CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION

THOMPSON PRESSLY
Submitted by Yvonne Pressly DiFrancesco

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Endorsements Hereon for Comptroller’s Use Exclusively

Form No. 1 

6217

 

Confederate Pension Application

Name of Applicant,

Thompson Pressly

Lavaca County,

Post Office Sweet Home

 

Comptroller’s File No. 6217

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 4 day of February 1900

 

(signed)  Wm. J. Swain

Pension Clerk

 

I hereby approve the within application

For pension, this 24 day of February 1900

(signed) R.M. Finley (?)

 

No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners

Should be Forwarded to Comptroller

 

 

(Ink stamp: )

Comptroller’s Office

Received

Feb 20, 1900

Referred to____

No.__________

 

 

Form No. 1

 

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

 

The State of Texas, County of Lavaca

 

To the Honorable County Judge of Levaca County, Texas.


Your petitioner, Thompson Pressly respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Lavaca 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:  Thompson Pressly

 

Q. What is your age?                                                        

Answer: Eighty one

 

Q. In what County do you reside?

Answer: Lavaca

 

Q. How long have you lived in said County and what is your postal address?   

Answer:  Since 1871, Sweet Home

 

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 is able to engage in one?

Answer:  Was a dentist am not now able to do anything.

 

Q. What is your physical condition?

Answer: Very good for a man of my age, I was born May 1st 1818

 

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:  Old age

 

Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service?

Answer:  I was sworn into the Confederate service by the –ding officer, and at once ordered to report, unattached to the Inspector of Field Transportation, Major A.S. Morgan with whom I served from 1862 to close of war.

 

Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where and the time of your service.

Answer:  I did not serve in navy

 

Q. State whether or not you 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:  I did not

 

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 do not

 

Q.  What property, and what was the value thereof have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to date of this application?

Answer:  I have not

 

Q. What income, if any, do you receive?

Answer:  I do not

 

Q.  Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence?

Answer:  I am

 

Q.  Are you unable by your labor to earn a support?

Answer:  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?

Answer:  I have not

 

Q.  Did you ever desert the Confederacy?

Answer:  I did not

 

Q.  Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State?

Answer:  I have

 

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)     Thompson (his X mark) Pressly

 

Sworn and subscribed before me this 16 day of Nov. A.D. 1899

D.A. Paulins (seal) County Judge Lavaca County, Texas

 

AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES

 

(Note – there must be at least two credible witnesses)

 

The State of Texas, County of Lavaca                                                        

 

Before me, D.A. Paulins, County Judge of Lavaca County, State of Texas, on this personally appeared D.C. Ross and J.A. Pressly who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know Thompson Pressly, the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said Thompson Pressly 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)            D.C. Ross

(Signature of Witness)            J.A. Pressly

 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of Dec A.D. 1899

D.A. Paulins, County Judge Lavaca County, Texas

 

AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN

 

The State of Texas, County of Lavaca

 

Before me D.A. Paulins, County Judge of Lavaca County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Dr. D.C. Ross, who is a reputable practicing physician in this County, who being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and thoroughly examined Thompson Pressly, 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 is suffering from trouble with his heart that incapacitates him from performing manual labor.  His age is 81 years and that incapacitates him so that he cannot make his living.”

 

(Signature of Physician)   D.C. Ross

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of Dec A.D. 1899

D.A. Paulins, County Judge, Lavaca County, State of Texas

 

CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE

 

The State of Texas, County of Lavaca

 

I, D.A. Paulins, County Judge of Lavaca County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 16th day of February A.D. 1900, before me came on to be heard the application of Thompson Pressly 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 D.C. Ross who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before me.  I also certify that the said applicant, Thompson Pressly, 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 Thompson Pressly, I find the said applicant 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 Hollettsville this 16th day of Feb. A.D. 1900

D.A. Paulins, County Judge Lavaca County, State of Texas

 

CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

 

The State of Texas, County of Lavaca


We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court  of Lavaca County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of Thompson Pressly for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. D.A. Paulins, County Judge of this Lavaca County, to the Commissioners Court of this Lavaca County, at a regular term thereof on the 16th day of Feb. A.D. 1900, and after 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 hand and seal of office at Hollettsville this 16th day of Feb. A.D. 1900

(Signature of Commissioners)

J.C. Oust-

S.C. Thigpen

E. Guftner

Gus Vogt