No. 2162

Name Sarah L. King
Filed Nov. 9, 1908
Widow of A. J. King
B 14th Tenn Cav

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STATE OF TENNESSEE
Crockett County

Sarah Lacenia King 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: My name is Sarah L. King, I reside in Dist. No 2 of Crockett Co. Tennessee

2. How long and since when have you been a resident of this State?
ANSWER: Since birth, was born Jany 13, 1851

3. When and where were you born and what was your maiden name?
ANSWER: born Jany 13 1851 my maiden name was Sarah L. Jackson

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: Born in 1850 in Madison County Tennessee. Name Andrew Jackson King. We married Jany 30 1868, near Gadsden, Tenn by Z.? W. Allen M. J.

5. When and where and in what Company and Regiment did you husband enlist or serve during the war between the States?
ANSWER: enlisted in Madison Co. Tenn, Co B. ____ Regt. Tennessee Calvery

6. How long did your husband serve in said Company and Regiment?
ANSWER: About two years

7. When and where did your husband's Company and Regiment surrender?
ANSWER: I think in North Alabama

8. Was your husband present at the time and place when his Company and Regiment surrendered?
ANSWER: No

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: He was sick at home with Pneumonia & not able to go? at all - couldnt go back before the surrender. He was sent home on? a furlough in Apr. 1865 & was never healthy after that, & was a cripple afterwards.

10. Was your husband a pensioner or an applicant for pension, under the laws of Tennessee?
ANSWER: Yes, he was a Pensioner

11. When and where did your husband die?
ANSWER: In Humboldt Tenn on Feby 26th 1903, he was there on a visit & got sick

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

13. How many children did you have by your said husband? Give sex and age at this time.
ANSWER: five. John, Florence Henry age 29 years, Nora Thorpe? (now married) age 27 years old, George Thomas, age 25 years, The Two former now dead.

14. What property, real or personal, or income do you have or possess, and its gross value?
ANSWER: No personal property own 45 acres of land in Crockett Co Tenn, one hog? room & ---- ---- Small stable, crib & ----- House & valued for tax is at ----?

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: He left a horse value about $75, This? horse got its leg broke & had to be killed in 1904.

16. Have you a family? If so, who composes such family? Give their means of support? Have they any lands or other property?
ANSWER: I live with my son George T. h--- old Buggy & a horse & no land he farms & makes all his living that way. The other children? are not with me & have no property

(Signed) Sarah L. King

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 7 day of November 1908
L. L. Cox, Notary Public
of Crockett County

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STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Gibson County

N. A. Senter of the said State and County, having been presented as a witness in support of the application of Mrs. Sarah L. King 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: My name is Neal A. Senter Sr. & I live in Humboldt, Gibson Co. Tenn

2. Are you acquainted with the applicant, Mrs. Sarah L. King
ANSWER: _____

If so, how long have you known her?
ANSWER: I am, have known her many years

3. Where does she reside, and how long and since when has she been a resident of this State?
ANSWER: She lives in Crockett Co. Tenn, & has I think all her life.

4. When and where was she born?
ANSWER: dont know when, but in Crockett Co. Tenn, I think

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

6. When and by whom were they married?
ANSWER: I dot know, years ago.

7. When and by whom were they married?
ANSWER: I think in Madison Co. Tenn, dont know when

8. How long did you know him?
ANSWER: years & years before & since the war

9. When and where did Andrew Jackson King enlist in the war between the States, and in what Company and Regiment did he enlist, and how do you know this?
ANSWER: he enlisted in latter part of 1862 or early in 1863 at Masons Grove, Madison Co. Tenn

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

11. How long did he perform regular military duty?
ANSWER: Until? about Mar or April 1865. ---- he got sick & was sent home on a sick furlough, & was unable to return before the surrender

