Added July 1929

Married Sept 6.91

No. 6501 _

ACCEPTED

Widow’s

Indigent Pension

S. A.# 11,314

Name Mr. Blanche Smith

Filed May 2, 29

Widow of M. F. Smith

14 Tenn Inf

11.314-4

1929
1858
71
4

 

FOSTER & PARKER CO. NASHVILLE

All blanks on this filing to be filled by the Pension Board.

Died Aug 20. 14

 

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS.

The Widow’s Pension Law, passed by the Tennessee Legislature, provides for the widows of soldiers only, and they must have been residents of the State of Tennessee for three years before making application.

There is the only class of Widow’s pensionable.

Widow must have married prior to 1890.

To be eligible the applicant must have remained a widow after the death of her soldier husband, and must be indigent.

Read the questions in the application carefully and answer them fully.

Read the law, and unless you come clearly under the laws it will be useless to file application.

The Board Meets on the second Tuesday in January, April, July and October.

Questions for Applicant

STATE OF TENNESSEE,

Montgomery County. ý

Tenn / Mrs. Blanch Smith Of said State and County, desiring to avail herself of the pension allowed to Indigent Widows of Soldiers, under the Act of General Assembly, approved April 1905, being Chapter 202 of the Acts of 1907; Chapter 18, Acts of 1909; and Chapter 7, Acts of 1911, hereby submits her proofs, and after being duly sworn true answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:

1. What is your full name, and where do you reside? (Give State, County and Post Office)

Mrs. Blanch Smith 636 Main St. Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tenn

2. How long have you been a resident of this State? Life Long Resident

3. When and where were you born and what was your maiden name? April 26, 1858

Montgomery County Tennessee Blanch Payne

4. When and where was your husband born-state his full name, and where you and he married, and who performed the marriage ceremony? (Attach certified copy marriage license in every case)

5. When and where and in what company and Regiment did your husband enlist or serve during the war between the States?

6. How long did your husband serve in said Company and Regiment?

7. When and where did your husband’s Company and Regiment surrender?

8. Was your husband present at the time and place when his Company and Regiment surrendered?

9. If not with his command at surrender, state clearly and specifically where he was, when he left his command, for what cause and by what authority?

10. Was your husband a pensioner or an applicant for pension, under the laws of Tennessee? Yes – sa 11.314

11. Have you heretofore applied for a pension in this State? No

12. When and where did your husband die? Aug 20, 1914

13. At the time of you husband’s death, were you living with him as his lawful wife? Yes

14. Have you married since the death of your soldier husband? No

15. How many children did you have by your said husband? Give sex and age at this time. 5 children

one girl, age 37 – 4 boys ages 35 – 33 – 31 – 29

16. What property, real or personal, or income do you possess, and its gross value? Owns no

Property real or Personal except 2 notes of $100.00 each.

Living with my only unmarried Son upon an whom I am wholy

Dependent on for support.

17. What property, real or personal, did you possess at the death of your husband or did he leave you, and what disposition if any, by sale or gift, have you made of the sale? Life Time Interest in a 20 acres tract

of land in Dist 4 of Montgomery County Tenn which I

have since sold.

18. Have you a family? If so, who compose such family? Give their means of support. Have they any lands or other property?

See answers to above questions 15 and 16

19. Name some friend, giving his name and postoffice address who will be willing to have us write to him about your case if necessary. Henry Whitfield Clarksville Tenn.

Mrs. Blanche Smith

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the

1st Day of May 19 29
W. B. ?????? Notary Public
Of Montgomery County
My Commission
expires Oct. 9-1930

Questions for Witnesses

STATE OF TENNESSEE,

Montgomery County. ý

Mr. Hervey Whitfield Of said State and County, having been presented as a witness in support of the application of Mrs. Mrs. Blanche Smith

For a pension under Chapter 202, Acts of 1905; Chapter 103, Acts of 1907; Chapter 18, Acts of 1909; and Chapter 7, Acts of 1911, and after being duly sworn true answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:

1. What is your name and what is your postoffice address? Hervey Whitfield Clarksville Tenn

2. Are you acquainted with the applicant, Mrs. Blanche Smith

If so, how long have you known her? 10 or 12 years

3. Where does she reside, and how long and since when has she been a resident of this State?

I have heard of her living in this County for about 20 years

4. When and where was she born? In this County

5. Were you ever acquainted with her husband? I knew him well

6. When and by whom were they married? I do not know

7. Were either or both of you present at the marriage? No

8. How long did you know him? 25 or30 years

9. When and where did enlist in the war between the

States, and in what company and Regiment did he enlist, and how do you know this?

10. Were you a member of the same Company and Regiment at the close of the war?

11. How long did he perform regular military duty?

12. When and where was his Company and Regiment surrendered?

13. Were you with the command when it surrendered?

14. Was , the husband of the applicant present?

15. If not present, where was he?

16. When and where did he leave his command?

For what cause?

By whose authority did he leave?

How do you know all this? (State fully and clearly)

17. When and where did M. F. Smith die?

In district 4 This County about 15 years ago

18. Where did he reside at his death, and how long had he been a resident of Tennessee at his death?

He was born and died in Montgomery County

19. Do you know of your own knowledge that applicant is the lawful widow of I do M. F. Smith

Yes

20. Has she remained unmarried since her soldier husband’s death, and is she now his widow? She has

and is now a widow.

21. What property, effects or income has the applicant, if any, and do you know this of your own knowledge?

She does not now own her own little home where

Her husband lived, but has about two notes of about

$100 each, by our own knowledge of that fact.

Has applicant conveyed any property, in the last two years or given any away, if so, what was it, and to whom?

This was answered above, but I do not know

Who purchased the old home.

Note. -- Let the witness who can answer the greatest number of questions do so; then let the other witness state in the space below how much of the testimony of the first witness he concurs in, and whether or not he can answer any of the questions not answered by the first witness.

I concur in all the above questions and an-

swers.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22nd Hervey Whitfield

day of April 192 9

S. G. Ginsberg, Notary Public S. W. Kelly

Montgomery Co Tenn Witnesses

My commission expires April 10, 19??

The Following Certificate of the County Trustee Must be Filled Out Whether the Applicant Owns

Any Taxable Property – or Not

I, J. E. Staton Trustee of Montgomery County, Tennessee
Hereby certify that the property assessed on the tax books of this County to Mrs. Blanche Smith
The widow of M. F. Smith lots none acres $ none
Real estate and personal $ none

J. E. Staton Trustee
For Montgomery County, Tenn.