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Kincaid FAMILY lived in Gail, owned a hotel and stagecoach
line there.
David & Betty KINCAID,
daughter Emily F. and other family members are buried
at Gail Cemetery
Transcription of Confederate Pension Application
by Rilla
Hartsoe,
Great-Great Granddaughter of Elizabeth
Allen Kincaid.
"Reproduced from the Holdings of
the Texas Archives"
First page:
(Handwritten number 4650)
Endorsements Hereon for Comptroller's Use
Exclusively
Form No. 2
CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION.
Name of Applicant Mrs. Bettie Kincaid
Dickens County
Comptroller's File No. 4650
I have carefully examined the within application
for pension, together
with the proof in support thereof, and
I recommend that the application be
Approved This 20th day of November
A.D. 1899.
(Illegible signature) Comptroller
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Form No. 2 (page 2)
APPLICATION of Indigent Widow of Soldier
or Sailor of the late Confederacy
for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899.
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THE STATE OF TEXAS}
County of Dickens}
To the Honorable County Judge of ___________________County,
Texas.
Your petitioner, Mrs. Bettie Kincaid
respectfully represents that she is
a resident citizen of Dickens County, in
the State of Texas (illegible) of
David G. Kincaid, 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 David G. Kincaid, deceased,
under the act passed 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 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
therefore," and I do solemnly swear that
the answers I have given to the
following questions are true.
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NOTE--Applicant must make answer to all
of the following questions, and
such answers must be written out plainly
in ink.
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Q. What is your name? Answer Bettie
Kincaid
Q. What is your age:? Answer
I am Sixty one years
Q. In what County do you reside?
Answer Dickens
Q. How long have you resided in said County
and what is your post office
address? Answer I have resided here a little
over one year.
P. O. Address Dickens
Q. Have you applied for a pension uder
the Confederate Pension Law
heretofore, and been rejected? If
so state when and where. Answer I
have not
Q. What is your occupation if able to engage
in one? Answer Nursing
Grandchildren & Great Grand children
Q. What is your physical condition?
Answer good enough for a Confederate
widow
Q. What was the name of your deceased husband?
Answer David G. Kincaid
Q. Were you married to him anterior to
March 1, 1866? If so, on what date
wre you married to him and where?
Answer I was married to David E.
Kincaid in 1855 at Bexar Co. Texas
Q. What was the date if his death?
Answer David G. Kincaid died 28th Oct
1896
Q. Are you unmarried, and have you so remained
unmarried since the death
of your said husband for whose services
you claim a pension? Answer I
am unmarried & have so been since my
husband past.
Q. State in what company and regiment your
deceased husband for whose
services you claim a pension enlisted in
the Confederate Army, and the
time of his service therein? Answer
Co. A. 15th Texas Cavalry. Col.
Sweet, Col. R. Q Mills (illegible) Commanded
the Brigade after the Battle
of Chicamauga he served for four years
Q. If your deceased husband served in the
Confederate Navy, state when and
where and the time of such Service?
Answer did not serve in the Navy -
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 so received. Answer My Husband
or myself have recd no pension or
veterans land certificate under any law.
Page 3
Q. What real and personal property do
you now own, and what is the
present value of such property? Give list
of such property and value.
Answer I have 3 cows and calves
Q. What property, and what was the value
thereof have you sold or conveyed
within two years prior to the date of this
application? Answer Sold
none and had none to sell
Q. What income, if any, do you receive?
Answer I have no income
Q. Are you in indigent circumstances, that
is, are you in actual want and
destitute of property and (illegible)
Answer I am dependent upon my
children & Grand children for a home
Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn
a support? Answer I can nurse &
play with little babys
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--
Q. Did your deceased husband for whose
services you claim a pension ever
desert the Confederacy? Answer
No (note: Bettie underlined this answer
as to emphasize it)
Q. Have you continuously since the first
day of March 1880, a bona fide
resident citizen of this State? Answer
was born in Texas and know only
Texas
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) Bettie Kincaid
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
14th day of June A.D. 1899
C. A. McKnight
(SEAL) County Judge Dickens County, Texas
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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES
(NOTE --There must be at least two credible
witnesses)
THE STATE OF TEXAS, }
County of Borden }
Before me, J. M. Searcy
County Judge of Borden County, State of
Texas, on this day personally
appeared J. M. Kincaid who is personally
known to me to be a credible
citizen, who being by me duly sworn on
oath, state that he personally
know(s) that Mrs. Bettie Kincaid, applicant
for a pension as the widow of
D. G. Kincaid, deceased is in truth and
in fact the widow of the said
D. G. Kincaid, deceased; that he personally
know(s) that the said
D. G. Kincaid, deceased, enlisted in the
service of the Confederacy, and
performed the duties of a soldier (or sailor)
as claimed by his said widow
in the above and foregoing application,
and that he further know(s) that
said Mrs. Bettie Kincaid, widow of the
said D. G. Kincaid,deceased, is
unable to support herself by labor of any
sort.
(Signature of Witness)
J. M.
Kincaid
(Signature of Witness) ____________
(Signature of Witness) ____________
(Signature of Witness) ____________
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
5 day of August A. D. 1899
(SEAL) J. M. Searcy
County Judge Borden County, Texas
page 4
CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE
THE STATE OF TEXAS,}
COUNTY OF Dickens
} I, C. A. McKnight
County Judge of Dickens County, State
of Texas, do hereby certify that
on
the 14th Day of June A.D. 1899, before
me came on to be heard the
application of Mrs. Bettie
Kincaid [sic] widow of David G. Kincaid
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 wre made under
oath as the same appers in writing
in the foregoing application; that
the affidavits of the witnesses who
(illegible). I also certify
that the said applicant Mrs. Bettie Kincaid
is not disqualified under any of
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. Bettie Kincaid
as widow of David G. Kincaid,
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 Dickens this 14th
day of Nov A.D. 1899
C. A. McKnight
County Judge Dickens County, State
of Texas
CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
THE STATE OF TEXAS,}
COUNTY OF Dickens
} We, the undersigned members of the
Commissioners Court of Dickens County,
Texas, hereby certify that the
foregoing application of Mrs. Bettie Kincaid
Widow of David G. Kincaid,
deceased, for a pension, together
with the proof in support thereof,
was duly submitted by Hon.
C. A. McKnight County Judge of this Dickens
County, to the Commissioners
Court of this Dickens County, at a regular term
thereof on the 14th day of November
A.D. 1899, 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 Dickens this 14th
day of November A.D. 1899
(Signatures of Commissioners)
S. Austin
G. W. Harvey
L. G. Crabtree
S. S. Snowden
Page 5
(Note--There must be at least two credible witnesses)
THE STATE OF TEXAS,}
COUNTY OF Hays
} Before me, Ed R. K_____(illegible)
County Judge of Hays County, State
of Texas, on this day personally
appeared D. R. Carnahan ?)
and Jas H. Combs 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. Bettie Kincaid, applicant for a pension
as the widow of David G. Kincaid,
deceased, is in truth and fact the widow
of the said David G.
Kincaid, deceased; that they personally know that the
said David G. Kincaid, deceased,
enlisted in the service of the
Confederacy, and performed the duties
of a soldier as claimed by his
said widow in the above and
foregoing application, and that they further know
that the said Mrs. Bettie Kincaid,
widow of the said David G. Kincaid,
deceased, is unable to support herself
by labor of any sort.
Signatures of Commissioners)
J. A. (H?) Combs
D. R.
(illegible)
(Note: This could be Cocerham or
Carnahan)
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 14th day of August A. D. 1899
(SEAL) Ed R. K______(illegible)
County Judge Hays County, Texas
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