Pension File # 8252
State of Tennessee
SOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
NAME A. J. Montgomery
Filed June 12, 1906
Allowed ___________
FILE IS STAMPED AcceptedSOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
I, Andrew J. Montgomery a native of the State of Tennessee and now a citizen of Tennessee, resident at near Maury City in the County of Crockett in said State of Tennessee, and who was a soldier from the State of Arkansas 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 Company I. 13 Ark regiment 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: Marshal County State of Mississippi
When did you enlist and in what command? Give the names of the regimental and company officers under whom you served.
Answer: 13 Reg. Co. I. Colonel Grason
In what battle or battles were you engaged, and, if not wounded, state what disabilities did you receive, if any?
Answer: Belmont? Missouri, Richmon Ky, Murfreesborough, Tenn, Chickamauga Tenn, Liberty Gap Tenn, Chattanooga Tenn, Kenesaw Mountain Tenn
What was the precise nature of your wound or disability, if any?
Answer: Was wounded in thigh spent Bell? Renuined? in hospitle 3 or 4 days
Were you incapacitated for service by reason of said wound or disability incurred?
Answer: No
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: Greensborough N.C. at close of war
What was the name of the surgeon who attended you?
Answer: Dr. Cole
How did you get out of the army, when and where?
Answer: —-? paroled at Greensborough N.C.
Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government?
Answer: Yes
If so, when and under what circumstances?
Answer: Greensborough because of surrender
Are you married, or have you been married?
Answer: Yes
If so, what is the size of your family living together?
Answer: 3 of us
What are the respective ages of your wife and children living with you?
Answer: 68, Daughter 39
To what sex do your children belong?
Answer: Female
Are not some of your children able to support you?
Answer: No
In what business are you now engaged, if any, and what do you earn?
Answer: Trying to farm but now on bed sick
What estate have you in your own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: No real Estate one mule? colt – 1 cow 4 shoats – $225.00
What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: None except beds & —–? $12.00
How have you derived support for yourself and family for the past five years?
Answer: By hard labor on the farm
Do you use intoxicants to any extent?
Answer: No
How long have you been an actual resident of the State of Tennessee?
Answer: Ear [sic] since 1865 – close of war
Have you an attorney to look after this application?
Answer: None
If so, give his name and address.
Answer: __________
Witness my hand, this 4 day of June 1906
(Signed) A. J. Montgomery
WITNESSES:
(Signed) S. D. Booth, Physician
(Signed) J. H. Chandler, Witness
(Signed) L. F. Goodwin, Witness
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County
I, Jno H. Perry, Trustee of said County, certify that A. J. Montgomery and his wife _____________ are assessed with No acres, valued at $ ___________ and with $ _________ of personal property.
Witness my hand, this 9 day of June 1906
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. M. Neal, a Notary Public Court of said County, the above named A. J. Montgomery, 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 4 day of June 1906
(Signed) J. M. Neal, Noty Public
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County
Personally appeared before me, J. M. Neal a Notary Public of said County, the above named S. D. Booth 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 examined A. J. Montgomery, the applicant, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities:
Tuberculosis of left Lung and has been confined to his bed for 2 months.
Witness my hand, this 4 day of June 1906
(Signed) J. M. Neal, Noty Public
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County
Personally appeared before me, J. M. Neal Notary Public of said County, the above named J. H. Chandler and L. F. Goodwin 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 He further make oath to the following facts touching the applicant’s service in the Confederate army:
We were not in the army with applicant but have known him 40 years or more and believe him to have been in war as he has his discharge and enrollment.
Witness my hand, this 6 day of June 1906
(Signed) J. M. Neal, Noty Public
Letter included in file, written on Planters Bank (Maury City, Tenn) letterhead:
April 2, 1928 Hon. Edgar J. Graham, Comptroller, Nashville, Tenn. Dear Sir: My Father, A. J. Montgomery, who was a Confderate Pensioner, died March 25th 1928.We are cashing his check #12979. He died without means and I have been advised that under such circumstances your office has facilities with which you could make further cash allowance. If this is correct, we feel that surely he would be deserv of such additional aid, with which his affairs might be partially settled. Very respectfully yours, (Signed) M. Montgomery Friendship, Tenn #5