Pension Applications of Charles P. Dickerson
THIS APPLICATION
Must be Filed with the Chancery Clerk on or before the First Monday
of September
(NO APPLICATION WILL BE ENTERTAINED NOT ON THE PRINTED
FORM.)
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FORM NO. 4
APPLICATION of indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy
under
Chapter 73, Acts of 1900
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Applicant must make Answer to all of the following Questions and
have it written out plainly in Ink.
Q. What is your name? Answer
C. P. Dickerson
Q. What is your age? Answer
70 years
Q. In what county do you reside? Answer
Chickasaw
Q. What is the name of your postoffice? Answer
Trebloc
Q. How long have you been a bona fide resident of Mississippi?
Answer 62 years
Q. Are you married or unmarried? Answer
Married
Q. In what State and county did you reside when you enlisted
in the service of the Confederate States? Answer
Tippah Co. Mississippi
Q. What was the date of your enlistment? Answer
July 1861
Q. What was the number of the regiment or name of the vessel
in which you first enlisted? Answer 23 Mississippi Regiment
Q. The name of its commander? Answer Col.
Wells
Q. Letter or designation of the company in which you enlisted?
Answer Company "A"
Q. Name of its Captain? Answer Gibson
Q. The length of time which you served in the above company
or regiment? Answer All the time except when in prison
Q. Were you ever discharged or transferred from the above
commands? Answer No.
Q. If so, give the date of discharge or transfer? Answer
Q. If discharged, on what ground? Answer
Q. If transferred, to what command? Answer
Q. Did you enlist the second time in the Confederate service?
Answer No
Q. If so, into what regiment or company? Answer
Q. Were you discharged from this command before the surrender
in 1865? Answer No
Q. If so, for what cause? Answer
Q. Were you ever wounded while in active service? Answer
Slightly
Q. Give date on which you received your wound? Answer
Do not Remember
Q. At what place were you wounded? Answer Fort
Donelson
Q. What is the nature of your wound? Answer between
Ribs and Hip Bones
Q. If wounded otherwise, so as to disable you from earning
a support, state in what manner? Answer
Q. Were you at any time absent from your command without leave?
Answer No
Q. If yes, how long and why? Answer
(note: on the cover of his folder is written "unanimus".)
Must certify their names to the auditor of public accounts.
THIS APPLICATION
Must be Filed with the Chancery Clerk on or before the First Monday
in September
(NO APPLICATION will be entertained not on this printed
form)
_________________
FORM NO. 2(?)
APPLICATION of indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late
Confederacy
Under Chapter 102, Code of 1906 for $75
_____________
Applicant must make Answer to all of the following Questions and
have it written out plainly in Ink.
Q. What is your name? Answer C.
P. Dickerson
Q. What is your age? Answer 78
Q. In what county do you reside? Answer
Lee
Q. What is the name of your postoffice? Answer
Tupelo
Q. Are you a bona fide resident of the State of
Mississippi? Answer Yes
Q. How long have you been a bona fide resident
of Mississippi? Answer 70
Q. Are you married or unmarried? Answer
Married
Q. In what State and county did you reside when
you enlisted in the service of the Confederate States? Answer
Tippah Co. Miss.
Q. What was the date of your enlistment?
Answer Aug. 1861
Q. What was the number of the regiment or name
of the vessel in which you first enlisted? Answer 23rd
Miss. Infty
Q. The name of its commander? Answer
Col. Wells
Q. Letter or designation of the company in which
you enlisted? Answer Company "A"
Q. Name of its captain? Answer Capt.
Gibson
Q. The length of time which you served in the above
company or regiment? Answer All the war
Q. Were you ever discharged or transferred from
the above commands? Answer No
Q. If so, give the date of discharege or transfer?
Answer No
If discharged, on what ground? Answer No
Q. If transferred, to what command? Answer
No
Q. Did you enlist the second time in the Confederate
service? Answer No
Q. If so, into what regiment or company?
Answer No
Q. Were you discharged from this command before
the surrender in 1865? Answer No
Q. If so, for what cause? Answer
No
Q. Were you ever wounded while in actual service?
Answer No
Q. Give date on which you received your wound?
Answer No
Q. At what place were you wounded? Answer
No
Q. What was the nature of your wound? Answer
No
Q. What was the number of the regiment or the name
of the vessel in which you were serving when you received the wound?
