WILLIAM JACKSON TRANTHAM
APPLICATION FOR A CSA PENSION
Died: 14 December, 1927
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William J. Trantham
Confederate Pension
Application #10960
Hamilton Co., Texas
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CONFEDERATE PENSION
APPLICATION: # 10960
Applicant: William J.
Trantham, Hamilton Co. Olen, Texas Approved: Sept 15, 1905 by E. A. Blomes,
Pension Clerk. Approved J. W. Stephens, Comptroller.
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: Form is left blank to:
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.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, County
of Hamilton}To the Honorable County Judge of Hamilton County, Texas. Your
petitions, William Jackson Trantham respectfully represents that he is a
resident citizen of Hamilton 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, 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 therefore," and I do solemnly swear that the answers
I have given to the following questions are true.
Q. What is your name:
Answer- William Jackson Trantham
Q. What is your age: Answer
- sixty years old
Q. In what county do you
reside? Answer - Hamilton
Q. How long have you resided
in said County and what is your post office address? Answer - I had lived
here about two years then moved to East Texas and then back to Hamailton
Co. where I have resided about six months.
Q. Have you applied for a
pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected:
If so state when and where. Answer - No I have not.
Q. What is our occupation if
able to engage in one? Answer - farmer
Q. What is your physical
condition? Answer - Aged and infirm, palzied, and hard of hearing, piles
and rheumatism.
Q. If your physicial
condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn a support,
state what caused such disability. Answer - I think, Piles caused by
riding in army and the reumatism caused by exposure.
Q. State in what company and
regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your
service. Answer - Co. B. 2nd. Ark. Cavalry - Served from 1862 to the close
of 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 - 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 - I own no real estate. I
have two mules, worth about $50 or $60 each.
Q. What property, and what
was the value thereof have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to
this application. Answer - none
Q. What income, if any, do
you receive? Answer - None, except what little I can earn by labor, I have
no education.
Q. Are you in indigent
circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property
and means of subsistence? Answer - Yes I am.
Q. Are you unable by your
labor to earn a support? Answer - Yes, I am not able to work.
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 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)
William J. (his X mark) Trantham
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 26th. day of December, 1904.
J. W. Warren County Judge
Hamilton County, Texas
AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESS
J. W. Warren, County Judge
of Hamilton County, State of Texas , on this day personally appeared R. A.
Trantham and C. E. Needham who are personally known to me to be credible
citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally
know William Jackson Trantham the above named applicant for a pension, and
that they personally know that the said William Jackson Trantham is unable
to support himself by labor of any sort.
Witness of Signatures Of
witnesses: S. A. Clark & J. T. Dumsters:
(Signature of Witness) R. A.
Trantham ( his X mark)
(Signature of Witness) C. E.
Needham (his X mark)
J. W. Warren County Judge
Hamilton County, Texas (seal]
AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, County
of Hamilton] Before me. J. C. Rodgers a Notary Pubic of Hamilton County,
State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Dr. W. E. Hubbert, who is
a reputable practicing physician of this County, who being by me duly
sworn on oath, state that he has carefully and thoroughly examined William
J. Trantham, applicant for a pension, and finds him laboring under the
following disabilities which render him unable to labor at any work or
calling suficient to earn a support for himself: Diabetas,
Rhuemtism,(Deformans Lespress ?).
(Signature of Physician) W.
E. Hubbert M.D.
J. C. Rodgers, Notary Public
Hamilton Co., Texas
CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE
STATE OF TEXAS, County of
Hamilton}I, J. W. Warren County Judge of Hamilton County, State of Texas,
do hereby certify that on the 2nd. day of March, A.D. 1905, before me came
on to be heard the application of William J. Trantham 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 the same appear in writing in the foregoing application;
that the affidavits of the witnesses who are credible citizens were made
before me as the same hereinbefore appear, and that the foregoing
affidavit of Doctor W. E. Hubbert who is a reputable practicing physician
of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant
William J. Trantham, is not an inmate of the Texas confederate Home, or
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 William J. Trantham 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 Hamilton this 2nd day of March, A. D. 1905.
J. W. Warren County Judge
Hamilton County, State of Texas
Witnesses Signature and
Mark, A. H. Watson H. L. Brewer (seal)
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MILITARY SECRETARY'S OFFICE
= WAR DEPARTMENT= AUG. ?, 1905 #1046702
Austin Texas August 16,
1905.
William J. Trantham - Co. B,
2d Regt. Ark. Cav., C. S. A.
Comptroller, State of Texas,
request military record of the above named man.
Received, M.S.O. Aug 20,
1905
Respectfully returned to:
The Comptroller, State of Texas, Austin
The name William J. Trantham
has not been found on the rolls, on file in this office, of the 2nd
Arkansas Cavalry, C.S.A.
The name W. Trantham, also
borne W. J. Trantham, appears as that of a member of Company B. 2nd
Arkansas Regiment, on the rolls of prisoners of war at Alton, Illinois,
which show that he was captured December 5, 1862, at Oxford, Mississippi,
and was sent to City Point, Virginia, where he was paroled for exchange
April 1, 1863. No further record of him has been found. H. C. Amsworth,
The military secretary.
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The State of Texas County of
Hamilton}Before me the undersigned authority, on this day personally
appeared Mrs. S. A. Mann and Mrs. Francis Hellums both known to me to be
credible persons, and after being by me duly sworn, they and each of them,
depose and say that they know William J. Trantham and have known him from
his boyhood, and that they know that he volunteered in the Confederate
Army in March 1862 and that the son of the first witness and brother of
the last witness to wit: Augustus Mann, also; joined the Army. That they
volunteered under the command of Lieutenant Tom Owens, Second Arkansas
Cavalry. That William J. Trantham came home during the War, and then
returned to the Service where he remained until the close of the War. The
first Witness says, I am seventy eight years old, and the second witness
says that I am (50 or 80?) years old. And both of said witnesses, say that
they nor either of them have any claim or interest in the Pension claim of
the said William J. Trantham.
Signed: S. A. Mann &
Francis Hellum. Sworn to and subscribed before me the -- day of December,
1904. J. W. Warren - Co. Judge, Hamilton, Co., Texas.
APPLICATION FOR MORTUARY
WARRANT:
THE STATE OF TEXAS, County
of Hamilton}I, G. M. Barrow do hereby certify that I am the person to whom
is entrusted the paying of the accounts and indebedness of the late
William J. Trantham, who was a pensioner of the State of Texas, and whose
file number was 10960 and whose original county was Hamilton.
The said pensioner William
Jackson Trantham, died on the 14 day of Dec., 1927, in the town of Hico
County of Hamilton, Texas
The pensioner died in the
home of R. A. Trantham who was related to the pensioner as son.
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 William Jackson
Trantham.
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 Friend & Funeral Director that my post office address is
Hico, Texas.
Signed: G. M. Barrow - Sworn
to before me this 19 day of December, 1927.
Signed: Aften Aycock, Notary
Public in and for Hamilton Co., State of Texas.
CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN:
I, Dr. W. E. Russell, do
certify that I am a practicing physician, and that I attended William J.
Trantham in his last illness, and am of the opinion that his ailments were
Brights Disease.
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 Thirty-eighth Legislature and approved March 2, 1923.
Signed: Dr. W. E. Russell
M.D. Physicians address: Hico, Texas.
Shared by Doris Irons Greer
05/05/2002
TRANTHAM, MRS. DECIE A. MILDRED
CIVIL WAR RECORDS
