Contributed by: Jo Huettl

WIDOW’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
County of Jones
(NOTE) This is a second request that is signed)
On this 27th day of July, A. D., 1896, personally appeared before me S. E. Koonce, 
C.S.C. in and for the State and county aforesaid, Mrs. C. E. Chase, age 55 years, 
and a resident at Comfort post office, in said county and State, and who, being duly 
sworn, makes the following declaration in order to obtain the pension under the 
provisions of an act entitled, “An act for the relief of certain soldiers of the late war 
between the States,”  ratified March 11, 1889; as amended by acts of General 
Assembly of 1891, 1893 and 1895; that she is the widow of the late Wm. H Chase, 
who enlisted in the Co B, 51st  Reg. N.C. State Troops on or about the 21st day of 
March, 1862, to serve in the armies of the late Confederate States, and that while in 
performance of duty in said Company and Regiment, in the State of ______, on or 
about the ____day of ________ 186_, he received a wound or wounds or injuries 
which terminated his life.

(Applicant will here state very particularly when and where the husband died; whether 
he was in the discharge of his duty as a soldier or sailor at the time of the receipt of 
the wound or injury or contracting of the disease; whether the death was the probable 
consequence of such service and all other circumstances necessary to establish the 
fact of service and death of husband, etc. )

W.H. Chase husband died November 6th, 1895

She further states that she has never re-married; that she is, and has been for twelve 
months immediately preceding this Application for Pension, a bona fide resident of 
North Carolina; that she holds no office under the United States, or under any State 
or county, from which she is receiving the sum of three hundred dollars as fees or 
as salary annually; that she is not worth in her own right, or the right of her late 
husband, property at its assessed value for taxation to the amount of five hundred 
dollars ($500), nor has she disposed of property of such value by gift or voluntary 
conveyance since the 11th of March, 1885.

Sworn and subscribed to before me this _27th day of July, 1896

(signed) S.E. Koonce   Signature of C. S. C.

(signed) C E. Chase (her mark)  Signature of Applicant.

Also personally appeared before me Margaret McGee, who resides at Comfort post 
office and A. B. Chase who resides at Comfort Post office, in said county and State, 
persons whom I know to be respectable and entitled to credit, and being by me duly 
sworn, say that they are acquainted with C. E. Chase, the widow of the late W. H. 
Chase, of  Co B, 51 Regiment North Carolina State Troops, and that they believe 
her to be the identical person she represents herself to be, and that the facts set 
forth in her affidavit are correct to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that 
they have no interest, direct or indirect, in this claim.

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 27th day of July.1896

(signed) S.E. Koonce  Signature of C. S. C.

(signed) A.b. Chase

(signed) Margaret McGee (her mark)  Signatures of  Witnesses. 
(Signatures of two witnesses required).         


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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

_______COUNTY.

To the Auditor of the State of North Carolina

We certify that we have carefully examined the application of ________ for the widow 
of the late ______________ who enlisted in Company ____ Regiment North Carolina 
State Troops, for a pension under the provisions of an act entitled “An act for the relief 
of certain soldiers in the late war between the States, “  ratified the 11day of March, 
1889, and the proofs filed in support thereof; that we are satisfied the said __________ 
is a widow of the late ________ who enlisted in Co. ______, ____ Reg. of North Carolina 
State Troops, on or about the ____ day of  _____ 186_, and we certify the following 
allegations set forth in her application to be true, namely:  That she has never re-married , 
that she is and has been for twelve months immediately preceding this Application for 
Pension, a bona fide resident of North Carolina; that she holds no office under the United 
States, or under any State or county, from which she is receiving the sum of three 
hundred dollars as fees or as salary annually; that she is not worth in her own right, or 
the right of her late husband, property at its assessed value for taxation to the amount 
of five hundred dollars ($500), nor has she disposed of property of such value by gift or 
voluntary conveyance since the 11th of March, 1885, and therefore her application is 
correct and just under the act.

(SEAL) _______________________
Chm’n Board Com’rs.
___________________________________  Commissioner

(IMPRESS COUNTY SEAL HERE).

_______________________________-- Sheriff.

(Seal)  __________________________________ Clerk Superior Court

(This is typed on the bottom sideways)

Widow’s Application For Pension.

Act of March 11th, 1889, as Amended
By Acts of General Assembly of 1891, 1893 and 1895

Mrs.  _______________

Widow of ______________

Company ___ Regiment North
Carolina State Troop

Filed by Board of Inquiry of ____

County, N.C. _______ day of ______

189___





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