Answer No
Q. Who was the captain of the company? Answer
No
Q. Have you lost one foot, or one hand? Answer
No
Q. Have you lost entire use of one foot or one
hand? Answer No
Q. If you have lost one foot or one hand, was such
loss caused by wounds or injuries received while enlisted in the Confederate
army? Answer No
Q. Have you sustained such other permanent wounds
or injury as to disable you from earning a support, by reason of service
in the Confederate army or navy? Answer yes, I am 78
years of age and not able to do any work
Q. If so, what is the nature of such wounds or
injury? Answer No
Q. Were you at any time absent from your command
without leave? Answer No
Q. If yes, how long and why? Answer
No
Q. Did you ever absent yourself from your command
without leave and join another? Answer No
Q. Were you with your command in active service
at the surrender in 1865? Answer No
Q. Where did your command surrender? Answer
Tennessee
Q. Were you absent from it when it surrendered?
Answer Yes
Q. Why were you absent? Answer I
was paroled
Q. How long had you been absent? Answer
6 months
Q. What is your occupation at present? Answer
Farming all I can
Q. Do you apply for a pension because you are indigent
and unable to earn a support by your own labor? yes
Q. Do you hold any State, United States, County,
or City office from which you are receiving a salary or fees the sum of
three hundred dollars per annum? Answer No
Q. Have you any sons over 16 and under 21 years
of age? Answer No
Q. If yes, how many? Answer No
Q. Have you any property in your own right or your
wife? Answer yes
Q. What is its true, just and correct value?
Answer $200.00
Q. Have you a home of your own? Answer
No
Q. Is the person you are now living with a relation?
Answer son
Q. If so, what relation? Answer son
Q. Have you any relations or connections whose
legal or moral duty it is to provide for you? Answer
No
Q. Have you any relations; if so, what relations?
Answer No
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I was a Confederate
soldier, sailor, or servant of such Confederate soldier or sailor (as the
case may be); that I was honorabley discharged or paroled, or did not desert
from the Confederate service (as the case may be); that I reside in this
State; that I am indigent and infirm; that I am not able to earn a support,
and have no relatives able, whose duty it is to support me; that I nor
my wife do not own property, real or person, to the value of four hundred
dollars ($400); that I nor my wife have not conveyed any of my or her property
to any one with a view to drawing a pension; so help me God."
his
(Signature of Pensioner) C. P. x
Dickerson
mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 12 day of Aug.
1907
G. W. Long Chancery Clerk
AFFIDAVIT -- We, the undersigned, verily believe
the facts stated in the above application to be true and the applicant
to be the identical person named in the said application.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 2 day of
G. W. Bosemore
(signature of witness)
Sept A.D. 1907
W. V. Mitts
(signature of witness)
G. W. Long Clk
J. B. Cook
(signature of officer)
(signature of witness)
Note.--Must be attested to by one or more creditable witnesses
S. D. Shelton
(signature of witness)
(signature of applicant)
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 2 day of Sept.
A.D. 1907
G. W. Long Clk
(signature of officer)
(note: "unanimus" is written on the form)
Widow's Pension Application
Martha Emily Persons Dickerson
THIS APPLICATION
Must be Filed with the Chancery Clerk on or before the First Monday
in September
(NO APPLICATION will be entertained not on this printed
form)
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FORM 6
General Prornic Class
APPLICATION for Indigent Widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy
Under Chapter 102, code of 1906
___________
Applicant must make Answer to all of the following Questions and
have it written out plainly in Ink.
Q. What is your name? Answer
Mrs. Mary E. Dickerson
Q. What is your age? Answer
69 years
Q. Are you a bona fide resident of the State of
Mississippi? Answer I am
Q. How long have you resided in Mississippi?
Answer All of my life
Q. In what county do you reside? Answer
Lee
Q. What is the name of your postoffice?
Tupelo Miss.
