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Indigent Pension 1895
(To Floyd Co 1897)
Name: Wm. A. White
County: Whitfield
July 11 and 16, 1896
Richard Johnson, Secretary Executive Department
Warrant handed to Atty.
State of Georgia, Whitfield County.
I, Wm. A. White hereby authorize Richard Johnson of Atlanta Ga to receive and receipt for the pension allowed and request that he remit same to me at Dalton, Ga by check.
Witness my hand and seal this 18th day of April 1895.

/s/ William A White
Executed in presence of E.P. Davis, Jos. Boyle.

State of Georgia
Whitfield County
William A. White of said State and County, desiring to avail himself of the Pension Act approved December 15th, 1894, hereby submits his proofs, and after being duly sworn true answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:

1.	What is your name and where do you reside? (give State, County, and post office.)
Wm A. White  Phelps PO Whitfield Co Ga

2.	Where did you reside on January 1st, 1894, and how long have you been a resident of this 
State?  I resided in Gordon Co in 1894, about 51 years
3.	When and where were you born? Oct 15 1844 in Paulding Co Ga.
4.	Did you volunteer in the Confederate Army or in the Georgia Militia? Confederate Army.
5.	When and where did you enlist? About the 1 [15?] of May 1861 Cedartown, Ga.
6.	In what company and regiment did you enlist? Co D 20th Ga Res.
7.	How long did you remain in that company and regiment? About 12 months,…
8.	If you were discharged from same and joined another, or if you were transferred to another, give an account of such discharge or transfer? I was discharged from that Co about 1 of June 1862. In the fall of same year joined Capt Houlands Co 60 Ga Reg. & discharged from that for disability in 1863.
9.	For how long a period did you discharge regular military duty? About 18 months.
10.	When, where and under what circumstances were you discharged from service? Was discharged at Gordonsville Va sometime in 1863 honorably for disability caused by rummatism & Bronchittis.
11.	What is your present occupation?  Farmer
12.	How much can you earn per anum by your own exertions or labor?  Nothing
13.	What has been your occupation since 1865?  Farming
14.	What sum would be necessary for your support for this pension year, and how much are you able to contnribute thereto either in labor or income? About 100 dollars, I could not contribute anything.
15.	What is your present physical condition and how long have you been in such condition?
I am a physical wreck totally unable to work and have been so for the last 4 years.
16.	Upon which of the following grounds do you base your application for pension, vis.: first, “age and poverty,” second “infirmity and poverty” or third “blindness and poverty”?  The second.
17.	If upon the first ground, state how long you have been in such condition that you could not earn your support? If upon the second, give a full and complete history of the infirmity and its extent? If upon the third state whether you are totally blind and when and where you lost your sight?
I was well & stout when I went into the Army. And the latter part of 1861 I was taken with sciatic rumatism & bronchitis & was twice discharged honorable. As stated above for disabllity its caused by same.
18.	What property, effects or income do you possess? No property except a little household goods not worth over 25 dollars.
19.	What property, effects or income did you possess in 1893 and in 1894, and what disposition did you make of same? I had a cow in those years which I had to sell to get corn. Otherwise the same as now.
20.	In what County did you reside during those years and what property did you then return for taxation?
Floyd Co. in 1893, and in Gordon Co. 80 dollars in 1893, & in 1894 65 dollars. This came from losing a home I was unable to pay for which I gave in in those years. 
21.	How were you supported during the years 1893 and 1894?  By one of my boys farming.
22.	How much did your support cost for each of those years, and what portion did you contribute thereto by your own labor or income?  I don’t know exactly. Say 100 dollars & I was unable to help any.
23.	What was your employment during 1893 and 1894? What pay did you receive in each year?
I was unable to work, I got no pay.
24.	Are you married and have you a family? If so, is your wife living and how many children have you? Give age and sex of children and their means of support?  Yes, wife living. Six children in all, 4 boys & 2 girls. All of age & gone but one boy 10 years & 1 girl 12 years no means of support but their own labor.
25.	Are you receiving a pension under any law of this State, if so what amount and for what disability? None.
/s/William A. White, Applicant
Sworn to and subscribed to before me this the 12th day of April 1895.
Jos. Bogle, Ordinary of Whitfield County.

