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Nacogdoches Co. TX - PENSIONS - W.H. Parrott
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W.H. Parrott #16138

FORM A
For Use of Soldiers, Who are in Indigent Circumstances

THE STATE OF TEXAS}
County of. Nacogdoches

     I, __ W. H. PARROTT____-, do hereby make application to the Commissioner of Pensions for a pension to be granted me under the Act passed by the Thirty-first Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved March 26, A. D. 1909, on the following grounds:
     I enlisted and served in the military service of the Confederate States during the war between the States of the United States, and that I did not desert the Confederate service, but during said war I was loyal and true to my duty, and never at any time voluntarily abandoned my post of duty in the said service: that I was honorably discharged or surrendered in May 1865, the war being at an end. __

(Give date and cause.)
That I have been a bona fide citizen of this State since prior to. January 1,A. D. 1880, and have been continuously since a citizen of the State of Texas. I do further state that I do not hold any national, State, city or county office which pays me in salary or fees one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, nor have I am income from any other employment or other source whatever which amounts to one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, nor do I receive from any source whatever money or other means of support amounting in value to the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, nor do I own in my own right, nor does any one hold in trust for my benefit or use, nor does my wife own, nor does any one hold in trust for my wife, estate or property. Either real, personal. Or mixed, either in fee or for life, of the assessed value of over one thousand dollars: nor do I receive any aid or pension from any other State, or from the United States, or from any other source, and that I am not an inmate of the Confederate Home. And I do further state that the answers given to the following questions are true:
1. What is your age?. 65 .
2. Where were you born: in Tenn.
3. How long have you resided in Texas ? 61 years.
4. In what county do you reside? Nacogdoches
5. How long have you resided in said County and what is your Post office address? 55 years P.O. Garrison, Texas, R.F.D. 2
6. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate pension law and been rejected? I if rejected, state when and where. No
7. What is your occupation, if able to engage in one? Farming
8. In what State was the command in which you served organized? Texas
9. How long did you serve? Give, if possible, the date of enlistment and discharge: 3 years. Enlisted Feb 10,1862. Discharged May 1865.
10. What was the letter of your company, number or name of battalion, regiment or battery? Co. G 34th Texas cavalry.?..
11. If transferred from one command to another, give time of transfer, name of command and time of service: I first enlisted in Co K 19th Tex Cavalry, but received my discharge there from on account of failure of health in the summer of 1862, U then re-enlisted in Co g 34th Tex Cav. and remained therein until close of War.
12. What branch of the service did you enlist in—infantry; cavalry, artillery or navy? Cavalry..
13. If commissioned by the President, what was your rank and line of duty?
14. If detailed for special service, under the law of conscription, what was the nature of your service and how long did you serve.
15. Have you transferred to others any property of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? No

Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application be approved and such other proceedings be had in the premised as are required by law.

     (Signature of Applicant) F.M. Parrott
Seal          F.P. Marshall
County Judge Nacogdoches County, Texas
_____________________
AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES
(Note.—There must be at least two credible witnesses.)
THE STATE OF TEXAS}
County of Nacogdoches }
     Before me F.P. Marshall, County Judge of Nacogdoches County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared F.J. Humphreys and F.H. Hamrick, who are personally known to me to be credible citizens who, being by me duly sworn, on oath state that they personally know F.M. Parrott the named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said F.M. Parrott has been a bona fide resident of the State of Texas since prior to January 1, A.D. 1880, and that they have no interest in this claim.
         (Signature of Witness) F.J. Humphreys
         (Signature of Witness) F.W. Hamrick
     Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 16th day of August, A.D. 1909
             F.P. Marshall
     (Seal)      County Judge Nacogdoches County, Texas

AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES
     (If possible, the two witnesses should have served with the applicant in the army, and, if so, let them, or either, state it in their source of knowledge; also any information regarding applicant's army service.)
THE STATE OF TEXAS}
County of Nacogdoches }
     Before me , County Judge of County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who, being by me sworn, on an oath state that they are personally acquainted with the applicant, and that the foregoing applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in his application are correct and true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim, and said applicant's habits are good and free from dishonor. And they further make oath to the following facts touching the applicant's service to the Confederate Army:

(Signature of Witness)
(Signature of Witness)
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this --day of -- A.D. 19
         F.P. Marshall
     (seal)      County Judge Nacogdoches County, Texas.

