Confederate Pension Application of Joshua C. Logan

 

Indigent Pension, 1904

Name-Logan, J. C.

County-Banks

Co I 6th Ga. Cavalry

Approved for 1905

 

Questions for Applicant.

 

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

J. C. Logan 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 postoffice.)

J. C. Logan, Banks County, Homer Ga.

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

All my life.

3. When and where were you born?

In Union County, May 14th 1845.

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

Blairsville, Union County.  Co. I 6th Georgia [Cavalry]

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

About 3 years.

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

Greensboro, North Carolina.  April 26th 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?

Was present.

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

Not more that 8 or 10 Dollars.

10. What has been your occupation since 1865?

Making a small patch of corn.

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, age 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?

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

No realty & do not remember exactly how much.

14. What property, real or personal, did you possess in 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898,1899, 1900 and 1901, and what disposition, if any, by sale or gift, have you made of same?

No realty.  No disposition of any kind.

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

In Banks County & gave on property far more than it should be.

16. How were you supported during the years 1899, 1900 and 1901?

By my children farming, but they are all gone from me.

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 do not know but suppose $10.

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

Farming a little when the children was with me.

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

A wife and minor child.  They have no homestead.

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

None.

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

Never before.

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

None.

Signed: J. C. Logan [X his mark], Applicant.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 30th day of July 1904.

T. F. Hill, Ordinary of Banks County.

 

Power of Attorney.

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

I, J. C Logan 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 him.

Witness my hand and seal, this 4th day of August 1904.

J. C. Logan [X his mark]

Executed in the presence of T. F. Hill Ordy.

 

Note- Joshua C. Logan, 1845-1928 is buried in Webbs Creek Baptist Church cemetery in Banks County.  His date of death, as given in the Widow’s pension filed by Elizabeth McCoy Logan was 25 July 1928.  His wife is buried next to him:

Elizabeth McCoy Logan, 1848-1940.

 

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King