Our Pensioners

Through the kindness of our excellent Ordinary, Judge Carmichael, we learn the following facts with reference to the confederate pensioners of Butts County:

There are 75 persons in the county who draw pensions from the state.   Of this number 42 are the widows of confederate soldiers; 48 are old confederate soldiers.   These latter may be divided into two classes, towit; invalid soldiers, 29 and indigent soldiers, 14.

The widows are paid annually the uniform sum of sixty dollars.   They receive therefore, $1,920 from the state.   The indigent soldiers also receive the uniform stipend of sixty dollars a year, which brings into the county from that source $840.   The invalid soldiers are paid according to their injuries.   One of them receives a pension of five dollars a year for the loss of a finger; two get twenty-five dollars each; 2 get thirty dollars each; 16 get fifty dollars each and eight get one hundred dollars each, making $11715 received by invalid soldiers.(This figure of $11715 is an incorrect figure.  The above figures add up to $1715.00)

It will be observed that the total amount of cash paid to Butts county pensioners is $4,475.

Jackson Argus - Week of December 31, 1896

Submitted by Don Bankston