Confederate Pension Application of Joseph A. Lawrence

Indigent Pension, 1904

Name-Lawrence, J. A.

County-Banks

Co. D 43 Ga. Regiment

Questions for Applicant.

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

J. A. Lawrence of said State and County, desiring to avail himself of the Pension Act (Section 1254, Code), 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)

J. A. Lawrence. Banks County, Ga., Gillsville 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?

On 21 Dec.1843, Franklin County Ga.

4. When and where and in what company and regiment did you enlist or serve?

12 March 1862. Banks County Ga., Co. D 43 Georgia Regiment.

5. How long did you remain in such company and regiment?

3 years.

6. When and where was your company and regiment surrendered and discharged?

Greensborough, N. C. 26^th April 1865.

7. Were you present with your company and regiment when it was surrendered?

I was.

8. If not present, state specifically and clearly where you were, when you left your command, for what cause and by whose authority?

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

But little.

10. What has been your occupation since 1865?

Farming.

11. 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.

12. If upon the first ground, state how long and since when 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?

I am unable to do any work on account of rheumatism and pain in my limbs.

13. What property, real or personal, or income, do you possess, and its gross value?

Nothing but a small amount of personalty.

14. What property, real or personal, did you possess in 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900 and what disposition, if any, by sale or gift, have you made of same?

The same little amount of personal property worth $30.

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

Banks County, about $30 worth or personalty.

16. How were you supported during the years 1899 and 1900?

By my children and wife.

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

Some $40 or $50 dollars.

18. What was your employment during 1898 and 1899? What pay did you receive in each year?

Trying to farm.

19. Have you a family? If so, who composes such family? Give their means of support? Have they a homestead?

I have a wife with me now. Children all left me.

20. Are you receiving any pension? If so, what amount and for what disability?

No.

21. Have you ever made application for pension before?

No.

22. How many applications have you ever made and under what class?

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signed: J. A. Lawrence, Applicant.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 21 day of Sept. 1904

T. F. Hill, Ordinary of Banks County.

Note-Joseph A. Lawrence died 12 March 1921 and he is buried in the Gillsville cemetery next to his wife, Harriet F. Segers Lawrence, 12 July 1847-29 May 1922.

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King