J.A. Cain Civil War File

Scott County Arkansas
Civil War Pension Application
J.A. CAIN, CSA
Transcribed & Contributed by Delaine Edwards

11135
Application of
Mary E. Cain
Widow of J.A. Cain
Harvey P.O.
Scott County
Examined and allowed
and $50.00 alled and Auditor
authorized to draw warrant for same.
[Stamped] Filed in Auditors Office
Aug. 6 1901
T.C. Monroe, Auditor
This 28 day of Aug. 1901
J.W. Crockett, Sec'y. of State
T.C. Monroe, Auditor

WIDOW'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott}
I, Mrs. Mary E. Cain do solemnly swear that I am the widow of J.A. Cain who served as a soldier in the army of the Confederate States, being a member of Co. I 43 Georgia Regiment of Infantry from the State of Georgia, Released from Camp Chase Prison on or about the 10th day of May 1865 and did not desert the same; that I am now, and for the past twelve months have been, a bona fide resident of this State; that I do not own property, real or personal, or both, or money or choses in action in excess of the value of $400.00 (exclusive of household goods and wearing apparel), nor have I conveyed title to any property to enable me to draw a pension, and that I am not in receipt of any income, annuity, pension or wages for any services, the emoluments of an office, in excess of $150.00 per year; that my said husband died in Scott County, Arkansas on the 19th of November 1895, came to this State from Georgia in the year 1869 and that I have not since re-married, so help me God.
(Signature) Mary E. Cain
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 29 day of May 1901
[Signed] G.W. Cornelius
County Judge

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott} ss.
We. the undersigned, sitting as a Pension Board for Scott County, do certify that we have examined the application of the within named Mary E. Cain for pension, under Act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, as approved March 11, 1901, and the proof in support of same, and find that said applicant is the widow of a Confederate soldier, is in indigent circumstances, and that her claim is just, and that she should be allowed $50.00 pension.
[Signed] C. Malone (Seal)
[Signed] S.C. Brown (Seal)
[Signed] Wiley Young (Seal)

PROOF OF SERVICE
(By Comrades if Possible)

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott}
On this day personally came before the undersigned, a County Judge within and for the County of Scott and State of Arkansas, W.F. Monroe and H.V. Cain, citizens of Harvey and Gravelly, Arkansas, respectively, whom I certify to be creditable persons and worthy of confidence, who being duly sworn, state that they are each, personally, well acquainted with applicant Mary E. Cain, widow of J.A. Cain, dec'd., and knew the deceased for 50 years before his death, and have known his widow Mary E. Cain for 41 years, respectively.
That he, said J.A. Cain, was a Confederate soldier. Belonging to Company I Regiment 43 of Ga. Infty. Vols. That as such soldier he served from 1862 to the close of the war in Spring of 1865. That he was honorably released from such service, and did not desert the same. That he was for more than twelve months prior to his death and that his widow Mary E. Cain is now and has been for the past twelve months a bona fide resident of Arkansas. That she is incapacitated for manual labor or from earning a support by reason of advanced age, rheumatism and feeble health and that such incapacity (or disability) is not the result of her own vicious habits still persisted in. That to the best of our knowledge, all property now owned by said widow Mary E. Cain is not worth exceeding $400 (exclusive of household goods and wearing apparel). That she is not in receipt of any income, annuity, pension or wages for any services, or the emoluments of an office, in excess of $150 per year. That we have no interest in this claim. That we served in same Company and regiment with said soldier, and that his widow Mary E. Cain has never remarried since her husband's death.
[Signed] H.V. Cain
[Signed] W.F. Monroe, P.M.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15 day of June 1901
[Signed] G.W. Cornelius
County Judge

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