No. 4370

Name Marry Dee Horton
Filed March 19, 1012
Widow of W. H. Horton
7 Tenn Cav

FILE IS STAMPED Rejected

Marriage license dated 23 Oct 1867, Madison Co., TN

STATE OF TENNESSEE
Crockett County

I, Marry Dee Horton of said State and County, desiring to avail herself of the Pension allowed to Indigent Widows of Soldiers, under Act of General Assembly, approved April, 1905, being Chapter 202 of the Acts of 1905; hereby submits her proofs, and after begin duly sworn true answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:

1. What is your full name and where do you reside? (Give State, County and Postoffice.)
ANSWER: Marry Dee Horton. 1st Civil Dist. Crockett County, Tenn

2. How long and since when have you been a resident of this State?
ANSWER: Borned and Lived in State all life.

3. When and where were you born and what was your maiden name?
ANSWER: 1844 - Oct. 29th. Madison Co. Tenn. Marry Dee Ellington

4. When and where was your husband born -- state his full name, and when and where were you and he married, and who performed the marriage ceremony? (Attach certified copy marriage license in every case.)
ANSWER: date of Birth Distroyed, North Carolina

5. When and where and in what Company and Regiment did you husband enlist or serve during the war between the States?
ANSWER: (Blank)

6. How long did your husband serve in said Company and Regiment?
ANSWER: (Blank)

7. When and where did your husband's Company and Regiment surrender?
ANSWER: (Blank)

8. Was your husband present at the time and place when his Company and Regiment surrendered?
ANSWER: (Blank)

9. If not with his command at surrender state clearly and specifically where he was when he left command, for what cause and by what authority?
ANSWER: (Blank)

10. Was your husband a pensioner or an applicant for pension, under the laws of Tennessee?
ANSWER: Was not

11. When and where did your husband die?
ANSWER: March 3rd 1877 at Bells Tenn

12. At the time of your husband's death, were you living with him as his lawful wife?
ANSWER: Yes

13. How many children did you have by your said husband? Give sex and age at this time.
ANSWER: 4 - Girls - 43 - 40 - 37 - 34

14. What property, real or personal, or income do you have or possess, and its gross value?
ANSWER: Nothing

15. What property, real or personal, did you possess at death of husband or did he leave you, and what disposition, if any, by sale or gift, have you made of the same?
ANSWER: left nothing

16. Have you a family? If so, who composes such family? Give their means of support? Have they any lands or other property?
ANSWER: No. I live with 2 Daughters daily labor nothing

(Signed) Marry Dee (her mark) Horton

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 26 day of July 1911
R. N. Raines, Notary Public
of Crockett County

STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County

J. B. Bradley and J. C. Casey of the said State and County, having been presented as a witness in support of the application of Mrs. Mary D. Horton for a Pension under Chapter 202, Acts of 1905, and after being duly sworn true answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:

1. What is your name and where do you reside?
ANSWER: Joseph B. Bradley. Crockett Co. Tenn, Jas. C. Casey, Crockett Co. Tenn

2. Are you acquainted with the applicant, Mrs. Mary Dee Horton
If so, how long have you known her?
ANSWER: all her life - all her life

3. Where does she reside, and how long and since when has she been a resident of this State?
ANSWER: Crockett Co. Tenn. All her life. Crockett Co.

4. When and where was she born?
ANSWER: Madison County Tenn

5. Were you ever acquainted with her husband?
ANSWER: Yes - yes

6. When and by whom were they married?
ANSWER: Rev. Young A. McLamore

7. When and where was he born?
ANSWER: Madison County Tenn

8. How long did you know him?
ANSWER: About 40 years

9. When and where did Wilis H. Horton enlist in the war between the States, and in what Company and Regiment did he enlist, and how do you know this?
ANSWER: Bells, Tenn. 7th Tenn Reg. Cal. under Col Suckworth. I was present

10. Were you a member of the same Company and Regiment?
ANSWER: Yes - yes

11. How long did he perform regular military duty?
ANSWER: About 3 years

12. When and where was his Company and Regiment surrendered?
ANSWER: Tupolo Miss - Gainsville Ala

13. Were you with the command when it surrendered?
ANSWER: Yes - yes

14. Was Wilis H. Horton the husband of applicant present?
ANSWER: No he was at home on sick furlo

15. If not present, where was he?
ANSWER: At Home on sick furlo

16. When and where did he leave his command? Don't know
For what cause? sickness
By whose authority did he leave? Capt. Jones & Col. Duckworth
How do you know all this? (State fully and clearly) I was with him

