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McAfee Pensions
Who is Jacob Alexander Beck and why is he included under McAfee pensions? No, he is not a blood relative. Jacob Beck (or "Uncle Alex" to a young Nettie McAfee) was the husband of Angeline Brock, sister of Mary Brock McAfee. Jacob Beck owned a meat market in Austin, Texas, and at one time employed his brother-in-law Albert McAfee. Transcription of Confederate Pension Application No. 6092 Name of Applicant: J. A. Beck,
Travis County Comptroller’s File No. 6092 I have carefully examined the within application for pension, together with the proof in support thereof, and I recommend that the application be approved this 15 day of February 1900. Signed Wm. J. Irwin, Pension Clerk. I hereby approve the within application for pension, this 15 day of February, 1900. Signed (unreadable signature), Comptroller.
Application of Indigent Soldier or Sailor
THE STATE OF TEXAS To the Honorable County Judge of Travis County, Texas. Your petitioner, Jacob A. Beck respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Travis County, in the State of Texas, and he makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act passed by the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved May 12, A.D. 1899, the same being an act entitled “An act to carry into effect the amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that aid may be granted to disabled and dependent Confederate soldiers, sailors, and their widows under certain conditions, and to make an appropriation therefor,” and I do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true. Note: Applicant must make answer to all of the following questions, and such answers must be written out plainly in ink. Q. What is your name? Answer: Jacob Alexander Beck Q. What is your age? Answer: 66 years. Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Travis County, Texas. Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: Since 1879. Post Office Austin, Texas. Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore and been rejected? If so state when and where. Answer: No. Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: farmer. Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: bad. Q. If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn a support, state what caused such disability. Answer: Rheumatism, Nervous, and general bad health. Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate arm, and the time of your service? Answer: Co. A 1st Regt Ark Cavalry. From 1862 to close of war in 1865. Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where, and the time of your service. Answer: No. Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state what pension or veteran donation land certificate you have received. Answer: No. Q. What real and personal property to you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such property and value. Answer: 4 head of horses
and mules worth
$40.00 Q. What property, and what was the value thereof have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to the date of this application? Answer: None. Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer: None. Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer: Yes. Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support? Answer: Yes. Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer: No. Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? Answer: No. Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer: Yes. Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law. Signature of Applicant: J. A. Beck (his mark) Sworn to and
subscribed before me this 19th day of August, A.D. 1899.
AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN
THE STATE OF TEXAS Before me, A. S. Walker, County Judge of Travis County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared A. N. Denton, who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, who being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and thoroughly examined J. A. Beck applicant for a pension and finds him laboring under the following disabilities which render him unable to labor at any work or calling sufficient to earn a support for himself: Disease in spine, chronic rheumatism and old age. Signature of physician: A. N. Denton, M.D. Sworn to and
subscribed before me this 23rd day of August, A.D. 1899.
THE STATE OF TEXAS I, A. S. Walker, County Judge of Travis County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 17th day of November A.D. 1899, before me came on to be heard the application of J. A. Beck for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law of this State, approved May 12, A.D., 1899; that the answers of said applicant to the questions propounded were made under oath as the same appear in writing in the foregoing application; that the affidavits of the witnesses who are credible citizens were made before me as the same hereinbefore appear, and that the foregoing affidavit of Doctor A. N. Denton who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant J. A. Beck, is not an inmate of the Texas Confederate Home, nor otherwise disqualified under the provision of Section 12, of the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify that after considering all the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said J. A. Beck I find the same applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and I hereby approve said application. Witness my hand and seal of office at Austin, this 17th day of November A.D. 1899. Signed A. S. Walker, County Judge, Travis County, State of Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
THE STATE OF TEXAS We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Travis County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of J. A. Beck for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. A. S. Walker County Judge of this Travis County, to the Commissioners Court of this Travis County, at a regular term thereof on the 18th day of Nov A.D. 99, and after a careful consideration of the same we find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and we hereby approve said application. Witness our hands and seal of office at Austin this 18th day of Nov. A.D. 1899. Signed:
AFFIDAVIT
THE STATE OF TEXAS Before me, A. S. Walker, County Judge of Travis County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Annie Wilson who is personally known to me to be a credible citizen, who being by me duly sworn on oath state that she personally knows J. A. Beck the applicant for pension named in the application hereto attached and that she further knows that he, the said applicant, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. Signed Annie Wilson Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 22nd day of Aug. A.D. 1899. Signed A. S. Walker, County Judge, Travis County, Texas
AFFIDAVIT
THE STATE OF TEXAS Before me, A. S. Walker, County Judge of Travis County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared George A. Beck who is personally known to me to be a credible citizen, who being by me duly sworn on oath state that he personally knows J. A. Beck the applicant for pension named in the application hereto attached and that he further knows that he, the said applicant, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. Signed Annie Wilson Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 21st day of Aug. A.D. 1899. Signed A. S. Walker, County Judge, Travis County, Texas
Ex Parte Applicant for Confederate Pension: J. A. Beck Pending in the Honorable Commissioners’ Court of Travis County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County. The Honorable County Judge of Travis Count, Texas, will please take notice that, five days after the service hereof, applicant herein will apply to the Clerk of the County Court of said County and State, for a commission to take the deposition of James Mayberry who resides in the County of Uvalde in the State of Texas in answer to the following interrogatories and such cross interrogatories as may be propounded by the County Judge of said County, which will be read in evidence upon the hearing of applicant’s claim for pension in behalf of applicant; said testimony is material and indispensable to applicant in furnishing the required proof to claim for a pension under the Act of May 12, 1899, the application for which is now pending before the Honorable County Judge, and the facts necessary and required to be proven under the provisions of said act, applicant believes can not be proven by any witness residing in the County of Travis and State of Texas, of which he is a bona fide resident. Signed John Dowell, Attorney for Applicant Direct Interrogatories to be Propounded to the Witness James Mayberry Int. 1: What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and postoffice address? Int. 2: Do you personally know, or did you at any time know J. A. Beck who is an applicant for pension under Act of May 12, 1899? Int. 3: How long have you known the said J. A. Beck, applicant for pension, and when and where did you first know him? Int. 4: Do you personally know that the said J. A. Beck applicant for pension, enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor? Int. 5: Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said J. A. Beck applicant, enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When? Where? And the time of service? If you personally knew and so have stated that he enlisted and served in the Confederate navy, then state: When? Where? And how long he so served? Int. 6: Do you further know that J. A. Beck, the said applicant for pension, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort? Signed John Dowell, Atty for Applicant Cross Interrogatories To be propounded to James Mayberry Cross Interrogatory 1. If, in answer to the foregoing direct interrogatories, you have stated that you personally know or did know said applicant, and that you know that he enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor, and having named the company and regiment in which applicant so enlisted and served, than please state fully what is your source of such knowledge? And state whether or not you know or any time you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of J. A. Beck serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said applicant, J. A. Beck, enlisted? or if you have stated that said applicant enlisted and served in the navy of the Confederacy, then state whether or not you know any other sailor of the same name as said J. A. Beck applicant, serving in the same command? If you say that you so knew other soldiers or sailors of the same name as applicant’s then can you and how do you identify and locate the one from the other or others? Cross Int. 2: Are you positively certain that said J. A. Beck, applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you? Cross Int. 3: If you have answered Direct Interrogatory No. 6 in the affirmative, then please state your source of knowledge or information? Is not this you answer simply based on conjecture? Cross Int. 4: Do you know whether or not the said J. A. Beck, applicant for pension, ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy?
