County: Winston
Title:  Winston County Confederate Pensions
Submitter:  Mary K. Johnson
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WINSTON COUNTY, MS: Index to Confederate Pensions, 1892-1895

Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Mary K. Johnson, look4whittens@yahoo.com, July 2003.

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The names listed below were copied from the index of the "Confederate Pensions 1892-1895" book located in the Chancery Clerk's office in the Winston County Courthouse in Louisville, Mississippi.

Winston County Chancery Court, 115 S. Court Ave., Louisville, MS 39339-2935.
Telephone: 662-773-3631

The instructions at the top of each application gave this information: "No person who has heretofore received a Pension from the State can now do so without making a new Application under this form. This Application must be filed with the Chancery Clerk on or before the first Monday of September."

Form No. 1 was the "Application for indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy, under Chapter 101, Annotated Code, 1892, and 'An Act for the relief of certain officers, soldiers, sailors, widows, and servants of the late war between the States,' approved February 19, 1892." The following questions were asked to pension applicants on Form No. 1:

What is your name?
How long have you been a bona fide resident of Mississippi?
In what County do you reside? What is the name of your post-office?
In what State did you reside when you enlisted in the service of the Confederate States?
What was the date of your enlistment?
What was the name or designation of the company and regiment or vessel in which you served?
How long were you in actual service of the Confederacy?
What were the names of the commanding officers of the company and regiment or vessel at the time you enlisted in the service?
Were you honorably discharged? When were you discharged? Where were you discharged?
If you served until the close of the war, where were you discharged?
What is your age? Are you married or single?
Do you apply for a pension because you are indigent and unable to earn a support by your own labor?
Do you hold any State, United States, County, or City office from which you are receiving, as salary or fees, the sum of $300 per annum?
Are you worth in your own right, or in the right of your wife, property at its assessed value for taxation to the amount of $500?
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Form No. 2 was the "Application for indigent Widow of deceased Soldier or Sailor of the Confederacy, under Chapter 101, Annotated Code 1892, and 'An Act for the relief of certain officers, soldiers, sailors, widows, and servants of the late war between the States,' approved July 19, 1892." The following questions were asked to pension applicants on Form No. 2:

What is your name?
How long have you resided in Mississippi?
In what County do you reside? What is the name of your post-office?
What was your husband's name?
In what State did he reside when he enlisted in the service of the Confederate State?
What was the date of his enlistment?
What was the name of the company and regiment or vessel in which he served?
How long was he in actual service of the Confederacy?
What were the names of the officers of the company or regiment or vessel at the time he was in the service?
Was he honorably discharged? When was he discharged?
Where was he discharged? If he served until close of war, where was he discharged?
Where did he die? When did he die?
What is your age? Have you married since your husband's death?
Do you apply for a pension because you are indigent and unable to earn a livelihood?
Do you hold any State, United States, County, or City office from which you are receiving, as salary or fees, the sum of $300 per annum?
Are you worth in your own right, or in the right of any other person, property at its assessed value for taxation to the amount of $500?
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Submitter's note: The names below are grouped by beginning letter of surname. However, they are not in alphabetical order, and some names may appear more than once. All efforts have been made to transcribe correctly, but some spelling errors have probably been made.

Name of applicant - Page no. (Submitter's Note)

Ayres, Benjamin - 1
Avery, Catherine - 156
Arrington, Nancy - 177
Arrington, M.C. - 181
Allgood, Jeptha - 45
Ayers, Benjamin - 47
Arrington, Nancy - 204
Avery, Catherine - 216
Alewine, Lang - 69

Boatner, M.A. - 161
Barron, Francis - 164
Byrd, Elizabeth - 180
Brooks, Joshua - 60
Boswell, C.F. - 230

Crowell, J.M. - 13
Coleman, Joseph - 16
Carroll, Geo M. - 22
Chappell, A.R. - 228
Cherry, Louisa - 229

Dalton, Mary - 157
Derasmus, Jno F - 33
Dennis, M.M. - 224

Eastland, Chas D. - 65
Evans, W.C. - 66

Ferguson, M.E. - 149
Fulcher, Daniel Morgan - 11
Fulcher, Morgan - 25
Ferguson, M.E. - 192
Foster, A.C. - 59

