WIDOW'S CLAIM FOR PENSION
ELIZA J. WEBSTER

wife of JOHN J. WEBSTER
OF ALAMANCE COUNTY
from the Archives in Raleigh, NC

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,}
COUNTY OF   Alamance     }
On this          3rd           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,
          Mrs. Eliza J. Webster                                    , age    67  ,years, and a resident at
                Osceola      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                  Jno. J. Webster                                                                    
who enlisted in Co.   F   ,   53     Reg. N. C. State Troops, on or about the     8th        day of  
                    April                        , 186   2 , 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.  Webster  died    ??      January, 1895                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                     

Sworn and subscribed before me, this   3 rd }                                       her
day of June  , 1901 }                                                            Eliza J. X  Webster  
  J. d. Kernodle         }                                                                      mark               Signature of Applicant
Signature of C.S.C. }
          

PHYSICIAN'S CERTIFICATE

       Also personally appeared before me                  J. A. Pickett                                                      , who
resides at       Oscealo                                   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   he is     
acquainted with                   Mrs. Eliza J. Webster                                  , the widow of the late
         John. J. Webster                                       , of Co.                           53   rd                         
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                                    }                                         J. A Pickett
     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                 Eliza J. Webster                 
the widow of the late            John  J. Webster                          , who  enlisted in Company               ,
        53                      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                 Eliza J. Webster                      
is the widow of the late             John  J. Webster                    who enlisted in Company   F   ,
       53           Regiment of North Carolina State Troops, on or about the           8                 day of    Apr            186 2,
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:           W M  Andrews   
                                                                                                    ?????????
                                                                                                        L. B. Holt
                                                                                                      R. L. Walker   
                                                                                                               County Advisory Board                          

          #38
                                                                                                                 
WIDOW'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
             ACT OF MARCH 2d 190
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Mrs.             Eliza J. Webster                               
Widow of                  John  J. Webster                      
Company                 ,   53      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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