Confederate Pension Application of Sarah C. Hale Langford

Widow’s Indigent Pension, 1901

Name-Langford, S. C.

County-Banks

Widow of-W. A. Langford

H 4 Ga. State Troops

Approved-6/15/1901

Questions for Applicant.

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

Sarah C. Langford 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 your name and where do you reside? (Give State, County and Post Office)

Sarah C. Langford. Banks County, Erastus P. O.

2. How long and since when have you been a resident of this State?

All my life.

3. When and where were you born?

In 1828. Clarke County.

4. When and where was your husband born-state his full name, and when you and he were married?

In 1819, Wilkinson County, Ga. William A. Langford. In Clark County Ga. in 1847.

5. When and where, and in what Company and Regiment did your husband enlist or serve during the war between the States?

July 1864. Walton Co., Ga., Co. H 4^th Georgia State Troops.

6. How long did your husband serve in said Company and Regiment?

From July 1864 to April 1865, at Surrender near Augusta, Ga.

7. When and where did your husband’s Company and Regiment surrender and was discharged?

I do not know.

8. Was you husband present at the time and place when his Company and Regiment surrendered?

I do not remember.

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?

I do not know.

10. When and where did your husband die?

In 1897. Banks County.

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?

Age 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.

She has been suffering with chronic rheumatism more than 3 years.

13. What has been your occupation since your husband’s death?

I have no occupation.

14. How much can you earn gross, by your own exertion or labor?

Nothing.

15. What property, real or personal, did you possess at death of 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?

I own nothing.

16. What property, real or personal, did you possess at death of 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 counties did you reside in 1899 and 1900, and what property did you return for taxation?

In Banks County.

18. How have you been supported since death of husband, and especially for 1899 and 1900?

My son supported me.

19. How much did your support cost for each of those years, and how much did you contribute by your own labor or income?

I suppose some $40 or $50.

20. What was your employment during 1899 and 1900-how much did you receive for each year?

I have no employment.

21. Have you a family? If so, who composes such family? Give their means of support. Have they any lands or other property?

I have no family.

22. Have you ever made an application for pension before?

No.

23. How many applications have you made for a Pension, and under what class?

None.

Signed: Sarah C. Langford (X her mark)

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 1^st day of April 1901.

T. F. Hill, Ordinary of Banks County.

Note-Reference “Cemeteries and Death in Banks County Georgia” by Richard J. Chambers:

Vaughn/Ginn Cemetery [sometimes called Burgess cemetery]

Langford, William A., 9 June 1819-13 June 1897

Langford, Sarah C., 10 April 1828-16 Feb. 1912

Langford, Edward D., 29 Nov. 1864-23 Aug. 1880

Langford, James , 26 April 1870-3 July 1870

Langford, F. L., [Fred Lucas] 24 Aug. 1872-7 May 1915

Langford, Emma, [Emma Morris, wife of F. Lucas] 22 Dec. 1879-4 Oct. 1938

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King