Hopkins, C.D. - 12
Hall, Mary - 154, 219
Hammill, Bettie - 159
Hyde, Caroline C. - 160
Hamill, Mrs. Mattie H. - 167
Hollow, Elisha - 21
Hickman, P.A. - 26
Hemphill, J.E. - 29
Hopkins, C.D. - 42
Hamill, Bettie E. - 186
Hamill, Mary F. - 190
Hyde, Caroline C. - 191
Hamill, Mattie H. - 208
Hatcher, Mrs. L.K. - 222
Hamilton, W.B. - 51
Hudspeth, H.H. - 57
Hudson, R.R. - 61
Harlan, Saml B. - 62
Hudspeth, T.L. - 64

Ivy, E.L. - 49

Jeffries, W.J. - 7, 20
Jones, Susannah - 189

Kendrick, F.L. - 162
Kemp, E.J. - 182
Kelly, B.F. - 41
Kemp, E.J. - 200
Kendrick, F.L. - 223
Kitchens, T. - 70
Kinard, Mary E. - 226

Liddell, Mrs. L.E. - 150
Liddell, Mrs. F.I. - 157
Long, J.N. - 27
Liddell, L.E. - 188
Leigh, Mary V. - 212
Livingston, L.A. - 34

Massey, William L. - 3
Metts, David W. - 4
McDonald, J.H. - 10
Manning, A.B. - 15
Miller, Mrs. E.S. - 166
Mills, Lucinda - 169
Minor, Elisabeth - 175
McMakin, Peter C. - 24
Metts, David W. - 30
McDonald, J.H. - 35
Massey, William L. - 37
Manning, A.B. - 40
Miller, L.S. - 194
Minor, Elizabeth - 203
Miller, E.J. - 209
Mills, Lucinda - 217
Mills, James - 50
Massingale, G.W. - 67

Otis, William Thomson - 31
Oglesby, M.E. - Not listed

Porter, John L. - 2
Pearson, J.H. - 14
Ponder, Arminda F. - 152
Potter, John L. - 18
Pearson, J.W. - 39
Patterson, W.J. - 48
Ponder, A.F. - 184
Peter, R. Caroline - 211
Pyle, N.H. - 56
Prisock, John S. - 68
Parks, Sallie - 231

Quinn, W.B. - 43

Rivers, W.T. - 6
Reed, Sarah - 176
Ray, Alexander - 17
Reynolds, L.R. - 44
Reed, Sarah - 202
Reynolds, Elizabeth - 227

Smith, George T. - 8
Smyth, Rebecca F. - 155
Stewart, Virginna C. - 165
Shant, Louisa - 168
Shant, Mary A. - 171
Slauson, L.C. - 183
Smyth, N.J. - 23
Standard, J.C. - 33
Smith, George T. - 46
Stokes, Elizabeth A. - 185
Shaw, Mary A. - 195
Slawston, L.C. - 198
Smith, Rebecca F. - 199
Sullivan, M.E. - 201
_______, Louisa - 214
Suttle, Marsella - 221
Stalling, T.R. - 55
Smith, H.T. - 63
Savage, Elizabeth - 225

Taylor, Arnold - 5
Tucker, Daniel Morgan - 11
Thrasher, Mary - 153
Thrasher, Viney - 172
Tero, Louisa - 174
Thompson, Isabella C. - 178
Taylor, Aronald - 36
Thrasher, Mary - 196
Thrasher, Viney - 218
Taylor, J.A. - 56

Vowell, Martha - 173
Vowell, A.J. - 32
Vowell, Vineyard - 34
Vowell, Martha - 213

White, Nancy E. - 158 (wife of Richardson White)
Whitten, Caroline - 163
Woodall, Eliza Jane - 170
Ward, Tebitha T. - 179
Whites, Williams - 19
Webster, W.E. - 28
Woodall, J.J. - 38
Ward, Tebitha T. - 205
White, Nancey - 206 (wife of Richardson White)
Whitten, Caroline - 207
White, Martha - 215 (wife of James L. White)
Webb, Sarah - 220
Watson, O.T. - 32

Yarbrough, Abram - 9
Yarbrough, E.J. - 193
Yarbrough, Abraham - 210

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