No. 1758

Name Martha A. Perry
Filed Dec. 20, 1907
Widow of N. T. Perry
D 7 Tenn Cav

FILE IS STAMPED Accepted

STATE OF TENNESSEE
Crockett County

Mrs. Martha Ann Perry of Lauderdale 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: Mrs. Martha Ann Perry. I reside near Halls, Tenn.

2. How long and since when have you been a resident of this State?
ANSWER: All my life

3. When and where were you born and what was your maiden name?
ANSWER: Feb. 16, 1844, Dyer Co. Tenn, near Friendship, near Crockett County. Martha Ann Warren.

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: December 2nd 1837 in North Carolina. Noah Thomas Perry. We married Feb. 23rd 1860 near Friendship Tennessee, then Dyer County by Asa Griffin J.P.

5. When and where and in what Company and Regiment did you husband enlist or serve during the war between the States?
ANSWER: About? 1861 at Brownsville, Co. D. 7 Tenn Cav. I think

6. How long did your husband serve in said Company and Regiment?
ANSWER: I don't know. This he was transfered to some other Co. & Regt.

7. When and where did your husband's Company and Regiment surrender?
ANSWER: I do not know

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 a prisoner of war when the war closed at Alton Ill or Point Lookout M.D.

10. Was your husband a pensioner or an applicant for pension, under the laws of Tennessee?
ANSWER: No

11. When and where did your husband die?
ANSWER: December 14, 1878 at home near Friendship 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, 4 boys. Glen Aug. 16, 1861. Mattie Apr 7, 1864 now dead. Nannie June 30, 1866, Morette Nov. 14, 1868. Ewel July 16, 1870. Clarance 23 Jan, 1872. Hilery April 7, 1874 dead. Annie Lou Jan 23, 1877 dead.

14. What property, real or personal, or income do you have or possess, and its gross value?
ANSWER: None

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: I had a home of 45 acres. I sold it about 10 years ago.

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 have no family. I reside with my daughter Mrs. Nannie Wyse. Some of my children are dead & some scattered.

(Signed) Martha Ann Perry

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the
16 day of November 1907
B. H. Harmon, Notary Public
of Crockett County

STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County

Willis C. Howell of the said State and County, having been presented as a witness in support of the application of Mrs. M. A. Perry 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: Willis C. Howell reside at Friendship Tenn.

2. Are you acquainted with the applicant, Mrs. M. A. Perry
ANSWER: _______
If so, how long have you known her?
ANSWER: Fifty years or more. We lived near each other.

3. Where does she reside, and how long and since when has she been a resident of this State?
ANSWER: She resides now at Halls Tenn. She was born in Tenn.

4. When and where was she born?
ANSWER: Feb. 16, 1844 I think near Friendship Tenn.

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

6. When and by whom were they married?
ANSWER: Feb. 23rd 1860 by Asa Griffin J.P.

7. When and where was he born?
ANSWER: He war born in North Carolina

8. How long did you know him?
ANSWER: Since about 1855 till his death in 1878

9. When and where did N. T. Perry enlist in the war between the States, and in what Company and Regiment did he enlist, and how do you know this?
ANSWER: Co. D. 7 Tenn Cav. in Oct. 1861 I think. About Afterwards he was transfered to ??? Captain Wyse? A. Coopers Co. and consolidated in the 12th Tenn Cavalry.

10. Were you a member of the same Company and Regiment?
ANSWER: I was a member in Co. F. 12th Tenn Cav.

11. How long did he perform regular military duty?
ANSWER: From Oct. 1861 to about March 1864 when he was captured and was a prisoner till July 1865.

12. When and where was his Company and Regiment surrendered?
ANSWER: I don't know. Myself and Perry were prisoners of war when the war closed.

13. Were you with the command when it surrendered?
ANSWER: No

14. Was N. T. Perry the husband of applicant present?
ANSWER: No. He was in prison at Alton Ill, then moved to Camp Douglas, furrlowed? at Point Lookout, M.D.

15. If not present, where was he?
ANSWER: Ans. above

16. When and where did he leave his command? He was captured in Nush? Tenn
For what cause? See above
By whose authority did he leave? Captured
How do you know all this? (State fully and clearly) I was with him and we were released from prison after the war closed.

17. When and where did N. T. Perry die?
ANSWER: Near Friendship Tenn, December 14th 1878

18. Where did he reside at his death and how long had he been a resident of Tennessee at his death?
ANSWER: Near Friendship. He resided here 25 or 30 years before his death

19. Do you of your own knowledge know that applicant is the lawful widow of N. T. Perry
ANSWER: Yes

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 no property that I know of

22. Has applicant conveyed any property in last two years or given any away, if so, what was it and to whom?
ANSWER: No

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, N. T. Laster can concur with nearly all of his foregoing testimony. Was a prisoner with N. T. Perry at the close of the war.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16 day of Nov 1907

W. C. Howell (witness)
N. T. Laster (witness)
B. H. Harmon (Notary Public)

I, J. B. Mitchell Trustee of Lauderdale County, Tennessee, hereby certify that the property assessed on the tax books of this County to Mrs. Martha Ann Perry the widow of Noah Thomas Perry, amounts to $_______ real estate and $_______ personal.

