Confederate Widow’s Pension of Margaret E. Jones
Guest
Application for Pension by a Widow
of a Confederate Soldier
(Under Act of 1910, as Amended by
Act of 1919, and Constitutional Amendments of 1920 and 1937.)
Questions for Applicant to Answer:
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
Personally appears before me, Mrs.
M. E. Guest of said State and County and hereby applies for the pension allowed
by the Act of 1910, as amended by the Act of 1919 and the Constitutional Amendments
of 1920 and 1937, and submits testimony to support the same, and, after being
duly sworn, true answers to make to the questions propounded, answers as
follow, to wit:
Section 1.
1. What is your name, and where do
you reside? (Give Post Office and County)
Mrs. M. E. Guest. Lula, Ga., R. F. D. #2, Banks County
Georgia.
2. How long and since when have
you been, continuously, a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Georgia?
All of life.
Give date, or year, of your birth.
January 9th 1849.
Age?
88
3. (1)When, (2)where and (3)to
whom were you married?
January 4th, 1880. Hall County Georgia. William G. Guest. [copy of marriage record
supplied showing ceremony performed by P. P. Reynolds, Minister of the Gospel.]
a. Have you married since the
death or first and soldier husband?
No.
b. When and where did your first
husband die?
March 15th, Rabun
County Georgia.
c. Were you residing together when
he died?
Yes.
d. If not, how long had you
resided apart?
[blank]
e. Are you now a widow?
Yes.
f. Have you or your husband
heretofore been paid a pension by the State?
No.
g. If so, when and for what cause
were you or your husband placed on the roll?
[blank]
Section II.
Answer the following questions if
your husband was not a pensioner:
1. When, where and in what Company
and Regiment did your husband enlist as a soldier in Confederate Army or
Georgia Militia. (Give name of Colonel
or Captain.) State whether Infantry, Cavalry,
Artillery, Reserves, State Guards, State Militia or State Troops.
Bartow County Georgia at
Adairsville, Georgia. Roper Company, 18th
Georgia Regiment. Rank Sergent (sic)
[official records indicate William G. Guest was a Private.], “Bartow Yankee
Killers”. [Company F 18th Georgia Regiment]
2. When and where did the Commands
of your husband surrender or discharge from the Service?
At the close of the war.
3. Was your husband personally
present with his Command when it was surrendered or discharged?
Yes.
[The remainder of the questions in
Section II deal with the circumstances of the soldier if he was not present
with his Command at the end of the war and all answers are blank.]
Signed: Mrs. M. E. Guest (X her
mark), Applicant
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this the 4th day of September, 1937
R. L. Sullivan, Ordinary of Banks County.
Questions for Witness as to
Marriage and Service of Husband.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
L. B. Jones of said State and
County is hereby presented as a witness in support of the application of Mrs.
M. E. Guest for the pension provided by the Act of 1910, as amended by the Act
of 1919 and the Constitutional Amendments of 1920 and 1937, in said State, who,
after being sworn true answers to make to the questions propounded, answers as
follows, to-wit:
1. What is your name and where do
you reside? (Give Post Office and County.)
L. B. Jones. Homer Georgia, Star Rt.
2. How long and since when have
you known Mrs. M. E. Guest applicant?
About 75 years.
3. Where does she now reside, and
since when has she been, continuously, a bona fide, resident citizen of this
State?
Lula, Ga., R. F. D. #2 Banks
County Georgia. All of life.
4. When and to whom was she married?
Willliam G. Guest.
How do you know?
Lived together as man and wife.
5. How long and since when did you
know William G. Guest, her husband?
About 75 years.
6. When and where did Hall County
Ga. [should be the name of the applicant’s husband]
the husband of the applicant
die?
I do not remember.
7. Were the applicant and her
husband living together as husband and wife at the date of his death?
Yes.
8. If not, how long did they live
apart before his death?
[blank]
[The remainder of the questions
deals with the service record of the applicant’s soldier husband and the
answers are all blank in this witness statement.]
Signed: L. B Jones, Witness
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this the 28th day of September, 1937.
R. L. Sullivan, Ordinary of Banks
County..
Ordinary’s Certificate.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
I, R. L. Sullivan, Ordinary of
said County, do certify that I know Mrs. M. E. Guest the applicant for pension;
that she is the person she represents herself to be, and that she has been
continuously, a bona fide resident citizen of said State since January 1st,
1920; that I also know L. B. Jones, the witness who swears to the service of
husband and/or marriage; that both of them are now residents of said County and
were duly sworn by me before signing the foregoing affidavits, and that they
are truthful and trustworthy and their statements are entitled to full faith
and credit.
Given under my hand and seal of
office this 28 day of Sept. 1937.
R. L. Sullivan, Ordinary of Banks
County.
Typewritten acceptance letter re
the pension application.
State Department of Public Welfare
Hurt Building
Atlanta.
Hon. R. L. Sullivan, Ordinary
Banks County,
Homer, Georgia.
Whereas:
Mrs. M. E. Guest, widow of William
G. Guest,
has filed in this office an
application for the Georgia pension allowed to widows of Confederate veterans;
and it appearing that the late husband of this applicant performed actual
military service as a Confederate soldier and was honorably separated from such
service; and that the applicant was married to said soldier prior to January 1st,
1920, and that she has not remarried; it is, therefore,
Ordered:
That said applicant be admitted to
the pension roll of the State of Georgia for the month of January, 1938, and
thereafter; and that a copy of this Order be sent to the Ordinary of said
County.
This, the 27th day of
December 1937.
Signed: L. Thomas “Pat” Gillen
Director, Confederate Division
State Department of Public
Welfare.
Note-Margaret E. Jones Guest,
1849-1945, is buried at Hickory Flat United Methodist Church cemetery in Banks
County, Georgia. She shares a stone
with her son, James (Jim) Guest, 1886-1913.
Her exact date of death is unknown.
The burial place of her husband, William G. Guest, is also unknown at
this time.
Contributed by Ron Nichols,
NICHOLSRON18@aol.com
Compiled and transcribed 2006 by
Jacqueline King