STUART, Margaret V. - wife of Elijah A. Stuart - #7163

FORM No. 2

APPLICATION of Indigent Widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899.

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THE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Burnet

To the Honorable County Judge of Burnet County, TEXAS.

Your Petitioner, Margaret V. Stewart, respectfully represents that she is a resident citizen of Burnet County, in the State of TEXAS, and that she is the widow of E.A. Stewart, deceased, who was a Confederate soldier (or sailor), and that she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension as the widow of said E.A. Stewart, deceased, 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: Margaret V. Stewart

Q. What is your Age? Answer: Sixty Nine Mar 19, 1900

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 Co 17 years, P.O. 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: not able to engage in any

Q What is your physical condition? Answer:very feble and unable to do any work

Q. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer: Elijah A. Stewart

Q. What was the date of his death? Answer: 30 Jany 1900

Q. Are you unmarried, and have you so remained unmarried since the death of your said husband for whose services you claim a pension? Answer: Yes

Q. State in what company and regiment your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension enlisted in the Confederate Army, and the time of his service therein? Answer: my husband enlisted in 1861 in Co. D. Cabill’s Brigade, Munro’s regiment, Capt. Wiley Stuart was his Capt.

Q. If your deceased husband served in the Confederate Navy, state when and where, and the time of such service? Answer:

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. 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: none

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 your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension, 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) Margaret V. Stuart

Sworn and subscribed before me this 14 day of April A.D. 1900
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 John Davis and W. H. Erwin who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know Margaret V. Stuart applicant for a pension as the widow of Elijah Stuart, deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of the said Elijah Stuart, deceased; that they personally know the said Margaret V. Stuart is unable to support herself by labor of any sort.

(Signature of Witness) W.H. Erwin
(Signature of Witness) John Davis

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14 day of April A.D. 1900

Ike D. White Countynty Judge Burnet County, 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 Margaret V. Stewart, widow of Elijah Stewart, deceased, 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 17 day of May A.D. 1900, 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 17 day of May A.D. 1900.

H.A. Burns
C.C. Stewart
R. P. Ray
J.F. Pangle

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The State of TEXAS COUNTYnty of Burnet

Before me, Ike D. White Countyy Judge of Burnet County TEXAS on this day come and personally appeared Mrs. M.V. Stewart who being by me duly sworn upon his oath states that she is the wife of E.A. Stewart, applicant for Confederate pension under Act of May 12th 1899. Says further that she knows her said Husband, E.A. Stewart was a soldier in the Confederate Army from the fact that he enlisted in Company D, MonroeÂ’s regiment in the spring of 1861, in Hemstead County Arkansas, and served until close of war. He was at home about 3 times on furlough, and I received letters from him during his service in the army and during the times that he was at home on furlough as stated above, he would tell me of the battles in which he had taken part. I further state that he lost his health, and he always attributed it to the hard service and exposure experience during his service as a soldier in the Confederate army.

/s/ M.V. Stuart
Sworn and subscribed to before me, Ike D. White on this 20th day of October A.D. 1899
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Answers to interrogatories from George.W. Stuart of Palo Pinto County TEXAS.

[the copied page is not clear and much cannot be read, but the respondent is swearing that he knew Elijah Stuart during the war, who enlisted at Washington, Hemstead Co., Ark, in Co D. 1st Ark Cavalry, MonroeÂ’s regiment.]

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Application was approved 9 July 1900