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, BEN F. HESTER, 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 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: BEN F. HESTER
Q. What is your Age? Answer: SIXTY SEVEN YEARS
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: BURNET CO. TEXAS
Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: ABOUT THIRTY YEARS; MARBLE FALLS TEXAS
Q.
Have you applied for a pension under 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: FARMER
Q What is your physical condition? Answer: [LEFT BLANK]
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:
WORN OUT AND DECREPID FROM OLD AGE PRODUCING ALSO SEVERE NERVOUS 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:
ABOUT 2 1/2 YEARS--IN THE FALL OF 1862--DISCHARGED AT CLOSE OF WAR
Q.
What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your
regiment? Answer: COMPANY “B”, 31ST TEX CAV. COL. W.P. HARDEMAN COMD
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: 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: ONE SMALL
HOUSE AND LOT IN MARBLE FALLS TEXAS, USED BY ME AS A HOUSE, WORTH ABOUT
$200. DERIVE NO REVENUE FROM IT EXCEPT ITS USE AS A HOUSE. I HAVE ONE
COW AND CALF WORTH $20.
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