Marion Skipwith Smith Pension Application

Soldier's Application for Pension

Marion Skipwith Smith a native of the State of Virginia and a citizen of Tennessee, at Grand Junction in the county of Hardeman in said State of Tennessee, and who was a soldier from the State of Tennessee , in the war between the United States and the Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid under the Act of the General Assembly of Tennessee, entitled "An act for the benefit of the indigent and disabled soldiers of the late war between the States, and to fix the fees of Attorneys or agents for procuring such pensions, and fixing a penality for the violation of the same". And I do solemnly swear that I was a member of Company D 18th Miss. Forrest's Cavalry, Capt. J.W. Smith Col. Elic Chalmers in the service of the Confederate or United States; and that by reason of disablility and indigence I am now entitled to receive the benefit of this act. I further swear that I do not hold any National, State, or County office, nor do I receive aid or pension from any other State, or from the United States, and that I am not an inmate of any soldiers' home, and that I am unable to earn a reasonable support for myself and family. I do further solemnly swear that the answers given to the following questions are true:

In what County, State and year were you born?
Answer Sussex County Virginia in the year 1844

When did you enlist and in what command? Give the names of the regimential and company officers under whom you served.
Answer In May 1862 - in Falkners regiment honorably transferred in 1862 - to 18th Miss. Calvary Co. D. Capt. J.W. Smith - Col. Chalmers - Forrest Cavalry

In what battle or battles were you engaged, and, if not wounded, state what disabilities did you receive, if any?
Answer --------

What was the precise nature of your wound or disability, if any?
Answer ----------

Were you incapacitated for service by reason of said wound or disability incurred?
Answer ----------------

Were you discharged from the army by reason of said wound or disability?
Answer -------------

If discharged from the army, where were you and what did you do until the close of the war?
Answer --------

What was the name of the surgeon who attended you?
Answer -------------

How did you get out of the army, when and where?
Answer Honorabley discharged at Gainsville Ala. 13th of May 1865 - at close of war

Were you ever in prison? If so state what prison and when released.
Answer No

Were you paroled? If so, when and where.
Answer Paroled after the surrender

Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government?
Answer Yes after the war was over

If so, when and under what circumstances?
Answer after the war was ended as a peaceable citizen of the United States
Are you married, or have you been married?
Answer yes

If so, what is the size of your family living together?
Answer Myself wife, one son and four Grand Children

What are the respective ages of your wife and the children living with you?
Answer Wifes age 63-Son 32-Grandchildren 2-4-6 and 8 years old

To what sex do your children belong?
Answer grand children 1 girl and 3 boys

In what business are you now engaged, if any, and what do you earn?
Answer Farming.

What estate have you in your own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer House I live in and 79 acres land and about 1 lot in cooperation 25 by 125 with small cabin on it - All valued at $2000.00.

What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer none .

How have you derived support for yourself and family for the last five years?
Answer Farming .

Do you use intoxicants to any extent?
Answer No Sir

How long have you been an actual resident of the State of Tennessee?
Answer about 40 years

Have you an attorney to look after this application?
Answer No

If so, give his name and address?
Answer none

Witness my hand this    1st day of November 1909
At Grand Junction Hardeman County Tenn
Marion Skipwith Smith
WITNESSES:
John P. Johnston MD    , physician
John Waverly Smith , witness
N. Z. Smart , witness

STATE OF TENNESSEE, |
Hardeman County, | I T. F. Bishop trustee certify that M..S. Smith and his wife Mattie P.Smith are assessed with 83 and and 2 lots acres, valued at $ 1250
Witness my hand this 2 day of Oct 1909
T. F. Bishop Trustee

If applicant and his wife have no property the Trustee must so certify.

STATE OF TENNESSEE, |
Hardeman County, |, personally appeared before me Chas. M. Hunt
a Notory Public of said county, the above named Marion Skipwith Smith
The applicant, with whom I am personally acquainted, and having the application read and fully explained to him, as well as the statements and answers therein made, made oath that the said statements and answers are true.

Witness my hand and seal of office, this 1st day of November 1909
Chas. M. Hunt Notary Public

STATE OF TENNESSEE, |
Hardeman County, |, personally appeared before me Chas. M. Hunt
a Notory Public of said county, the above named John C. Johnston, M.D.
one of the subscribing witnesses to the firegoing application, and who is a physician of good standing, and being duly sworn says that he has carefully and thouroughly examined Marion Skipwith Smith the appliciant, and find him laboring under the following disablilities:
Mitral Regrergitation, complicated by slight ordema (?) of the chest and a passive congestion of the liver and lungs. The congestion of the lungs causing a Chronic Cough.
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Witness my hand and seal of office, this 1 day of Nov. 1909

Chas. M. Hunt

STATE OF TENNESSEE, |
Hardeman County, |, personally appeared before me Chas. M. Hunt
a Notory Public of said county, the above named J.W. Smith
and N. Z. Smart , two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, with whom I am personally acquainted, and known to me to be citizens of veracity and standing in this community, and who make oath that they are personally acquainted with the foregoing applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in this application are correct and true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim, and that the said applicant's habits are good and free from dishonor. And J. W. Smith further make oath to the following facts touching the applicant's service in the Confederate Army army:

State here what witnesses know of their own knowledge.

That he was a member of the same company and Regiment with the applicant M. S.
Smith and served with him from the Jany 1863 through the balance of the war
and surrendered with him May 13th 1865 at Gainsville Ala. and as I was Captain of his company know that he made a good soldier Also N.Z. Smart further makes
own knowledge that he was a true and gallant Soldier and M.S. Smith further
makes oath that he served with the applicant in the war from Jany 1863 to the close
of the war.

Witness my hand and seal of office, this 1st day of November 1909
Chas. M. Hunt - Notary Public

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