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Mobley Pensions
Transcription of Texas Confederate Pension application #18,739Name of Applicant:
Joseph S. Mobley The State of Texas I, Joseph S. Mobley, do hereby make application to the Commissioner of Pensions for a pension to be granted me under the Act passed by the Thirty-first Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved March 26, A.D. 1909, on the following grounds: I enlisted and served in the military service of the Confederate States during the war between the States of the United States, and that I did not desert the Confederate service, but during said war I was loyal and true to my duty, and never at any time voluntarily abandoned my post of duty in the said service; that I was honorably discharged or surrendered (give date and cause) – Surrendered with General Lee at Appomattox Courthouse in Va. in 1865, that I have been a bona fide citizen of this State since prior to January 1, A.D., 1880, and have been continuously since a citizen of the State of Texas. I do further state that I do not hold any national, State, city of county office which pays me in salary or fees one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, nor have I an income from any other employment or other source whatever which amounts to one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, nor do I receive from any source whatever money or other means of support amounting in value to the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, nor do I own in my own right, nor does any one hold in trust for my benefit or use, nor does my wife own, nor does any one hold in trust for my wife, estate or property, either real, personal or mixed, either in fee or for life, of the assessed value of over one thousand dollars; nor do I receive any aid or pension from any other State, or from the United States, or from any other source, and that I am not an inmate of the Confederate Home, and I do further state that the answers given to the following questions are true: 1. What is your age? I am 70 years old. 2. Where were you born? Coweta Co., Ga. 3. How long have you resided in Texas? about 40 years (since 1870). 4. In what county do you reside? Bastrop. 5. How long have you resided in said county and what is your postoffice address? About 40 years. P.O. McDade, Texas, RFD No. 3, Box 33. 6. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate pension law and been rejected? If rejected, state when and where. No. 7. What is your occupation, if able to engage in one? farming. 8. In what State was the command in which you served organized? State of Georgia. 9. How long did you serve? Give, if possible, the date of enlistment and discharge. About 3 years. Enlisted April 1862 and was discharged April 1865. 10. What was the letter of your company, number or name of battalion, regiment or battery? Company A. 12th Georgia Battalion. 11. If transferred from one command to another, give time of transfer, name of command and time of service. I was not transferred. 12. What branch of the service did you enlist in—infantry, cavalry, artillery or navy? First in Artillery and then we were put in the Infantry. 13. If commissioned direct by the President, what was your rank and line of duty? I was a private. 14. If detailed for special service, under the law of conscription, what was the nature of your service and how long did you serve? I was non-detailed. 15. Have you transferred to others any property of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? No. Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law. Signature of applicant – J. S. Mobley
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 24th day of
August, A.D., 1909. AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES[Note—There must be at least two credible witnesses.] Before me J. B. Price, County Judge of Bastrop County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared G. W. Davis and C. T. Wynn, who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who, being by me duly sworn, on oath state that they personally know J. S. Mobley the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said J. S. Mobley has been a bona fide resident of the State of Texas since prior to January 1, A.D. 1880, and that they have no interest in this claim.
Signature of Witness – G. W. Davis
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 24th day of
August, A.D., 1909. CERTIFICATE OF THE STATE AND COUNTY ASSESSORI, J. H. Jones, State and County Assessor in the County of Bastrop, State of Texas, do certify that J. S. Mobley or his wife, or his trustee, or trustee for his wife, whose name is signed to the foregoing application for a pension under the Act of the Thirty-first Legislature, approved March 26, A.D., 1909, is charged on the land and personal property rolls of said county with estate, real, personal and mixed, at the assessed value of $900 dollars.
Given under my hand, this 24th day of August, A.D.,
1909.
EX PARTE Joseph S. Mobley The Honorable County Judge of Bastrop County, 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 depositions of H. M. Mobley and M. C. Mobley who reside in the County of Bastrop in the State of Texas, to 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 his claim for a pension under the Act of March 26, 1909, 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 witnesses residing in the County of Bastrop and State of Texas, of which he is a bona fide resident. The above two witnesses are feeble and unable to appear before the County Judge. They live a great distance from the County Site. J. S. Mobley, Applicant.
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 Joseph S. Mobley who is an applicant for pension under Act of March 26, 1909? Int. 3 How long have you known the said Joseph S. Mobley applicant for pension and when and where did you first know him? Int. 4 Do you personally know that the said Joseph S. Mobley applicant for pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier or a sailor? Int. 5 Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said Joseph S. Mobley 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? (Questions 6 and 7 are crossed out.)
