Pensions - Nacogdoches County, Texas Genealogy and History

Nacogdoches Co. TX - PENSIONS - Mevina Peterson
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Name of applicant: Mevina Peterson Pension #11580
County: Nacogdoches
Post Office: Garrison
Comptroller's File No.: 11059

The law provides that pensions can begin only on the first day of April and October of each year.

FORM No. 2 Amended October 1, 1902.

APPLICATION of Indigent Widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. Hereafter use no other blank but this.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, ]
County of Harris ]

To the Honorable County Judge of Nacogdoches County, Texas.
Your petitioner, Mrs. Melvina Peterson respectively represents that she is a resident citizen of Nacogdoches County, in the State of Texas; that she is the widow of J.F. Peterson, deceased, who was a Confederate soldier (or sailor), and that she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension as the widow of said J.F. Peterson, deceased, under the act by the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved May 12, A.D. 1899, the same being an act entitled "An act to carry into effect the amendment to the amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that aid may be granted to disabled and dependent Confederate soldiers, sailors, and their widows under certain conditions, and to make an appropriation therefor" and I do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true.

NOTE—Applicant must make answer to all of the following questions, and such answers must be written out plainly in ink.

Q. What is your name? Answer: Melvina Peterson
Q. What is your age? Answer: 67 Years
Q. In what county do you reside? Answer: Nacogdoches
Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: All my life—Appleby, Nacogdoches County, Texas
Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so, state when and where. Answer: No Sir
Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: Housework.
Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: Not Good at all
Q. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer: J.F. Peterson
Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date were you married to him and where? Answer: Yes, I was.- I married him August 12, 1860.
Q. What was the date of his death? Answer: He died September 25, 1925.
Q. Are you unmarried, and have you remained unmarried since the death of your said husband for whose services you claim a pension? Answer: Yes
Q. In what State was your husband's command originally organized? Answer: In Texas
Q How long did your husband serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer: He enlisted I think, in February 1862 and was discharged in April 1865, having served about 3 years or more.
Q. What was the name or letter of your husband's company and name or number of his regiment? I think it was Co H 19th Reg. Waterhouse's Reg.
Q. State whether he served in the infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the navy. Answer. Infantry
Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state what pension or veteran donation land certificate you have received. Answer: No, I have not.
Q. What real and personal property do you own, and what is the present value of such property? Answer: One home worth $400, one cow and calf worth $12.50, 3 shoats worth $9.00.
Q. What properties, and what was the value thereof, have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to the date of this application. Answer: Some cows and for $51.75, which has been used to pay expenses Of my husband's last sickness.
Q What income, if any, do you receive? Answer: None Sir.
Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer: Yes, I have nothing.
Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support? Answer: Yes
Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer: No Sir.
Q. Did your husband for whose services you claim a pension, ever desert the Confederacy? Answer: No
Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of March 1880, a bona fide resident of this State? Answer: Yes, I have.

Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law.

(Signature of Applicant) MRS. MELVINA PETERSON – X HER MARK

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24 day of Oct. A.D. 1905

(Seal)         ROBERT BERGER
         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 ROBERT BERGER County Judge of Nacogdoches County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared R.E. LOWE and R.L. WILLIAMSON who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know that Mrs. MELVINA PETERSON, applicant for a pension as the widow of the said J.F. PETERSON, deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of the said J.F. PETERSON, deceased, that they personally know that the said MRS. MELVINA PETERSON, widow of the said J.F.PETERSON deceased, is unable to support herself by labor of any sort.

(Signature of Witness) R.E. Lowe
(Signature of Witness} R.L. WILLIAMSON

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24 day of October A.D. 1905
(Seal)          ROBERT BERGER
         County Judge, Nacogdoches County, Texas

CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE

THE STATE OF TEXAS
County Judge of Nacogdoches County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 13th day of November A.D. 1905 before me came on to be heard the application of MRS. MELVINA PETERSON, widow of J.F. PETERSON, deceased for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law of this State, approved May 12, A.D. 1899; that the answers of said applicant to the questions propounded were made under oath as the same appear in writing in the foregoing application; that the affidavits of the witnesses who re credible citizens were made before me as the same herein before appear. I also certify that the said applicant MRS. MELVINA PETERSON is not disqualified under any the provisions of Section 12, of the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify that after considering all of the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said MRS. MELVINA PETERSON as widow of J.F. PETERSON, deceased, I find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and I hereby approve said application.

         Witness my hand and seal of office at Nacogdoches this 13
        Day of November A.D. 1905

        ROBERT BERGER
(Seal)         County Judge Nacogdoches County, State of Texas

CERTIFICATE OF COUNT COMMISIONERS
THE STATE OF TEXAS
County of Nacogdoches We the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Nacogdoches County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of MRS. MELVINA PETERSON, widow of J.F. PETERSON deceased, for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Honorable ROBERT BERGER County Judge of this Nacogdoches County, to the Commissioners Court of this Nacogdoches County, at a regular term thereof on the 13th day of November A.D. 1905, and after a careful consideration of the same we find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and we hereby approve said application.

Witness our hands and seal of office at Nacogdoches this 13th day
Of November A.D. 1905
J. W. BYRD
H.V. SITTON
R.L. WILLIAMSON
C.R. PATTON
(Seal and Signatures of Commissioners)

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