WIDOW'S CLAIM FOR PENSION.
Mrs. Esperan Sykes wife of Wm. P. Sykes
OF Alamance COUNTY

from the Archives in Raleigh, NC

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,}
COUNTY OF   Alamance     }
On this 7 day of    July A. D. 190 2 , personally appeared before me,
    J. d. Kernodle  , C. S. C., in and for the State and County aforesaid,
          Mrs. Esperan Sykes         , age    70 , years, and a resident at
 Burlington  post-office in said County and State, and who being duly sworn,
makes the following declaration in order to obtain the pension under the provisions of an act entitled "An Act to amend
Chapter 198 of the Laws of 1889, for the relief of certain Confederate Soldiers and Widows," ratified March 2, 1901; that she is  the widow of the late                  Wm P Sykes                    
who enlisted in Co. G  , 44th Reg. N. C. State Troops, on or about the  6th day of
    March                 , 1861 , to serve in the armies of the late Confederate States.
She further states that she was married to said Soldier or Sailor before the first day of April, 1865, and she has never re-married; 
that she is, and has been for twelve months immediately preceding this Application for Pension, a bona fide resident of North
Carolina; that she holds no office under the United States, or under any State or county, from which she is receiving the sum of
three hundred dollars as fees or as salary annually; that she is not worth in her own right, or the right of her late husband;
property at its assessed value for taxation to the amount of five hundred dollars ($500). Nor has she disposed of property of such
value by gift or voluntary conveyance since the 11th of March, 1885.
                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                     

Sworn and subscribed before me, this 7th }                                        her
day of July , 190 2 }                                                            Esperan x A. Sykes
J. d. Kernodle           }                                                                    mark              
Signature of C.S.C. }                                                                                  Signature of Applicant
             

PHYSICIAN'S CERTIFICATE


       Also personally appeared before me   R. A. Freeman   , who
resides at     Burlington              post-office, and                                                                                
who resides at ________________________ post-office, in said County and State,      physician – in good
standing, whom I know to be respectable and entitled to credit, and being by me duly sworn, say    that   
acquainted with                                    Mrs. E. A.  Sykes                                , the widow of the late
               W. P. Sykes                            , of Co.              G                44                         
Regiment North Carolina State Troops, and that they believe her to be the identical person she represents herself to be, and
that the facts set forth in her affidavit are correct to  the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest, direct or indirect, in this claim.

     Sworn and subscribed before me, this   7th }
day of     July , 190 2                                     }                                      R. A. Freeman
  J. D. Kernodle                                             }                                   Signature of Physician…
  Signature of C.S.C.                                         }                                

                        

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, }
           Alamance   County.                }

To the Auditor of the State of North Carolina:

     We certify that we have carefully examined the application of                     Esperan Sykes
the widow of the late             Wm P Sykes               , who  enlisted in Company              G ,
     forty fourth            Regiment, North Carolina State Troops, for a pension under the provisions of an act entitled "An Act
to amend chapter 198 of the Laws of 1889, for the relief of certain Confederate Soldiers and Widows," ratified March 2,1901, and
the proofs filed in support thereof; that we are satisfied that the said         Esperan Sykes  
is the widow of the late                Wm. P. Sykes                     who enlisted in Company G ,
44th             Regiment of North Carolina State Troops, on or about the         6th       day of     March            186 1,
We certify the following allegations set forth in her application to be true, namely: That she has never re-married; that she is, and has been for twelve months immediately preceding this Application for Pension, a bona fide resident of North Carolina;
that she holds no office under the United States, or under any State or County, from which she is receiving the sum of three hundred dollars as fees or as salary annually; that she is not worth in her own right, or the right of her late husband; property
at its assessed value for taxation to the amount of five hundred dollars ($500). Nor has she disposed of property of such value by
gift or voluntary conveyance since the 11th of March, 1885, and therefore her application is correct and just under the act.

                                                                        {Seal }          T. H. Webb                       Ch'mn Board Com'r
                                                                            "                 A. J. Albright                   Commissioner.
                                                                            "                 J. G. Dialey                             "
                                                                            "                 S. E. Tate                                "
{IMPRESS COUNTY SEAL HERE}                        "                      Jas. W. Somers                      "      
                                                                            "                L. B. McAdams                      Sheriff          
{Seal} J. D. Kernodle                     Clerk of Superior Court
                                                                          Approved:       E. S. Parker by @@ Thompson Proxy                                                                                                   L. Banks Holt
                                                                                                 ? Anderson       
                                                                                                 R. L. Walker
                                                                                                              County Advisory Board.


WIDOWS CLAIM FOR PENSION
   ACT OF MARCH 2nd 1901
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Mrs. Esperan Sykes
Widow of Wm P Sykes
Company G , 44th Regiment,
North Carolina State Troops

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APPROVED S. B. P. FOURTH CLASS



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Filed by board of Inquiry of  Alamance
County, N.C. day of  July
190 2

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