Confederate Pension Statement of Obediah W. Ayers

Transferred from Franklin County, Ga., to Banks County, Ga., 1905

Indigent Soldier’s Pension, 1905.

Name-Ayers, O. W.

County-Banks

Co. B 15^th Ga.

Code Section 1254

(For Those Already Enrolled)

Franklin Co. 1904.

For Applicants Heretofore Allowed Pensions.

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

Personally appear O. W. Ayers of Banks County, State of Georgia, who being duly sworn, says on oath that he is a bona fide citizen resident of said County and State, and has resided in said State continuously ever since the 11 day of April 1842; that he is 62 years old and by occupation a Farmer, that he enlisted in the military service of the Confederate States (or of the State of Ga.) during the war between the States, and served for the term of 3 years in Company B of 15^th Regiment of Georgia Volunteers; that his physical condition is as follows:

Infirmity and poverty. Lung trouble which causes him to be unable to do any manual labor for support.

That his property consists of the following items:

00

of the value of 00 Dollars. I am now earning by my labor, 00 Dollars per month. That by reason of his physical condition and poverty he is unable to support himself by his own exertion of labor, and that he receives no pension but the one herein applied for.

Deponent desires to participate in the benefits of the Act approved December 15^th, 1894, and the Acts amendatory thereof, and makes application for the pension to which he is entitled for the year 1905. I have heretofore been as a resident of Franklin County been allowed a pension for the year 1904.

Signed: O. W. Ayers

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 2^nd day of Jan. 1905

T. F. Hill, Ordinary.

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

I. T. F. Hill Ordinary of said County, do certify that I am well acquainted with O. W. Ayers the applicant in the foregoing affidavit, and am well satisfied that the statements made by him in his said affidavit are true, and I know he is the individual he presents himself to be, and that he resides in this County.

Given under my official signature and seal, this 2^nd day of Jan. 1905.

T. F. Hill Ordinary of Banks County.

Power of Attorney.

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

I, O. W. Ayers hereby authorize T. F. Hill of Homer Ga. to receive and receipt for the pension allowed, and request that he remit the same to me at Homer Ga. by him.

Witness by hand and seal, this 2^nd day of Jan. 1905.

Signed: O. W. Ayers

Executed in the presence of J. A. Hill, J. P.

Note-Obediah W. Ayers appears in the 1870 Mitchell County, North Carolina Census and in the 1880 Yancey County, North Carolina Census.

Reference-“Cemeteries and Deaths in Banks County, Georgia” by Richard J. Chambers:

Mount Olivet Methodist Church cemetery, Banks County, Ga.

Ayers, Obediah W., Died Sept. 12 1918

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King