STUART, Elijah A. - Confederate Pension Application # 5970

Form No. 1.

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, Elijah A. Stuart, 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: Elijah A. Stuart

Q. What is your Age? Answer: sixty six years old

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: Fourteen years. P.O. Address Burnet TEXAS

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

Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: I am unable to engage in one

Q What is your physical condition? Answer: I am a physical wreck

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: exposure. Have had no health since the war

Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in The Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer: Company “D”, First Ark Cavalry and service 4 years

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 sir

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: nothing 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: nothing at all

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

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: I am

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 sir

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

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

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) Elijah A. Stuart
Sworn and subscribed before me this 27 day of July A.D. 1899
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, _____________, 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. _______

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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 T.C. Cheatham, 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 Elijah A. Stuart, 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: Kidney trouble, heart trouble, Caratarrh of stomach and bowels with general debility and emaciation and is unfit for any kind of work.

(Signature of Physician) T.C. Cheatham, M.D.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27 day of July A.D. 1899
Ike D. White Countynty Judge Burnet County, State of TEXAS

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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 Elijah A. Stewart for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon.Ike D. White Countyy Judge of this Burnet County, to the Commissioners of this Burnet County, at a regular term therof on the 19th day of August A.D. 1899, 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 16 day of Nov A.D. 1899.

H. A. Burns
C.C. Stewart
R.P. Ray
J.F. Pangle
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[included in pension application are sworn statements from
Isaac Hoover and W.K. Whitman who swore under oath that they knew E.A. Stuart and that he was unable to earn a support for himself by labor of any sort.]

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Pension approved 10 Feby 1900