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TX Confederate Pension Application #9010
Endorsements Hereon for Comptroller's Use Exclusively.
FORM NO. 1.
CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION.
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Name of Applicant,
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Erath
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County.
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Post office
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Highland Texas
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Comptroller's File No. 9010
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 Jul 19 1902
A.D. ________
E. A. Bolmes
Chf Pension Clerk.
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I hereby Approve the within application for pension, this Jul 19 1902 day of ________ A.D. ________
R. M. Love
Comptroller
No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should Be Forwarded to Comptroller.
FORM No. 1.
APPLICATION of Indigent 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 Erath
To the Honorable County Judge of Erath County, Texas.
Your petitioner, Felix H. Corbell respectfully represents that he is
a resident citizen of Erath 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 Felix H. Corbell
Q. What is your age? Answer Sixty-two years old Nov. 12/1901
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Erath
Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address?
Answer Have been in Erath County 26 years since fall of 187[5] Highland P.O.
Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore,
and been rejected? If so, state when and where. Answer No never
Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer Minister of the Gospel
Q. What is your physical condition? Answer Poor, feeble health
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 Suffer greatly with rheumatism
Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer Co. D. 8th Texas Cav. Regt, Terry Rangers, Served 3 yrs
Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where, and the time of your service. Answer Never served in the navy
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 Never recd anything of the kind
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 real estate of any kind - I own two ponies and a buggy all worth about $75.00
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 Have sold two mules within the last two years, both for $85.00
Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer About $150.00 on my [???] [???] 10 cents [???] is all I have
Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and
destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer I am not to say indigent, have a very meager support from my church
Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support? Answer I am unable to do manual labor for support
Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the
purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer I have not
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 I have so been since 1839.
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) Felix H. Corbell
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of December A.D.
1901
[??] Frank
County Judge Erath County, Texas
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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES.
(NOTE-There must be at least two credible witnesses.)
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF Erath
Before me [??] Frank
County Judge of Erath County, State of Texas, on this day personally
appeared E. M. Mayfield and L. W. Noles who are personally known
to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that
they personally know Felix H. Corbell the above named applicant for pension,
and that they personally know that said Felix H. Corbell enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier (or sailor) as claimed by him in the above and foregoing application, and that they further know that he, the said applicant, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort.
(Signature of Witness) E. M. Mayfield
(Signature of Witness) L. W. Noles
(Signature of Witness)
(Signature of Witness)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18 day of December
A.D. 1901
[??] Frank
County Judge Erath County, Texas.
AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF Erath
Before me [??] Frank
County Judge of Erath County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared doctor J. M. Williamson, 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 Felix H. Corbell 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: Rhematism, Eyes defective &c. which prevents manual labor.
(Signature of Physician) J. M. Williamson M.D.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18 day of December A.D. 1901
[??] Frank
(SEAL) County Judge Erath County, State of Texas.
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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF Erath
I, [??] Frank
County Judge of Erath County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 17th day of May A.D. 1902, before me came on to be heard the application of Felix Corbell 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 except the depositions in the case and that the foregoing affidavit of Doctor J. M. Williamson who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant Felix H. Corbell, is not an inmate of the Texas Confederate Home, nor otherwise disqualified under the provision of Section 12, of hte 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 Felix Corbell 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 Stephenville Texas this May 17th day of May A.D. 1902
[??] Frank
(SEAL)
County Judge Erath County, State of Texas.
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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF Erath
We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Erath County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of Felix H. Corbell for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. [??] Frank County Judge of this Erath County, to the Commissioners Court of this Erath County, at a regular term thereof on the 17th day of May 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 Stephenville Texas this 17th
day of May A.D. 1902
(Signatures of Commissioners.)
J. H. Boyd [??] 1
L. Mayfield 2
H. [I.?] [Sh????t] 3
A.H. Miller P.4
(SEAL)
No--
In Re.
Felix H. Corbell
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Interrogatories
propounded to
J D Sayers et al-
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| No. | In re F. H. Corbell, Applicant for a Confed erate pension |
Suit pending in the County Commissioner Court of Erath County, Texas May Term 1902 |
Interrogatories propounded by appli- Commission waived: Intg 1. What is your name and age, and where do you reside? Intg 2. Are you acquainted with Intg 3. If you answer that Intg 4. If you answer that the Intg 5. If in answer to above Intg 6. Do you know the Felix H. Corbell Copy, [Com]. [???] service waived [??] Frank Co. Judge |
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Answers of the witness, W.R. Davis. To the First interrogatory he answers: We name is W.R. Davis; To the second interogatory, he answers: Yes, I am acquainted To the third interrogatory, he answers: I know from my own To the fourth interrogatory, he answers: He served in Company To the fifth interrogatory; he says: He served throughout To the sixth interrogatory, he answers: I know nothing W. R. Davis Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13th day of May, A.D. 1902. Roy M. Edmonds Notary Public, Travis County, Texas. |
State of Texas:
County of Travis:
I, Roy, M. Edmonds, a Notary Public in and
for Travis County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that
the foregoing answers of the witness Ferg Kyle and of the
witness W.R. Davis in the above numbered and entitled cause
were signed and sworn to by said witness Ferg Kyle and said
witness W.R. Davis before me.
Witness my hand and seal this 13th day of May, A.D. 1902.
Roy M. Edmonds
Notary Public, Travis County, Texas.