Confederate Widow’s Pension of Clara B. Pool

[This pension application has very little information on it, as the majority of questions were not answered. I am including only questions to which answers were given.]

Application for Pension by a Widow Under Act of 1910...Questions for Applicant.

State of Georgia,

Banks County.

Personally comes Mrs. C. B. Pool of said State and County, and after being duly sworn, on oath says that she desires to apply for a pension allowed under the Act of ....1910, and submit testimony to make out the same, true answers makes to the following questions to-wit:

1. What is your name, and where do you reside?

Mrs. C. B. Pool-Banks County, Ga.

2. How long and since when have you been a continuing resident of the State of Georgia?

All my life, since Jan. 6, 1848.

3. When, where and to whom were you married?

Dec. 1^st, 1864 in Hall County, Ga., to W. H. H. Pool.

4. When, where and in what Company and Regiment did your husband enlist as a soldier in Confederate Army or Georgia Militia? (State the arm and class of Service.)

24^th day of August, 1861. At Banks County, Company I 24^th Ga. Regiment.

8k. Were you residing together when he died?

No.

8l. If not, how long had you resided apart?

Nine months, both living with our children.

9. What property of any description did you own, hold or control for your own use and its cash value, Nov. 4, 1908? (State same by items.)

None.

10. What property of any kind have you sold or given away since Nov. 4, 1908? What was received for it and what did you do with the proceeds thereof? (Give items and cash value.)

None.

11. What property of any description of any value have you now?

None.

12. What are your annual earnings or income and their value?

Nothing.

13. Have you heretofore been paid a Pension by the State?

No.

Signed: Mrs. C. B. Pool

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 30 day of Oct. 1917.

W. M. Thomas, Ordinary of Banks County.

Handwritten note on application folio cover: “Enlisted Aug. 24, 1861. On roll for Jan. 30, 1865, last on roll he is reported absent without leave.” On other side of application cover “on Dr.’s roll.”

From online records of Co. I 24^th Ga. Inf. Regt., based on the Rosters of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, by Lillian Henderson:

Pool, William H. H. (or Poole)-Private-August 24, 1861. Wounded in left hip at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862. Appointed 3^rd Sergeant in 1863. Roll dated Jan. 30, 1865, last on file, shows him absent without leave. Pension records show he was furloughed December, 1864. Elected 1^st Lieutenant of Pool’s Battalion, Georgia State Troops, and surrendered at Gainesville, Ga. in 1865. (Born in Georgia, August 10, 1840.)

Timber Ridge Baptist Church cemetery, Hall County, Ga.-

Wm. H. H. Poole, 8/10/1842-9/3/1917

Clara B. Poole, 1/6/1848-11/23/1927 (Wife of William H. H.)

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King