Tag: Hays

Pension File # 9784
State of Tennessee

SOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION

NAME Wm. L. Hays
Filed Jan 3, 1908
Allowed ________________________

FILE IS STAMPED AcceptedSOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION

I, William Lauson Hays a native of the State of Ala and now a citizen of Tennessee, resident at Johnsons Grove in the County of Crockett in said State of Tennessee, and who was a soldier from the State of Alabama in the war between the United States and the Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid under the Act of the General Assembly of Tennessee, entitled “An Act for the benefit of indigent and disabled soldiers of the late war between the States, and to fix the fees of attorneys or agents for procuring such pension, and fixing a penalty for the violation of the same.” And I do solemnly swear that I was a member of Co. H. 19th Ala. Inf. in the service of the Confederate or United States, and that by reason of disability and indigence I am now entitled to receive the benefit of this Act. I further swear that I do not hold any National, State, or County office, nor do I receive aid or pension from any other State, or from the United States, and that I am not an inmate of any soldier’s home, and that I am unable to earn a reasonable support for myself and family. I do further solemnly swear that the answers given to the following questions are true:

In what County, State and year were you born?
Answer: Cass Co., Ga, April 19th 1845, moved with my parents to Ala when a child

When did you enlist and in what command? Give the names of the regimental and company officers under whom you served.
Answer: Capt. Joseph Cunningham Col. Kimbrough 19th Ala Regt.

In what battle or battles were you engaged, and, if not wounded, state what disabilities did you receive, if any?
Answer: Shiloh, Chickamauga, Mil____? Ridge, Franklin, Northville, Perrysville, Radaca?, Jarishons? Ga, ??? ??? ??? Kencsan? Mountain

What was the precise nature of your wound or disability, if any?
Answer: I was wounded at Atlanta in left side

Were you incapacitated for service by reason of said wound or disability incurred?
Answer: Yes, for some time

Were you discharged from the army by reason of said wound or disability?
Answer: No

If discharged from the army, where were you and what did you do until the close of the war?
Answer: At the close of the war, Saulsbury? N. C.

What was the name of the surgeon who attended you?
Answer: ______________

How did you get out of the army, when and where?
Answer: Paroled at close of the war, Saulsbury? N. C.

Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government?
Answer: Yes Sir

If so, when and under what circumstances?
Answer: Close of the war

Are you married, or have you been married?
Answer: Married

If so, what is the size of your family living together?
Answer: Wife & I alone

What are the respective ages of your wife and children living with you?
Answer: Wife 65 years of age, No children with me

To what sex do your children belong?
Answer: One boy & Four girls, all married

Are not some of your children able to support you?
Answer: No Sir

In what business are you now engaged, if any, and what do you earn?
Answer: Carpenter – just a little – can’t do much

What estate have you in your own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: Nothing at all – a two acre lot is ??? to me but it is only for life – Value Fifty (50) Dollars

What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: She has nothing

How have you derived support for yourself and family for the past five years?
Answer: What little I could make of my trade

Do you use intoxicants to any extent?
Answer: No Sir

How long have you been an actual resident of the State of Tennessee?
Answer: Forty years

Have you an attorney to look after this application?
Answer: Yes

If so, give his name and address.
Answer: C. A. Goodloe, Alamo, Tenn.

Witness my hand, this 9th day of Dec 1907
(Signed) William Losson Hays

WITNESSES:
W. B. Eason, Physician
G. E. Hollis I was in same company with ??? and know him to be a good soldier

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STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County

I, Jno. H. Perry, Trustee of said County, certify that ________ and his wife _________ are assessed with 2 acres, valued at $50 and with $_________ of personal property.

Witness my hand, this 9 day of Dec 1907
Signed Jno. H. Perry

If applicant and his wife have no property, the Trustee must so certify.

STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County

Personally appeared before me, J. W. Emison, Clerk Co. Court of said County, the above named William Lawson Hays the applicant, with whom I am personally acquainted, and having read and fully explained to him, as well as the statements and answers therein made, made oath that the said statements and answers are true.

Witness my hand, this 9″ day of Dec 1907
(Signed) J. W. Emison, Clerk

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STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County

Personally appeared before me, J. W. Emison, Clerk Co. Court of said County, the above named Dr. W. B. Eason one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, and who is a physician of good standing, and being duly sworn says that he has carefully and thoroughly examinid William Lawson Hays, the applicant, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities:

Chronic cystitis, Mitral lesion of heart, and frequent attacks of renal colic.