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CERTIFICATE OF THE STATE AND COUNTY ASSESSOR
I, A.Y. DONEGAN State and County Assessor in the County of Nacogdoches State of Texas, do certify the W.H. Parrott or his wife, or his trustee, or trustee for his wife, whose name is signed to the foregoing application for a pension, under the Act of the Thirty-first Legislature, approved march 26, A.D. 1909. is charged on the land and personal property rolls of said county with estate, real, personal and mixed, at the assessed value of $440.00 dollars.\

Given under my hand, this 20th day of August, A.D. 1909 A.Y. Donegan
State and County Assessor

_________

EX PARTE      | Pending in the Honorable Commissioners
         | Court of Nacogdoches County, Texas,
W.H. PARROTT      |++ before the Honorable County Judge of
         | said County.
Application for Confederate Pension|

     The Honorable County Judge of Nacogdoches County, Texas, will please take notice that, five days after the service hereof, applicant herein will apply to the Clerk if the County Court of said County And State, for a commission to take the depositions of Jerome Smith and S.E. Jacobs who reside in the County of Rusk in the State of Texas in answer to the following interrogatories and such cross-interrogatories as may be propounded by the County Judge if said County, which will be read in evidence upon the hearing if applicant's claim for pension in behalf of applicant; said testimony is material and indispensable to applicant in furnishing the required proof to his claim for a pension under the Act of March 26, 1909, the application for which is now pending before the Honorable County Judge, and the facts necessary and required to be proven under the provisions if said act, applicant believes can not be proven by any witness Residing in the County of Nacogdoches and State of Texas, of which he is a bona fide resident.

         F.P. Marshall
         Attorney for Applicant

DIRECT INTERROGRATORIES TO BE PROPOUNDED TO THE WITNESS
JEROME SMITH & S.E. JACOBS
Int. 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and post office address?
Int. 2. Do you personally know, or did you at any time know W. H. Parrott who is an applicant for pension under Act of March 26, 1909?
Int. 3. How long have you known the said W.H. Parrott applicant for pension, and when and where did you first know him?
Int. 4. Do you personally know that the said W.H. Parrott applicant for pension, enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor?
Int. 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said W.H. Parrott, enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When? Where? and the time of service? If you personally knew and so have stated that he enlisted and served in the Confederate navy, then state: when? Where? And how long he so served?
Int. 6. Do you personally know that W.H. Parrott was commissioned as an Officer directly by the President of the Confederate States? What Was his rank and line of duty.
Int. 7. Do you further know if W.H. Parrott was, under the provisions of the Conscript law, detailed for any kind of special service in the field, Shops, armories, etc., of the Confederacy? What was the nature of His service, and how long did he serve?

CROSS INTERROGATORIES

TO BE PROPOUNDED TO Jerome Smith and S.E. Jacobs
     Cross Interrogatory 1. If, in answer to the foregoing direct interrogatories, you have stated that you personally know or did know said W.H. Parrott, and that you know he enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor, and having named the company and regiment or special service in which W.H. Parrott so enlisted and served, then please state fully what is your source of such knowledge? And state whether or not you know or at any time you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of W.H. Parrott serving in the same company or regiment, or special service in which you say the said W.H. Parrott, enlisted, if you have stated that said W.H. Parrott enlisted, if you have stated that said W.H. Parrott enlisted and served in the navy of the Confederacy, then state whether or not you know any other soldier or sailor of the same name as said W.H. Parrott applicant serving in the same command, or the special service to which he was assigned?
     If you say that you knew other soldiers or sailors of the same name as W.H. Parrott, then can you and how do you identify and locate the one from the other or other's.
     Cross Int. 2 Are you positively certain that said W.H. Parrott, applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you?
     Cross Int. 3 Do you know whether or not the said W. H. Parrott served honorably from the date of his enlistment until the close of the late Civil War between the States, or until he was discharged from said company and regiment, or the special service to which he had been assigned?
     Cross Int. 4 Do know whether or not the said W.H.Parrott, applicant for pension, ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy?

THE STATE OF TEXAS

County of NACOGDOCHES

     I F.P. Marshall County Judge of said County, in said State, do hereby waive copy of interrogatories, notice, time and issuance of commission, and it is hereby agreed that the answers to the hereinabove direct and cross interrogatories of the said herein named witness… maybe attached hereto.

