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