Confederate Pension Application of Joseph T. Lewis

Indigent Pension 1905

Name-Joseph T. Lewis

County-Banks

Co. I 1^st South Carolina Regular Infantry

Okayed for 1906

Transferred to Gwinnett County 1907.

Questions for Applicant.

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

Joseph T. Lewis 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)

Joseph T. Lewis. Banks-Maysville P. O. Ga.

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

Since 1859-44 years.

3. When and where were you born?

Anderson County, South Carolina, June 4^th 1843.

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

I enlisted at Homer, Banks County Georgia-Company I 1^st South Carolina Regular Infantry on the 10^th day of March 1862.

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

About 3 years and three months.

6. When and where was your company and regiment when it was surrendered?

At Greensboro N. C., 26^th April 1865.

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

No, I was in prison.

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

I was taken prisoner at the Bentonville fight [in] N. C., & was sent to the Hart’s Island prison in New York on 22^nd of March 1865 & was did not get home until July following.

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

Very little-$1.50 or $2.00 a month.

10. What has been your occupation since 1865?

A mechanic.

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 this infirmity and it extent? If upon the third, state whether you are totally blind and when and where you lost your sight?

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

$25.00

14. What property, real or personal, 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?

I have no property. No stock, not even a milk cow.

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

In Jackson and Banks Counties. Had very little property to return.

16. How much did your support cost during the years 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902?

I was supported meagerly by what I could earn by my trade.

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?

I took no notice.

18. What was your employment during 1898, 1899, 1901 and 1902? What pay did you receive in each year?

As above stated.

19. Have you a family? If so, who comprises such family? Give their means of support? Have they a homestead, or other property? Their ages and how employed?

I have a wife and 1 child 4 years old-they have no employment. Wife almost and invalid. She is not able to work. No homestead.

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

No pension of any kind.

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

I have not.

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

None made before.

Signed: Joseph T. Lewis, Applicant.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 9^th day of May 1905.

T. F. Hill, Ordinary of Banks County.

Power of Attorney.

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

I, Joseph T. Lewis hereby authorize L. J. Ragsdale of Banks to receive and receipt for the pension allowed and request that he remit same to me at Homer by hand.

Witness my hand and seal, this 9^th day of May 1905.

Signed: Joseph T. Lewis

Executed in presence of T. F. Hill, Ordinary of Banks County.

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King