Confederate Pension Application of Alvin Dean Brady

 

Questions for Applicant.

State of Georgia

Banks County.

 

A. Dean Brady 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.)

A. D. Brady and reside in Banks County, Georgia.

2. Where did you reside on January 1st, 1894, and how long have you been a resident of this State?

I resided at Pruitt, Banks County and been a resident of Ga. 62 years.

3. When and where were you born?

10th day of August 1833 in Banks County. [Note-Banks County was not formed until 1858]

4. Did you volunteer in the Confederate Army or in the Georgia Militia?

Confederate Army.

5. When and where did you enlist?

March 1862 in Banks County.

6. In what company and regiment did you enlist?

Co. D. 43 Ga. Regt.

7. How long did you remain in that company and regiment?

[Blank]

8. If you were discharged from same and joined another, or if you were transferred to another, give an account of such discharge or transfer?

Not discharged nor transferred.

9. For how long a period of time did you discharge regular military duty?

[Blank]

10. When, where and under what circumstances were you discharged from service?

April 1865 at Greensborough, N. C.  Was discharged, the war being at an end.

11. What is your present occupation?

None.

12. How much can you earn (gross) per annum by your own exertions or labor?

Nothing.

13. What has been your occupation since 1865?

Farming until 8 or 10 years ago.

14. What sum would be necessary for your support for this pension year, and how much are you able to contribute thereto either in labor of income?

$60.00 or $70.00 and am able to contribute nothing.

15. What is your present physical condition and how long have you been in such condition?

Have chronic rheumatism, swelling of joints, and broken down constitution and can not do any work whatever, and can contribute nothing for a support.

16. 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.

17. 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?

Took rheumatism from exposure in the service, which has continued ever since, with swelling of the joints, and for the past 15 or 20 (twenty) years has been unable to work.

18. What property, effects or income do you possess and its value? 

Household and Kitchen furniture $36.00.  No effects or income.

19. What property, effects or income did you possess in 1895 & 1896 and what disposition, if any, did you make of same?

Household and Kitchen furniture $36.00 and have it yet.  In 1895 I bought a mule for $90.00 and only paid $14.00 and delivered it back to the owner.  Returned it for tax that year.

20. In what County did you reside during those years and what property did you return for taxation?

Lived in Banks County and returned $20.00 worth of property.

21. How were you supported during the years 1893 and 1894 and 1895 & 1896?

By my children and had nothing to pay debts, principally physicians’ bills.

22. How much did your support cost for each of those years, and what portion did you contribute thereto by your own labor or income?

Outside of Dr’s. bills $60.00 or $70.00 and contribution nothing.

23. What was your employment during 1894 and 1894 & 1895 & 1896?

Nothing except advising my children, and received no pay but support as they gave to me, as children to parent.

24. Are you married and have you a family?  If so, is your wife living and how many children have you?  Give age and sex of children and their means of support?

I am married and have a family to wit, two boys age 13 & 15 years, five girls 21-23-26-27-28 years all married off but the minors.

25. Are you receiving a pension under any law of this State, if so, what amount and for what disability?

Am receiving no pension under any law of this State.

 

Signed : A. D. Brady (X his mark) Applicant

                        A. Dean Brady [written below “A. D. Brady”]

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 27th day of Jan. 1897.

T. F. Hill, Ordinary of Banks County [Georgia]

 

Questions for Witness

State of Georgia

Banks County.

James C. Broom, of said State and County, having been presented as a witness in support of the application of A. D. Brady for pension under the Act approved December 15th, 1894, and after being sworn true answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:

1. What is your name and where do you reside?

[Blank]

2.  Are you acquainted with A. D. Brady, the applicant, if so how long have you known him?

I am acquainted with him and have been all his life.

3. Where does he reside, and how long has he been a resident of this State?

He resides in Banks County, Georgia, and has 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 know he served in the Confederate Army because he served in the Company and Regt. with me.

5. When, where and in what company and regiment did he enlist?

10th August [an error, see answer to Question 7] 1862 at Homer, Ga. Co. D 43rd Regiment Georgia Volunteers.

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?

He served from the 16th day of March 1862 until the Surrender in April 1865 when he was discharged at Vixburg (sic), Miss., the war being over.

8. What property, effects or income has the applicant? (Give your means of knowledge.)

He has no property except household and kitchen furniture, no effects nor income.  I live near him.

9. What property, effects or income did the applicant possess in 1895, 1896 & 1897?

In 1895 he bought a mule and returned it for tax, but delivered [it] back to the owner, only paying $14.00. [Copy has answer written and then struck through with lines and then more written above it.  Hard to decipher.] .......household and kitchen furniture.

10. What is the applicant’s occupation and physical condition?

No occupation.  Has rheumatism, swelling of the joints and is in a personal state of bad health entirely unable to work in any way.

11. Is the applicant unable to support himself by labor of any sort, if so, why?

He is entirely unable to support himself because of rheumatism, swollen joints and broken down constitution.

12. How was he supported during the years 1895, 1896 and 1897?

By the labor of his family.

13. What portion of his support for these two years was derived from his own labor or income?

None whatever.

14. Give a full and complete statement of the applicant’s physical condition that entitles him to a pension under the Act of December 15th, 1894?

He has rheumatism, swollen joints and his body is so badly wrecked that he can do no work whatever.

15. What interest have you in recovery of a pension by this applicant?

None.

 

Signed: James C. Broom, Witness

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 27th day of Jan. 1897.

T. F. Hill, Ordinary

 

Note-Alvin Dean Brady, Co. D 43rd Ga. Infantry, Middle River Volunteers, is buried at Leatherwood Baptist Church in Banks County, Ga.  The dates on his stone are 1833-1915.  His wife, Ellen, born 1852 died unknown, is buried beside him.

 

Transcription 2006 by Jacqueline King