         F.P. Marshall

         County Judge.. Nacogdoches, Texas

         J.F. Peterson
         (Applicant) Attorney… for Applicant

EX PARTE      |IN RE APPLICATION FOR CONFEDERATE PENSION
W.H. PARROTT      |Under Act March 26, 1909, pending in
         |Nacogdoches County, Texas, before
Applicant for Confederate Pension |the Honorable County Judge of said County

     Answers and depositions of (1) JEROME SMITH AND S.E. JACOBS, to the accompanying interrogations (2) and Cross Interrogations propounded to them in the above entitled cause taken before (3) in accordance with the accompanying (7) agreement
     To the first interrogatory the said Witness, answers:
1. Jerome D. Smith, 79 yrs., Garrison, Texas
2. I know W. H. Parrott.
3. For 57 years.
4. I never saw W.H. Parrott enlist in the Army, but I saw him performing the duties of a soldier.
5. In said Army, (5.) I do not
6. I cannot give the name of W.H. Parrott's Co. and Regiment but I know he was a soldier in Parson's Cavalry(Parson's Brigade) and performed the duties of a soldier.
7. He was a Private soldier.

Cross Interrogatories

1. Personal knowledge and observation. I saw W.H. Parrott while he was a Soldier in the Army and saw him performing the duties of a soldier. He visited our Company while a soldier, as we were neighbors.
2. I am perfectly satisfied that W.H. Parrott is the identical person Testified to by me.
3. W.H. Parrott and myself were neighbors at the time of our enlistment in the Army. He joined the Cavalry and I joined the Infantry and on my return home at the end of the war W.H. Parrott returned at about the same time to his home, his having been in the Army since his enlistment and I feel sure that I can safely state that he was discharged.
4. If he ever did, I never heard of it, and if he had done said I would have heard of it.

J.D. Smith

     Subscribed and sworn before me this 18th day of August AD 1909
H.G. Abernathy J.P. & Ex-Officio Notary Public for Nacogdoches County, Texas

1. S.E. Jacobs. 80 years. Garrison, Texas.
2. I have known W.H. Parrott for fifty-years.
3. For 50 years.
4. I know that W.H. Parrott enlisted as a private in Co K, 19th Texas Cavalry Confederate States Army and saw him perform the duties of a soldier.
5. Co K, 19th Texas Cavalry, C.S.A. In the spring of 1862at Dallas Texas and served as a soldier for three years and to the close of the war.
6. He was a private soldier.

CROSS INTERROGATORIES

1. I served as a soldier in Co E in the 19th Texas Cavalry Regiment and Served with him in said regiment. I know no other soldier in said regiment by the name of W.H. Parrott
2. I am positively certain that W.H. Parrott is the identical person as Testified by me.
3. I know that W.H. Parrott served honorably from the time of his enlistment to the close of the war when he was discharged.
4. He never left his post of duty during said war.

S.E. Jacobs
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of August 1909

H.G. Abernathy JP and Ex-Officio Notary Public for Nacogdoches County, Texas

_______________________________________________

THE STATE OF TEXAS }
County of Nacogdoches } I H.G. Abernathy Justice of the Peace and Ex-officio notary Public do hereby certify that J.D. Smith and S.E. Jacobs are personally known to be credible citizens of said County and State and that the foregoing answers of S.E. Jacobs and J.D. Smith the witnesses before named, and S.E. Jacobs and J.D. Smith whose names appear signed to the foregoing deposition, were made before me and were sworn to and subscribed before me, by said witnesses: S.E. Jacobs and J.D. Smith.

Given under my hand and official seal, this the 19th day of Aug. 1909

(L.S.)          H.G. Abernathy JP and Ex-officio Notary Public
         Nacogdoches County, Texas

no

Answers of W.H. Parrot to Interrogatories propounded to him before Robert Berger County Judge of Nacogdoches County, Texas on the Pension application for J.F. Peterson, pending before the Commissioners Court of Nacogdoches County.

