WIDOW'S CLAIM FOR PENSION
CAROLINE WRENN
wife of HENRY WRENN
OF ALAMANCE COUNTY
from the Archives in Raleigh, NC

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,}
COUNTY OF   Alamance     }
On this 1st day of    July A. D. 190 1, personally appeared before me,
     J. D. Kernodle    , C. S. C., in and for the State and County aforesaid,
          Mrs.  Caroline Wrenn                       , age    67  ,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      Henry Wrenn                    who enlisted in Co.   , 22    Reg. N. C. State Troops, on or about the day of                                           , 186 1 , 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.
                  Mr. Wrenn was Killed at Getts-                                                                                
                 burg.                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                     

Sworn and subscribed before me, this 1st }                                       her
day of July  , 1901 }                                                            Caroline x Wrenn
  J. d. Kernodle         }                                                                          mark               Signature of Applicant
Signature of C.S.C. }
          

PHYSICIAN'S CERTIFICATE

       Also personally appeared before me                    Benj. Perry                                             , who
resides at        Shallowford                        post-office, and        J. G. Sykes                                           
who resides at               Burlington                               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   they are 
acquainted with                   Mrs. Caroline Wrenn                                  , the widow of the late
         Henry Wrenn                                       , of Co.                           22 nd                         
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 1st }
day of     July , 1901                                    }                                       Benj. Berry
     J. D. Kernodle           
                           }                                         J. G. Sykes     
 Signature of C.S.C.                                    }                                  Signature of Physician…
                                 

                        

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                 Caroline Wrenn                 
the widow of the late            Henry Wrenn                          , who  enlisted in Company               ,
        22                      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            Caroline Wrenn      is the widow of the late             Henry Wrenn                    who enlisted in Company   ,        22           Regiment of North Carolina State Troops, on or about the                            day of                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 }            S. H. Webb                         Ch'mn Board Com'r
                                                                            "                 A. J. Albright                        Commissioner.
                                                                            "                 J. G. Dialey                              "
                                                                            "                    Jas. W. Somers                      "
{IMPRESS COUNTY SEAL HERE}                        "                    S.E. Tate                              "      
                                                                            "                 L.B. McAdams                    Sheriff          
{Seal} J D. Kernodle      Clerk of Superior Court
                                                                          Approved:            ???? Anderson   
                                                                                                    ?????????
                                                                                                        L. B. Holt
                                                                                                      R. L. Walker   
                                                #26                                                                  County Advisory Board                                                                                                                                                                      
WIDOW'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
             ACT OF MARCH 2d 190
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Mrs.             Caroline Wrenn                               
Widow of                  Henry Wrenn                      
Company                 ,   22      Regiment,
North Carolina State Troops

      ( Stamped )
APPROVED S. B. P. FOURTH CLASS


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




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