Confederate Widow’s Pension of Mary L. Wood Patten
aka Mary L. Patton
Widow’s Pension for year ending February 15th,
1893, paid to Mrs. Patton, Mary L. of Banks County. Warrant issued July 13, 1893 and handed to T. F. Hill.
[Handwritten-“To Franklin County 1894"]
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. Mary L. Patton, who being sworn according to
law, says under oath that she is the widow of James L. Patten, who was a
soldier in the service of the Confederate States, and served as a member of
Company D, of the 16th Regiment of Georgia Volunteers; that he
enlisted in said service on or about the 18th day of March 1863, and
was in the Virginia Army up to the 19th day of Oct. 1864. That while in the Army, her was on the 19th
day of October 1864,
[Handwritten statement] That while in the service about
the middle of Sept. 1864 he contracted chronic diarrhoea from extreme exposure,
being subjected to unwholesome food, while in service and while wounded and in
hospital. He was wounded the 19th
day of Oct. 1864, below the knee in the right leg during the battle at Cedar
Creek, Virginia, while on duty. He was
then carried to Charlottesville hospital, Virginia, where he stayed until able
to leave [?] hence he suffered after returning home from the service being honorable
discharged with the wound and disease.
Never been able to do any work on account of wound and disease until
from the disease ... died the wound giving his great pain at the time, 11th
day of Feb. 1869. The doctors who
seeing him are not dead. He was
confined to bed half the time until his death.
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 20th day of
Sept. 1855, and has resided in Georgia continuously since the 9th
day of March 1835; that Georgia is her home, and was such on the 23rd
day of December, 1890, and since said date she had 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 the
General Assembly of Georgia, approved December 23d, 1890, for the pension year
ending February 15th, 1893, and herewith tenders the proof of her
right to receive the allowance granted by said Act.
Signed: Mary L. Patten [X her mark]
Post-Office Homer, Ga.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this, the 3rd
day of April 1893.
Power of Attorney.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
Know all Men by there Presents, That I, Mary L. Patton
of Banks County, in said State, do hereby appoint T. F. Hill of Homer, Ga., my
true and lawful attorney in fact, for me and in my name, to receive and receipt
for whatever amount I may be entitled to from the State of Georgia as a widow
of a Confederate Soldier, as stated in the foregoing affidavit; hereby
authorizing my said Attorney to receipt in my name for any Warrant that may be
issued by the Governor, or for any sum of money which may be coming to me for
the reason aforesaid.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this 3rd day of April 1893.
Mary L. Patten [X her mark]
Executed in the presence of us:
Oscar Brown
L. N. Turk, C. S. C.
Note-James L. Patten and Mary L. Wood were married in
Madison County, Georgia, on 23 Oct. 1855.
Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King
Thomas F. Hill, Ordinary.