propounded to him in the above entitled cause taken before (3) H. H. Hauff, a Notary Public in and for Williamson County, Texas in accordance with the accompanying (5) agreement.

To the first interrogatory the said H. B. Sheppard Witness, answers: My name is H. B. Sheppard, 68 years old, Round Rock, Texas.
2d Int: I personally knew him.
3d, I became aquainted with him in early spring of 1861 at Round Rock, Williamson County, Texas.
4th Int: I know he enlisted in Terry's Rgt. at the outbreak of the war, and went east of Mississippi River, I knew no more of him until he returned home after having been discharged, I think in 1862, on account of failing eyesight, after recovering his eyesight he reenlisted in Co. H, 2 Rgt, Green's Brigade.
5th Int: answered in 4th Int. do not remember any dates nor places of enlistement.
6th Int: My knowledge of him at the time he left here, was that he was unable to support himself.
Witness' answers to Cross interrogatories:
To the 1st Cross Int:
1st, My knowledge was that he went off with the Terry's Rgt.
2nd, I knew of his enlistment in Co H. 2 Rgt Green's Brigatde any further knowledge as to his services was only heresaying as I was not a member of the Regiment. I did never know of an other F. A. Bott serving in the same Co., Regt., & Brigade.

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2d Cross Int: I do.
3d Cross Int: My knowledge is from personal observation and aquatance with him and of him.
4th Cross Int: Not to my knowledge, I believe he was a brave soldier all through.

H. B. Sheppard

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Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 14th day of Feby.- 1906
H. H. Hauff
Notary Public Williamson Co Texas

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THE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Williamson

I, H. H. Hauff a Notary Public in and for said County & State do hereby certify that H. B. Sheppard is personally known to me to be a credible citizen of said County and State, and that the foregoing answers of H. B. Sheppard the witness before named, whose name appear signed to the foregoing deposition, were made before me, and were sworn to and subscribed before me, by said witness (4) _____

Given under my hand and official seal, this the 14th day of Feby 1906
H. H. Hauff
Notary Public Williamson Co. Texas

NOTE.-In Texas, any Clerk of the District Court, any Judge and Clerk of the County Court, or any Notary Public or Justice of the Peace, within their respective Counties, are authorized to take depositions.
Out of the State and within the United States-any Clerk of a Court of record having a seal, any Notary Public, or any Commissioner of Deeds of Texas.

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In the Commissioners Court
OF
Ellis County, Texas.
Before the Honorable County Judge of Said County.

EX PARTE
F. A. Bott
Applicant for Confederate Pension.

DEPOSITION
OF
W. H. Bratton
Williamson Co. Texas
Witness for Applicant.

Filed the _____ day
Of ____ __1___
___________Clerk.
By ______________Deputy.

Fee for Taking Deposition, $______

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DEPOSITION IN PENSION CLAIMS, WITH CAPTION AND CERTIFICATES.

to the accompanying interrogatories (2) and cross interrogatories
propounded to him in the above entitled cause taken before (3) H. H. Hauff, a Notary Public in and for Williamson County, Texas in accordance with the accompanying (5) agreement.

To the first interrogatory the said W. H. Bratton Witness, answers: W. H. Bratton, 69 years old, Round Rock, Texas.
To 2d, I have been personally aquainted with F. A. Bott during the last 40 years.
To 3d, Since 1860, at [???] Travis County, Texas
To 4th, I do as I was in same mess with him, both as soldiers
To 5th, Co. H, 2d Rgt. Green's Brigade, I first met him in the service at Hempstead, Texas I having been transferred from Burriss Co. 3d Rgt. Green's Brigade in '62. I do not know where Bott enlisted or what date, nor how long he served.
To 6th, That was my knowledge up to the time he left here. Round Rock, Tex.
To 1st, Cross interrogatory, witness answers, I did not at any time know an other solder by the name of F. A. Bott, serving in same company or Rgt. In which said F. A. Bott served with me.
To 2, Cross int: Witness answer: - Yes.
To 3d, My source of knowledge is from my personal observations and not based on conjecture.
To 4th Cross, I know he did not desert from the service of the Confederate army.

 

 

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Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 14th day of Feby.- 1906
H. H. Hauff
Notary Public Wmson Co. Texas

THE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Williamson

I, H. H. Hauff a Notary Public in and for said County and State do hereby certify that W. H. Bratton is personally known to me to be a credible citizen of said County and State, and that the foregoing answers to Direct and Cross interrogatories by the witness before named, whose name appear signed to the foregoing deposition, were made before me, and were sworn to and subscribed before me, by said witness (4) _____

Given under my hand and official seal, this the 14th day of Feby. 1906
H. H. Hauff.
Notary Public Williamson Co. Texas

NOTE.-In Texas, any Clerk of the District Court, any Judge and Clerk of the County Court, or any Notary Public or Justice of the Peace, within their respective Counties, are authorized to take depositions.
Out of the State and within the United States-any Clerk of a Court of record having a seal, any Notary Public, or any Commissioner of Deeds of Texas.

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