CONFEDERATE PENSION RECORD OF RICHARD V. MORRIS
QUESTIONS FOR APPLICANT
State of Georgia
Gordon County
R. V. Morris 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)
Richard V. Morris, Colima, Gordon
County Georgia
2. How long
and since when have you been a resident of this State? February
8th 1834.
3. When and
where were you born? Hall County Ga. Feb. 8th 1834.
4. When and
where and in what Company and regiment did you enlist or serve? 1861-Banks
County Ga. Company "H" 34th Georgia.
5. How long
did you remain in such company and regiment?
Until the Surrender 1865.
6. When and
where was your company and regiment surrendered and discharged? 1865
North Carolina.
7. Were you
present with your company and regiment when it was surrendered? Yes.
8. If not present,
state specifically where you were, when you left your command, for what cause
and by whose authority? Blank.
9. How much
can you earn (gross) per annum by your own exertions and labor? Nothing.
10. What has
been your occupation since 1865? Farming.
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"?
Blank.
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? Age and Infirmity.
13. What
property, real or personal, did you posess in 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905? None.
15. In what
County did you reside during those years, and what property did you return for
taxation? Gordon County.
16. How were you supported during the years
1901, 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905? By what little I could do and by the help of
my children.
17. How much
did your support cost for each of those years, and what portion did you
contribute by your own labor or income?
Not much.
18. What was
your employment during 1901, 1902, 1903,1904 and 1905? What pay did you receive in each year? Farming.
19. Have you
a family? If so, who composes such
family? Give their means of
support. Have they a homestead or
property? Their ages and how
employed? Wife, One Daughter. Wife 72
years old, daughter 32 years old.
Daughter keeps house for us.
20. Are you
receiving any pension? If so, what
amount and for what disability? No.
21. Have you
made an application for pension before? No.
22. How many applications have you ever made and under
what class? Blank.
Signed: R. V. Morris
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 30 day of
August 1906.
A. G. Bowden of said State and County, having been
presented as a witness in support of the application of R. V. Morris for
pension under section 1254, Code, and after being sworn true answers to make to
the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:
1. What is
your name and where do you reside? A. G. Bowden reside in Banks Co. Ga.
2. Are you
acquainted with R. V. Morris, the applicant: if so how long have you known
him? Fifty years.
3. Where does
he reside, and how long and since when has he been a resident of this State? In Gordon County Ga. all his life a resident
of Georgia.
4. When,
where and in what company and regiment did he enlist, and how do you know? May,
1862 Banks Co. H 34 Ga. Regt.
5. Were you a
member of the same company and regiment? I
was.
6. How long
did he perform regular military duty? until
Surrender April 26th 1865.
7. Whan and
where was his command surrendered? Greensborough N. C.
8. Were you
present when it surrendered? I was.
9. Was
applicant present? He was.
10. If not present, where was he? He was there.
When did he
leave his command? at Surrender.
By what
authority he left? Parole
11. What
property, effects or income has the applicant? (Give your means of knowledge). None. I have known him him personally for 50
years. He has nothing left at all ________and no means to earn a living.
12. What
property, effects or income does the applicant possess in 1901, 1902, 1903,
1904 and 1905, and what disposition, if any
did he make of same? None.
13. Has he
conveyed away any of his property in the last four years; if so, what was it,
and to whom? No.
14. What is
the applicant's occupation and physical condition? Farmer-old and infirm.
15. Is the
applicant unable to support himself by labor of any sort; if so, why? Yes
because of old age and infirmity.
16. How was
he supported during the years 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905? Principally
by his children.
17. What
portion of his support for those years was derived from his own labor? Very
little.
18. Give full and complete statement of the
applicant's physical condition that entitles him to a pension under Section
1254, Code, Age and infirmity.
19. Who
composes family? What property have
they? Children's ages and their earning
capacity? Himself and wife nearly as old as he is and one daughter.
20. What interest have you in recovery of a
pension by this applicant? None.
Signed: A. G. Bowden
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 25th day of
August 1906
T. F. Hill, Ordinary's Office Banks Co. Ga.
Gordon County.
Personally came before me J. W. Erwin M. D. and D. J.
Borders M. D., both known to me as reputable physicians of said County, who
being severally sworn, say on oath that
they have examined carefully Richard V. Morris, applicant for said pension
under Section 1254, Code, and after such personal examination say that his
precise physical condition is as follows:
Patient suffers at intervals with Rheumatism & hernia
Which renders him unable to do manual labor.
and that we have no interest in said pension being
allowed.
Signed: J. M. Erwin M. D.
D. J. Borders M. D.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 20th day of
August 1906
Note-Richard Venable Morris was the son of Henry J. Morris
and Asenith Allen. He and his wife,
Martha Terrell Waters Morris, are buried in Gordon County at Shiloh Methodist
Cemetery near Ranger. (GINIS coordinates Lat. 342857N and Longitude 0844210W)
Transcribed
2004 by Jacqueline King