12. When and where was his Company and Regiment surrendered?
ANSWER: They surrendered in North Alabama

13. Were you with the command when it surrendered?
ANSWER: No Sir I was close by in ---- edge of Mississippi

14. Was Andrew Jackson King the husband of applicant present?
ANSWER: No

15. If not present, where was he?
ANSWER: Home sick as stated above

16. When and where did he leave his command? In Mar or Apr 1865 at ---? place in North Mississippi
For what cause? He was sick & furloughed
By whose authority did he leave? dont remember, he had a furlough I know
How do you know all this? (State fully and clearly) he belonged to my Company. I was his 1st Loeutenant

17. When and where did Andrew Jackson King die?
ANSWER: In Humboldt, Tenn, about 5 years ago

18. Where did he reside at his death and how long had he been a resident of Tennessee at his death?
ANSWER: he lived in Crockett Co. Tenn & resided in that? state all his life

19. Do you of your own knowledge know that applicant is the lawful widow of Andrew Jackson King
ANSWER: Yes

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

21. What property, effects or income has the applicant, if any, and how do you know this of your own knowledge?
ANSWER: She has a little piece of land & that is about all she has.

22. Has applicant conveyed any property in last two years or given any away, if so, what was it and to whom?
ANSWER: none that I know of

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: I can approve and I concur in the answers of N. A. Senter

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of Oct 1908

N. A. Senter Sr. (witness)
A. P. Selph (witness)
W. ---- Dunlap (Notary Public)

I, Jno H. Perry Trustee of Crockett County, Tennessee, hereby certify that the property assessed on the tax books of this County to Mrs. A. J. King the widow of A. J. King, amounts to $$350.-- real estate and $---- personal

Jno H. Perry Trustee
For Crockett County, Tenn.

STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County

I, L. L. Cox Notary Public, in and for said County, hereby certify that the applicant, Mrs. Sarah L. King resides in said County, and has been a bona fide resident of this State since the year of 1870 day of ____, 18____, and that the witnesses, Mr. N. A. Senter and A. P. Selph 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 7 day of November 1908

L. L. Cox, Notary Public
Crockett County

Four pages, apparently from the pension file for her husband
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To Tennessee Pensioners.

Nashville, Tenn., May ____ 1903.

The Pension Laws of the State as amended by the Legislature of 1903 require the Special Examiner to "fully investigate the pensioners now on the roll; and in case a doubt exists as to the worthiness of a pensioner, or where charges are preferred by reputable persons, to visit the said pensioner, and fully investigate his condition, both physical and financial, and make a written report of his investigation to said board."

In order that the requirements of the law may be carried out, you will at once answer the following questions under oath before an officer using a seal, and mail to the Special Examiner in the enclosed envelope.

Tennessee Board of Pension Examiners.
By Frank A. Moses,
Special Examiner

Second page
Question 1. What is the present physical condition of the pensioner?
Answer: Left leg off just below the knee & right leg in bad condition owing to ---- condition of blood vessels. He is also a sufferer from hemorhoids

Signature J. H. Proctor M.D.
(This must be answered by affidavit of a physician, taken by an officer using a seal.)

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 27th day of June 1903.

W. N. - Dunlap Notary Public
For Gibson County, Tenn.

Question 2. What is your present financial condition? What property, real and personal, do you own and what is its value?
Answer: Two horses & one cow & calf some house hold & kitchen furniture & wearing apparrel some chickens & Geese, & --- --- & ---- farm tools &c &? in value about $335.00 I own no Real Estate

Question 3. What property does your wife own and what is its value?
Answer: 45 acres of land worth about ten dollars per acre $450.00
(Questions 2 and 3 must be answered by affidavit of the pensioner before an officer using a seal.)

Third page
(In addition to the above the following certificate of the County Trustee must be filled out.)

I, John H. Perry Trustee of Crockett County, Tennessee, hereby certify that the property assessed on the tax books of this County to A. J. King a pensioner, and his wife Sallie King amount to $360.00 real estate and $---- personal.

Jno H. Perry, Trustee.
For Crockett County, Tenn.

