STEWART, W.M. - Confederate Pension Application #9439

Confederate Pension Application #9439--W.M. Stewart
Approved 16 Feb 1903

FORM 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.

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THE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Burnet

To the Honorable County Judge of Burnet County, TEXAS.

Your Petitioner, W. M. Stewart, 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.
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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: W. M. Stewart

Q. What is your Age? Answer: Seventy nine

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: resided in Burnet County 22 years, P.O. Lampasas

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: Farm when able

Q What is your physical condition? Answer: Very Feble. Unable to labor, eyesight very bad and suffer from rheumatism

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: Old age, bad eyes and rheumatism

Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer: In Company “H” --Capt Mike Quinn, Tlouruay’s regiment. Enlisted in Colorado Co. Tex in Spring of 1862, and served until close of the war

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: Two ponies valued $30 each, two cows and calves, $40; total $100

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) W.M. (his mark) Stewart
Sworn and subscribed before me this 21 day of August A.D. 1902
Ike D. White Countynty Judge Burnet County, TEXAS

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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES

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

THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTYNTY OF Burnet

Before me,Ike D. White Countyy Judge of Burnet County, State of TEXAS, on this day personally appeared S. Alexander who is personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that he personally knows W.M. Stewart the above named applicant for a pension, and that he personally knows the said W.M. Stewart

(Signature of Witness)S. Alexander
(Signature of Witness)________________

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24 day of Sept A.D. 1902
Ike D. White Countynty Judge Burnet County, TEXAS

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AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN

THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTYnty of Burnet

Before me Ike D. White Countyy Judge of Burnet County, State of TEXAS, on this day personally appeared Dr. 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 W.M. Stewart, 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: the applicant is in his doteage, suffering from rheumatism for 2 or 3 years past and his eyes are failing so that he can scarcely see to get about in good daylight. If the day is dim he canÂ’t get about at all..

(Signature of Physician) J.S. Brownlee
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21 day of August A.D. 1902
Ike D. White Countynty Judge Burnet County, State of TEXAS

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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTYnty of Burnet

We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Burnet County, TEXAS, hereby certify that the foregoing application of __________ for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. ________, County Judge of this Burnet County, to the Commissioners of this Burnet County, at a regular term therof on the ____ day of _____ A.D. ________, 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 ______ day of _____ A.D. ____.

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[no County Commissioners Certificate in package for W.M. Stewart]
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Interrogatories to Witnesses in Pension Claims
[questions and answers have been combined for ease of reading this transcript]

Int. 1. What is your name? First, Merrett Hoover
Age? 60 yrs
Present place of residence and post office address? East Barnard, Wharton Co. Texas

Int 2. Do you personally know, or did you at any time know W.M. Stewart who is an applicant for pension under Act of May 12, 1899? Yes, since 1854 or 1855

Int 3. How long have you known the said W.M. Stewart applicant for pension and when and where did you first know him? Since 1854 or 1855. In Colorado Co. Texas

Int 4. Do you personally know that the said W.M. Stewart , applicant for pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor? As a soldier in the Confederacy

Int 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said W.M. Stewart applicant, enlisted and served in the Confederate army [or navy]? In 1862 April 21st at Groce in what was then Austin Co, but now is called Waller Co. In Geore Flournoyes regiment 16th Tex Inf. Co H, Capt. M.Quinn
When?
Where?
And the time of service? served from 1862 to 1865

Int. 6. Do you further know that W.M. Stewart the said applicant for pension, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort? no

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 W.M. Stewart serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said applicant W.M. Stewart 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 W.M. Stewart 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?

Served in same Co. and messed with him. Did not know any other W.M. Stuart, as a soldier

2. Are you positively certain that said W.M. Stewart applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you? 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? not answered

4. Do you k now whether or not the said W.M. Stewart applicant for pension, ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy? He never did

(signed) Meritt Hoover, 10 Sept 1902, Wharton Co TX

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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? ...residence and PO address?
William A. Shipp. I am 59 years old. I live about 1/2 mile South East of Willow City TEXAS. My Post office address is Willow City TEXAS.

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

Int 3. How long have you known the said W.M. Stewart applicant for pension and when and where did you first know him? I have known him about 41 years. I first knew him in 1861 in the Confederate Army.

Int 4. Do you personally know that the said W.M. Stewart , applicant for pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor? I do

Int 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said W.M. Stewart applicant, enlisted and served in the Confederate army [or navy]? Mr. Stewart enlisted in Company C 16th Infantry, sometime in 1861. I know about that time he lived in Burnett County and might of enlisted at some other place. He served til close of war.

Int. 6. Do you further know that W.M. Stewart the said applicant for pension, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort? I donÂ’t know

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 W.M. Stewart serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said applicant W.M. Stewart 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 W.M. Stewart 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?

I served in same company and regiment with Mr. Stewart, and there was no other soldier in the company or regiment by the name of W.M. Stewart.

2. Are you positively certain that said W.M. Stewart applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you? 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? not answered

4. Do you k now whether or not the said W.M. Stewart applicant for pension, ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy? He never did

(signed) W.A. Shipp, 27th August 1902, Gillespie County, TX
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Sworn Statement

The State of TEXAS COUNTYnty of Lampasas

Before me D.C. Thomas Countyy Judge of Lampasas County TEXAS on this day personally appeared J.S. Knight known to me as a creditable citizen, and after being by me duly sworn on oath, says that he is personally and well acquainted with W.M. Stewart and knows that the said W.M. Stewart is unable to support himself by manual labor of any kind.

(signed) J.S. Knight

Sworn to and subscribed before me.
Witness my hand and official seal at Lampasas TEXAS this
September 8th 1902
(signed) D.C. Thomas Countynty Judge
Lampasas Co. Texas