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DGS:THE DALLAS QUARTERLY
TEXAS CONFEDERATE PENSIONS
The Genealogy Section of the Dallas Public Library has acquired the first 86
rolls of microfilm of Texas CSA Approved Pension Applications which
comprises Applications #1 through #11831. There are 700 rolls in the
entire set which also includes the rejected pensions; at present the first 86
rolls are available and another 117 rolls are on order; the remaining rolls will
be ordered as the budget allows. Editorial Note: Donations would help to
purchase this important Texas resource.
The original records are at the Texas State Library, Austin and were filmed
in 1974 by the Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. The applications
are filmed in numerical order and are indexed in:
Index to Texas CSA Pension Files, Virgil D. White 1989
[Dallas Public Library call number 929.3764 W5881]
nex to Applications for Texas Confederate Pensions, John M. Kinney
197. [Dalas PulA ihbrry can ni., : ) 3 " -,
Eac, appicaion consists of an Applcatin Frm -1 or S, e'c Sc
Form #2 for widow of Soldier or Sailor plus affidavits and depositions from
persons attesting to the veterans service, indigence, etc. Some include
miscellaneous letters pertaining to the application.
As space permits, abstracts of the Dallas County approved pensions will be
included in continuing issues of the DGS Quarterly. The series began in
Volume XL, Number 2, June 1994. The questions asked on the soldier's or
sailor's application are listed below. Immediately following is a listing of the
questions asked on the widow's application. If the abstract does not
reference a particular question, the answer was in the negative,
Q. What is your name?
Q. What is your age?
Q. In what county do you reside?
Q. How many years have you resided in said county and what is your post office address
Q. Have you ever applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and
been rejected? If so, state when and where.
Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one?
Q. What is your physical condition?
Q. If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn support,
state what caused such disability.
Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time
of your service?
Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where and the time of your service?
0. 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 land certificate you have received.
0. 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.
Q. What property, and what value thereof have you sold or conveyed within two years prior
to the date of this application?
0. What income, if any, do you receive?
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SEPTEMBER 1994