Confederate Pension Application of Isaac Aroner
Indigent
Pension 1899
Name-Isaac
Aroner
County-Banks
Questions
for Applicant.
State of
Georgia,
Banks
County.
Isaac
Aroner of said State and County, desiring to avail himself of the Pension Act
(Section 1254, Code) hereby submits his proofs, and after being duly sworn true
answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:
1. What
is your name and where do you reside? (Give State, county and post office.)
Isaac
Aroner.
2. How
long and since when have you been a resident of this State?
Since
1844.
3. When
and where were you born?
In 1835,
South Carolina.
4. When
and where and in what company and regiment did you enlist or serve?
June
1863. Co. A 11th Ga. Cavalry
5. How
long did you remain in such company and regiment?
Up to
April 1865.
6. For
how long a period did you discharge regular military duty?
All the
while.
7. When,
where and under what circumstances were you discharged from service?
Paroled
at Augusta, Ga., at Surrender April 1865.
8. What
is your present occupation?
Farmer.
9. How
much can you earn (gross) per annum by your own exertions and labor?
Nothing.
10. What
had been you occupation since 1865?
Farmer.
11. Upon
which of the following grounds do you base your application for pension, viz:
first, “age and poverty,” second, “infirmity and poverty,” or third, “blindness
and poverty”?
Infirmity
and poverty.
12. If
upon the first ground, state how long you have been in such condition that you
could not earn your support? If upon
the second, give a full and complete history of the infirmity and its extent? If upon the third, state whether you are
totally blind and when and where you lost your sight?
I am
almost blind in right eye for about 5 years past and suffer with pains and my
limbs.
13. What
property, effects or income do you possess, and its gross value?
Nothing.
14. What
property, effects or income did you possess in 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898,
and what disposition, if any, did you make of same?
Owned one
cow in 1894 and cow died in 1895.
15. In
what County did you reside during those years, and what property did you then
return for taxation?
I lived
in Franklin in 1895 and balance in Banks County.
16. How
were you supported during the years 1897 and 1898?
By my
wife and children and 2 little children.
17. How
much did your support cost for each of those years, and what portion did you
contribute thereto by your own labor and income?
About 40
or 50 dollars.
18. What
was your employment during 1897 and 1898?
What pay did you receive in each year?
Trying to
farm.
19. Have
you a family? If so, who composes such
family? Give their means of
support. Have them a homestead?
I have a
wife and 2 children small.
20. Are
you receiving any pension? If so, what
amount, and for what disability?
None.
Signed:
Isaac Aroner [X his mark], Applicant.
Sworn to
and subscribed before me, this 12th day of April 1899.
T. F.
Hill, Ordinary of Banks County.
[This
pension application was returned twice for further information, once 7/3/99 and
again 7/20/1900]
Amendments
to pension application.
State of
Georgia,
Banks
County.
Isaack
[sic] Aroner amends his affidavit for Pension in that at the commencement of
the war he was living in Gwinnett Co., Ga.
In 1861
he volunteered in Company I and was in the 24th Ga. Regiment under
Col. Thomas-the company was known as The Georgia Blues. Was sent to Richmond, Virginia, and in the
skirmishing around Richmond he was wounded by a gunshot in the left side in the
month of March as well as recollected.
He was then sent to Bristol Tennessee to a Hospittle [sic] and after
that transferred to Knoxville Tennessee, and was there discharged and sent
home. Then in June 1863 volunteered in
Company A 11th Georgia Cavaley and remained in the Service until the
Surrender and for some time his eyesight has been growing worse, as he has a
senile cataract in each of his eyes and is bearly [sic] able to see his
way. And the gunshot wound in his side
gives him much trouble at times and is suffering all the time with Rheumatism
and is not able to do any work of any kind to make a support.
Signed:
Isaac Aroner [X his mark]
Sworn to
and subscribed before me this 20th Nov. 1899
T. F.
Hill, Ordinary.
State of
Georgia,
Banks
County.
Isaac
Aroner of said County having come before me in order to amend his answers to
the questions for pension number 7 in support of his application for pension
under Section 1254, code, and after being sworn true answers to make to the
following questions deposes and answers as follows,
7. When,
where and under what circumstances were you discharged from service? Sometime in the month of April 1865 his
Command was at Augusta, Georgia.
Surrendered and paroled at Augusta, Ga.
He was present with his Command at the time and place when paroled.
Signed:
Isaac Aroner [X his mark]
Sworn to
and subscribed before me this 5th day of Oct. 1900
T. F.
Hill, Ordinary,
State of
Georgia,
Banks
County.
I, T. F.
Hill, Ordinary in and for the said County hereby certify that Isaac Aroner the
applicant resides in the county of Banks & said State and is of trustworthy
character, and that his Statements are entitled to full faith and credit. I further certify that before answering the
foregoing questions the witness took the Oath herein prescribed and that the
full text of the affidavit was read to witness, the applicant, before signed.
Witness
my hand and seal of office this 5th day of Sept. 1900.
T. F.
Hill, Ordinary
Indigent
Pension for Isaac Aroner was approved 4/17/1901 in Banks County.
Transcribed
2006 by Jacqueline King