Confederate Widow’s Pension Application of Elizabeth McCoy Logan

 

Widow’s Application To Be Put on Roll in Her Own Right When Husband Was on the Pension Roll of Georgia.

County-Banks

Name-Mrs. J. C. Logan [the Pension Office routinely rejected the use of the deceased husband’s name or initials used by the widow and the applications had to be re-filed using the widow’s given name.  In this application both her name and her husband’s are used which indicates it’s a corrected version.]

Company I

Regiment- 6th Ga. [Cavalry]

Date of Husband’s Death-7/25/1928

Date of Marriage-12/30/1868

Approved-John W. Clark

[Handwritten across top-“Elizabeth Logan”]

 

Application For Pension By A Widow

Whose Deceased Husband Was on the Pension Roll of Georgia. (Not to be Used by the Widow of a Disabled Soldier Pensioner.)

 

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

Personally before me comes Mrs. J. C. Logan (Mrs. Elizabeth McCoy Logan) of said County, who, after having been duly sworn, says that she is the widow of Joshua C. Logan to whom, in the County of Union State of Georgia she was married on the 30th day of December 1868, and that she remained his wife, and resided with him to the date of his death in July 1928 and that she has not since his death remarried; at the time of his death he was a resident of Banks County, in said State of Georgia, and he was on the .....Pension Roll of the state and paid a pension of $200 in Banks County for 1927 (per annum), on account of being a soldier in Company ..... Regiment......(Volunteers or State Militia).

That she is now a bona fide resident citizen of said State of Georgia and she has, continuously, resided there since 30th December 1868.

Signed: Mrs. J. C. Logan [X her mark] Mrs. Elizabeth McCoy Logan [X her mark], Applicant

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 28 day of Aug. 1928

W. M. Thomas, Ordinary of Banks County.

 

 

Affidavit of Witness to Prove Marriage and Date of Death of Husband.

 

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

Personally before me comes J. B. G. Logan [John B. Gordon Logan, son of Joshua C. Logan] known to be a responsible and truthful person, residing in said County, who after being duly sworn, says that of the deponent’s own personal knowledge, Mrs. J. C. Logan, who made the foregoing affidavit, is the lawful widow of Joshua C. Logan who died in Banks County in said State of Georgia on the 25 day of July 1928, and that she has not since remarried; that she became the wife of Joshua C. Logan on the 30th day of December 1868; that she and he resided together as man and wife, continuously, since the 30th day of December 1868, and that Joshua C. Logan was the same man who was on the pension roll of said State ........from Banks County when he died.

Signed: J. B. G. Logan

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 28 day of Aug. 1828

W. M. Thomas, Ordinary of Banks County.

 

Ordinary’s Certificate.

 

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

I, W. M. Thomas Ordinary of said County, do certify that I know Mrs. J. C. Logan, the applicant for pension; that she is the person she represents herself to be, and that she is continuously a bona fide resident of said County since January 1st, 1920; that I know J. B. G. Logan, the witness see “marriage certificate” [handwritten], and that both the foregoing were duly sworn by me before signing the respective affidavits, and that they are truthful and trustworthy and their statements are entitled to full faith and credit.

Given under my hand and official seal of office this 28 day of August 1928.

W. M. Thomas, Ordinary of Banks County.

 

Note- Elizabeth McCoy Logan is buried at Webbs Creek Baptist Church cemetery in Banks County, Georgia, next to her husband, Joshua C. Logan.  John B. Gordon Logan is buried at Homer Presbyterian Church cemetery in Homer, Georgia.  Dates on his tombstone read “1887-1957".

 

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King