Confederate Widows’ Application of Espy P.
Thurmond Anthony
1891
Affidavit to be Made by the Widow
State of Georgia
County of Banks.
In person before me, the
undersigned Ordinary in and for the County of Banks, Mrs. E. P. Anthony, who
being duly sworn according to law, says under oath that she is the widow of
Martin C. Anthony, who was a soldier in the service of the Confederate States,
and served as a member of Company E 34th Regiment of Georgia
Volunteers; that he enlisted in said service on or about the 5th day
of March 1862, and was in the Western Army up to 10 Sept. 1862 (death). That while in the Army, he was on the
[blank] day of [blank], “He came home of sick furlough August 1st
1862 from Big Shanty Ga. And remained home until his death which occurred 10th
Sept. 1862.”
Deponent further swears that she
was the wife of said deceased soldier during his term of service in the Army,
and that she has never married since his death; that she became his wife on the
15th day of October 1850, and that she has resided in Georgia
continuously since the 27th day of June 1830; that Georgia is her
home, and was such on the 23 day of December, 1890, and that since said date
she has not lived in any other State or locality. Deponent, as widow of deceased soldier husband, applies for the
pension provided by Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approves December
23d, 1890, for the pension year ending February 15th, 1892, and
herewith tenders the proof of her right to receive the allowance granted by
said Act.
Signed: E. P. Anthony
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this, the 11th day of April 1891.
T. F. Hill, Ordinary
Notes:
Jackson County Georgia
Marriages-Martin C. Anthony and Permelia E. Thurmond married on 17 Oct. 1850.
Cemeteries and Deaths in Banks
County, Georgia by
Richard J. Chambers-
Grove Level Baptist Church
cemetery;
E. P. Anthony born June 27 1830
and died April 8 1908
“Mrs. Anthony died yesterday
morning about 2 o’clock” Banks County Journal, issue date Thursday, April 9
1903.
Either the year 1903 or 1908 is in
error for Mrs. Anthony’s death date.
Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline
King