William Graves Civil War File

Scott County Arkansas
Civil War Pension Application
WILLIAM GRAVES, CSA
Transcribed & Contributed by Delaine Edwards

#1632
Scott County
Widow's Application For Pension
Graves, William
Adaline Graves
Widow of Wm. Graves
Co. "A" 18th Regt. Ark. Vols.
Nebraska P.O.
Filed
Mar 8 1892
T.M. Duncan, Clerk
Examined and approved
and $25 allowed and
Auditor authorized to
draw warrant for same
This 28 day of August 1894
H.B. Armistead, Governor
[Blank] Sec. State
C.B. Mills, Auditor
State Pension Board

APPLICATION FOR PENSION

To the Honorable County Court of Scott County,
Sitting as a Pension Board:
The undersigned, as the widow of an ex-Confederate soldier, hereby applies for a pension under the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, entitled "An Act for the Relief of Certain Soldiers of the late War between the States," approved April 1, 1891, upon the following grounds:
That she is a bona fide resident of the State of Arkansas, and has been for more than twelve months next before the filing of this application;
That she is the widow of William Graves, who enlisted as a soldier in the State of Arkansas during the war between the States in Company A of the 18 Regiment of Arkansas Volunteers and continued in the service of the State of Arkansas or the Confederate States of America until his death which occurred at Fort Pillow Tennessee in 1862.
That she has remained a widow since the death of her said husband, is now indigent and incapacitated for manual labor by reason of Rheumetic and old age.
That she is not receiving any aid from this State or from the United States on said account, under any other statute, and therefore makes application for relief under the act aforesaid.
[Signed] Adeline Graves
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 7th day of Jan. 1892
[Signed] G.W. Cornelius, J.P.

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott}
Personally came before me W.A. McCormack and Mary McCormack, two credible witnesses, who make oath and say that they verily believe the applicant to be the identical person named in the application, and that the facts stated in the application are true.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 29th day of February 1892
Witnesses:
W.A. McCormack
Mary McCormack

G.W. Cornelius, J.P.

[Handwritten document]
State of Arkansas,}
County of Scott.}
We, E.D. Yandell, Judge of the County Court of Scott County, L.P. Fuller,Sheriff and T.M. Duncan, Clerk, sitting as a Pension Board for Scott County, do certify that we have examined the application of the within named Adaline Graves for pension, under act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, approved April 1, 1891 and the proof in support of same, and find that said applicant is the widow of a wounded Confederate soldier, that she has never remarried; that she has no property and is unable to earn a support by her own work, is in indigent circumstances, and that her claim is just, and that she should be allowed a pension - and we hereby allow the sum of $25.00 per annum.
E.D. Yandell, County Judge
L.P. Fuller, Sheriff
T.M. Duncan, Clerk
This Aug. 21, 1893

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