Confederate Widow’s Pension Application of Minerva C. Parsons

Widow’s Pension, 1901.

Paid to Mrs. M. C. Parsons of Banks County.

Widow of Joseph Parsons Co. H 34^th [Ga.] Regiment.

Affidavit To Be Made By The Widow.

State of Georgia,

County of Banks.

In person came before me, the undersigned Ordinary in and for the County of Banks Mrs. Manerva C. Parsons who being duly sworn according to law, says under oath that she is the widow of Joseph Parsons deceased, who was a soldier in the service of the Confederate States, or Georgia State Troops, and served as a member of Company H of the 34 Regiment of Georgia Volunteers, that he enlisted in said service on or about the 12 day of May 1862, and was in the Army of the Confederate States up to the 20 May 1865. That while in the Army, he was on the about last day of May 1862, “he was vaccinated, which caused blood poison and his arm rotted off and caused his death. That Joseph Parsons was a most able bodied man prior to Service. He was vaccinated to prevent danger by Small Pox while at Big Shanty, Georgia, in 1862, which caused a blood poison of left arm, and created a Sore on the left arm. Which grew worse from the time he was discharged at the close of War in 1865. The Sore continued from the time he came home in 1865 on up to his death July 17 1896. The Sore got so bad he had to carry his arm in a sling and it rotted off all round the arm and the bones & sinews were all naked and the Sore got extended up in his Shoulder and breast which caused his death; he was treated by 5 or 6 Doctors but they could not give him any relief.”

And was honorably discharged (state and prove where husband was at surrender and when discharged.)

“That he was with his Company H 34 Regt. Georgia Infantry Vols. When the Regiment surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina, about 20 day of May 1865.”

Deponent further swears that she was the wife of said deceased soldier during his term of service in the Army, and that she has never married since his death; that she became his wife on the 13^th day of April 1849, and that she was born in the State of Georgia and has resided continuously since the 23d day of January 1823, that Georgia is her home and was such on the 6^th December, 1897, and since said date she has not lived in any other State or locality. Deponent, as the widow of a deceased soldier husband applies for the pension provided by Act of General Assembly of Georgia, approved December 23^rd, 1890, for the pension year ending December 31^st, 1902, and herewith tenders the proof of her right to receive the pension granted by the Act.

Signed: Manerva C. Parsons [X her mark]

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 13^th day of June 1901

T. F. Hill, Ordinary.

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

Parsons Cemetery-

Parsons, Minerva Mize Ray, 23 Jan. 1823 to 22 Dec. 1906

Parsons, Joseph, 3 July 1825 to 17 July 1895

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King