J. C. Bawcom CSA Pension Application

FORM No. 1. Amended October 1, 1902

APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. HEREAFTER USE NO OTHER BLANK BUT THIS.

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THE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Burnet

To the Honorable County Judge of Burnet County, Texas.

Your Petitioner, J.C. Bawcom, respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Burnet County, in the State of Texas, and that he makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension 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 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: J.C. Bawcom

Q. What is your Age? Answer: 69 years

Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Burnet

Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: lived in Burnet County about 45 years; post office Marble Falls

Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so, state when and where. Answer: No

Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: farmer when able to work

Q What is your physical condition? Answer: I am unable to do manual labor

Q. If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn a support, state what caused such disability. Answer: Rheumatism kidney and bladder trouble

Q. In what State was your command originally organized? Answer: Texas

Q. How long did you serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer: March 1862 - May 1865

Q. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? Answer: Company “B” 21st Texas Cavalry, Col Carter’s regiment

Q. State whether you served in the infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the navy. Answer: Cavalry

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

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 values. Answer: Own no property at all

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: none

Q. What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value? Answer: wife is dead. left no property

Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer: none

Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer: yes

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

Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? Answer: no

Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer: yes

Q. If you originally enlisted in the Confederate service from the State of Texas, were you at the date of the passage of this act, a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas? Answer: yes

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

(Signature of Applicant) J.C. X (his mark) Bawcom

Sworn and subscribed before me this 8 day of June A.D. 1903
Ike D. White
County Judge Burnet County, Texas

AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES

(Note: there must be at least two credible witnesses)

THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF BURNET

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 duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know ________________ the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know the said ______________ is unable to support himself by labor of any sort.

(Signature of Witness)________________
(Signature of Witness)________________

Sworn to and subscribed before me this ________day of ________A.D. _______

____________________
County Judge ___________County, Texas

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AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN

THE STATE OF TEXAS
County of Burnet

Before me Ike D. White, County Judge of Burnet County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared J. S. Brownlee, who is a reputable practicing physician of the County, who being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and thoroughly examined J.C. Bawcom, applicant for a pension, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities which render him unable to labor at any work or calling sufficient to earn a support for himself: rheumatism of the lower limbs; derangement of kidneys and bladder with occasional attack of renal colic and hematuria in severe form.

(Signature of Physician J.S. Borwnlee)

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8 day of June A.D. 1903
Ike D. White
County Judge Burnet County, State of Texas

CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

THE STATE OF TEXAS
County of Burnet

We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Burnet County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of J.C. Bawcom for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon.Ike D. White, County Judge of this Burnet County, to the Commissioners of this Burnet County, at a regular term therof on the10th day of Nov A.D. 1903, 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 Burnet this 10th day of Nov A.D. 1903.

H. A. Burns
C.C. Stewart
J. L. McMullen
J. K. Daugherty

Interrogatories to witnesses in Pension Claims
[questions and answers have been combined for ease of reading this transcript]

Int. 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and post office address?

Frank Thomas says- My name is Frank Thomas, age 61, reside in Burnet, Burnet County, Texas, my post office is Burnet, Texas.

George W. Lacy says- my name is George W. Lacy, age 66 years, reside in Marble Falls Burnet, Texas. My post office is Marble Falls.

Int 2. Do you personally know, or did you at any time know _____ who is an applicant for pension under Act of May 12, 1899?

Int 3. How long have you known the said J.C. Bawcom applicant for pension and when and where did you first know him?

FT says: I have known said applicant for 45 years. First knew him in burnet County about 45 years ago and have known him ever since.

GWL says: I have known the said Bawcom ever since 1862, In Burnet County.

Int 4. Do you personally know that the said J.C. Bawcom, applicant for pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor?

We do. We were all in the same company. He performed the duty of a soldier.

Int 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said J.C. Bawcom applicant, enlisted and served in the Confederate army [or navy]? When? Where? And the time of service?

We personally know in what company and regiment the said J.C. Bawcom enlisted in the confederate army. He inlisted in company “B” 21st Texas cavalry in March 1862, in Burnet County, Texas, and he served from the date of enlistment until May, 1865.

Int. 6. Do you further know that J.C. Bawcom the said applicant for pension, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort?

From the said applicants appearance and what he says of his physical condition and what we can see we do not think that he is able to support himself by labor of any sort.

CROSS INTERROGATORIES

1. If, in answer to the foregoing direct interrogatories, you have stated that you personally know or did know said applicant, and that you know that he enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor, and having named the company and regiment in which applicant 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 regiment in which you say the applicant J.C. Bawcom serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said applicant J.C. Bawcom enlisted or if you have stated that said applicant enlisted and served in the navy of the Confederacy, then state whether or not you know any other sailor of the same name as said J.C. Bawcom applicant serving in the same command?
--If you say that you so knew other soldiers or sailors of the same name of applicantÂ’s, then can you and how do you identify and locate the one form the other or others?

We know that applicant enlisted and served in the confederate army as above stated because we served with him in the same company and regiment and knew him well in the service. He was the only J.C. Bawcom in the company mentioned and the only one we knew in the army.

2. Are you positively certain that said J.C. Bawcom applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you?

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?

We have already fully answered this interrogatory and gave our reasons for believing as we have stated.

4. Do you k now whether or not the said J.C. Bawcom applicant for pension, ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy?