Lorenzo Dow Yarbrough CSA Pension Application
Endorsements Hereon for Comptroller's Use Exclusively
Form #1 - Amended
October 1, ??02
Confederate Pension Application
Name of Applicant
__Dow Yarbrough__ County, Postoffice __Tilden__
Comptroller's File No. 12501
I have carefully examined the withing application for pension, together with
the proof in support thereof, and I recommend that the application be __Approved
__March 25, 1907__
E. A. Pobine
Chief Pension Clerk
I hereby __________the within application for pension, this __March 25 1907__ day of _________A. D. _______
Signed__ J. W Stepehns (sic)
Comptroller.
No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should Be Forwarded to Comptroller.
APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. Hereafter use no blank but this.
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THE STATE OF TEXAS
County of __McMullin__
To the Honorable County Judge of __McMullen__ County, Texas.
Your petitioner. __Dow Yarbough__ respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of __McMullen__ County, in the Sate of Texas, and that he makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act passed by the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved May 12, A. D. 1899, the same being an act entitled "An act to carry into effect the amendment to the Constitution of the Sate of Texas, providing that aid may be granted to disabled and dependent Confederate soldiers, sailors, and their widows under certain conditions, and to make an appropriation there-for," and I do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true.
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NOTE-Applicant must make answere to all of the following questions, and such answers must be written out plainly in ink.
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Q. What is your name? Answer __Dow Yarbough_____________________
Q. What is your age? Answer __67_____________________________________
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer __McMullen County.____________
Q. How long have you rsided in said County and what is your postoffice address?
Answer __About 40 year. Tilden, McMullen Co._____________________
Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederat Pension Law heretofore,
and been rejected? If so, state when and where. Answer __No______
Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one?
Answer __Have
none._________________________________________
Q. What is your physical condition? Answer
__not good._____________
Q. If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to
earn a support, state what caused such disability.
Answer __old age and was shot during the war in the leg.______________
Q. In what State was your command originally organized?
Answer __Texas____________________________________________
Q. How long did you serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer __enlisted in year 1861 Served until close of the war.___________
Q. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your
regiment? Answer __Company K. Regiment 2nd Texas Cavalry____
Q. State whether you served in the infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the navy. Answer __Cavalry___________________________________________
Q. State whether or not you have recieved any pension or veteran donation land
certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative
state what pension or veteran donation land certificate you have recieved. Answer __No_______________________________________________
Q. What real and personal property do you now own, and what is the present
value of such property? Give list of such property and value.
Answer
____1 Mule
50________________________________________________
____1
Horse 50_______________________________________________
____1
Wagon 25_______________________________________________
Q. What property, and what was the value thereof, have you sold or conveyed
within two years prior to the date of this application?
Answer __None______________________________________________
Q. What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its
value? Answer __None__________________________________
Q. What income, if any, do you recieve? Answer
__None________________
Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and
destitute of property and means of sbusistence? Answer __Yes_____
Q. Are you unalbe by your labor to earn a support? Answer __Yes_____
Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the
purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law?
Answer __No________________________________________________
Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? Answer
__No__________________
Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide
resident citizen of this State? Answer
__Yes_________________
Q. If you originally enlisted in the Confederate service from the State of Texas,
were you at the date of passage of this act a bona
fide resident citizen of the State of Texas? Answer
__Yes_____________________________
Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the promises as required by law.
his
(Signature of Applicant), __Dow X Yarbough.__
Sworn to and subscribed before me this __28"__ day of __June__ A.D. __1906__
__W. C. Wheeler__
County Judge __McMullin__ County, Texas.
______________________________
AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES
(NOTE-There must be at least two creditble witnesses.)
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF __McMullen__
Before me __W. C. Wheeler__ County Judge of __McMullen__ County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared __W. P. White and Jas. Tope__
Who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know Dow Yarbough th above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said Dow Yarbough is unable to support himself by labor of any sort.