To be Propounded to H. M. Mobley and M. C. Mobley 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 or special service in which applicant so enlisted and served, then please state fully what is your source of such knowledge? And state whether or not you know or at any time you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of Joseph S. Mobley serving in the same company or regiment or special service in which you say the said applicant Joseph S. Mobley 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 solider or sailor of the same name as said Joseph S. Mobley, applicant serving in the same command, or the special services to which he was assigned? If you say that you so knew other soldiers or sailors of the same name of 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 Joseph S. Mobley applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you? Cross Int. 3. Do you know whether or not the said Joseph S. Mobley applicant for pension served honorably from the date of his enlistment until the close of the late Civil War between the States, or until he was discharged from said company and regiment, or the special service in which he had been assigned? Cross Int. 4. Do you know whether or not the said Joseph S. Mobley deserted his command or voluntarily abandoned his post of duty, or the service during said war? The State of Texas I, J. B. Price, County Judge of said County, in said State, do hereby waive dopy of interrogatories, notice and issuance of commission, and it is hereby agreed that the answers to the hereinabove direct and cross interrogatories of the said herein names witnesses may be attached hereto.
J. B. Price, County Judge, Bastrop County, Texas
The State of Texas Before me, J. S. Kelton, a Notary Public in and for said County and State on this day personally appeared W. S. Watson and Lee Cottle both of whom are to me well known and each of whom after being by me duly sworn, deposes and says each for himself as follows That all the property owned by J. S. Mobley will not exceed in value the sum of Eight Hundred Dollars.
W. S. Watson Subscribed and sworn to by each of above named parties before me this 6th day of April 1910. J. S. Kelton, Notary Public, Bastrop County, Texas
Joseph S. Mobley, Applicant for Confederate Pension In Re Applicant for Confederate Pension Under Act March 26, 1909, pending Bastrop County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County. Answers and depositions of (1) H. M. Mobley and M. C. Mobley who each reside in Bastrop County, Texas, to the accompanying interrogations (2) and cross interrogatories propounded to them in the above entitled cause taken before (3) Geo. Mitton, a Notary Public, in accordance with the accompany (7) agreement. To the first interrogatory, the said H. M. Mobley, Witness, answers H. M. Mobley, 76 years of age, P. O. address McDade, residence McDade, Bastrop Co., Texas. 2d – Yes, I personally know Jso. S. Mobley. 3d – I have known Jos. S. Mobley 70 years, at Coweta Co., Ga. 4th – Yes, I know he performed the duties of a soldier under enlistment. 5th - Yes in Company A, 12th Georgia Battalion, enlisted in the Spring of 1862, in April, enlisted at Newnan, Ga. and served about 3 years. Answers to Cross Interrogatories 1st – Answers my source of knowledge is that I was with him and we surrendered together at the close of the war. I did not know of any other soldier of the name of Jos. S. Mobley serving in the same company or Batallion. 2d – I am positively certain that Jos. S. Mobley is the identical person who served as testified by me. 3d – I know Jos. S. Mobley did serve honorably until he was discharged at the close of the war between the States. 4th – I know the said Jos. S. Mobley did not desert his command nor voluntarily abandon his post of duty. Signed H. M. Mobley Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th day of August A.D. 1909. Geo. Mitton, Notary Public To the First Interrogatory the said M. C. Mobley, Witness answers M. C. Mobley, age 69 years, residence McDade, Bastrop County, Tex., P.O. address McDade, R.F.D. No. 3, Box 33. 2d – I know Jos. S. Mobley. He is my husband. 3d - I have known him about 50 years, Coweta County, Ga. 4th - Yes, I know Jos. S. Mobley enlisted in the Confederate Service and performed the duties of a soldier. 5th – Yes, he enlisted in Company A, 12th Ga. Batallion. He enlisted in April 1862 at Newnan, Ga. He served about 3 years. Answers to Cross Interrogatories 1st – The source of my knowledge is derived from the fact that I lived in the same community. I did not know of any other soldier or sailor by the name of Jos. S. Mobley enlisting or serving in the same company or Battalion. 2nd – I am positively certain that the said Jos. S. Mobley is the identical person who served in the Confederate Army, as testified by me. 3rd – I am certain that Jos. S. Mobley served honorably from the date of his enlistment until the close of the Civil War between the States. 4th – I never knew of his deserting and never heard of his deserting his command or voluntarily abandoning his post of duty, or the service. Signed M. C. Mobley Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 25th day of August, A.D. 1909. Geo. Mitton, Notary Public, Bastrop County, Tex.
Georgia Personally appeared before me, L. A. Perdue, ordinary of said County and State John E. Robinson and Alvan D. Freeman, of said state and County, who after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that they are acquainted with J. S. Mobley, formerly of said Coweta County, but as they are informed of the County of Bastrop and State of Texas, at this time—that he enlisted as a member of Company A, 12th G. Battalion, Georgia Volunteers in the Confederate Army in the 1862 and served as a faithful soldier from said enlistment to the close of the war in 1865.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this September 18, 1906. Georgia, Coweta County. I, L. A. Perdue, ordinary for said county, do hereby certify that John E. Robinson and Alvan D. Freeman, are well known to me as respectable citizens of said County, whose said statements are worth of full faith and credit.
Given under my hand and seal of office, this Sept. 18, 1906.
McDade,
Texas, April 6, ‘10
Dear
Sir:
Replying to yours of March 28, 1910. I send you the sworn testimony of two
disinterested men as you demand that you may see that I have made a fare (sic)
estimate of my property.
Please let me know at once what you can do for me as I am in great need.
J. S. Mobley
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