Question 4. What is the present size of your family? How many children have you living with you? Give their sex and ages.
Answer: Three myself wife & one boy aged about 20 years

Question 5. What is your present occupation and how much do you earn thereby?
Answer: Farming but not able to work but little? My left leg being off just below the knee, etc. other leg badly -----.

Question 6. How did you get out of the army? When and where?
Answer: Furloughed at Corinth Miss in Winter of 1864. Was? taken? sick & never able to return until the war was closed.

If parole or discharge papers have been filed heretofore state the fact.

Fourth page
Question 7. Did you take the oath of allegiance to the U. S. Government? If so, when, where and under what circumstances?

Answer: yes after the surrender I took the oath not being paroled at close of the war being home, as above stated at close of war.
(If the pensioner was discharged or paroled let him file the papers if he has them. If they have been lost or destroyed let him make proof by affidavit of some officer or comrade who knows the fact.)

State of Tennessee,
Gibson County.

Personally appeared before me, A. J. King a pensioner of the State of Tennessee, to me well known who makes oath that the answers given to the questions asked him in the foregoing paper are true.

(Signature of Pensioner) A. J. (his X mark) King

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of June 1903

W. N. - Dunlap Notary Public
For Gibson County, Tenn.

Marriage license & return paper included in file
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No 360

United States
Twenty Five Cents
Inter Revenue

Marriage License
To Andrew J. King
To Marry
Miss Sarah L. Jackson
Issued this day
Jan. 27, 1868 P. C. McCowel Clerk
(Madison County)

Second page, Return document:

Return

State of Tennessee
Madison County.

I solemnized the Rite of Matrimony between the within named parties on the 30 day of January 1868.

G. W. Allen, M.G.

State of Tennessee
Madison County

I, M. D. Meriwether Deputy County Court Clerk for said County certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect copy of the proceedings had in the matter of issuing License to Andrew J. King to Marry Miss Sarah L. Jackson and the Return ---- as appears on the Marriage Record Book on file in the office of the County Court Clerk.

Witness my hand and the Official seal of Office at office at Jackson Tennessee. This the 17th day of September 1908.

M. D. Meriwether
Depty County Court Clerk

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Headquarters
Tennessee Board of Pension Examiners.

Nashville, Tenn. Nov. 9, 1908

Gen. F. C. Ainsworth,
Military Secretary,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Mrs. Sarah L. King who is an applicant for pension under the Tennessee Widows Pension Law, claims that her husband A. J. King was a member of Company B. 14th Regiment Tenn Cav C.S.A. and was ______

Please give us the record of this soldier.

Respectfully,
Geor? B. Guild
President

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War Department,
The Adjutant General's Office
Washington, November 12, 1908

Respectuflly returned to the

President,
Tennessee Board of
Pension Examiners,
Nashville.

The records show that A. J. King, private, Company E, 14th (Neely's) Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate States Army, enlisted July 20, 1863, at Gadsden, Tennessee, to serve three years. On the roll for July 20 to September 1, 1863 (only one on file), he is reported absent. It appears from a note on the roll that absent members of the company were left in West Tennessee owing to a sudden departure of the brigade, and being cut off by the enemy from their command.

The records of prisoners of war show that one D. H. King, private, Nixon's Tennessee Cavalry (formed by consolidation), Confederate States Army, whose residence is shown as Gadsden, Tennessee, surrendered at Citronelle, Alabama, May 4, 1865, and was paroled at Gainesville, Alabama, May 11, 1865.

No record has been found of the capture or parole of a man named A. J. King as of the organization mentioned above.

F. C. Dismuke
The Adjutant General.

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Humboldt, Tenn., Aug. 11, 1909

Comd? John -- Hickman

Dear Sir, What did the Pension Bord do with the application of Mrs. Sarah King of Humboldt Tenn, for a widow pension.

If disallowed please give the reasons, you will oblige her & me.

Your Friend,
W. J. McFarland