Witness my hand, this 9″ day of Dec. 1907
(Signed) J. W. Emison, Clerk

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STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Hamilton County

Personally appeared before me, A. L. Kirkpatrick Notary Public of said County, the above named _________ and A. M. Espey, two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, with whom I am personally acquainted, and know to me to be citizens of veracity and standing in this community, and who make oath that they are personally acquainted with the foregoing applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in this application are correct and true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim, and that said applicant’s habits are good and free from dishonor. And _________ further make oath to the following facts touching the applicant’s service in the _________ army:

Witness my hand, this 18th day of December 1907
(Signed) A. L. Kirkpatrick, Notary Public

No. 279
State of Tennessee

NAME Luke Hays
Co. ________ Regt.

Filed March 27, 1934
Allowed _______

FILE IS STAMPED RejectedCOLORED MAN’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION

I, Luke Hays a native of the State of Tennessee and now a citizen of Tennessee, resident at Alamo in the County of Crockett in said State of Tennessee, and who was a servant from the State of Tennessee in the war between the United States and the Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid under the Act of the General Assembly of Tennessee of Tennessee of 1921. And I do solemnly swear that I was with Newt Nunn in the service of the Confederate States, and that by reason of indigence I am now entitled to receive the benefit of this Act. I further swear that I do not hold any National, State, or county office, nor do I receive aid or pension from any other State, or from the United States. I do further solemnly swear that the answers given to the following questions are true:

In what County, State and year were you born?
Answer: Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1852

When did you go with the army? Give the names of the regimental and company officers under whom your master served.
Answer: I stayed at home and did the work while my master served. He served under Gen. Forest in the Calvary.

Give the name of your owner
Answer: Newt Nunn

What estate have you in your own right, real and personal, and what is its actual cash value?
Answer: None

What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its actual cash value?
Answer: She left me and 3 children and went to Arkansas about 30 or more ago, and have not heard from her since.

State the gross income of yourself and your wife from all sources for the past year. This must include all money received either from wages, rents or interest on loaned money, if any. Also family supplies raised or received from rents and used by your family.
Answer: None

How long and since when have you been an actual resident of the State of Tennessee?
Answer: All of my life.

Have you an attorney to look after this application?
Answer: Yes

If so, give his name and address.
Answer: Fred P. Warren, Alamo, Tennessee

Witness my hand, this 23 day of March 1934
(Signed) Luke (his X mark) Hays

WITNESSES:
(Signed) Frances Young, Witness, Postoffice Address Alamo, Tennessee
(Signed) J. C. W. Warren, Witness, Postoffice Address Alamo, Tennessee

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STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County

I, W. R. Conley, Trustee of said County, certify that Luke Hays and his wife _____________ are assessed with 2 lots acres, valued at $ 130.00 and with $ None of personal property.

Witness my hand, this 23 day of March 1934
Signed W. R. Conley, Trustee

If applicant and his wife have no property, the Trustee must so certify.

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STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett COUNTY.

Personally appeared before me, F. P. Warren, ____________ of said County, the above named Luke Hays, the applicant, with whom I am personally acquainted, and having the application read and fully explained to him, as well as the statements and answers therein made, made oath that the said statements and answers are true.

Witness my hand, this 23 day of March 1934
(Signed) F. P. Warren (N.P.)

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STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County

Personally appeared before me, F. P. Warren, ____________ of said County, the above named J. C. W. Nunn and Frances Young, two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, with whom I am personally acquainted, and known to me to be citizens of veracity and standing in this community, and who make oath that they are personally acquainted with the foregoing applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in this application are correct and true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim, and that said applicant’s habits are good and free from dishonor. And _____________ further make oath to the following facts touching the applicant’s service in the Confederate army:

That Newt J. Nunn the owner of Luke Hays was in the Confederate Army.

(Signed) Frances Young
(Signed) J. C. W. Warren

Witness my hand, this 23 day of March 1934
(Signed) F. P. Warren (N.P.)

1. State your full name and present post office address:
Answer: W. L. Hays, Bells, Tenn. R. 2

2. State your age now:
Answer: I am 806 (86?) years – in 6 month(?) I was borned

3. In what State and county were you born?
Answer: in Case (Cass) county, Georgia

4. Were you a Confederate or Federal soldier?
Answer: I was a Confederate Co. H. 19 lb (Ala.)

5. Name of your Company?
Answer: Alabama Regt. Co. H, 19 Ala

6. What was the occupation of your father?
Answer: he was a farmer

7. Give full name of your father: Edward L. Hays; born at dont no; in the County of ___; State of Georgia; He lived at ____.
Give also any particulars concerning him, as official position, war services, etc.; books written by him, etc.:
Answer:

8. Maiden name in full of your mother: dont no any thing about no mother; she was the daughter of: (full name) ____ and his wife: (full name) ____; who lived at: ____.

