Confederate Widow’s Pension of Mary A. Voyles Bond
Widow’s Indigent Pension 1901
Name-Bond, Mary A.
County-Banks
Widow of-O. H. Bond, Elliott’s Co. Bryan’s Regt.
Questions for Applicant.
State of Georgia
Banks County.
Mrs. Mary A. Bond of said State and County, desiring
to avail herself of the Pension allowed to Indigent Widows of Confederate
Soldiers, under Act of General Assembly, passed 1900, hereby submits her proofs, and after being duly sworn
true answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as
follows:
1.What is you name and where do you reside? (Give
State, County and Post Office.)
Mary A. Bond.
In Banks County, Georgia.
2. How long and since when have you been a resident of
this State?
All my life. 72 years I have lived in the State of Ga.
3. When and where were you born?
July 18th, 1829, in Habersham Co.
4. When and where was your husband born-state his full
name, and when were you and he married?
October 12th 1829. Oliver H. Bond. March 29th 1852. [a search of Habersham county
marriage records show a marriage of Mary Ann Voyles to Oliver H. Bonds on 4
April 1852.]
5. When and where, and in what Company and Regiment
did your husband enlist and serve during the war between the States?
August 1864, Athens, Ga. Captain Eliot’s [sic] Co., Cook’s Battalion, Colonel Bryan’s
Regiment.
6. How long did your husband serve in said Company and
Regiment?
8 months.
7. When and where was your husband’s Company and
Regiment surrendered and discharged?
1865.
8. Was your husband present at the time and place
where his Company and Regiment surrendered?
No.
9. If not with his command at surrender, state clearly
and specifically where he was, when he left command, for what cause, and by
what authority?
He was at home on furlow [sic] from headquarters sick
and to attend my confinement for 60 days.
10. When and where did your husband die?
November 6th 1898. Banks County, Ga.
11.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?
Blindness and Poverty.
12. If upon the first ground, state how long you have
been in such condition that you cannot 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 so near blind that I cannot see a chair in the
floor. Blindness came on me August
1900.
13. What has been your occupation since your husband’s
death?
Nothing for I was not able to work at all.
14. How much can you earn gross, by your own exertion
or labor?
Nothing.
15. What property, real or person, or income do you
have or possess, and its gross value?
None.
16. What property, real or personal, did you possess
at the death of your husband, or he left you, and of the year 1899-1900, and
what disposition, if any, by sale or gift, have you made of same?
Nothing.
17. In what county did you reside in 1899 and 1900,
and what property did you return for taxation?
Banks Co., Ga.
18.How have you been supported since death of husband,
and especially for 1899 and 1900?
By my son, J. H. Bond.
19. How much did your support cost for each of these
years, and how much did you contribute by your own labor or income?
$50.00 for each year it cost. None.
20. What was your employment during 1899 and 1900-how
much did you receive for each year?
None. Nothing.
21. Have you a family?
No.
If so, who comprises such family? Give their means of support. Have they any lands or property?
None. My son
and wife working for it.
22. Have you ever made an application for pension
before?
No.
23. How many applications have you made to a Pension,
and under what class?
None.
Signed: Mary A. Bond [X her mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 26th
day of April 1901
T. F. Hill, Ordinary of Banks County.
Response from Pension Office regarding above
application:
“Office Com. Of Pensions.
5-7-1901.
When husband is absent from command at the time of
surrender and sick furlough is the cause, applicant must state clearly when the
furlough was granted, for how long, and for what cause, and prove this to be
true by a witness who of his own knowledge knows. Hearsay and belief will not answer for positive proof.
J. W. Lindsey,
Com. Of Pensions”
Handwritten statement of Mary A. Bond and Jacob M.
Jordan:
“My husband’s furlough was granted in March 1865 for
60 days he was sick and also to attend to me in my childbed confinement and
while he was at home the Surrender came on and he never went to Service in the
army anymore.
Signed: Mary A. Bond [X her mark]”
“The above is as she states it to my own knowledge for
I was there when he got his furlough for 60 days it was in March 1865. He, O. H. Bond, was sick at the time.
Signed: Jacob M. Jordan”
I certify that J. M. Jordan is a citizen of Banks Co.
and his statements are trustworthy.
Sworn to and subscribed before me 1st Feby.
1902
T. F. Hill, Ordinary
[official seal present.]
Notes:
Last affidavit for pension submitted by Mary A. Bond
in this packet is dated 16th Jan. 1905.
Cemeteries and Deaths in Banks County, Georgia by Richard J. Chambers [2000] shows a survey of Bond
Cemetery and includes the following entries”
Bond, O. H., 1830 to1898
Bond, Mary A., July _ 1829 to 1900-1910
However, a visit to this cemetery in 2007 did not show
any visible grave marker for Mary A. Bond.
Compiled 2007
by Jacqueline King