Eliza Atkinson
CSA Widow's Pension Application

Widow's Application for Pension
Filed Sept. 15th 1913
Approved Mar 1st 1914
Pension allowed from June 1st 1914

Form B
For Use of Widows of Soldiers who are in Indigent Circumstances

THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Burnet

I, Mrs. Eliza Atkinson, do hereby make application to the Commissioner of Pensions for a pension, to be granted me under the Act passed by the Thirty-third Legislature of the State of Texas and approved April 7, A.D. 1913, on the following grounds:

I am the widow of A. Atkinson, deceased, who departed this life on the 14th day of March, A.D. 1901, in the county of Burnet, 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 24th day of July A.D. 1887; in the county of Burnet, in the state of Texas.

My husband, the said A.A. Atkinson, 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 March 1, A.D. 1880, and have been continuously since a citizen of the State of Texas. I do further state that I do not receive from anysource 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 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 $1000.00; 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? 60 years

2. Where were you born? Lincoln Co., Kentucky

3. How long have you resided in the State of Texas? 58 years

4. How long have you resided in the county of your present residence? And what is your postoffice address? about 56 years

5. What was your husband's full name? Albert Atkinson

6. What was the date of his death? March 14, 1901

7. In what State was your husband's command originally organized? Texas

8. How long did your husband serve? (left blank)

9. What was the name or letter of the company, or number of the battalion...See husbands application. (Left blank)

10. Name branch of service in which your husband served. (Left blank)

11. Have you transferred to others any property of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? (Left blank)

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 Eliza Atkinson
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 14th day of July, A.D. 1913
J.G. Cook, County Judge, Burnet County, Texas

AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES
THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Burnet

Before me, J.G. Cook, County Judge of Burnet County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared J. J. Boyce, 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. Eliza Atkinson, applicant for a pension as the widow of A.A. Atkinson, deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of A.A. Atkinson, 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.J. Boyce and by J T. Olney

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 5th day of September, A.D. 1913
Signed by J.G. Cook, County Judge Burnet County, Texas

AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES
THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Burnet

Before me, J.G. Cook, County Judge of Burnet County, State ofTexas, on this day personally appeared ____(Left blank)_______, 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 Eliza Atkinson, has been a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas since prior to March 1, A.D. 1880, and that they have no interest in this claim.

Signed by J.J. Boyce
and by J. T. Olney

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 5th day of September, A.D. 1913
Signed by J. G. Cook, County Judge Burnet County, Texas

AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES

(If possible, the two witnesses should have served with the applicant's husband in the army, and, if so, let them, or either of them, state it in their oath; also any information regarding the army service of applicant's husband.)

THE STATE OF TEXAS
County of Burnet

Before me, J. G. Cook, County Judge of Burnet County, State of Texas, on this day personally apeared John Yarney, who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who, being by me sworn, on oath state that they are personally acquainted with the foregoing applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in her application are correct and true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim. And further make oath to the following facts touching the service of the applicant's husband in the Confederate Army: (State fully your source of knowledge.)

I first became acquainted with applicant's husband, A. A. Atkinson, about in Spring of year 1863, at Fort Deluce in the State of Louisiana on Red River. At the time I enlisted in Company "E", commanded by Capt Seth Mabry in the 17th Texas Infantry, of which concerning said A.A. Atkinson was a member. I served with him continuously after my enlistment to the close of the War, except during my imprisonment as a prisoner of war at New Orleans for about six months.

Signature of Witness: John X Yarney (his mark)

Sworn and subscribed before me, this 4th day of September, A.D. 1913
J. G. Cook
County Judge, Burnet County, Texas

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. Eliza Atkinson__ 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 no homestead of the value ---

Given under my hand, this _26_ day of _August_ A.D. 1913.
Signed by J.F. Pangle, State and County Assessor

INTERROGATORIES TO WITNESSES IN PENSION CLAIMS
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Ex Parte
Mrs. Atkinson, Applicant Atkinson

Pending in the Honorable Commissioners Court
of Burnet County, Texas,

before the Honorable County Judge of said County.

The Honorable County Judge of Burnet County, Texas, will please take notice that, five days after the service hereof, applicant herein will apply to the clerk of the County Court of said County and State for a commission to take the depositions of John C. Oatman and John Buttery (preceeding two names are crossed out) C. Breazeale who reside in the county of Llano in the State of Texas in answer to the following interrogatories and such cross interrogatories as may be propounded by the County Judge of said County, which will be read in evidence upon the hearing of applicant's claim for pension in behalf of applicant...

