Confederate Widow’s Pension Application of Fannie
L. Johnson Banks
[aka Lucinda F. Johnson Banks]
Widow’s Affidavit.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
Personally before me comes Mrs. F.
L. Banks of said County, who, after being duly sworn, says that she is the
widow of Henry D. Banks to whom, in the County of Oglethorpe State of Georgia,
she was married on the 13 day of June 1872, and that she remained his wife, and
resided with him to the date of his death in Aug. 2nd 1917 and that
she has not since remarried. At the
time of his death he was a resident of Banks County, in said State of Georgia,
and that he was on the Indigent & Service Pension Roll of said State and
paid a pension of $70.00 in Banks County for 1917 per annum, on account of
being a soldier in Company (See your record) Volunteers of State Militia.
That she is now a bona fide
resident citizen of said County of Banks and she has so continuously resided
since 1849.
Signed: Mrs. F. L. Banks [X her
mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this the 1 day of Sept. 1919,
W. M. Thomas, Ordinary of Banks
County.
Affidavit of Witnesses to Prove Marriage
and to Whom See Marriage Certificate [handwritten over strikeout]
Date of Death of Husband.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
Personally before me comes Dr. J.
S. Jolly known to be a responsible and truthful persons, residing in said
County, who after being duly sworn, says that of his own personal knowledge
Mrs. F. L. Banks, who made the foregoing affidavit, is the lawful widow of H.
D. Banks, died in Banks County in said State of Georgia on 2 August 1917, and
that she has not since remarried and that she and he had resided together as
man and wife continuously since “knowing them in 1898" [handwritten] and
that the H. D. Banks was the same man who was on the pension roll of said State
Georgia from Banks County.....when he died.
Signed: J. S. Jolly, M. D.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
1 Sept. 1919
W. M. Thomas, Ordinary of Banks
County.
Transcription of Marriage Record:
License-“State of Georgia,
Oglethorpe County.
To Any Judge, Justice of the
Peace, or Minister of the Gospel.
You are hereby authorized to join
Henry D. Banks and Miss Fannie L. Johnson in the Holy State of Matrimony
according to the Constitution and Laws of this State and for so doing this
shall be your License. And you are
hereby required to return this License to me with your Certificate hereon of
the fact and date of the Marriage.
Given under my hand and seal this
12th day of June 1872.
F. J. Robinson, Ordinary
State of Georgia, Oglethorpe
County
I Certify that Henry D. Banks and
Fannie L. Johnson were joined in Matrimony by me this 13th day of
June 1872.
Lacy Banks, J. P.”
State of Georgia,
Oglethorpe County
I, L. H. Bacon, Ordinary and
Ex-Officio Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of said County, do hereby certify
that I have compared the foregoing copy of Marriage License and Marriage
Certificate of Henry D. Banks and Miss Fannie L. Johnson with the original
record thereof, now remaining in this office, and the same is a correct
transcript therefrom, and of the whole such original record.
In Testimony Whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed seal of the Court of Ordinary, this the 5th
day of April 1919.
L. H. Bacon, Ordinary and
Ex-Officio Clerk, O. C.
Note-Fannie J. Banks, 10 Aug.
1850-15 Mar. 1930, is buried beside her husband in the McDonald Family Cemetery
in Banks County Georgia.
Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline
King