(Signature of Witness) __W. P. White___________________________________
(signature of Witness) __James Tope____________________________________
Sworn to and subscribed before me this __28"__ day of __June__
A.D. __1906__
__W. C. Wheeler__
County Judge __McMullen__ County, Texas
(Renee's Notes: W. P. White is William Penn brother n law of Dow Yarbrough and James Tope is step brother to Dow Yarbrough.)
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AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF __McMullen__
Before me __W. C.
Wheeler__ County Judge of __McMullen__ County, State of Texas, on this
day personally appeared __Dr.
Houston Neeley__, who is a reputable practicing physician of this
County, who being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and
thoroughly examined __Dow Yarbough__ applicant for a psnsion, and finds
him laboring under the following disabilities which render him unable to labor
at any work or calling sufficient to earn a support for himself: __A Gun shot wound through left
hip which disables him he states in that hip, also he's suffering some chronic
Nasal and bronchial (sic) and at his age in life and being (sic)ucialy unable
to secum the success(sic) initiate (sic) will (sic) (sic) (sic) (sic)__
(Signature of Physician) __Houston Neeley M.D.__
Sworn to and subscirbed before me this __28__ day of __June__ A. D. __1906__.
__W.C. Wheeler__
County Judge __McMullen__ County, State of Texas
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CERTIFICATE OF COUNYT JUDGE
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF __McMullen__
I __W.C Wheeler__ County Judge of __McMullen__ County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the __13th__ day of __November__ A. D. __1906__, before me came on to be heard the application of __Dow Yarbough__ for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law of this State, Approved May 12, A. D. 1899; that the answers of said applicant to the questions propounded were made under oath as the same appear in writing in the forgoing application; that the affidavits of the witnesses who are credible citizens were made before me as the same herinbefore appear, and that the forgoing affidavit of Doctor __Houston Neeley__ who is a reputable practicing physician of this county, was made before me. I also certify that the said applicant __Dow Yarbough__, is not an inmate of the Texas Confederate Home, nor otherwise disqualified under the provision of Section 12, of the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify that after considering all the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said __Dow Yarbough__ I find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and I hereby approve said application.
Witness my hand and seal of office at __Tilden__ this __13th__ day of __November__ A. D. __1906__.
__W.C. Wheeler__
County Judge __McMullen__ County, State of Texas.
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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF __McMullen__
We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of McMullen County, Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing application of __Dow Yarbough__ for a pesion, together with the proff in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. __W. C. Wheeler__ County Judge of this __McMullen__ County to the Commissioners this __McMullen__ County, at a regular term thereof on the __13th__ day of __November__ A. D. __1906__ and after a careful consideration of the same we find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and we hereby approve said application.
Witness our hands and seal of office at __Tilden__ this __13th__ day of __November__ A. D. __1906__.
J. R. Lynch
Commissioner
C. E. (sic) " "
J. T. Callihan " "
G. D. (sic) " "
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Comptroller's Department
State of Texas
Austin
To the Military Secretary, March 14, 1907
War Department,
Washington, D. C.
Sear Sir:
I have the honor to request the military record of __Dow Yarbrough__ who is reported to have enlisted in Company __K__, __2nd__ Regiment __Texas Cavalry in the service of the Confedearate States army.
Purpose: The person above named is an applicant for a Confederate pension grandted by this State, and I desire to verify his proof of service.
Very respectfully
__J W Stephens__
comptroller
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MILITARY
SECURITY OFFICE WAR
DEPARTMENT MAR
13, 1907 12223643 Austin,
Texas March 14, 1907. Dow Yarbrough, Co. K, 2d Regt. Tex. Cav. J. W. Stephens, Comptroller, State of Texas. For the military record of the above named an applicant for Confederate pension. |
WAR
DEPARTMENT, THE
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE Washington,
March 19, 1907. Respectfully
retuned to the Comptroller, State of Texas, Austin It is shown by the records of this office that one Don Yarboro (name also borno as Yarbro), private, Company K, 2d Texas Cavalry, C.S.A., enlisted September 23, 1861. He is reported on the roll for January and February, 1864, last on file, as present. No later record of him has been found.
