WIDOW'S CLAIM FOR PENSION
ELIZABETH BRADSHAW STEWART
wife of SAMUEL STEWART
OF ALAMANCE COUNTY
from the Archives in Raleigh, NC
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA County of Alamance On this 21st day of May, A.D. 1885, personally appeared before me, A. Tate , C.S.C., in and for the State and County aforesaid, Elizabeth Stewart, age 54 years and a resident at Melville 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 for the relief of certain soldiers in the late war between the States," ratified March 11th, 1885, that she is the widow of the late Samuel Stuart who enlisted in Co. G, 44 Reg. N.C. State Troops, on or about the 1st day of March 1863, to serve in the armies of the late Confederate States, and that while in performance of duty in said Company and Regiment, in the State of Virginia, on or about the ..... day of .....1864, he received a wound or wounds, which terminated his life. She further states that she holds no office in the United States, State or County, from which she is receiving the sum of three hundred dollars in fees or as a salary, 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), and that she has never remarried.
Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 26th day of May , 1885.
A. Tate. Elizabeth S. Stuart
Signature of C.S. C. Signature of Claimant.
Also, personally appeared before me, Hugh Edwards, who resides at Melville 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, says that he is acquainted with Elizabeth J. Stuart, the widow of the late Samuel Stuart of Company "G", 44 Regiment North Carolina State Troops, and that he believes 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 his knowledge and belief, and that he has no interest direct or indirect in this claim. Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 26th day of May , 1885.
A. Tate Hugh Edwards
Signature of C.S.C. Signature of Witness.
======================================== 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 Elizabeth Stuart., the widow of the late Samuel Stuart, who enlisted in Company G, 44 Regiment North Carolina State Troops, for a pension under the provisions of an act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain soldiers in the late war between the States," ratified the 11th day of March, A.D. 1885, and the proofs filed in support thereof; that we are satisfied that the said Elizabeth Stuart is the widow of the late Samuel Stuart who enlisted in Company G, 44 Reg. N.C. State Troops, on or about the 1st day of March 1863, and who lost his life in consequence of a wound received in battle on or about the ......... day of ...........1864, that she is now a bonafide resident of the County of Alamance in this State; that she does not own either in her own right or in the right of her late husband, property of the assessed value of five hundred dollars; that she is not in the receipt of a salary or fees arising from any office in the County, State or Nation, to the amount of $300 annually, and that she has never remarried, and therefore her application is correct under the act.
{Seal} Wm.Stafford Chm'n Board Com'rs
" E.C. Murray Commissioner.
" Thos C. Foust "
" W.G. Stockard "
" Jas T Hunter, Sheriff
{Seal} A. Tate Clerk Superior Court ============================================= COVER
No. 830
WIDOW'S CLAIM FOR PENSION.
ACT OF MARCH 11TH, 1885
Mrs. Elizabeth STUART
Widow of Samuel STUART
Company G, 44th Regiment, North
Carolina State Troops.
(Handwritten)
Name on roll
pn? affidavit
enclosed
Approved
Filed by Board of Inquiry of Alamance
County, N.C. 16 day of July
1885
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State of North Carolina}
Alamance County }
Labon Payne
being duly sworn Says; that
Samuel Stewart was a private Soldier Co. G. 44th Regt N.C. Troops in the Confederate Army and Said Stewart Sickened and died at Orange Court house Va on the 20th of December 1864 = he died of Small Pox disease
Test= his
D. S. Thompson Laben x Payne
mark
Sworn to before before
me this 29th August 1885
D.S. Thompson J.P.
(before was on twice)
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
ALAMANCE COUNTY.
I, A. Tate, Clerk of the Superior Court for county and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that D.S. Thompson is and was at time of signing the foregoing affidavit an acting Justice of the Peace for said county and State, duly sworn and commissioned, and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand and seal of said Court at office in Graham this 31st day of August 1885.
A. Tate,
Clerk Superior Count.
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