Confederate Widow’s Pension Application of Margaret Bradley Caudell
1891
No. 1677
Widows’ Pension Paid To Mrs. Margaret Caudell of Banks
County.
$100.00
Affidavit to be Made by the Widow.
State of Georgia,
County of Banks.
In person came before me, the undersigned Ordinary in
and for said County of Banks Mrs. Margret Caudell, who being sworn according to
law, says under oath that she is the widow of B. F. Caudell, who was a soldier
in the service of the Confederate States, and served as a member of Company D,
of the 43rd Regiment of Ga. Volunteers; that he enlisted in said
service on or about the 20th day of February 1863, and was in the
Western Army up to June 1863. That
while in the Army, he was on the [blank] day of May 1863,
“He was taken sick while in Camp at Vicksburg, Miss.,
and sent to Hospital at Vicksburg, Miss., and died there while in the siege,
sometime in June 1863.”
Deponent further states that she was the wife of said
deceased soldier during his term of service in the Army, and that she has never
married since his death; that she became his wife on the 16th day of
April 1844, and that she has resided in Georgia continuously since the 23rd
day of April 1824; that Georgia is her home, and was such on the 23rd
day of December, 1890, and since said date she has not lived in any other State
or locality. Deponent, as the widow of
said deceased soldier husband, applies for the pension provided by Act of the
General Assembly of Georgia, approved December 23rd, 1890, for the
pension year ending February 15th, 1892, and herewith tenders her
proof of her right to receive the allowance granted by said Act.
Signed: Margret Caudell [X her mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 15th
day of April, 1891.
T. F. Hill, Ordinary.
Power of Attorney.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Margret
Caudell of Banks County, in said State, do hereby appoint T. F. Hill of Homer,
Ga. my true and lawful attorney in fact, for me and in my name, to receive and
receipt for whatever amount I may be entitled to from the State of Georgia as a
widow of a Confederate Soldier, as stated in the foregoing affidavit; hereby
authorizing my said attorney to receipt in my name for any Warrant that may be
issued by the Governor, or for any sum of money which may be coming to me for
the reason aforesaid.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this the fifteenth day of April 1891
Signed: Margret Caudell [X her mark]
Executed in the presence of us: W. H. T. Gillespie, J.
H. Caudell, J. P.
Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King