Q. What was your husband's name? Answer
C. P. Dickerson
Q. When were you married? Answer
in 1858
Q. In what State and county did he reside when
he enlisted in the service of the Confederate States? Tippah
Co. Miss.
Q. What was the date of his enlistment? July
1861
Q. What was the name of the Company and Regiment
or vessel in which he enlisted? Answer Co. A 23rd Miss.
Infty Regt.
Q. How long was he in actual service of the Confederacy?
Do not remember
Q. What were the names of the officers of the company,
or regiment, or vessel, during the time he was in service? Answer
Col. Wells and Capt. Gibson
Q. Did he die in the service or did he serve until
the close of the war? Answer till close war
Q. Was he honorably discharged? Answer
He was
Q. When was he discharged? Answer at
close of war
Q. Where was he discharge? Answer
in prison
Q. Did he serve until the surrender? Answer
He did
Q. Where did he die? Answer Tupelo
Miss. in Dec. 1907
Q. What regiment or vessel did your husband belong
to at the time of his death? Answer 23rd Miss. Inftry
Regt.
Q. The name of the commander? Answer Col.
Wells
Q. What company did your husband belong to at the
time of his death? Answer none
Q. Who was captain of the company? Answer
Capt. Gibson
Q. When did he die? Answer Decr
14th 1907.
Q. Have you married since your husband's death?
Answer no sir
Q. Do you apply for a pension because you are indigent
and unable to earn a livelhood? Answer I do
Q. Do you hold any State, United States, County
or City office from which you are receiving as a salary or fees the sum
of three hundred dollars per annum? Answer No sir
Q. Have you any property in your own right?
Answer no
Q. What is the true, just and correct value?
Answer $ x
Q. Have you a home of your own? Answer
no
Q. If not, with whom do you now live? Answer
My son
Q. Is the person you are now living with a relative?
Answer yes
Q. If so, what relation? Answer son
Q. Have you any relations; if so, what relation?
Answer yes, numbers and numbers
Q. Have you any relatons or connections whose legal
and moral duty it is to provide for you? Answer No
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
7 day of Aug.
A.D. 1908
Norbin Jones Clk
Mary E. Dickerson
(signature of officer)
(signature of applicant)
"I, Mary E. Dickerson
widow of C. P. Dickerson
do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a widow of a Confederate soldier
or sailor, who was honorably discharged or paroled, or who did not desert
the Confederate service (as the case may be); that I was married to him
prior to the first day of January, 1875; that I reside in this State; that
I am indigent and unable to earn a support; that I have no relatives able,
whose duty it is, to support me; that I do not own property to the value
of four hundred ($400) and that I have not conveyed any property to anyone
with a view to drawing a pension, so help me God."
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
(signature of Pensioner) Mary E. Dickerson
7th day of Aug
1908
Norbin Jones Clk
AFFIDAVIT OF TWO WITNESSES
We, the undersigned, verily believe the facts stated in the above application
to be true and the applicant to be the identical person named in the said
application.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8 day of
L. N.(?) Cates
September A.D. 1908
(signature of witness)
Norbin Jones Clk
Housten L???
(signature of officer)
(signature of witness)
Office of Chancery Clerk and Boad of Inquiry
Lee County
Tupelo Miss. Sept.
8th 1908
We, the undersigned board of inquiry, hereby approve the foregoing
application of
Mrs. Mary E. Dickerson
because we know the applicant to be indigent and unable to earn a livelyhood
and we believe the facts stated in the above application are true and the
party should receive the pension.
