SOURCE: Pension application reproduced from the holdings of the Texas State Archives
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Form 111B
Widow's Application for Confederate Pension
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THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Burnet
I, Mrs.
Margaret Allen, do hereby make application to the Commissioner of
Pensions for a pension, pursuant to the provisions of articles 6204 to
6227, inclusive, of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 as amended by
S.B. No.27, passed by the Forty-first Legislature at its Fifth Called
Session and all other laws of this State relating thereto.
I am
the widow of Albert L. Allen, deceased, who departed this life on the
26 day of May, A.D.1928, in the county of Travis, in the State of Texas.
I
have not remarried since the death of my said husband; and I do
solemnly swear that I was never divorced from my said husband, and that
I never voluntarily abandoned him during his life, but remained his
true, faithful and lawful wife up to the date of his death. I was
married to him on the 28th day of March A.D. 1878; in the county of
Murrey, in the state of Tennessee.
My husband, the said Albert
L. Allen, enlisted and served in the military service of the
Confederate States during the war between the States of the United
States, and that he did not desert the Confederate Service. I have been
a resident of the State of Texas since prior to January 1, A.D. 1910,
and have been continuously since a citizen of the State of Texas. I do
further state that I do not receive from any source whatever money or
other means of support amounting in value to the sum of $300.00 per
annum, nor do I own in my own right, nor does anyone hold in trust for
my benefit or use, estate or property, either real, personal or mixed,
either in fee or for life, of the value of one thousand dollars,
exclusive of the home of the value of not over $2000.00; nor do I
receive any aid or pension from any other State, or from the United
States, or from any other source, and I do further state that the
answers given to the following questions are true:
1. What is your age, and date of birth? 71...Born February 28, 1857
2. Where were you born? Murry County State of Tennessee
3. How long have you resided in the State of Texas? 38 years
4. How long have you resided in the county of your present residence? about 14 years
5. What is your post office address? Liberty Hill, Texas
6. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate pension law and been rejected? No
7. Did your husband draw a pension? ____ If so, give his file number. 35879
8. What was your husband's full name? Albert Luther Allen
9. In what State was your husband's command originally organized? 35879
10. How long did your husband serve? yes ... If known to you, give date of enlistment and discharge. 35879
11. What was the name or letter of the company, or number of the battalion...35879
12 . Name branch of service in which your husband served... 35879
13. Do you own any property other than that rendered for taxes in your county? No.
14. Have you transferred to another any property of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? No
Wherefore
your petitioner prays that her application for a pension may be
approved and such other proceedings be had in the premises as are
required by law.
Signed by Margaret X (her mark) Allen
Signed by witnesses J. G. Allen and M. R. Allen
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 26th day of May A.D. 1928
C. N. Moses, Notary Public, Burnet County, Texas
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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES
THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Burnet
Before
me, O. B. Zimmerman, County Judge of Burnet County, State of Texas, on
this day personally appeared J. M. Stewart and Joe L. Pangle, who are
personally known to me to be creditable citizens, who, being by me duly
sworn on oath state that they personally know that Mrs. Margret Allen,
applicant for a pension as the widow of Albert Luther Allen deceased,
is in truth and fact the widow of Albert Luther Allen, deceased; that
they personally know that she has not remarried since the death of her
husband, for whose service in the army she claims a pension, and that
they have no interest in this claim.
Signed by J. M. Stewart
and by Joe L. Pangle
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 28th day of May, A.D. 1928
Signed by O. B. Zimmerman, County Judge Burnet County, Texas
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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES
THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Travis
Before
me, G. S. Matthews, County Judge of Travis County, State of Texas, on
this day personally appeared J. M. Hornsby and J. D. Platt, who are
personally known to me to be creditable citizens, who, being by me duly
sworn on oath state that they personally know that said Mrs. Margret
Allen, has been a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas
since prior to January 1, A.D. 1910, and that they have no interest in
this claim.
Signed by J. M. Hornsby and by J. D. Platt
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 29th day of May, A.D. 1928
Signed by G. S. Matthews, County Judge Travis County, Texas
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NOTE FROM G. S. Matthews
Dear Judge
Please
attend to this at once as this has to get to the Comptroller by May
31st or she will lose one quarter's pension which is $50.00. Thanking
you I am
Your Friend
G. S. Matthews
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CERTIFICATE OF STATE AND COUNTY ASSESSOR
I,
J. F. Pangle, State and County Assessor in the County of Burnet, State
of Texas, do certify that Mrs. Margret Allen whose name is signed to
the foregoing application for a pension, under the Act of the
Thirty-third Legislature, approved April 7, 1913, is charged on the tax
rolls of said county with a homestead of the value of no property
Dollars, and of other property, real or personal, or both, of the value
of N O N E Dollars.
Given under my hand, this 28TH day of MAY A.D. 1928.
Signed by J. F.. Pangle, State and County Assessor
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APPLICATION FOR MORTUARY WARRANT
STATE OF TEXAS, County of Burnet
I,
____(left blank)_____ do hereby certify that I am the person to whom is
entrusted the paying of the accounts and indebtedness of the late Mrs..
Margaret Allen, who was a pensioner of the State of Texas, and whose
file number is 43818 and whose original county is Burnet.
The
said pensioner, Mrs. Margaret Allen, died on the 21st day of November,
1930, in the (near) town of Bertram, County of Burnet, Texas.
The pensioner died in the home of C. L. Allen who was related to the pensioner as son.
That
the warrant which application is hereby made for, shall be applied to
paying all or part of the expenses incurred by the said pensioner,
___(left blank)_______.
I further certify that the warrant for
the current quarter (quarter lined through and month written above) has
not been cashed by the pensioner, to the best of my knowledge and
belief.
I am related to the pensioner as son and that my post office address is Liberty Hill, Tex.
Signed by J. L. Allen
Sworn to before me this 26th day of November, 1930
Signed C. N. Moses, Notary Public in and for Burnet, Texas
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CERTIFICATE OF UNDERTAKER
I,
B. M. Webb, a member of firm of A.B. McGill & Co., do certify that
I am an undertaker in the town of Bertram, County of Burnet, State of
Tex., that I had charge of the body of Mrs. Margaret Allen, who died
near the town of Bertram, County of Burnet, State of Texas, on the 21
day of November 1930. That said body was prepared for burial by me on
the 22 day of November, 1930, and that I am of the opinion that warrant
herein applied for, should be issued to the said J. L. Allen who makes
the foregoing application.
Signed: A. B. McGill & Co. by B. M. Webb, Undertaker
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CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN
I,
Ben Erle Laurie, M.D., do certify that I am a practicing physician and
that I attended Mrs. Margaret Allen in her last illness, and am of the
opinion that her ailments were Cardio-vascular-renal disease with
hypertension and ultimately cardiac failure.
I further certify
that I am of the opinion that the Mortuary Warrant above requested
should be issued in the name of the aforementioned applicant, in
accordance with Act passed by the Thirty-eighth Legislature, and
approved, March 2, 1923.
Signed Ben Erle Laurie, M.D., Bertram, Texas
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