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