Pension File # 11830
State of Tennessee
SOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
NAME George W. Moss
Co. ________ Rgt.
Filed __________
Allowed _______
FILE IS STAMPED ___________SOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
I, George W Moss a native of the State of Tennessee and now a citizen of Tennessee, resident at Bells in the County of Crockett in said State of Tennessee, and who was a soldier from the State of Tennnessee 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 H 7 th Tenn Calvary 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: Haywood County Tenn August 26 th 1844
When did you enlist and in what command? Give the names of the regimental and company officers under whom you served.
Answer: I enlisted in 1861 Company H ?? Jackson’s Regt Clay’s Co – Afterwards Col ?? Duckworth and Capt ?andy Jones
In what battle or battles were you engaged, and, if not wounded, state what disabilities did you receive, if any?
Answer: At Corinth, Miss Britton? Lane Salehery? Medson? and several others I was ruptured? at Corinth by being thrown from my horse.
What was the precise nature of your wound or disability, if any?
Answer: I was ruptured on both sides and have since worn a truss.
Were you incapacitated for service by reason of said wound or disability incurred?
Answer: I was disabled and discharged in 1865.
Were you discharged from the army by reason of said wound or disability?
Answer: yes
If discharged from the army, where were you and what did you do until the close of the war?
Answer: I was discharged at Alsheville, Miss. I stayed with them & when I could not stay ??
What was the name of the surgeon who attended you?
Answer: Dr Wms? & Dr. Broady
How did you get out of the army, when and where?
Answer: discharged as above stated
Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government?
Answer: No Sir
If so, when and under what circumstances?
Answer: Not at all
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: Wife 42 and child 8? Years of age
To what sex do your children belong?
Answer: Female
In what business are you now engaged, if any, and what do you earn?
Answer: Living on a farm – earn nearly nothing- nearly blind
What estate have you in your own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: Nothing- neither real or personal
What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: 93 acres of land Value $900.00 2 mares 4 head of cattle a few hogs – ? Of $260.00 on the land
How have you derived support for yourself and family for the past five years?
Answer: Was ? ? 2 ? At 10 dollars for March – Since then by rent on wife’s land
Do you use intoxicants to any extent?
Answer: No Sir
How long 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: C A Goodloe
If so, give his name and address.
Answer: ____________
Witness my hand, this 22 day of ?? 1910
(Signed) A. J. Montgomery
WITNESSES:
(Signed) H. W. Cooke, Physician, Postoffice Address:
(Signed) D. B?. Dodson, Witness, Postoffice Address:
(Signed) J. C. Smosthers, Witness, Postoffice Address:
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County
I, Jno H. Perry, Trustee of said County, certify that G. W. Moss and his wife _____________ are assessed with 123 acres, valued at $ 900 and with $ _________ of personal property.
Witness my hand, this 22 day of Feby 1910
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, JJ. W. Emison, Clerk of said County, the above named G. W. Moss, 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 22 day of Feb 1910
(Signed) J. W. Emison Clerk
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County
Personally appeared before me, J. W. Emison a Clerk of said County, the above named Dr. H. W. Cook 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 G. W. Moss, the applicant, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities:
I find him so severely ruptured in both sides that he cannot get about without Trusss. He also has cataret growing in each eye for the last five years and is so advanced now that can hardly see ? ? and continues to grow worse. He is a fit subject for pension and deserves it.
(Signed) H. W. Cooke
Witness my hand, this 22 day of Feb 1910
(Signed) J. W. Emison, Clerk
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County
Personally appeared before me, J. W. Emison, Clerk of said County, the above named D. B. Dodson and J. C. Smothers, two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, 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 J. E. Smothers further make oath to the following facts touching the applicant’s service in the Confederate army:
I, J. C. Smothers, was in the Confederate Army with the applicant – was with him at Corinth and other engagements during the late war – he was a faithful soldier and did his full duty and is now a good citizen.
Witness my hand, this 22 day of Feb 1910
(Signed) J. W. Emison, Clerk
Letter with Notary Seal included in file (letter written by his brother in law)
Bells March 11, 1910
This is to certify that I am personally acquainted with G W Moss and he and I enlisted in the same company at the same time and ? C C Clay comp? H 7 Tennessee calvary company of confederate army and was with him in several Battles Whiles We was in the army and he was Honorable Discharg from the service at abbondeau Mississippy in November 1863 While ? We Enlisted and mustered? Together and he ? A good soldier all the time to my my knowledge.
T F Evans
Letter with Notary Seal
Bells Crockett County Tenn
To all to whom it may concern this is to certify that I am personally acquainted with G W Moss and have been all of his life. When the Civil War brook and he enlisted in the confederate army in C. C Clay company in the year 1861 the 7 Tennessee cavalry and remained in the service of the army untill he was discharg from the army in the year 1863 His discharge was honorable and in due? form? He came home and have bein a good Law abiding citizen from that time untill the present
This March 11, 1910
J B Yancy J. P.
And Mayor of Bells
Crockett County Tenn
Document inclosed
War Department, The Adjutant General’s Office,
Washington, Feb 28, 1910
Respectfully returned to the President, Tennessee Board of Pension Examiners, Nashville.
The name of George W Moss has not been found on the rolls, on file in this office, of any 7th Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate States Army, and no record has been found of the capture or parole of a man of that name as of any such organization.