Submitted by: Lilly Engleman
Confederate Pension Application
James N. Simmons, Cass County, P. O. Linden, Texas
Comptroller's File No. 11326
Approved 30 Sept. 1905
1. What is your name? James Newton Simmons
2. What is your age? 64 years last October
3. In what County do you reside? Cass
4. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? 34 years the 10th day of December last
5. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? No
6. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Farmer as long as I could work
7. What is your physical condition? Suffering from old wound in left leg
8. If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn a support, state what caused such disability: Gun shot wound in leg, received in Virginia
9. In what State was your command originally organized? South Carolina
10. How long did you serve: Give date of enlistment and discharge: 4 years in the VA Army under Generals R. E. Lee & Longstreet. I enlisted or went out April 14th 1861 & discharged at Appomattox when Lee surrendered
11. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? Co . C, 4th SC Reg. the 1st year, the remainder of time Co. B, Palmetto sharp Shooters
12. State whether you served in the infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the navy: Infantry
13. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation land certificate under any previous law: No
14. What real and personal property do you now own and what is the present value of such property? Small lot in Linden. Can't tell what its value is, as I have been unable to get a buyer for same
15. What property and what was the value thereof, have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to the date of this application: None
16. What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value? None
17. What income, if any, do you receive? None except as I can get a light job
18. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support? Yes unless I could precure some clerical work
19. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? No
20. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? No, I would have prefered death
21. Have you been continuously since the first day of January 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Yes
22. If you originally enlisted in the Confederate service from the State of Texas, were you at the date of the passage of this act, a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas?--------
Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and that such other proceeding be had in the premises as are required by law.
Signature of Applicant: Jas N Simmons
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of August A. D. 1905, W. F. Fant, County Judge, Cass County, Texas
Affidavit of Witnesses
The State of Texas, County of Cass
Before me W. F. Fant, County Judge of Cass County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared J. H. Burns and J. P. Harris, who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know J. N. Simmons the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said J. N. Simmons is unable to support himself by labor of any sort.
Signature of Witness: J. H. Burns
Signature of Witness: J. P. Harris
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of August A.D. 1905, W. F. Fant, County Judge, Cass County, Texas
Affidavit of Physician
The State of Texas, County of Cass
Before me W. F. Fant, county Judge of Cass County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Dr. C. E. Davis, who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, who being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and thoroughly examined J. N. Simmons, 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 65 years of age and has been suffering for 40 years from a (can't make this out), which renders him unable to do manual labor.
Signature of Physician: C. E. Davis, M. D.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14 that of August A.D. 1905, W. F. Fant, County Judge, Cass County, Texas
Application for Mortuary Warrant
The State of Texas, County of Dallas
I, Genevieve Nelson, do hereby certify that I am the person to whom is entrusted the paying of the accounts and indebtedness of the late Jas. N. Simmons, who was a pensioner of the State of Texas, and whose file number was 11326 and whose original county was Cass.
The said pensioner Jas. N. Simmons, died on the 22 day of February 1929, in the town of Dallas, County of Dallas, Texas.
The pensioner died in the home of Mrs. Metta Irene Simons Nelson who was related to the pensioner as daughter.
That the warrant, which application is hereby made for shall be applied to paying all or part of the funeral expenses incurred by the said pensioner Jas. N. Simmons.
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 granddaughter, that my post office address is 2010 Ramsey Street, Dallas, Texas.
Signed Genevieve Nelson
Sworn to before me this 13th day of March 1929, P. E. Cassidy, Notary Public in and for Dallas County, State of Texas
Certificate of Undertaker
I, Joe H. Smith, do certify that I am undertaker in the town of Dallas, County of Dallas, State of Tex, that I had charge of the body of James N. Simmons, who died in the town of Dallas, County of Dallas, State of Tex on the 22 day of February 1929. The said body was prepared for burial by me on the 22 day of February 1929, and that I am of the opinion that warrant herein applied for should be issued to the said Miss Genevieve Nelson who makes the foregoing application.
Signed Joe H. Smith, Undertaker
Certificate of Justice of the Peace
I, J. H. Moore, do certify that I am a Justice of the Peace, and that I held an inquest on the body of James N. Simmons, on February 22nd, 1929
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 Thiry-eighth Legislature and approved March 2, 1923.
Signed J. H. Moore, 305 1/4 South Beckley, Ave., Dallas, Texas
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