Confederate Pension Application of William P. Payne
Application For Soldier’s Pension
Under Act 1910.
Questions for Applicants to
Answer.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
I, William P. Payne of said State
and County, hereby applies for the pension provided by Act of 1910, to
Confederate Soldiers, and submits his sworn statement, with his testimony to
make out the same, and after being duly 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 County and Post-office.)
William P. Payne. Banks.
Homer, R. F. D. 1
2. How long and since when have
you been a continuous resident citizen of this State?
From birth, May 20th
1836.
3. Did you enlist in the Army of
the Confederate States or of the Organized Militia of this State from 1861 to
1865?
Confederate States.
4. When and where, and in what
Company and Regiment did you enlist?
(Give the arm and class of Service.)
1st March 1863 at
Decatur, Ga. Co. C 8th
Regiment Ga. Infantry. [note on application folder shows his service record
reflects an enlistment date of March 23, 1863.]
5. How long did you remain in the
actual Military Service with said Company and Regiment? (Give date of discharge.)
2 years 1 month.
6. When and where was your Company
and Regiment surrendered or discharged from the Service?
At Appomatox C. H. Va., 9th
day of April 1865.
7. Were you actually present with
your Command when it was surrendered or discharged?
I was.
8. If you were not actually
present, state specifically and clearly where you were.
Was there. We stacked our arms and with heavy hearts
went home remembering Lee & Longstreet.
a. Where was your Command when you
left it?
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b. When did you leave the Command?
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c. For what cause did you leave?
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d. By whose authority did you
leave?
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e. For how long was your leave
granted? In what way?
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f. Why did you not return to your
Command after leave expired?
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g. In what way were you prevented?
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h. What effort did you make to
return?
I came home.
i. Were you captured during the
war?
No, not until surrender.
j. If so, when and where? In what prison were you held and when were
you released?
Was not.
9. What property of every
description was owned, in the use, possession and control of yourself and wife,
and its cash value on the 4 Nov. 1908?
(Make list by items and value.)
As near as I can remember 1 mule
worth $100, 2 cows twenty dollars each.
10. What property of any kind have
you or your wife disposed of and for what purpose since 4 Nov. 1908. To whom
and for what price?
All the disposition I made was
about 1900.
11. What property of any description
of any kind, and of any value not owned and in the use, possession and control
of yourself and wife and its cash value?
(Make itemized list.)
1 mule $100, 2 cows 20.00
each. I had a small farm I divided
between my 2 boys in the year 1900, and they were to maintain us as long as we
live on rents.
12. What annual or monthly income
or earnings of yourself and wife and the source derived have you?
Nothing but rents, not able to
work. I suffer with Hernia, can do no
work.
13. Are you drawing a pension of
any amount from this State or the United States?
No.
14. Have you ever applied for the Georgia Pension and had it
refused? And for what cause it was not
allowed?
No.
Signed: Wm. P. Payne [X his mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this the 26 day of Aug. 1910
T. F. Hill, Ordinary of Banks
County.
Notes-William P. Payne married
Julia E. Caudle (Caudell) on 06 Dec. 1860 in Franklin County, Georgia.
Damascus Baptist Church cemetery,
Banks County, Georgia:
Payne, Ben Ace-17 Jan. 1876-1
April 1971
Payne, Mollie-9 Aug. 1866-26 May
1952 [1880 census lists her as Mary J.]
Payne, Elizabeth [Julia E.]-4 Oct.
1844-27 Aug. 1931
Payne, William P.-20 May 1836-8
Feb. 1920
Payne, Harriett (daughter of
William P. Payne)-1 Nov. 1874-9 Jan. 1886
[source-“Cemeteries and Deaths in
Banks County, Georgia” by Richard J. Chambers
Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline
King