Given under our hands and seals of office this 8th
day of Sept. 1908
L. A. Mitchell
(seal)
(president of board)
W. F. Hoaoks(?)
(seal)
James Boyd
(seal)
(seal)
H. C. Whitehead
(seal)
B. H. Rogers
(seal)
Norbin Jones
(seal)
ATTEST:
Norbin Jones
Chancery Clerk
(attach seal of office)
APPLICATON FOR PENSION
How Made; What to Contain; Description of Disabilities; Oath
Prescribed
Form 6
General Prornic Class
Application for indigent Widow of Soldier or Sailor
of the Late Confederacy, under Chapter 102, Code of 1906, as amended by
Laws of April 5th 1910 and Laws March 24th, 1916, Sec. 1 of Laws 1916 being
as follows: "Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi
that all applications for pensions heretofore made and filed, be and same
are hereby declared void, and any person desiring to share in the future
distribution of the pension fund, shall on or before the first Monday in
September 1916, file a new application, using blanks to be furnished by
the Auditor of Public Accounts throught the Chancery Clerks of the various
counties."
Applications must be filed with the Chancery Clerk
on or before the first Monday in September 1916, and no application will
be entertained no on the printed form.
(Applicant must make answer to all of the following Questions.)
Q. What is your name? Answer Martha
E. Dickerson
Q. What is your age? Answer 73
years old
Q. Are you a bona fide resident of the State of
Mississippi? Answer yes
Q. How long have you resided in Mississippi?
Answer All my life
Q. In what county do you reside? Answer
Lee
Q. What is the name of your postoffice?
Tupelo
Q. What was your husband's name? Answer
C. P. Dickerson
Q. When were you married? Answer
1858
Q. In what State and county did he reside when
he enlisted in the service of the Confederate States? Tippah
Co. Miss.
Q. What was the date of his enlistment? Spring
1861
Q. What was the name of the Company and Regiment
or vessel in which he enlisted? Answer 23rd Miss. Infty
Co. "A"
Q. How long was he in actual service of the Confederacy?
Answer all the war
Q. What were the names of the officers of the company,
or regiment, or vessel, during the time he was in service? Answer
Col. Wells, Capt. Gibson
Q. Did he die in the service or did he serve until
the close of the war? Answer serve till close
Q. Was he honorably discharged? Answer
yes
Q. When was he discharged? Answer at
close of war
Q. Where was he discharge? Answer
Don't know
Q. Did he serve until the surrender? Answer
yes
Q. Where did he die? Answer Tupelo,
Miss.
Q. What regiment or vessel did your husband belong
to at the time of his death? Answer
Q. The name of the commander? Answer
Q. What company did your husband belong to at the
time of his death?
Q. Who was captain of the company? Answer
Q. When did he die? Answer Dec-14-1907.
Q. Have you married since your husband's death?
Answer no
Q. Do you apply for a pension because you are indigent
and unable to earn a livelhood? Answer yes
Q. Do you hold any State, United States, County
or City office from which you are receiving as a salary or fees the sum
of three hundred dollars per annum? Answer no
Q. Have you any property in your own right?
Answer no
Q. What is the true, just and correct value?
Answer $ none
Q. Have you a home of your own? Answer
no
Q. If not, with whom do you now live? Answer
My son
Q. Is the person you are now living with a relative?
Answer son
Q. If so, what relation? Answer son
Q. Have you any relations; if so, what relation?
Answer Children
Q. Have you any relatons or connections whose legal
and moral duty it is to provide for you? Answer Don't
know
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 18
day of August A.D. 1916
John M. Witt Clk
M. E. Dickerson
(Signature of Officer)
(signature of Applicant)
"I
M.E. Dickerson
widow of
C.P. Dickerson
do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a widow of a Confederate soldier
or sailor, who was honorably discharged or paroled, or who did not desert
the Confederate service (as the case may be); that I was married to him
prior to the first day of January, 1885; that I reside in this State; that
I am indigent and unable to earn a support; that I have no relatives able,
whose duty it is, to support me; that I do not own property to the value
of six hundred ($600) and that I have not conveyed any property to anyone
with a view to drawing a pension, so help me God."
(signature of Pensioner)
M. E. Dickerson
Sworn to and subscribed before me, that
18 day of August 1916
John M. Witt Chancery Clerk
(note: note on form says "not in 1917")
Transcribed by Walter F. Cox, Jr. (Essie Merle Dickerson Cox4, Roy Simmons Dickerson3,
William Henry Harrison Dickerson2, Charles Dickerson1)
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