INDIGENT SOLDIER’S PENSION 1898
Name- Borders, W. A.
County- Banks [Georgia]
Warrant Issue 1/20/1896
Richard Johnson, Commissioner of Pensions
Warrant Handed to-T. F. Hill
FOR APPLICANTS HERETOFORE ALLOWED PENSIONS
STATE OF GEORGIA
Banks County.
Personally
appears W. A. Borders of Banks County, State of Georgia, who being duly sworn,
says on oath that he is a bona fide citizen and resident of said County and
State, and has resided in said State continuously ever since the 15 day of
April 1837; that he is 60 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 2 years 9
mos. in Company H, of 34th
Regiment of Ga. Volunteers; that his physical condition is as follows: Chronic
Rheumatism he has been suffering with for about four years which has rendered
him unable to do anything-that his property consists of the following items-a
small amount of household furniture, consisting of 2 beds & bedding for
same, of the value of $20.00 Dollars, and by reasons of his physical condition
and poverty he is unable to support himself by his own exertion or 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 15th,
1894, and the acts amendatory thereof, and makes application for the pension to
which he is entitled for the year 1898.
I have heretofore as a resident
of Habersham county been allowed a pension for the year 1897.
Signed W. A. Borders
Sworn and subscribed before me, this, the 1st
day of Jany. 1898
T. F. Hill, Ordinary
POWER OF ATTORNEY
State of Georgia
Banks County.
I, W.
A. Borders hereby authorize T. F. Hill of Homer Ga. to receive and receipt for
the pension paid hereon and request that he remit the same to me by him at
Homer Ga.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 1st day
of Jany. 1898
Signed W. A. Borders
Executed in presence of F. M. Haulbrook, M. J.
Ragsdale N.P.J.P
Note: The last application filed in Banks County
included in this microfilm record is dated 14th Jany. 1907
Transcription
2005 by Jacqueline King