Confederate Widow’s Pension Application of Nora C. Parks

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. W.G. Parks, of said State and County and 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 follows, to-wit:

Section I.

1. What is your name and where do you reside?

Mrs. W. G. Parks, Commerce, Ga., R. F. D. #3

2. How long and since when have you been continuously, a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Georgia?

All of life.

3. (1) When, (2) where and (3) to whom were you married?

January 12^th, 1882. Hall County Ga. William G. Parks.

a. Have you married since the death of first and soldier husband?

No.

b. When and where did your first husband die?

Oct. 15^th 1915.

c. Were you residing together when he died?

Yes.

d. If not, how long had you resided apart?

-

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?

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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 and Captain.) State whether Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Reserves, State Guards, State Militia or State Troops.

1864. Company B 5^th Ga. State Troops MILITIA [handwritten with “error corrected L. H.”]

2. When and where did the Commands of your husband surrender or discharge from the Service?

1865. Savannah Ga. at close of war.

3. Was your husband personally present with his Command when it was surrendered or discharged?

Yes.

4. If he was not present, state specifically and clearly where he was.

-

5. When did he leave the Command?

-

a. For what cause did he leave?

-

b. By whose authority did he leave?

-

c. For how long was his leave of absence granted?........d. In what way?........

e. What was his physical condition when he left his Command?

Bad. [answer appears to have been blackened over.]

f. What effort did he make to return to his Command?

-

g. In what way was he prevented from going back to his Command?

h. Was he captured by the enemy at any time?

No

i. If so, when and where? In what prison was he held and when was he released?

-

Signed: Mrs. W. G. Parks

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 20 day of Aug. 1937.

R. L. Sullivan, Ordinary of Banks County.

Questions for Witness as to Marriage and Service of Husband.

State of Georgia,

Wilcox County.

A. A. Turk of said State and County is hereby presented as a witness in support of the application of Mrs. W. G. Parks for the pension provided 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.)

A. A. Turk, Pitts, Ga. Wilcox County.

2. How long and since when have you knows Mrs. W. G. Parks applicant?

About all her life.

3. Where does she now reside, and since when has she been, continuously, a bona fide, resident citizen of this State?

Banks County. All her life.

4. When and to whom was she married?

1882. W. G. Parks.

5. How long and since when did you know W. G. Parks, her husband?

We were in the war together.

6. When and where did W. G. Parks the husband of the applicant, die?

Banks Co. about 22 years ago.

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] Were they divorced? [blank]

9. When, where and in what Company and regiment did W. G. Parks enlist?

(Give date and place.)

1864, in Banks County, Company B 5^th Ga. State Troops Militia [handwritten].

10. How did you obtain your information of this service?

Was in service with W. G. Parks.

11. How long within your personal knowledge did he perform actual military duty with this Company and Regiment? (Give dates.)

From 1864 till the close of the war.

12. When and where was his Command when it surrendered or discharged? (Give date of place.)

April 1865. Can’t remember.

13. Were you personally present with this Command when it was surrendered?

No. If not, where were you and how came you there?

Hospital, sick.

14. Was the husband of applicant personally present with his Command at its surrender?

Yes.

How do you know all that you have stated to be true? (If of your own knowledge, state clearly and specifically.)

Was in the war with W. G. Parks, but am very old and can’t remember the dates.

15. For what cause, if you know of your own knowledge, was he prevented from returning to his Command?

-

16. What effort did he make to return to his Command and how do you know this?

-

17. Was he captured as a prisoner?

No.

Signed: A. A. Turk

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 31^st day of July 1937.

L. H. Glenn, Ordinary of Wilcox County.

Notes from front of application folio:

County-Banks

Name-Mrs. W. G. Parks (Nora C.)

Widow of-W. G. Parks

Date of Marriage-January 12 1882

Date of Husband’s Death-10-15-1915

Company B 5^th Regt. Ga. Militia

State Department of Public Welfare,

Atlanta, Jan. 4, 1938.

The name W. G. Parks does not appear on the rolls Co. B 5^th Regt. Ga. State Troops on file in this office. There are no rolls of this organization in Washington, D. C.

Applicant states her husband enlisted in above command in 1864, and this organization was mustered out of service in 1862.

He was not a pensioner.

[signed] Lillian Henderson, Director Confederate Confederate Records Div.

State Dept., Public Welfare.

Jan. 28, 1938.

William G. Parks enlisted as a private in Co. B, 5^th Regt. Ga. Militia Nov. 1864. Surrendered Savannah, Ga., May 8, 1865.

[signed] Lillian Henderson, Director Confederate Records Division.

Comments-Reference source: “Cemeteries and Deaths in Banks County, Georgia.” by Richard J. Chambers;

New Salem United Methodist Church, Banks County, Ga.

Parks, William G., 30 Sept. 1848-15 Oct. 1915

Parks, Nora C., 6 June 1863-22 Aug. 1949

Nora C. Parks was the daughter of Wesley F. Parks and Elizabeth J. Meaders.

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King (fammaw51@yahoo.com)