J. B. Mitchell Trustee For Lauderdale County, Tenn.

STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County

I, B. H. Harmon Notary Public, in and for said County, hereby certify that the applicant, Mrs. M. A. Perry resides in Lauderdale County, and has been a bona fide resident of this State since the birth day of __________ 18___, and that the witnesses, Mr. W. C. Howell and N. T. Laster 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 16 day of November 1907

B. H. Harmon
Notary Public County

Handwritten letter included in file:

State of Tennessee
Crockett County

Personally appeared before me, B. H. Harman, a Notary Public for said County and State, Mrs. Lizzie C. Harman aged 63 years, a resident of Maury City, Tenn, after being duly sworn deposes in relation to Mrs. Martha Ann Perry's claim for pension as follows, To wit -

I am well acquainted with the applicant. She was Miss Martha Ann Warren before she married Mr. Noah Thomas Perry. They married Febry 23d 1860 at 3 o'clock P.M. by Asa Griffin, a Justice of the Peace at that time for Dyer County Tenn. I saw them married. There was quite a croud there, but all of them have since died unless some of her sisters children who with their parents moved to Texas in 1870. My father John P. Davis was the guardian of Martha Ann Warren at the time she and Mr. N. T. Perry married. After this marriage they resided near where I lived until his death December 14, 1878. I knew both of them several years before they married, and have been intimately acquainted with her ever since. She was his lawful wife at the time of his death and they lived together. And she has remained his widow ever since and never remarried.

They had several children born to them, as set out by her in her application for pension. I know her husband was in the Confederate army, and came home out of Northern prison after the civil war closed.

I staid with her at her home a good deal of the time durring the war as she lived in sight of my father.

She endurred many hardships during the war and since her widowhood and I done all she could for our Southland and for the confederate soldiers. She bears a good reputation, her character has always been above reprisal?

She was raised lady like and maintained her raising till this day. Her? little fortune that came to her at her marriage was swept away during the war and since her widowhood and she is poor and indigent. Most of her children died after they became grown, her sons whom she relied upon for comfort and support.

I have no personal interest in the procurment of her claims for pension.

(Signed) Lizzie C. Harmon

Sworn to and subscribed before me on this the 12th day of Dec 1907, and I certify that the witness is a lady of respectability and her testimony is entitled to full faith and ----?

B. H. Harman
Notary Public

Typed letter included in file, from the office of John R. Menzies, County Court Clerk, Dyersburg (Dyer Co.) TN:

Dyersburg, Tenn. Oct 28th 1907

Mr. H. L. Wise,
Halls, Tenn:-

Dear Sir: -

Mr. Boling and Mr. L. W. Tucker was in my office inquiring about the marriage of a Mr. Perry to -------- (blank) and will say that the records of Marriages of this County were destroyed, and the latest record we have begins April th 16th 1860, and I am informed by those parties that they were married in Febuary (sic) 1869.

Yours Truly
(Signed) J. R. Menzies Clerk
By Whit Thomas D.C.

Handwritten letter included in file:

State of Tenn.
Lauderdale County

Personally appeared before me W. C. Patton a Notary Public of said County and State Mrs. Martha Ann Perry a Resident of Halls Tennessee and well known by me, and made an additional affidavit in her claim for pension, as follows. About 10 years ago when I broke up house keeping I boxed up my books and papers, and somehow the box containing them was lost or stolen and the prisoners parole of my husband of late about the 1st of July 1865 of Noah Thomas Perry must have been put in the said box. At any rate the said papers is lost or misplaced. I know he had such a papers.

(Signed) Martha Ann Perry

Sworn to and subscribed before me this Dec 10th 1907 and I certify that I have no interest in the procurement of this claim and affiant is of respectability.

(Signed) W. C. Patton
Notary Public

Handwritten letter included in file:

State of Tennessee
Crockett County

Personally appeared before me B. H. Harman a Notary Public, J. R. Robertson of Crockett Mills Tennessee, aged 73 years, deposes and says in relation? of the claim of Mrs. M. A. Perry widow of N. T. Perry deceased.

I was a member of Co. D. 7 Tennessee Cav. and N. P. Perry was a member of the same company and Regiment. He Perry joined in October 1861 and served till the latter part of November 1865 when he received a surgeons certificate for leave of absence on account of Rupture of which he was badly affected. He was captured as well as I remember and carried to a Northern prison and came home from there at the close of the war to the best of my knowledge and belief. I knew him all his life we was both born in the State of North Carolina. He married Miss M. A. Warren Feby 23d 1860. He died Dec 14th 1878 in Crockett County Tenn. She Mrs. M. A. Perry has remained his widow and never has remarried. She has been living at Halls Tenn. for two or three years, before? that time she resided in Crockett Co. Tenn.

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