9. Remarks on ancestry. Give here any and all facts possible in reference to your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., not included in the foregoing as where they lived, offices held, Revolutionary or other war service; what country they came from to America; first settled-county and State; always giving full names (if possible), and never referring to an ancestor simply as such without giving the name. It is desirable to include every fact possible, and to that end the full and exact record from old Bibles should be appended on separate sheets of this size, thus preserving the facts from loss.
Answer: ___________________

10. If you owned land or other property at the opening of the war, state what kind of property you owned, and state the value of your property as near as you can:
Answer: never owned any during my stay with ______during my ______

(Original transcribers remarks: This spelling is beyond reading, so what little we have been able to figure will be very brief from here on)

11. Did you or your parents own slaves? If so, how many?
Answer: nown ____

12. If your parents owned land, state about how many acres:
Answer: non at tall

13. State as near as you can the value of all the property owned by your parents, including land, when the war opened:
Answer: ________

14. What kind of house did your parents occupy? State whether it was a log house or frame house or built of other material, and state the number of rooms it had:
Answer: the houss…. log hous….4 roomes with….

15. As a boy and young man, state what kind of work you did. If you worked on a farm, state to what extent you plowed, worked with a hoe and did other kinds of similar work. (Certain historians claim that white men would not do work of this sort before the war.)
Answer: …. when i was a young man the most I ever did was of on___ a farm… from 6 year old… I did other kind of…. work

16. State clearly what kind of work your father did, and what the duties of your mother were. State all the kinds of work done in the house as well as you can remember – that is, cooking, spinning, weaving, etc.:
Answer: My father was a s____ and wee boys had to work lik thunder. I was the fin____ one of the boys. Boys tha went in the war a _____ (Original transcribers remarks: The best I can tell, this should read; “I was the first one of the boys that went in the war Richard then Hardy? he came next Marion? L., L. M.? Hays Wm.? my youngest brother. This writing is worse than the spelling)

17. Did your parents keep any servants? If so, how many?
Answer: non at tall

18. How was honest toil – as plowing, hauling, and other sorts of honest work of this class – regarded in your community? Was such work considered respectable and honorable?
Answer: yes sir respecble

19. Did the white men in your community generally engage in such work?
Answer: yes ser

20. To what extent were there white men in your community leading lives of idleness and having others do their work for them?
Answer: _________

21. Did the men who owned slaves mingle freely with those who did not own slaves, or did slaveholders in any way show by their actions that they felt themselves better than respectable, honorable men who did now own slaves?
Answer: the(y) gelt better of corse

22. At the churches, at the school, at public gatherings in general, did slaveholders and non-slaveholders mingle on a footing of equality?
Answer: at the church and chools the slaveholder and non lave (slave) holders did not gr____ weal ____ hover? the slave holder was not

23. Was there a friendly feeling between slaveholders and non-slaveholders in your community, or were they antagonistic to each other?
Answer: no

24. In a political contest, in which one candidate owned slaves and the other did not, did the fact that one candidate owned slaves help him any in winning the contest?
Answer: that the slaveholder the poor man had no chanc _____

25. Were the opportunities good in your community for a poor young man, honest and industrious, to save up enough to buy a small farm or go in business for himself?
Answer: some tim now? not often the _____ ? _____

26. Were poor, honest, industrious young men, who were ambitious to make something of themselves, encouraged or discouraged by slaveholders?
Answer: (cannot read this)

27. What kind of school or schools did you attend?
Answer: I went to a little log cabben

28. About how long did you go to school altogether?
Answer: walk…. (unreadable)

29. How far was it to the nearest school?
Answer: 4 miles

30. What school or schools were in operation in your neighborhood?
Answer: ….. house in our naberhood the nearest

31. Was the school in your community private or public?
Answer: Public chool

32. About how many months in the year did it run?
Answer: it joust run 3 – 4 months… now it runes about nine… attended five from 4 to 9 months

33. Did the boys and girls in your community attend school pretty regularly?
Answer: man

34. Was the teacher of the school you attended a man or woman?
Answer: …. I inlisted __ttsed? center Cherokee county Alabama went from Huntsville muster in service at Huntsville where about the 10 of May

35. In what year and month and at what place did you enlist in the service of the Confederacy or of the Federal Government?
Answer: sent Huntsville… few days…