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Confederate Pension, Benjamin Daniel Dehart Application of Indigent Soldier or Saiilor 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 BRAZOS TO THE HONORABLE COUNTY JUDGE OF BRAZOS COUNTY, TEXAS Your petitioner BD DEHART respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of BOSQUE 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 answer to all of the following questions and must be plainly written in ink. _________________________________________________________________________________ Q. What is your name? B D DEHART Q. What is your age? 60 Q. In what county do you reside? BRAZOS Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your postoffice address? ABOUT 35 YEARS Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so, state when and where? HAVE NEVER APPLIED BEFORE Q. What is your occupation, if able to engage in one? FARMER Q. What is your physical condition? VERY BAD Q. If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn support, state what caused such disability. LUNG TROUBLE & KIDNEY TROUBLE Q. In what State was your command originally organized? S C Q. How long did you serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. FROM JUNE 64 TO CEASE OF THE WAR, DISCHARGED IN 1865 Q. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? CO F, 1ST SC ARTILLERY Q. State whether you served in infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the navy. ARTILLERY 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. HAVE NEVER NEED ANYTHING Q. What real and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value. 1 MARE & CALF, 2 HEAD CATTLE WORTH ABOUT $75.00 Q. What property, and what was the value thereof, have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to the date of this application? NONE Q. What estate has your wife in her own right, real, and personal, and what is its value? NONE Q. What income, if any, do you have? NONE Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence? I AM Q. Are you unable by your labir to earn support? I AM Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? I HAVE NOT Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? NO Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of yhis State? I HAVE Q. 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 of the State of Texas? N/A Wherefore your petitioner prays taht his application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law. Signature of applicant B D DEHART Sworn and subscribed before me this 28TH day of FEBRUARY A. D. 1908 County Judge BRAZOS County, Texas, Witnesses: I F THOMPSON, T W REED ________________________________________________________________________________ AFFADAVIT OF PHYSICIAN The State of Texas County of BRAZOS Before me A Y BOUND County Judge of BRAZOS County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared DR. N A GRIRL, who is a reputable practicing physcian of this County, who being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and thouroughly examined B D DEHART 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 support for himself: PHEUNATISM AND CATARRLR OF THE HEAD, WHICH CAUSES GENERAL DEBILITY (Signature of Physician) N S GRIRL Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4TH day of AUGUST A.D. 1908 A Y BOUND County Judge BRAZOS County, Texas _________________________________________________________________________________ Direct Interrogatories propounded to the Witness TA DE HART about applicant B D DE HART in the county of BRAZOS, Texas 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and postoffice address? TA DEHART, 67 YEARS OLD, BOSQUE CO., TEX, CLIFTON P OFFICE 2. Do you personally know or did you at any time know B D DEHART who is an applicant for pension under the act of May 12, 1899? YES 3. How lond have you known the said B D DEHART applicant for pension, and where did you first know him? ABOUT 60 YEARS 4. Do you personally know the said B D DEHART applicant for a pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and perfomred the duties of a soldier or sailor? YES 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said B D DEHART applicant, enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When ? Where? And the time of service? If you personally knew and so have stated that he enlisted and served in the Confederate navy, then state: When? Where? and How long he so served. CO F, SOUTH CAROLINA, ARTILLERY 6. Do you further know that B D DEHART the said applicant for pension is unable to support himself by labor of any sort? YES Cross Interrogatories. Propounded to T A DE HART 1. If in answer to the foregoing direct interrogatories, you have stated that you personally know or did know said applicant, and that you know that he enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor, and having named the company and regiment in which the applicant so enlisted and served, then please state fully what is your source of such knowledge. And state whether or not you know or at any time you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of