| Question | Application number 09498 |
|---|---|
| Date Filed: | October 16, 1902 |
| Date Approved | Febraury 16, 1903 |
| Date of Death | Not listed |
| What is your name? | Thomas W. James |
| What is your age? | sixty four |
| In what county have you reside: | Mills |
| How long have you resided in the county of your present residence? And what is you postoffice address? | 4 years, McGirk |
| Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so, state When and where? | NO |
| What is your occupation? | Farming |
| What is your physcial conditions? | Bad |
| In what State was your command originally organized? | Texas |
| How Long did you serve? give date of enlistment and discharge | 4 years, April 1862, until the end of the war |
| What was the name or letter and name or number of your regiment? | Co. A Capt J. W.? Dannels Elmons Reg |
| If you served in the Confederate Navy, state when and where and the time of such services | NO |
| State whether or not you served in the Infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the Navy? | Artillery & Infantry |
| State whether or not you have received any pension or vetern donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you anser in the affirmative state what pension or veteran donation land certificate you havew so | Non |
| What real and personal property do you now own and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such value | Fifteen head of cattle $ 100. no horses, |
| What property, and what was the value thereof, have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to the date of this application? | None |
| What estate has your wife in her own right,, real and personal abd what is its value? | none |
| What income, if any , do you receive? | None, only the increase of my cattle |
| Are you unable by your labor to earn support? | Yes |
| Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? | None |
| Did you ever desert the Confederacy? | No |
| Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? | Yes |
| 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? | Yes |
| Signed | By his Mark, "X", Thomas W. James |
| Date of Mark/Signature | October 16, 1902 before G. Dalton, County Judge, Mills County, TX |
J. H. Logan and R.L. H. Williams swore that they knew Thomas W. james and that he is unable to support himself
Signed November 10, 1902 in front of G. A. Dalton, County Judge, Mills County, TX
| Question | J.D. Bishop | E Barr |
|---|---|---|
| Inter 1. State your name , age and present place of residence: | My name is J. D. Bishop, age 72 years, residence Coryell Co., Texas | My name is E Barr, 64 years of age,residence Coryell Co., Texas |
| Inter. 2. State whether or not you did service as a soldier in the Confederate Army or Navy | I did | I did |
| Inter. 3. If in answer to the foregoing interrogatory you have stated that you have served as a soldier in the Confederate Army, then state in what company and regiment you did serve? Or if you served in the Navy of the Confederate States, then state the time of such service and where you served? | Co. C. 20 Texas Infantry | Co. A. 20 Texas Infantry |
| Inter. 4. State whether or not you personnally know or knew . . | I can't positively say but am satisfied I knew him in Capt Daniels Co. | I knew Thomas W. James he was my ?? we went in the army together and cour? hosue? together |
| Inter. 5. How Long have you known said . . .and where and when did you first know him? | About 7 years in Coryell County | I have known Thomas W, James since 1858 |
| Inter. 6. If you know, state whether or not the said _ - - - enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor? If he served in the Confederate Army, state what company and Regiment he served and hosw long, within your knowledge, he did serve? If you stated that said _____ served in the Confederate Navy, then state When, Where, and How Long he os served? | I am satified that he did | I do, he served 3 years and two months |
| Inter. 7. If you have stated that you know or knew ______ and that he enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duities of a soldier or sailor, then state whether or not you knew any other soldier in the same company and Regiment in which the said _____ served of the same name? or if you have stated that he served in the Confederate Navy, then state whether or not you knew of any other sailor of the same name as the said _____if you have stated that you knew two or more soldiers or sailors of the same name, then can you, and how do you, idenitfy and loctate the one from the other or others? | I do not know of anyone | I do not |
| Signed this date/ before | October 11, 1902 /before W. B. Woodward, Clerk County Court, Coryell Co., TX | October 11, 1902 /before W. B. Woodward, Clerk County Court, Coryell Co., TX |
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