State of Georgia, Floyd County
James H. Whitfield, of said State and County, having been presented as a witness in support of the application of William A. White for pension under the Act approved December 15th, 1894, and after being duly sworn true answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:

1.	What is your name and where do you reside? James H. Whitfield. West Rome, Floyd Co. Ga.
2.	Are you acquainted with William A. White, the applicant, if so how long have you known him?  34 years
3.	Where does he reside, and how long has he been a resident of this State?  Whitfield Co Ga. Since 1861.
4.	Do you know of his having served in the Confederate army or the Georgia militia? How do you know this?  I do. I served with him in same Co.
5.	When, where and in what company and regiment did he enlist? May 1861, Cedartown, Polk Co. Ga. Co D. 20 Ga.
6.	Were you a member of the same company and regiment?  I was.
7.	How long did he perform regular military duty, and what do you know of his service as a Confederate soldier, and the time and circumstances of his discharge from the service?  1  year to my knowledge, he was a good faithful Soldier, I don’t know.
8.	What property, effects or income has the applicant? (Give your means of knowledge.) None that I know of. I have occasionally been about him.
9.	What property, effects or income did the applicant possess in 1893 and 1894, and what disposition, if any, did he make of same?  If he had any at all don’t know of it.
10.	What is the applicant’s occupation and physical condition?  None, very bad and has been since the war.
11.	Is the applicant unable to support himself by labor of any sort, if so, why?  He is, because affliction, he is afflcted with Rheumatism &c.
12.	12. How was he supported during the years 1893 and 1894?  Don’t know.
13.	What portion of his support for these two years was derived from his own labor or income?  Don’t know.
14.	Give a full and complete statement of the applicant’s physical condition that entitles him to a pension under the Act of December 15th, 1894?  Because his physical condition is bad, on account of Rheumatism &c.
15.	What interest have you in the recovery of a pension by this applicant?  None.
/s/ J. H. Whitfield, witness
Sworn to and subscribed  before me, this the 15th day of April 1895. John O. Davis, Ordinary, Floyd Co., Ga.

State of Georgia, Whitfield County
Personally came before me Charles P. Gordon and J. P. Bivings, both known to me as reputable physicians of said county, who being severally sworn, say on oath that they have examined carefully W. A. White, applicant for pension under the Act of 1894, and afger such personal examination, say that his precise physical condition is as follows:
Chron. Bronchitis with Sciatic Rheumatism, causing such disability ass to render him unable to earn a support for himself by manual labor. 
We further say on oath that the physical condition of applicant renders him unable to labor at any work or calling sufficient to earn a support for himself, and that we have no interest in said pension being allowed.
Charles P. Gordon M.D.
J. C. Bivings M.D.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this theh 18th day of April 1895.
Jos Bogle, Ordinary

State of Georgia, Whitfield County.
I, Jos. Bogle, Ordinary in and for said County, hereby certify that the applicant Wm A. White resides in said County, and was a bona fide resident of this Sate on the first day of January, 1894, and that the witlesses, viz. Charles P. Gordon M.D. & J. C. Bivings, M.D. are of trustworthy character and that their statements are entitled to full faith and credit.
   I further certify that before answering the foregoing questions, the applicant and each witness took the oath hereon prescribed, and that the full text of the affidavits was read to the applicant and witnesses before same were signed.
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Witness my hand and seal of office, this 18th day of April 1895.
Jos. Bogle Ordinary of Whitfield County.

Jno. J. Black, Tax Collector.
County of Floyd. Rome, Ga April 8th 1895
I certify that Wm A. White returned for taxes in 1893 in Floyd Co Ga
Household & Kitchen …………………………… 20.00
Stock of all kinds ………………………………….  60.00
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                                                                            80.00
Jno. J. Black, T.C.
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