Parker

Parker, J. J.

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Pension Application

Clarke County

Names of Applicant: J, J, Parker

Post Office: Quitman, Miss.

APPLICATION FOR PENSION

Name: J. J. Parker

Age: 73

County Resident: Clarke

Post Office: Quitman

Bona Fide Resident of Mississippi: Yes

Marital Status: Unmarried

County Resident When Enlisted in the Service of the Confederate States: Clarke County, Miss.

Date of Enlistment: 1863

Regiment Number in Which First Enlisted: 1st Miss. Calvary

Name of Commander: Col. Arnold

Letter or Designation of the Company: Co. A

Name of Captain: Bill Reynolds

Length of Service with above Company: 2 years

Discharged or Transferred: (no answer given)

If Yes, Date of Discharge or Transfer - (no answer given)

If Discharged - Grounds for Discharge: (no answer given)

If Transferred - Name of Command: Turner's Battery

Enlistment a Second Time: (no answer given)

If so, Regiment or Company Name: (no answer given)

Discharged Before the Surrender in 1865 - No

Absent Without Leave at any Time: No

Absent Yourself from Command at any Time: No

Active with your Command at Surrender in 1865: Yes

Place your Command Surrendered: (no answer given)

Absent from Command at Surrender: (no answer given)

Reason for Absence: (no answer given)

Length of Absence: (no answer given)

Present Occupation: Farming

Applying for Pension Due to Indigent and Unable to Earn Living: Yes

Receiving a Salary from any State, United State, County, or City Office or a Fee of $300.00 per Annum: No

Sons over 16 or under 21 years of Age: No

You or Wife Own Property: Yes

True, Just and Correct Value: $400.00

Own Home: Yes

Relatives Legally Responsible to Provide for You: None able

Signature of Pensioner: J. J. Parker (sign)

Date: July 19, 1916

Office of Chancery Clerk and County Board of Inquiry, Clarke County, Quitman, Miss., 9/13/1916

We, the undersigned members of the Board of Inquiry, hereby approve the foregoing application of J. J. Parker for pension because we know the applicant to be indigent and physically unable to earn a support by his own labor, caused by wounds or injuries received during the Civil War, and that we believe the facts stated in the above application are true and the party should receive a pension.

Given under our hands and seals of office, this 13 day of Sept. 1916

(no signature) - President of Board (seal)

W. G. Edward (seal)

J. W. Lilley (seal)

J. J. Pope (seal)

J. C. Brock (seal)

?. ?. Fontaine (seal)

W. S. Foster (seal)