B D DEHART serving in the same company or regiment in which the said applicant B D DEHART enlisted, or if you have stated that said applicant enlisted and served in the navy of the Confederacy, then state whether or not you know any other sailor of the same name as said B D DEHART applicant serving in the same command. If you say that you so knew other soldiers or sailors of the same name of the applicant's, then can you and how do you identify and locate the one from the others? FROM REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE DURING THE WAR BETWEEN BROTHERS. I DO NOT. 2. Are you positively certain that said B D DEHART applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you? YES 3. If you answered Direct Interrogatory No.6 in the affirmative, then please state your source of knowledge or information. Is not his your answer simply based on open conjecture? FROM MY PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE HAVING BEEN WITH HIM FREQUENTLY 4. Do you know whether or not the said B D DEHART applicant for pension, ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy? YES, I KNOW THAT HE NEVER DESERTED Signed T A DE HART The State of Texas, County of BRAZOS I, A Y BOUND County Judge of said county, in said state, do hereby waive copy of interrogatories, notice, time and issuance of commission, and it is hereby agreed that the answers to the herein above direct and cross interrogatories of the said herein named witness may be attached hereto, AND RETURNED TO ME BY ORDERING MAIL. _______________________________________________________________________________ Direct Interrogatories propounded to the Witness B D HOOKS about applicant B D DE HART in the county of BRAZOS, Texas 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and postoffice address? B D HOOKS, AGE 56, HILLSBORO HILL CO TEXAS 2. Do you personally know or did you at any time know B D DE HART who is an applicant for pension under the act of May 12, 1899? YES 3. How lond have you known the said B D DE HART applicant for pension, and where did you first know him? SINCE 1861. FIRST KNEW HIM IN MISS. 4. Do you personally know the said B D DE HART applicant for a pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and perfoRmed the duties of a soldier or sailor? I DO. I SAW HIM WHEN HE SERVED IN THE ARMY & SAW HIM WHEN HE CAME HOME WOUNDED 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said B D DE HART applicant, enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When ? Where? And the time of service? If you personally knew and so have stated that he enlisted and served in the Confederate navy, then state: When? Where? and How long he so served. CO F 1ST SC INF ABOUT 1864, SERVED ABOUT 15 ???? 6. Do you further know that B D DEHART the said applicant for pension is unable to support himself by labor of any sort? HE IS NOT ______________________________________________________________________________ APPICATION FOR MORTUARY WARRANT The State of Texas, County of MCLENNAN I, LON DEHARTdo hereby certify that i am the person to whom is entrusted the paying of the accounts and indebtedness of the late B D DEHART, who was a pensioner of the State of Texas, and whose file number was 13728 and whose original county was BRAZOS. The said pensioner B D DEHART, died on the 11TH day of JULY, 1917, in the town of BRYAN County of BRAZOS, Texas. The pensioner died in the home of WILL DEHART 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 B D DEHART 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) SON That my home is in the town of BIG HILL, County of LIMESTONE State of TEXAS, that my postoffice address id BIG HILL ROUTE 1 Signed LON DEHART AUGUST 6, 1917 _______________________________________________________________________________ CERTIFICATE OF UNDERTAKER I, ???? , do hereby certify that I am the undertaker in the town of MONT, County of MCLENNAN, State of TEXAS that I had charge of the body of B D DEHART, who died in the town of BRYAN, County of BRAZOS, State of TEXAS on the 11TH day of JULY 1917. That said body was prepared for burial by me on the 10 day of JULY 1917, and that I am of the opinion that warrant herein applied for should be issued to the said LON DEHART who makes the foregoing application. Signed ?????? _______________________________________________________________________________ CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN I, W R RUSSELL, do certify that I am the prcticing physician, and that I attended B D DEHART in his last illness, and am of the opinion that his ailments were BRIGHTS DISEASE, COMPLICATED WITH CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY 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 the Act passed by the Thirty-eigth Legilature and approved AUG 1ST, 1917. Signed W R RUSSELL _______________________________________________________________________ Letter from Lon Dehart to Mr. J. James July 26, 1917 Mr. J. James, Please send me a death plank for an old confederate veteran my father B D Dehart who died July 14 and oblige. Lon Dehart Big Hill Route 1 |