Confederate Widow’s Pension of Elizabeth H. Brown

Application for Pension by a Widow Under Act of 1910.

Questions for Applicant.

State of Georgia

Banks County.

Personally before me comes E. H. Brown of said State and County, and after being duly sworn, on oath says that she desires to apply for a pension allowed under the Act of .....1910, and submit testimony to make out the same, true answers makes to the following questions t0-wit:

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

E. H. Brown. Banks County.

2. How long and since when have you been a continuing resident in the State of Georgia?

All my life.

3. When, where and to whom were you married?

Feb. 14 1866. Nathan S. Brown.

4. When, where and in what Company and Regiment did your husband enlist as a soldier in the Confederate Army or Georgia Militia? (State the arms and class of service.)

Co. E 16^th Ga. Battalion, I always been told.

5. When and where did the Commands of your husband surrender or discharge from the army?

Don’t know.

6. Was your husband personally present at the time of surrender or discharge of this Command?

Yes, he always said so,

[Questions 7 thru 8-8i deal with the soldier if he was not present at Surrender and all answers are “X”]

8-j. When and where did your husband die? Were you residing together when he died?

If not, how long had you resided apart?

Home, July 31, 1905. Yes, always lived together.

9. What property of any description did you own, hold or control for your own use and its cash value, Nov. 4, 1908. (State same by items.)

Household & Kitchen furniture worth $50.00.

10. What property of any kind have you sold or given away since Nov. 4, 1908? What was received for it and what did you do with the proceeds thereof?

None.

11. What property of any description of any value have you now?

Household Goods-$50.00. One senall [senile?] old mule worth $50.00.

12. What are you annual earnings or income and their value?

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13. Have you heretofore been paid a pension by the State?

No.

Signed: E. H. Brown

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 27 day of Sept. 1910.

Logan Perkins, Ordinary of Banks county.

Questions for the Witnesses as to Service of Husband and Marriage.

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

Personally before me comes George L. Carson Sr. Who, after being duly sworn to make,t to the following questions, answers as follows:..................[see notes]

Pension was approved for 1911.

Notes-There was only one page on the microfilm regarding this pension.

Referencing the book “Cemeteries and Deaths in Banks County, Ga.” by Richard J. Chambers there is a newspaper abstract from the Banks County Journal dated Thursday, Sept. 14, 1911 which states “In the last day or two there have been three deaths near here. The first of these was Mrs. Nathan Brown, who before her marriage a Meredith, originally from Hart County. Her death occurred Tuesday night.”

There is a gravestone for N. S. Brown (son of O. B. & E.), April 12, 1843-July 31, 1905 in Nails Creek Baptist Church cemetery in Banks County. There are several unknown graves adjoining the grave of Nathan S. Brown, and perhaps one of these contains the remains of Elizabeth H. Brown.

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King