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William Higdon

WIDOW’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
County of Swain

On this 17 day of July, A.D., 1908, personally appeared before me, O.P. WILLIAMS, C.S.C. in and for the State and County aforesaid, SALLIE JONES, age 69 years, and a resident at Bryson City post office in said County and State, and who, being duly sworn, makes the following declaration in order to obtain the pension under the provision of an act entitled “An act for the relief of certain Confederate Soldiers, Sailors and Widows,” ratified March 8, 1907; that she is the widow of the late WILLIAM HIGDON who enlisted in Co. G., 69 Reg. N.C. State Troops, on or about the 19 day of July 1862, to serve in the armies of the late Confederate States. She further states that she was married to said Soldier or Sailor before the first day of April, 1865, and that she is now a widow, 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 in 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 to me and subscribed before me , this 17 day of July, 1908.
Signature of C.S.C. - O.P. WILLIAMS
Signature of Applicant - SALLIE (her x mark) JONES

CERTIFICATE OF WITNESSES

Also personally appeared before me E.P. GIBSON, who resides at Bryson City post office, and JERRY NATIONS, who resides at Bryson City post office, in said County and State, whom I know to be respectable and entitled to credit, and being by me duly sworn, say that they are acquainted with SALLIE JONES, the widow of the late WILLIAM HIGDON, of Co. G., 69 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 to and subscribed before me, this 5th day of February 1909.
Signature of J.P. - W.P. McLANAHAN
Signature of Wittnesses – E.P. GIBSON, JERRY (his x mark) NATIONS

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Swain County,

To the Auditor of the State of North Carolina:

We certify that we have carefully examined the application of SALLIE JONES the widow of the late WILLIAM HIGDON, who enlisted in Co. G, 69 Regiment of North Carolina State Troops, for a pension under the provisions of an act entitled “An act for the relief of certain Confederate Soldiers and Widows,” ratified March 8, 1907, and the proofs filed in support thereof; that we are satisfied the said SALLIE JONES is a widow of the late WILLIAM HIGDON, who enlisted in Co. G., 69 Regiment of North Carolina Troops, on or about the 19 day of July 1862. We certify the following allegations set forth in her application to be true, namely: That she in now a widow; 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 a 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 day of March, 1885; and therefore her application is correct and just under the act.
Clerk of Superior Court – O.P. WILLIAMS

Approved: D.K. COLLINS, W.L. MORRIS, J.M. WELCH; County Pension Board

Filed by Board of Pensions of Swain County, NC, 20 day of July 1909.