THE STATE OF TEXAS I, A. S. Walker, County Judge of said County, in said State, do hereby waive copy of interrogatories, notice, time, and issuance of commission, and it is hereby agreed that the answers to the hereinabove direct and cross interrogatories of the said herein named witness may be attached hereto. Signed A. S. Walker, County Judge, Travis County, Texas (Identical Interrogatories & Cross Interrogatories sent to Capt. Pat H. Wheat of the State of Arkansas)
ANSWERS AND DEPOSITIONS of James M. Mayberry, a resident of the County of Uvalde, in the State of Texas, to the accompanying Interrogatories propounded to him in the above entitled cause, taken before J. F. Robinson County Judge in and for Uvalde County, Texas, in accordance with the accompanying Commission: Answers of the Witness James M. Mayberry To the First Interrogatory he answers: James M. Mayberry, 59 years, Uvalde County, Uvalde, Texas Inty 2 ans.: a member of the same Company with me. I knew him by the name of Alex Beck, and I believe J. A. Beck to be the same man. Inty 3 ans.: About two years. In the confederate service. Inty 4 ans.: I do, he was teamster of our company. Inty 5 ans.: Yes. Company “A” Monroe’s Regiment of Cavalry. Inty 6 ans.: I do not. X Inty 1 ans: I only knew him by the name of Alex Beck. Alex Beck soldiered in the same Company with me. Co. “A” Monroe’s Regiment. I did not know any other Beck in the Regiment. X Inty 2 ans.: I am satisfied that J. A. Beck is the same Alex Beck, for I did not know any other Beck in the service. X Inty 4 ans.: I do. He did not. Signed J. M. Mayberry ANSWERS of Patrick Henry Wheat. Int. 1: Patrick Henry Wheat, 76, Lonoke, Lonoke Co., Ark. Int. 2: Yes. Int. 3: About 1858. Prairie County, Arkansas. Int. 4: I do. Int. 5: Co. A, 1st Ark Cav. Fagen Cal. About 1862 at Brownsville Arkansas. From April 1862 until the Surrender. Int. 6: I do not. Cross Interrogatories: Int. 1: He enlisted in the Co. that I was Cap. of. There was no other J. A. Beck in the regiment. Int. 2: Yes. I am satisfied of that. Int. 3: I don’t know his present condition. Int. 4: I know he did not.
State of Arkansas I, Pat H. Wheat do solemnly swear that the statements made by me under oath are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Signed, Patrick Henry Wheat. Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 28th day of August 1899. Signed A. G. Apple, Clerk APPLICATION FOR MORTUARY WARRANT
THE STATE OF TEXAS I, Mrs. J. D. Allen do hereby certify that I am the person to whom is entrusted the paying of the accounts and indebtedness of the late J. A. Beck, who was a pensioner of the State of Texas, and whose file number was 6092 and whose original county was Travis. The said pensioner J. A. Beck died on the 19th day of November, 1927, in the town of Dallas, County of Dallas, Texas. The pensioner died in the home of Mrs. J. D. Allen, who was related to the pensioner as daughter. That the warrant, which application is hereby made for, shall be applied to paying all or part of the funeral expenses incurred by the said pensioner J. A. Beck. I further certify that the warrant for the current quarter has not been cashed by the pensioner, to the best of my knowledge and belief. I am related to the pensioner as daughter, that my postoffice address if 4720 Gaston Ave., Dallas, Texas. Signed Mrs. J. D. Allen Sworn to before me this 2nd day of January, 1928. Geo. A. Brewer, Notary Public in and for Dallas Co. State of Texas
CERTIFICATE OF UNDERTAKER I Geo. A. Brewer, do certify that I am undertaker in the town of Dallas County of Dallas, State of Texas, that I had charge of the body of J. A. Beck, who died in the town of Dallas, County of Dallas, State of Texas on the 19th day of November 1927. That said body was prepared for burial by me on the 19th day of November 1927 and that I am of the opinion that warrant herein applied for should be issued to the said Mrs. J. D. Allen who makes the foregoing application. Signed Geo. A. Brewer CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN I, O. C. Milins(?), do certify that I am a practicing physician, and that I attended J. A. Beck in his last illness and am of the opinion that his ailments were apoplexy. I further certify that I am of the opinion that the Mortuary Warrant above requested should be issued in the name of the aforementioned applicant, in accordance with Act passed by the Thirty-Eighth Legislature and approved March 2, 1923. Signed O. C. Milins(?) Physician’s Address 1814 Med Art Bldg
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