Confederate Pension Application of Robert F.
Ausburn
Indigent Pension, 1897
Name-R. F. Ausborn
County-Banks
Questions for Applicant.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
R. F. Ausborn of said State and
County, desiring to avail himself of the Pension Act approved December 15th,
1894, 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)
R. F. Ausborn, Banks County
Georgia, Hollingsworth Ga. P. O.
2. Where did you reside on January
1st, 1894, and how long have you been a resident of this State?
Banks County Ga., ever since my
birth 9 Nov. 1837.
3. When and where were you born?
9 Nov. 1837 in Habersham County.
4. When and where and in what
company and regiment did you enlist or serve?
May 1862, Banks County Ga., Co. D
43 Georgia Regiment.
5. How long did you remain in such
company and regiment?
2 years and 10 months.
6. For how long a period of time
did you discharge regular military duty?
All the time.
7. When, where and under what
circumstances were you discharged from service?
26th April 1865,
Greensborough, N. C., when General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered us.
8 What is your present occupation?
Farming.
9. How much can you earn (gross)
per annum by your own exertions or labor?
About $80 annum.
10. What has been your occupation
since 1865?
Trying to farm.
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 have been suffering from Chronic
Rheumatism for the last 15 or 20 years.
My limbs are so stiff that I cannot work at times at all.
13. What property, effects or
income do you possess and its gross value?
Household furniture $15.00 & 8
shoats $8.00
14. What property, effects or
income did you possess in 1894, 1895 and 1896 and what disposition, if any, did
you make of same?
I owned the same household & a
few shoats in 1894 & 1895 & 1896 as I now own.
15. In what County did you reside
during those years and what property did you then return for taxation?
Banks County, the same household
furniture and shoats.
16. How were you supported during
the years 1895 and 1896?
I was supported by my 3 children
& wife & what little I could earn.
17. How much did your support cost
for each of those years, and what portion did you contribute thereto by your
own labor or income?
I do not know. Corn & meat worth $40.00.
18. What was your employment
during 1895 and 1896? What pay did you
receive each year?
I was doing what I could working
to make support.
19. Have you a family? If so, who composes such family? Give their means of support? Have they a homestead?
I have a wife & 3 little
children, 2 boys & one girl ages 16-14-12 respectively.
20. Are you receiving any pension,
if so what amount and for what disability?
None.
Signed: R. F. Ausburn, Applicant
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this the 8th day of February 1897.
T. F. Hill, Ordinary of Banks
County.
Questions For Witness.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
Jobe Brock of said State and
County, having presented as a witness in support of the application of R. F.
Ausborn for pension under the Act approved December 15th, 1894, 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?
Jobe Brock. Banks County Ga. Hollungsworth Ga. P.O.
2. Are you acquainted with R. F.
Ausborn same, the applicant, is of how long have you known him?
Since 1858.
3. Where does he reside, and how
long has he been a resident of this State?
Banks Co. Ga., all his life.
4. Do you know of his having
served in the Confederate army or the Georgia militia? How do you know this?
I no. [sic] I served in the
Confederate army with him.
5. When, where and what company
and regiment did he enlist?
May 1862. Banks county Ga. Co. D 43rd Georgia Regiment.
6. Were you a member of the same
company and regiment?
I was.
7. How long did he perform regular
military duty, and what do you know of his service as a Confederate soldier,
and the time and circumstances of his discharge from the service?
Up to the surrender in 1865. He was surrendered at Greensborough, N. C.,
26th April 1865.
8. What property, effects or
income has the applicant? (Give your
means of knowledge.)
Small amount of household
furniture & some shoats. I reside
near him as a neighbor.
9. What property, effects or
income did the applicant possess in 1895 and 1896, and what disposition, if any
did he make of same?
About the same household & shoats. He has made no disposition of any property.
10. What is the applicant’s
occupation and physical condition?
He tryes [sic] to do what he can
working on rental land. He is suffering
from rheumatism and General Debility.
11. Is the applicant unable to
support himself by labor of any sort, if so, why?
He is unable to make a support for
himself on account of his rheumatism and feebleness.
12. How was he supported during
the years 1895 and 1896?
By his wife & 3 children with what
little he done.
13. What portion of his support
for these two years was derived from his own labor or income?
Very little because he was not
able to do but little.
14. Give a full and complete
statement of applicant’s physical condition that entitles him to a pension
under the Act of December 15th, 1894?
He suffers all the time from
rheumatism stiffness in his limbs and General debility.
15. What interest have you in the
recovery of a pension by this applicant?
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Signed: Jobe Brock, Witness.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this the 8 day of Feby. 1897.
T. F. Hill, Ordinary
Power of Attorney
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
I. R. F. Ausborn hereby authorize
T. F. Hill of Homer Ga. to receive and receipt for the pension allowed and
request that he remit same to me at Homer Ga. by him.
Witness my hand and seal this 8th
day of Feby. 1897.
R. F. Ausburn.
Executed in presence of Jobe
Brock, James C. Wade J. P.
Note from Pension Office:
“Pension Office 5/5/1897
Further proof of infirmity is
required.
Rich. Johnson, Com. Of Pensions”
[There is another date of 3/21/98
on the application folio, so the application must have been resent to the
pension office for further consideration.]
Note-Reference “Cemeteries and
Deaths in Banks County Georgia” by Richard J. Chambers states the following:
Ausburn, Robert F. 1837-no date
Aubsurn, Missouri Jordan (wife of
Robert F.) 1848-no date
Both burials are in the
Boling/Jordan family cemetery in Banks County.
Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King