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Confederate Application for Pension
J. G.  Sykes from Alamance Co., NC
from the Archives in Raleigh, NC

            

State of North Carolina,}
County of   Alamance     }
On this 29th day of    June           A.D. 190    1, personally appeared before me,
            J. D. Kernodle        , C. S. C., in and for the State and County aforesaid,
       J. G.   Sykes               , age   57          ,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 chap-
ter 198 of the Laws of 1889,  for the relief of certain Confederate Soldiers and Widows," ratified March 2, 1901: That he is the
identical     J.G.   Sykes              who enlisted in Co.
   F  ,   6st  Reg. N. C. State Troops, on or about the   9th day of
       May         ,  186 1 , to serve in the armies of the late Confederate States, and that while in said
service at             was not wounded                                                  ,    in the State of
______________________ , on or about the  ______ day of ________,186__
he received a wound or wounds, etc.
(Applicant will here state the nature and extent of his wounds and disability, so that a proper classification can be made under the new Pension
Law passed by the General Assembly of 1901. Read said section of said law carefully, and to accomplish the classification therein called for, let state-
ment here as to nature and extent of wounds, disability, etc., be very full and explicit.)
                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                
   He further states that he is , and has been for twelve months immediately preceding this Application for Pension, a bona
fide
resident of North Carolina; that he holds no office under the United States, or under any State or County, for which he
is receiving the sum of three hundred dollars as fees or as salary annually; that he is not worth in his own right, or the right of
his wife, property at its assessed value for taxation to the amount of five hundred dollars ($500), nor has he disposed of property
of such value by gift or voluntary conveyance since the 11th of March, 1885, and that he is not receiving any aid from the State
of North Carolina or under any other statute providing for the relief of the maimed and blind soldiers of the State.

Sworn and subscribed before me, this 29 }                                         
day of June , 1901 }                                                                   J. G.   Sykes
J. D. Kernodle     }                                                                                              Signature of Applicant            
Signature of C.S.C.}                                                                                           
              
      Also personally appeared before me M???? H. Lindsay           , who
resides at                    Burlington                        post-office, in said County and
State, a person whom I know to be respectable and entitled to credit, and being by me duly sworn, say he is acquainted with
                                 J. G. Sykes                                , the applicant for pension, and has every
reason to believe that he is the identical person he represents himself to be, and that the facts set forth in this affidavit are cor-
rect to the best of his knowledge and belief, and that he has no interest, direct or indirect, in this claim.

     Sworn and subscribed before me, this 1st }
day of     July  , 190 1                                   }                                          M. H. Lindsay    
  J. L. Scott,  J. P.                                        }                                           Signature of Witness..
  Signature of C.S.C. }                                                                            

     Also personally appeared before me             Dr. R. H. Freeman                                                       
a physician in good standing in said County and State, and being duly sworn, says that he has carefully and thoroughly examined
                      J. G.   Sykes                                                               , the applicant for pension, and  finds such
disability for manual labor as is described below, by reason of wounds received while in the discharge of his duty as a soldier or
sailor of North Carolina in the service of the late Confederate States.
(Let physician here give full and explicit professional information as to the nature and extent of wounds, disability, stating particularly whether
disability amounts to one fourth, one half, three-fourths, etc., in order to accomplish the classification called for under the new Pension law passed

by the General Assembly of 1901).

        Upon examination of applicant I find no  
       Scars. but think he's unable to do manual 
       labor for more than 1/2 the time           
                                                  
                                                  
                                                  

    Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 1st}
  day of         July     , 190 1                        }                           R. F. 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           J. G.   Sykes                  ________________________________ 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 the said   J. G  Sykes           
is the identical person who enlisted in Company   F        ,   6st    Regiment of  N. C. Troops, on or about the
     9      day of     May                   186 1 , and who was disabled in manner and to the extent stated in the fore-
going certificates of himself and physician in consequence of a wound received in battle on or about the ____________ day of
         (Not wounded)               186__ , and we certify the following allegations set forth in his application to be true,
namely: That he is , and has been for twelve months immediately preceding this Application for Pension, a bona fide resident
of North Carolina; that he holds no office under the United States, or under any State or County, from which he is receiving the
sum of three hundred dollars as fees or as salary annually; that he is not worth in her own right, or the right of his wife,
property at its assessed value for taxation to the amount of five hundred dollars ($500), nor has he disposed of property of such
value by gift or voluntary conveyance since the 11th of March, 1885, and that he is not receiving aid from any other source
for the State of North Carolina, and therefore his application is correct and just under the act.

                                                                        {Seal }          S. H. Webb                       Ch'mn Board Com'r
                                                                            "                 A. J. Albright                   Commissioner.
                                                                            "                 J. G. Dailey                             "
                                                                            "                 S. E. Tate                                "
{IMPRESS COUNTY SEAL HERE}                        "                      Jas. W. Somers                      "      
                                                                            "                L. B. McAdams                      Sheriff          
{Seal} J. D. Kernodle                     Clerk of Superior Court
                                                                          Approved:       W. M . Andrews
                                                                                                 J. T. King        
                                                                                                  L. B. Holt
                                                                                                   R. L. Walker
                                                                                                              County Advisory Board.

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SOLDIER'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
           Act of March 2d, 1901
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          J.  G.  Sykes            
who enlisted in Company   F - 6th     
Regiment North Carolina State Troops.

(Stamped)
 DISALLOWED  S.B.P.

Disability 1/2

 

 

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Filed by Board of Inquiry of  Alamance 
County, N.C.,   1   day of    July            ,
190 1 

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