Confederate Pension Application for Louisa M. Bush
(C. Avis Catalog entry #90)
Name of Applicant: Louisa M. Bush
Grayson County
Post Office: Farmington
Comptrollers File No. 8324
Received at Comptroller's office: 8/19/1901
Approved: 9/18/1901 by R. M. Love, Comptroller
Notation dated 6-10-1925 says "Dec'd"
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Application of Indigent widow of Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899.
The State of Texas
County of Grayson
To the Honorable County Judge of Grayson County, Texas.
Your petitioner, Mrs. Louisa M. Bush respectfully represents that she is a resident citizen of Grayson County, in the State of Texas; that she is the widow of Isaac Bush, deceased, who was a Condederate soldier (or sailor), and that she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension as the widow of said Isaac Bush, deceased, under the act ... and I do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true.
Q. What is your name? Answer: Louisa M. Bush
Q. What is your age? Answer: 68 years
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Grayson
Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: 34 years Farmington Texas
Q. Have you applied for a pension ... and been rejected? Answer: No
Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: None
Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: Very poor
Q. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer: Isaac Bush
Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date were you married to him and where? Answer: February 12th 1857 to Isaac Bush Gilmer Co., W. Va
Q. What was the date of his death? Answer: 24th day of March 1901
Q. Are you unmarried, and have you so remained unmarried since the death of your said husband ... Answer: Yes
Q. State in what company and regiment your deceased husband ... enlisted in the Confederate Army, and the time of his service therein? Answer: Company "C" Regiment 19th Virginia Cavalry
Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation land certificate ... Answer: None
Q. What real and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Answer: Small house and lot - 150 dollars
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 income, if any, do you receive? Answer: None
Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer: No means of subsistence
Q. Are you unable 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 your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension, 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
Signed Louisa M. Bush
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 day of April A. D. 1901
J. D. Woods, County Judge Grayson County, Texas
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Affidavit of Witnesses.
The State of Texas
County of Grayson
Before me, W. W. Ferguson a Notory Public Grayson County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared A. Bush and R. C. Bush who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know that Mrs. Louisa M. Bush, applicant for a pension and the widow of Isaac Bush, deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of the said Isaac Bush, deceased; and that they further know that the said Mrs. Louisa M. Bush, widow of the said Isaac Bush, deceased, is unable to support herself by labor of any sort.
Signed: Anderson Bush
Signed: J. M. Weems
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24 day of May A. D. 1901
Signed: J. D. Woods, County Judge Grayson County, Texas
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Comptroller's Office, Texas
Austin, May 6, 1901.
I, R. M. Love, Comptroller of Public Accounts for the State of Texas, do hereby certify that the records of this office show the following facts:
1st. The application of Isaac Bush for Confederate pension (See file 1618) was duly approved by R. W. Finley, Comptroller, Sept 28th, 1899.
2nd. The proof on file with said application shows that Isaac Bush served in Company "C", Regimant 19th Virginia Cavalry, serving eighteen months.
Signed on the 6th day of May A. D. 1901, R. M. Love, Comptroller
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Approved at Sherman 5/28/1901
Signed: J. D. Woods
Approved at Sherman 8/15/1901 by the County Commissioners of Grayson County (Signed: J. W. Weems, Jr., J. D. Skaggs, O. B. Fisher, W. E. Baird)
