Confederate Widow’s Pension Application of Mary Ann Patton

Widow’s Indigent Pension 1901.

Name-Patton, Mary A.

County-Banks

Widow of W. M. Patton

[Company] G 1^st Ga. State Troops

Questions for Applicant.

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

Mary A. Patton of said State and County, desiring to avail herself of the Pension allowed to Indigent Widows of Confederate Soldiers, and under Act of General Assembly, passed [blank] 1900, hereby submits her 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 Post Office.)

Mary A. Patton. Banks County, Gailey P. O.

2. How long and since when have you been a resident of this State?

About 50 years.

3. When and where were you born?

In 1826, Pickens County, S. C.

4. Where and when was your husband born–state his full name, and when were you and he married?

In 1825, Buncombe County, N. C. William Mitchel Patton. Married in 1853.

5. When and where, and in what Company and Regiment did your husband enlist and serve during the war between the States?

In 1862, Co. G 1^st Ga. State Troops.

6. How long did your husband serve in said Company and Regiment?

11 months.

7. When and where did your husband’s Company and Regiment surrender and was discharged?

He was discharged at Cartersville [Georgia] Jan. 1863 for a disability.

8. Was your husband present at the time and place when his Company and Regiment surrendered?

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9. If not with his command at surrender, state clearly and specifically where he was, when he left command, for what cause, and by whose authority?

He was discharged at Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 1863 for disability.

10. When and where did your husband die?

11^th Feb. 1899. Banks County, Ga.

11. 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?

Age and Poverty.

12. If upon the first ground, state how long you have been in such condition that you cannot 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?

I have not been able to do any work for the last 8 or 10 years.

13. What has been your occupation since your husband’s death?

I have no occupation.

14. How much can your earn gross, by your own exertion or labor?

Nothing.

15. What property, real or personal, or income do you have or possess, and its gross value?

Nothing whatever.

16.What property, real or personal, did you possess at the death of husband or he left you, and of the year 1899-1900, and what disposition, if any, by sale or gift, have you made of same?

Nothing.

17. In what counties did you reside in 1899 and 1900, and what property did you return for taxation?

Banks County, Ga.

18. How have you been supported since death of husband, and especially for 1899 and 1900?

My son supported me.

19. How much did your support cost for each of those years, and how much did you contribute by your own labor or income?

I suppose so 40 or 50 dollars.

20. What was your employment during 1899 and 1900-how much did you receive for each year?

I have no employment. I received nothing but what my [son] furnished.

21. Have you a family? If so, who composes such family? Give their means of support? Have they any lands or other property?

I have 3 children with me, 1 blind boy and 2 girls feeble.

22. Have you ever made an application for pension before?

No.

23. How many applications have you made for Pension, and under what class?

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Signed: Mary A. Patton [X her mark]

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27^th day of March 1901.

T. F. Hill, Ordinary of Banks County.

Notes-William M. Patton is buried at Bellton Methodist Church cemetery in Lula, Hall County, Georgia. Mary Ann Patton’s death was reported in the newspaper abstracts contained in “Cemeteries and Deaths in Banks County Georgia” by Richard J. Chambers as “Mrs. Mary Ann Patton was born Dec. 14^th 1825. Her husband, Wm. M. Patton was also born in the year 1825, the 3^rd of Feb. and died Feb. 11, 1899....and Mrs. Patton died May 23^rd 1910.”

I do not know where Mary Ann Patton is buried. She may be at Bellton Methodist with William M. Patton in an unmarked grave or she may be at Hickory Flat Methodist Church cemetery in Banks County where their daughter, Serena S. Patton, was buried following her death on 1 July 1911.[Banks County Journal, Thursday, 9/7/1910] There is no marker for Serena S. Patton or Mary Ann Patton at Hickory Flat cemetery.

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King