__H Auinoh__ (spelling ?) The Adjutant General. |
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INTERROGATORIES TO WITNESS IN PENSION CLAIMS.
EX PARTE
__Dow Yarbough__
Applicant for Confederat Pension
PENDING IN THE Honorable Commissioners Court of
__McMullen__ County, Texas,
before the Honorable County Judge of said County.
The Honorable County Judge of McMullen County, Texas, will please take notice that, five days after the service hereof, applicant herin will aply to the Clerk of the County Court of said State for a commission to take the depositons of __________ and __________ who reside ______ in the County of _________ in the State of ___________ in answer to the following interrogatories and such cross interrogatories as my be propounded by the County Judge of said County, which will be read in evidence upon the hearing of applicant's claim for pension in behalf of applicant; said testimony is material and indispensable to applicant in furnishing the required proof to h____ claim for a pension under the Act of May 12, 1899, the application for which is now pending before the Honorable County Judge, and the facts neccessary and required to be proven under the provisions of said Act, applicant believes can not be proven by any witness________residing in the County of _____________ and State of Texas, of which he is a bona fide resident.
his
__Dow X Yarbough__
mark
(Applicant) Attorney for Applicant.
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DIRECT INTERROGATORIES TO BE PROPOUNDED TO THE WITNESS
INT. 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and postoffice
address?
INT. 2.
INT. 2. Do you personally know, or did you at any time know
__Dow Yarbough__ who is an applicant for pension under Act of May 12,
1899?
INT. 3. How long have you known the said __Dow Yarbough__ applicant for
pension and when and where did you first know him?
INT. 4. Do you personally know that the said __Dow Yarbough__ applicant for
pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and perfomred the duties of a soldier or a sailor?
INT. 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said
__Dow Yarbough__ applicant enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When? Where? And the time of service? If you personally knew and so have stated that he enlisted and served in the Confederate navy, then state: When? Where? And how long he so served.
INT. 6. Do you further know that __Dow Yarbough__ the said applicant for pension, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort?
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CROSS INTERROGATORIES.
To Be Propounded to __Jas Tope__
Cross Interrogatory 1. If in answer to the foregoing direct interrogatories, you have stated that you personally know or did know said applicant, and that you know that he enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor, and having named the company and regiment in which applicant so enlisted and served, then please state fully what is your source of such knowledge. And state whether or not you know or at any time you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of __Dow Yarbough__ serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said applicant __Dow Yarbough__ enlisted, or if you have stated that said applicant enlisted and served in the navy of the Confederacy, then state whether or not you know any other sailor of the same as said __Dow Yarbrough__ applicant serving in the same command.
If you say that you so knew other soldiers or sailors of the same name of applicant's, then can you and how do you identify and locate the one from the other or others?
Cross INT. 2. Are you positively certain that said __Dow Yarbrough__ applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you?
Cross INT. 3. If you have answered Direct Interrogatory No. 6 in the affirmative, then please state your source of knowledge or information. Is not this your answer simply based on conjectrue?
Cross INT. 4. Do you know whether or not the said __Dow Yarbrough__ applicant for pension, ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy?
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF __McMullen__
I, __W. C. Wheeler__ County Judge of said County, in said State do hereby waive copy of interrogatories, notice, time and issuance of commission, and it is hereby agreed that the answers to the hereinabove direct and corss interrogatories of the said berein named witness my abe attached hereto.
__W. C. Wheeler__
County Judge __McMullen__ County, Texas
his
__Dow Yarbough____X__
Applicant mark
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Deposition In Pension Claims, With Caption and Certificates.
