Sent for by Sharon Pierce, and typed by Elaine Nall Bay.
Reproduced From the Holdings of the Texas State Archives
FORM No. 1
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CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION
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Name of Applicant,
Presly P. Rains
Rains County
Post office Emory, Texas
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Comptrollers File No. 3406
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I have carefully examined the within application for
pension, together with the proof in support thereof, and
I recommend that the application be
approved
this 9 day of Oct
A.D. 1899.
Wm. J. Swain
Pension Clerk
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I hereby approve the within application for
pension, this 9th day of October A.D. 1899
R.W. Finley, Comptroller
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No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners
Should be Forwarded to Comptroller
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FORM No. 1APPLICATION of Indigent 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 Rains}
To the Honorable County Judge of Rains County, Texas.Your Petitioner, Presly P. Rains respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Rains 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.
_____________________________________________________________________NOTE Applicant must make answer to all of the following questions, and such answers must be written out plainly in ink.
_____________________________________________________________________Q. What is your name? Answer Presly P. Rains
Q. What is your age? Answer 62 years
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Rains
Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address: Answer 45 years Emory, Texas
Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law
heretofore, and been rejected? if so, state when and where. Answer never applied before
Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer Farming when able
Q. What is your physical condition? Answer bad old age and general debility
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 Caused from exposur whil in service
Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer 10th Texas Cavelry, Compnay (A) 4 years
Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where and the time of your service. Answer never did any servise in navy
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 none
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 value.
Answer No Real estate personal property of every discription. $60.00
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 YesWherefore 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) P. P. Rains
Sworn to and subscribed before me 17 day of June A.D. 1899
(seal)
Jas. A. Boyd
County Judge, Rains County, Texas
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AFFIDAVIT OF WITENSSES.
(Note-There must be at least two creditable witnesses.)THE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Rains} Before me Jas. A. Boyd County Judge of Rains County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared J.T. Wells and O.S. Forbis who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know Presly P. Rains the above named applicant for a pension, and that the said Presly P. Rains is unable to support enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier (or sailor) as claimed by him in the above and foregoing application, and that they further know that he, the said applicant, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort.
(Signature of Witness) J.T. Wells
(Signature of Witness) O.S. Forbis, Sr.Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19 day of July A.D. 1899
(seal)
Jas. A. Boyd
County Judge Rains County, Texas.
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AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIANTHE STATE OF TEXAS
County of Rains} Before me Jas A. Boyd County Judge of Rains County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Dr. W.A. Duffy, who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, wh0 being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and thoroughly examined Presly P. Rains 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 has hydrocele of the right testicle, of one years duration
(Signature of Physician) W.A. Duffey, M.D.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19 day of June A.D. 1899.
(seal)
Jas. A. Boyd
County Judge Rains County, State of Texas.
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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGETHE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Rains} I, Jas. A. Boyd County Judge of Rains County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 19 of July A.D. 1899, before me came to be heard the application of Presly P. Rains for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law of this State, approved May 12, A.D. 1899; that the answers of said applicant to the questions propounded were made under oath as before me as the same hereinbefore appear, and that the foregoing affidavits of Doctor W.A. Duffy who is a reputable practicing physician of this county. I also certify that the said applicant Presly P. Rains is not an inmate of the Texas Confederate Home, nor otherwise disqualified under the provision of Section 12, of the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify that after considering all the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said Presly P. Rains I find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and I hereby approve said application.
Witness my hand and seal of office at Emory Texas this 19 day of
Jun3 A.D. 1899
(seal)
Jas. A. Boyd
County Judge, Rains County, State of Texas.
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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIOINERSTHE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Rains} We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Rains County, Texas, do hereby certify that the foregoing application of Presley P. Rains for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon Jas. A. Boyd County Judge of this Rains County, to the Commissioners of this Rains County, at a regular term thereof on the 15 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 Emory this 15 day of August A.D. 1899.
(Signature of Commissioners)
L.M. Vincent W. W. Garrett J.A. Abercrombie W.M. Kitching