Confederate Widow’s Pension of Millie Patton

aka Milley Patten

To Those Heretofore Paid (from Lumpkin County 1906)

1907 Indigent Widow’s Pension No. 2246, for year ending Dec. 31, 1907.

Paid to Mrs. Patten, Milley

of Banks County

Widow of J. E. Patton

Co. G 5^th Ga. Regiment.

Warrant issued Feb. 15, 1907.

For Indigent Widows Heretofore Allowed Pensions.

State of Georgia,

County of Banks.

Personally comes Mrs. Milley Patten who, being sworn says on oath, that she is a bona fide resident of said County of Banks, State of Georgia, and that she has RESIDED in said State continuously ever since 1834. That she is the Widow of Joseph E. Patten who was a soldier in Company G of the 5^th Ga. Regiment of [blank] Volunteers, that he enlisted in said regiment on or about the month of [blank] 1863, and served in the Army up to [blank] 1865. That he died on the [blank] day of [blank] 18_.

“He was sick at hospital at surrender and she is perfectly Indigent from age & poverty.”

Deponent swears that she was the wife of said deceased soldier, during his service in the Army as a soldier, and that she has never married again since his death aforesaid, and that she became his wife in 1851.

I have been allowed an Indigent pension as a resident of Lumpkin County, under Act of 1900, for the year 1906, and now apply for the pension provided by law for the year ending December 31, 1907.

Signed: Milley Patten [X her mark]

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17^th day of Jan. 1907.

T. F. Hill, Ordinary

Georgia,

Banks County.

Personally came before me ordinary of said County, Hattie Patten, who says on oath that her mother, Millie Patton, died 5^th day of Feb. 1908 and she was in the pension roll at $60.00 per year. That the expenses of her burial and last illness was paid by affiant and that the amount paid by her was $24.15 burial expenses. Also for waiting on her during her sickness 18 days at $2.00 per day $36.00 which amount is now due and unpaid.

Signed: Hattie Patton [X her mark]

Sworn to and subscribed before me March 27^th 1908.

T. F. Hill, Ordinary.

James C. Allan, Witness.

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King