EX PARTE
__Dow Yarbough__
Applicant for Confederate Pension
IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERATE PENSION
Under Act May 12, 1899, pending in County Commissioners Court of __McMullen__ County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said county.
Answers of __Jas H Tope of McMullen County Texas.__ to the accompanying interrogatories (2) __and Cross Interrogotories__ propounded to __him__ in the above entilted cause taken before (3) __W. C. Wheeler County Judge in and for said county__ in accordance with the accompanying (5) ____________________
To the first interrogatory the said __Jas Tope.__
Witness Answers:
Int 1.___Jas Tope. 66 years. Crowther, Texas McMullen County.___________
Int 2.____Yes._____________________________________________________
Int 3.___I have known appicant for 50 years. Houston & McMullen Counties__
Int 4.___Yes______________________________________________________
Int 5.___Company K Enlisted in year 1861 at Brownsville Texas and served until the break up.__________________________________________
INT 6.___Yes._____________________________________________________
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___________________Cross Interrogatories_____________________________
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_Cros. Int. 1. I did not know any other of same name as applicant________
_Cross. Int. I am certain the said applicant is the identical person_______
_Cross Int 3._____no. I know of my own personal knowledge______________
_Cross Int 4. He did not he served during the entire war_______________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Signed James Tope_____
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this __28"__ day of __June__ 190_6_
__W. C Wheeler__
__County Judge
McMulling Co
__________________________________________________________________
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of __McMullen__
I, __W. C. Wheeler Co Judge__
(her give name and official charater of
officer before whom taken)
do hereby certify that __Jas Tope___ is personally known to me to be credible citizens of said County and State, and that the foregoing answers of __James Tope__ the witness before named, and _____________ whose name appears signed to the foregoing depostion, were made before me, and were sworn to and subscribed before me, by said witness (4) __Jas Tope._________________
Given under my hand and official seal, this the __28"__ day of __June__ 190_6_.
__W.C. Wheeler_____
_____Co Judge.______
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INTERROGATORIES TO WITNESS IN PENSION CLAIMS.
EX PARTE
__Dow Yorbrough__
Applicant for Confederat Pension
PENDING IN THE Honorable Commissioners Court of
__McMullen__ County, Texas,
before the Honorable County Judge of said County.
The Honorable County Judge of McMullen County, Texas, will please take notice that, five days after the service hereof, applicant herin will aply to the Clerk of the County Court of said State for a commission to take the depositons of __________ and __________ who reside ______ in the County of _________ in the State of ___________ in answer to the following interrogatories and such cross interrogatories as my be propounded by the County Judge of said County, which will be read in evidence upon the hearing of applicant's claim for pension in behalf of applicant; said testimony is material and indispensable to applicant in furnishing the required proof to h____ claim for a pension under the Act of May 12, 1899, the application for which is now pending before the Honorable County Judge, and the facts neccessary and required to be proven under the provisions of said Act, applicant believes can not be proven by any witness________residing in the County of _____________ and State of Texas, of which he is a bona fide resident.
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(Applicant) Attorney for Applicant.
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DIRECT INTERROGATORIES TO BE PROPOUNDED TO THE WITNESS
INT. 1. What is your name? Age? Present place of residence and postoffice
address?
INT. 2.
INT. 2. Do you personally know, or did you at any time know
__Dow Yorbrough__ who is an applicant for pension under Act of May 12,
1899?
INT. 3. How long have you known the said __Dow Yorbrough__ applicant for
pension and when and where did you first know him?
INT. 4. Do you personally know that the said __Dow Yorbrough__ applicant for
pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and perfomred the duties of a soldier or a sailor?
INT. 5. Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said
__Dow Yorbrough__ applicant enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When? Where? And the time of service? If you personally knew and so have stated that he enlisted and served in the Confederate navy, then state: When? Where? And how long he so served.
INT. 6. Do you further know that __Dow Yorbrough__ the said applicant for pension, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort?
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CROSS INTERROGATORIES.