1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and post office address?
ANSWER: My name Clint Breazeale. I am 73 years old. I reside at Llano, Llano County, Texas. My post office Llano, Texas

2. Do you personally know, or did you at any time know A.A. Atkinson, whose widow is an applicant for pension under act of March 26 1909?
ANSWER: I did.

3. How long have you known the said A.A. Atkinson and when and where did you first know him?
ANSWER: I first knew him in 1862, when he and I enlisted in the Confederate Army.

4. Do you personally know that the said A.A. Atkinson enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier or a sailor?
ANSWER: I do. We belonged to the same Company.

5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said A.A. Atkinson enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When? Where? And the time of service?
ANSWER: He enlisted as a private in 1862, in Capt. Seth Mabry's Company E 17th, Texas Infantry. He ____ enlisted in Llano town or at Camp Terry--Camp of instruction near Austin Texas. My recollection is that he served until the end of the war.

CROSS INTERROGATORIES

1. ...what is the 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 A.A. Atkinson serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said A.A. Atkinson enlisted...
ANSWER: I know he served in Company E 17th Texas Infantry from 1862 to the close of the war because I served with him. There was no other A.A. Atkinson belonged to that Company.

2. Are you positively certain that said A.A. Atkinson is the identical person serving as testified by you?
ANSWER: I am.

3. If you have answered Direct Interrogatory No.6 in the affirmative, then please state your source of knowledge or information? Is not this your answer simply based on conjecture?
ANSWER: I have not answered direct interrogatory.

4. Do you know whether or not the said A.A. Atkinson ever deserted the service in the Confederacy army or navy?
ANSWER: He did not.

Signed: C. Breazeale

THE STATE OF TEXAS
County of Burnet

I, J.G. Cook, 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 witnesses may be attached hereto.

signed, J. G. Cook
County Judge, Burnet County, Texas

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 6th day of June, 1913
signed: John C. Oatman
Notary Public, Llano Co. Texas

APPLICATION FOR MORTUARY WARRANT
STATE OF TEXAS, County of Burnet

I, J. H. Stapp do hereby certify that I am the person to whom is entrusted the paying of the accounts and indebtedness of the late Mrs. Eliza Atkinson, who was a pensioner of the State of Texas, and whose file number is 27322 and whose original county is Burnet.

The said pensioner, Mrs. Eliza Atkinson, died on the 2nd day of June, 1919, in the town of Burnet, County of Burnet, Texas.

The pensioner died in the home of S.H. Hill who was related to the pensioner as son-in-law.

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, Mrs. Eliza Atkinson.

I further certify that the warrant for the current quarter has not been cashed by the pensioner, to the best of my knowledge and belief.

I am related to the pensioner as friend and that my home is in the town of Burnet, County of Burnet, State of Texas, that my postoffice address is Burnet, Tex.

Signed by J. H. Stapp

Before me, J. R. Smith, a COUNTY Judge, in and for the County of Burnet, State of Texas, personally appeared J.H. Stapp, who being by me duly sworn did certify to, and sign the foregoing statement.

Signed J. R. Smith, Co. Judge in and for Burnet, Texas

CERTIFICATE OF UNDERTAKER
I, J. H. Stapp, do certify that I am an undertaker in the town of Burnet, County of Burnet, State of Tex., that I had charge of the body of Mrs. Eliza Atkinson, who died in the town of Burnet, County of Burnet, State of Texas, on the 2nd day of June 1919. That said body was prepared for burial by me on the 2nd day of June, 1919. That said body was buried in the Burnet Old City Cemetery, which is located in the County of Burnet,State of Texas, and that I am of the opinion that warrant herein applied for, should be issued to the said J.H. Stapp who makes the foregoing application.

Signed by J.H. Stapp, Undertaker

CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN
I, J. L. Williamson, do certify that I am a practicing physician and that I attended Mrs. Eliza Atkinson in his (sic) last illness, and am of the opinion that his ailments were Brights Disease.

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-fifth Legislature, and approved, _____, 1917.

Signed J. L., Williamson, M.,D., Physician, Burnet, Texas