Confederate Pension Application of Jesse G.
Lewallen
Indigent Pension 1905
[Approved for 1906]
Name-J. G. Lewallen
County-Banks
Co. G [Big inksplotch over what
looks like “Bryant” Regt.]
Questions for Applicant.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
Jesse G. Lewallen 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.)
Jesse G. Lewallen, Hollingsworth,
Banks County.
2. How long and since when have
you been a resident of this State?
Since birth.
3. When and where were you born?
Hall County Ga.
4. When and where and in what
company and regiment did you enlist and serve?
Co. G Georgia State Troops
[written over what appears to be “Sept. 1864 Capt. Gists’s (?)...Stovall’s
Brigade.” Jesse G. Lewallen or J. G.
Lewallen appears on a later pension document as having served in Co. G 1st
Ga. Regiment.]
5. How long did you remain in such
company and regiment?
7 months.
6. When and where was your company
and regiment surrendered and discharged?
At Savannah Ga.-soon after Lee’s
surrender.
7. Were you present with your
company and regiment when it was surrendered?
No.
8. If not present, state
specifically and clearly where you were, when you left your command, for what
cause and by whose authority?
Left command at Athens, Ga., and
went home on a 3 day’s furlough.
Started back, met Lt. Col. West who informed me of surrender then
returned home.
9. How much can you earn by your
own exertions or labor?
$25.oo
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 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?
Began to have pains in side &
stomach about 22 years ago. Was said to
have ulceration of the stomach by 1 or 2 doctors. Palpitation of Heart all the time since then with progressive
weakness & debility.
13. What property, real or
personal, or income, do you possess, and its gross value?
One cow & calf—$50.00
14. What property, real or
personal, or income, did you possess in 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899,
1900, 1901 and 1902, and what disposition, if any, by sale or gift, have you
made of same?
Had a horse in ‘95, sold it
several years ago-Last horse died 2 or 3 years ago-have not been able to buy
one since.
15. In what County did you reside
during those years, and what property did you then return for taxation?
Banks County-Had about $80 0r $90.
16. How were you supported during
the years 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902?
By labor of my children.
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?
About $100.00 per year. Contributed
$25.00 perhaps.
18. What was your employment
during the 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902?
What pay did you receive each year?
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19. Have you a family? If so, who composes such family? Give their means of support?
Have they a homestead, or other
property? Their ages and how employed?
Wife and 2 children. They have no homestead. No other property. Children 19 & 14
years old, boy & girl. They are
farming on rented land.
20. Are you receiving any
pension? If so, how much and for what
disability?
No.
21. Have you ever made an
application for pension before?
Yes, one.
22. How many applications have you
ever made and under what class?
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Signed: Lewallen, Jesse G.,
Applicant [an original signature]
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this the 20 day of July 1905.
T. F. Hill Ordinary of Banks
County.
Power of Attorney
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
I, Jesse G. Lewallen hereby
authorize L. J. Ragsdale of Banks to receive and receipt for the pension allowed
and request that he remits same to me at Homer by him.
Witness my hand and seal, this 20th
day of July 1905.
Signed: Jesse G. Lewallen
[signature does not match the applicant’s affidavit—appears to be the writing
of the Ordinary, Thomas F. Hill]
Executed in the presence of T. F.
Hill, Ordinary.
Jesse G. Lewallen may have gone
blind as evidenced by the following record:
Application to be Allowed Pension
for Total Blindness Under Act of General Assembly of August 19, 1912.
Name-J. G. Lewallen
Company G
Regiment 1st Ga.
Okayed for 1924 and 1925.
Application for Pension Due
Deceased Pensioner under Act of 1904, to pay expenses of last illness and
funeral.
For Banks County
1932
R. L. Sullivan, Ordinary
For J. G. Lewallen
Date of Death 2-18-1932
Amount $100.00
Approved for payment from the
Veterans Service Office, funds drawn from Cigar and Cigarette Tax Account of
1930.
Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline
King