ORLENA KINCHELOE REGISTER,   widow of GREGORY GLASCOCK REGISTER

CSA PENSION APPLICATION

Reproduced from the holdings of the Texas State Archives

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Widow of Pensioner - Confederate Pension Application

Name of Applicant - Mrs. Orlena REGISTER

Hamilton County

Post Office: Shive

Comptroller's File No. 10095

I have carefully examined the within application for pension, together with the proof in support thereof, and I recommend that the application be Approved Mar 17, 1904

(Signed) E.A. Bolmes, Pension Clerk

I hereby approve the within application for pension, this __ day of Mar 17, 1904

(signed) J.W. Stephens, Comptroller

No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should be Forwarded

to Comptroller.

Handwritten over this page:

DEAD

so informed by Postmaster

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

THE STATE OF TEXAS

County of Hamilton

To the Honorable County Judge of Hamilton County, Texas

Your petitioner, Mrs. Orlena REGISTER, respectfully represents that she is a citizen of Hamilton County, in the State of Texas, that she is the widow of said G. G. REGISTER 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 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: Orlena REGISTER

Q. What is your age?

Answer: Seventyone

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: Fourteen years, P.O. Shive

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: housekeeping

Q. What is your physical condition?

Answer: very feeble

Q. What was the name of your deceased husband?

Answer: G. G. REGISTER

Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date were you married to him and where?

Answer: Married 1849, in Washington Co., Tennessee

Q. What was the date of his death?

Answer: June 18th 1903

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: He served four years

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 so received.

Answer: None

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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: None. I have a pony and a cow.

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 March, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this state?

Answer: Yes

Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law.

(Signature of Applicant) Orlena REGISTER x her mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of August A.D. 1903

(signed) J. W. Warren

County Judge, Hamilton County, Texas

Witness signature:

(signed) Lizzie Miller

(signed) Anne Blakely

AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES

(NOTE -- There must be at least two credible witnesses.)

THE STATE OF TEXAS

County of Hamilton

Before me, J. W. Warren, County Judge of Hamilton County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared T. S. McKinley and B. M. McKinley, who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know that Mrs. Orlena REGISTER, applicant for a pension as the widow of the said G. G. REGISTER, deceased; is in truth and fact the widow of the said G. G. REGISTER, deceased; that they further know that the said Mrs. Orlena REGISTER, widow of the said .G.G. REGISTER, deceased, is unable to support herself by labor of any sort.

(Signature of Witness) T. S. McKinley

(Signature of Witness) B. M. McKinley

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of August A.D. 1903

(signed) J. W. Warren

County Judge, Hamilton County, Texas

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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE

THE STATE OF TEXAS

County of Hamilton

I, J. W. Warren, County Judge of Hamilton County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 11th day of Nov. A.D. 1903, before me came on to be heard the application of Mrs. Orlena REGISTER, widow of G.G. REGISTER deceased, 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 herein before appear, and that the foregoing affidavit of Doctor T. E. Presley who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant Mrs. Orlena REGISTER, is not disqualified under any of the provisions of Section 12, of the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify that after considering all of the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said Mrs. Orlena REGISTER as widow of G.G. REGISTER deceased, I find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and I hereby approve said application.

Witness my hand and seal of office at Hamilton, Texas this 11th day of Nov. A. D. 1903

(signed) J.W. Warren

County Judge, Hamilton County, State of Texas

CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

THE STATE OF TEXAS

County of Hamilton

We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Hamilton County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of Mrs. Orlena REGISTER widow of G. G. REGISTER deceased, for a pension together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. J. W. Warren, County Judge of this Hamilton County, to the Commissioners Court of this Hamilton County, at a regular term thereof on the 11th day of Nov. A. D. 1903, and after a careful consideration of the same we find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and we hereby approve said application.

Witness our hands and seal of office at Hamilton this 11th day of Nov. A. D. 1903

(Signatures of Commissioners)

Prec. 1 S. J. Beck

Prec. 2 Darrel ?

Prec. 3 S. A. Clark

Prec. 4 W. C. Pierce

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Comptroller's Department,

State of Texas, Austin

J.W. Stephens, Comptroller

John T. Smith, Chief Clerk

I, J. W. Stephens, Comptroller of Public Accounts for the State of Texas, do hereby certify that the records of this office show the following facts: - 1st. The application of G. G. REGISTER for a Confederate pension (see file #1762) was approved by R. W. Finley, Comptroller, Oct. 7th, 1903. 2nd. The proof on file with said application shows that said G. G. REGISTER enlisted in Company "G", 62nd Tenn. Regiment, serving about three years.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and caused the seal of said office to be impressed hereon this the 25th day of August A.D. 1903.

(signed) J. W. Stephens

Comptroller

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