     In answer to the 1st Direct Interrogatory hereto attached witness answers:
     1st: My name is W.H. Parrott. Post Office Garrison, Texas, My age is 59 years.
     2nd Direct Interrogatory question answers: Yes, I know him well.
     3rd Direct Interrogatory question answers: Ever since before the Civil War, I have been personally acquainted with him.
     4th Direct Interrogatory question answer: I was not present when he enlisted, but I saw him in the Confederate Army performing the duties of a Confederate soldier.
     5th Direct Interrogatory question answer: He was in Co. H, 19th Texas Infantry when I was with him. This was in December 1862 at Pine Bluff Arkansas and also at Camden also near Lake Providence, La. J.F. Peterson, the applicant, and myself were both captured by the Union soldiers, and were in prison together from the 1st or 2nd day of May 1864 until July 25, same year, we were captured by Bank's Army.
     6th Direct Interrogatory question answer: I am acquainted with J.F. Peterson's financial and physical condition, and don't consider that he is financially or physically able to make a support.

     1st Cross Interrogatory answer: The source of my knowledge is that I was with him, and saw him performing the duties of a Confederate prisoner with him. I did not know of any other person, serving in the Confederate Army by the name of J.F. Peterson, he is the person I am testifying about.
     2nd Cross Interrogatory answer: Yes, I am certain that he is the identical person.
     3rd Cross Interrogatory answer: I have been living a very near neighbor to him, ever since the late Civil War, and know his condition well. My answer is not based on conjecture.
     4th Cross Interrogatory answer: He did not desert the army.

W.H. Parrott

I, Robert Berger, County Judge, Nacogdoches County, Texas. I do solemnly swear that the foregoing answers of the witness W.H. Parrott, was taken down by me, and that the same was signed and sworn to by said witness before me on this the 11th day of July 1903, Robert Berger County Judge of Nacogdoches County, Texas

OFFICE OF
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS
STATE OF TEXAS
AUSTIN

E.A. HOLMES,COMMISSIONER

To the ADJUTANT general,

     War Department

     Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
     I have the honor to request the military record of W.W. Parrott who is reported to have enlisted in Company K,19th Regiment Texas Cavalry in the service of the confederate States Army.

     Purpose: The widow of the person above named is an applicant for a Confederate pension granted by this State, and I desire to verify his proof of service.

         Very respectfully,

         E.A. Bolones
         Commissioner of Pensions

Address: "The Adjutant General War Department, Washington, D.C.

WAR DEPARTMENT
The Adjutant General's Office
Washington. Aug. 31, 1909.

Respectfully returned to the '
Commissioner of Pensions,
     State of Texas
     Austin,

     The records of this office show that W.H. Parrott, private, Company K, 19th Texas Cavalry, Confederate States Army, enlisted March 24, 1862, that he was captured April 23, 1864, and was exchanged July 22, 1864. No later record of him has been found.
v          Signature
         The Adjutant General

APPLICATION FOR MORTUARY WARRANT

STATE OF TEXAS }      I W.H. PARROTT
County of Nacogdoches }

Do hereby certify that I am the person to whom is entrusted the paying of the accounts and indebtedness of the W.H. PARROTT, who was a pensioner of the State of Texas, and whose file number was 16138 and whose original county was Nacogdoches.
     The said pensioner W.H. PARROTT died in the home of his own house that was related to the pensioner as.
     I further certify that the said pensioner W.H. PARROTT has not cashed the warrant for the current quarter.
     I am related to the pensioner as (Friend) son, that my Post office address is Garrison, Texas.
         Signed W.A. PARROTT
Sworn to before me this 13 day of March 1925
J.S. Sterning
Notary Public in and for Nacogdoches County, State of Texas

CERTIFICATE OF UNDERTAKER

I GORDON LANGSTON, do certify that I am undertaker in the town of Garrison, County of Nacogdoches, State of Texas, that I had charge of the body of W.H. Parrot, who died in the town of Garrison, County of Nacogdoches, State of Texas, on the 22 day of July 1925. That said body was prepared for burial by me on the 23 day of July 1925, and that I am of the opinion that warrant herein applied for should be issued to the said W.A. PARROTT who makes the foregoing application.
         Signed GORDON LANGSTON
         Undertaker

CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN
     I GEORGE H. TURNER, do certify that I am a practicing physician, and that I attended W.H. PARROTT in his last illness, and am of the opinion that his ailments were general declivity and old age.
     I further certify that I am of the opinion that the Mortuary Warrant above requested in the name of the aforementioned applicant, in accordance with Act passed by the Thirty-eighth Legislature and approved March 2, 1923.

SIGNED GEORGE H. TURNER
Physician's Address: Garrison, Texas

MUST RETURN BEFORE
40 DAYS EXPIRES FROM
DATE OF PERSIONER'S DEATH

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