To Be Propounded to __D. T. Winters__
Cross Interrogatory 1. If in answer to the foregoing direct interrogatories, you have stated that you personally know or did know said applicant, and that you know that he enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor, and having named the company and regiment in which applicant so enlisted and served, then please state fully what is your source of such knowledge. And state whether or not you know or at any time you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of __Dow Yorbrough__ serving in the same company or regiment in which you say the said applicant __Dow Yarbough__ enlisted, or if you have stated that said applicant enlisted and served in the navy of the Confederacy, then state whether or not you know any other sailor of the same as said __Dow Yorbrough__ applicant serving in the same command.
If you say that you so knew other soldiers or sailors of the same name of applicant's, then can you and how do you identify and locate the one from the other or others?
Cross INT. 2. Are you positively certain that said __Dow Yorbrough__ applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you?
Cross INT. 3. If you have answered Direct Interrogatory No. 6 in the affirmative, then please state your source of knowledge or information. Is not this your answer simply based on conjectrue?
Cross INT. 4. Do you know whether or not the said __Dow Yorbrough__ applicant for pension, ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy?
DEPOSITION
IN PENSION CLAIMS, WITH CAPTION AND CERTIFICATES
EX PARTE
___Dow Yorbrough____________
Applicant for Confederate Pension
IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERAT PENSION
Under Act May 12, 1899, pending in County
Commissioners Court of __McMullen__ County,
Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said
Answers and depostions of (1) __D. T. Winters of Big Foot Frio County Texas____________________________________________________________
To the accompanying interrogatories (2) __and cross Interrogatories__________
Propounded to __him__ in the above cause taken before (3) _Mack Kerchiville Notary Public in and for Frio Co Texas________________________
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in accordance with the accompanying (5) __Commissioner___________________
To the first interrogatory the said __D. T. Winters____________________
Witness answers:__Daniel
T. Winters, 64 years of age Big Foot, Frio Co, Texas.__
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__2nd____Yes, I know Dow Yorbrough._________________________________
____________________________________________________________________3rd____about 45 years and I first met him in the confederate army Col K 2nd Texas Calvery._____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________4th____I know he performed the duties of a confederate soldier_____________
____________________________________________________________________5th____He served in company K 2nd Texas calvery. Do not know date enlisted. Do not know where he inlisted. He served 24 months or more._______
____________________________________________________________________6th____I do not know but judging
from his age, I would think he was unable to
to do manual labor at this time._________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- Cross examination -_________________________
____________________________________________________________________No 1 My source of information as
to his service as a solier in the confederate army was from association with
said Yorbrough applicant for pension. I did not know any other Dow Yorbrough in
the confederate service.__________________
____________________________________________________________________2nd Yes, I am certain that said Yorbrough I have in mind as serving in Co K. 2nd Texas (rest is not legible)_______________________________________
____________________________________________________________________No 3. Not having seen said Yorbrough for a long time my source of knowledge comes from what I know about this age. And large cumbersome frame, and my oppinion in regard to molles is fased (sic)! All by this upon guessing how he could carry his massive body at this extreme age_____________ ____________________________________________________________________No 4 Do not know._____________________________________________
_________________signed_________________________________________________________________Daniel T. Winters_____________________________
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Subscribed and sworn to before me, this __10th__ day of __July__ 190_6_
____Mack Kerchiville____
__Notary Public Frio Co Texas__
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
County of __Frio___
I, __Mack Kercheville____________________
(here give name and official character of
officer before whom taken)
do hereby certify that __D. T. Winters__ and is personally known to me to be credible citizen of said County and State, and that the foregoing answers of
__D. T. Winters__ the witenss before named, and __D T Winters__ whose name appear signed to the foregoing deposition, were made befoe me, and were sworn to and sbuscribed before me, by said witness (4)___________________________
Given under my hand and official seal, this the __10th__ day of __July__ 190_6_
____Mack Kercheville____
__Notory Public Frio Co Texas__
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