FRY, Thomas - Confederate Pension Application #10013FORM No. 1. Amended 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. ========================================================== THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Burnet To the Honorable County Judge of Burnet County, Texas. Your Petitioner, Thomas Fry, 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: Thomas Fry Q. What is your Age? Answer: Sixty years, July 13 1903 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: 48 years. post office Burnet 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 engage in any Q What is your physical condition? Answer: suffer from rheumatism and fever trouble and am unable to earn a support by my own 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 as above stated Q. In what State was your command originally organized? Answer: Company D, Capt McKee’s Co, 3rd Arizona Regiment. Served from fall of 1862 to close of war -- 1865 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: I have not 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: two mules $100; two cows, $30. Total $130 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 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 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) Thomas fry Sworn and subscribed before me this 31 day of October 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, Ike D. White, County Judge of Burnet County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared W.B. Johnston and W.W. Brooks who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know Thomas Fry the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know the said Thomas Fry ienlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier as claimed by him in the above and foregoing application; that our source of such knowledge is as follows: That we served in the same company or regiment in which said applicant enlisted, and that we enlisted in the Confederate Army at the same time and place with the said Thomas Fry and knew him a number of years before the war and ever since and that he is the identical person who makes this application and that he never deserted the Confederacy; that his Co. was Company D 3rd Arizona and we served in the same company and regiment. and that they further know that the said applicant, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) W.B. Johnston (Signature of Witness) W.W. Brooks Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31 day of October_A.D. 1903 Ike D. White County Judge Burnet County, Texas ==================================== 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 Dr. A. Howell, 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 Thomas Fry, 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: He is suffering from rheumatism and enlargement of the liver. (Signature of Physician) A. Howell Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3 day of November 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 Thomas Fry 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 the 10th 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 ======================================== APPLICATION FOR MORTUARY WARRANT STATE OF TEXAS, County of San Saba I, Howard V. Clark do hereby certify that I am the person to whom is entrusted the paying of the accounts and indebtedness of the late Thomas Fry, who was a pensioner of the State of Texas, and whose file number is 10013 and whose original county was Burnet. The said pensioner, Thomas Fry, died on the 2nd day of April, 1927, in the town of San Saba, County of San Saba, Texas. The pensioner died in the home of Howard V. Clark who was related to the pensioner as grandson. 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, Thomas Fry. 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 grandson and that my post office address is San Saba. Signed Howard V. Clark Sworn to before me this 16th day of April 1927 W.O. Dean County Judge _San Saba_____ County, State of Texas ================== CERTIFICATE OF UNDERTAKER I, Fairman Company, do certify that I am an undertaker in the town of San Saba, County of San Saba, State of Texas that I had charge of the body of Thomas Fry, who died in the town of San Saba, County of San Saba, State of Texas, on the 2nd day of April 1927 That said body was prepared for burial by me on the 2nd day of April, 1927, and that I am of the opinion that warrant herein applied for should be issued to the saidHoward V. Clark, who makes the foregoing application. Signed by M.E. Fairman ================== CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN I, W.S. BICHAM, do certify that I am a practicing physician and that I attended Thomas Fry in his last illness, and am of the opinion that his ailments were Chronic Brights disease with mitral regurgitation.. 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 Wm. S. Bickham Physician's Address San Saba, Texas ============ |