17. When and where did Willis H. Horton die?
ANSWER: 1877 at Bells Tenn - 1877 Bells Tn

18. Where did he reside at his death and how long had he been a resident of Tennessee at his death?
ANSWER: Bells Tenn - Bells Tenn

19. Do you of your own knowledge know that applicant is the lawful widow of Wilis H. Horton
ANSWER: Yes - yes

20. Has she remained unmarried since her soldier husband's death, and is she now his widow?
ANSWER: Yes - yes

21. What property, effects or income has the applicant, if any, and how do you know this of your own knowledge?
ANSWER: Nothing - Dependant for help has nothing

22. Has applicant conveyed any property in last two years or given any away, if so, what was it and to whom?
ANSWER: Nothing - Nothing

NOTE -- Let the witness who can answer the greater number of the questions do so; then let the other witness state in the space below how much of the testimony of the first witness he concurs in, and whether or not he can answer any of the questions not answered by the first witness.
ANSWER: _________________________

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18 day of March 1912

J. B. (his mark) Bradley (witness)
J. C. Casey (witness)
R. N. Raines (Notary Public)

I, Jno. F. Peal Trustee of Crockett County, Tennessee, hereby certify that the property assessed on the tax books of this County to Mrs. Mary Dee Horton the widow of Willis H. Horton, amounts to $Nothing real estate and $No personal

Jno. F. Peal Trustee
For Crockett County, Tenn.

STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County

I, R. N. Raines Clerk or Notary Public, in and for said County, hereby certify that the applicant, Mrs. Mary Dee Horton resides in said County, and has been a bona fide resident of this State since the her Birth day of ____, 18____, and that the witnesses, Mr. J. B. Bradley and J. C. Casey are of trustworthy character, and that their statements are entitled to full faith and credit.

I do further certify that before answering the foregoing questions, the applicant and said witnesses took the oath herein prescribed, and the full text of the affidavits was read to the applicant and witnesses before the same was signed and subscribed.

Witness my hand and official seal this 18th day of March 1912

R. N. Raines, Justice Peace & Notary Public
Crockett County

Handwritten note included in file, on Southern Express Company letterhead:

Southern Expres Company
(Incorporated)

Frutivale, Tenn
3/18 1912

Hon: J. P. Hickman
Nashville, Tenn.

Sir

Find (2) applications widows please let me know if anything is wanting to allow them to pass as they are Both needy & worthy widows Especialy Mrs. Mary Dee Horton

Truly, R. N. Raines, J. P.

Handwritten note included in file, on Southern Express Company letterhead:

Southern Expres Company
(Incorporated)

Frutivale, Tenn L. & N. Loc.
9/24 1913

Mr. Frank Moses,
Nashville, Tenn.

Dear Sir:

Yours of 9/3?/13 Rec' The applicant Mrs. Mary Dee Horton: #4370 - will say she is Dead & has been over a year She Deserved a Pension very much & died Peniless you are too slow in acting this is 2nd applicant I have had that died before could get any hearing on.

What about Mr. J. N. Richland
What about Mr. F. W. Ellington
What about Mrs. Nancy Culliford
applications been in 2 years or more & heard nothing from them.

Kindly let me heare from you those applicants need their Pensions.

Truly, R. N. Raines

Typed letter included in file:

WAR DEPARTMENT,
The Adjutant General's Office

Washington. March 23, 1912

Respectfully returned to the
President,
Tennessee Board of Pension Examiners,
Nashville.

The name W. H. Horton has not been found on the rolls, on file in this office, of any Tennessee Confederate organization designated 7th, and no record has been found of the capture or parole of a man of that name as a member of such an organization.

The records show, however, that one Willis Horton, private, Company F, 7th (Duckworth's) Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate States Army, enlisted November 4, 1861. On an updated company roll received at the A. & I. G. O. December 17, 1862, the only roll on which his name is borne, he was reported present. No later record of him has been found.

(Signed) Henry P. McCail
Adjutant General

Copy of marriage license in file:

STATE OF TENNESSEE
MADISON, COUNTY.

I, J. A. Thompson, Clerk of the County Court of Madison County, Tenn., do hereby certify that the above and foregoing contains a full, true, perfect and correct copy of the Marriage License of Willis Haughton to Miss Mary D.Ellington, issued on the 23 day of Oct. 1867, by P. C. McCourt? Clerk, as found of record and on file in this office in Book ____ page _____.

Witness my hand and seal of office at office in Jackson, Tenn., this 1 day of M. L. 1912

(Signed) J. A. Thompson, Clerk
By M. T. Moore, D.C.