South Carolina Confederate Veterans Home
Female Applications 1925-1955
Newberry County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails

 
The South Carolina Confederate Home, opened on Confederate Memorial Day, May 10, 1909.  The home was located near the State Hospital for the Insane on Bellevue Place, a property formerly owned by Col. William Wallace and now the corner of Confederate Avenue and Bull Street in Columbia.  Initially its governing commission consisted of five members, three of whom had to be ex-Confederate soldiers or sailors, appointed by the governor.  Two veterans from each county recommended by the County Pension Board were to be admitted.  If such recommendations failed to be made, then the commission could fill the vacancy from the same or another county.

In 1921, four members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to the commissionwere added. In 1925 indigent widows and wives were made eligible for admission whenever there were few enough veterans in the home to allow one widow or wife from each county.  "Sisters of the full blood" were added in 1929, daughters in 1935, and nieces in 1943.  The last veteran in the home died in 1944.  Twenty-nine elderly women were transferred to the custody of the State Department of Public Welfare when the home closed in 1957.  B. B. Rosenburg, Living Monuments: Confederate Soldiers' Homes in the New South (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993) provides additional information about the home.

Series 128005 (South Carolina Archives) consists of the applications of female relatives of veterans to the South Carolina Confederate Home.  Information usually includes the name of the applicant, her date of birth, the dates of application and of admission, and the relationship to a Confederate soldier with information about that soldier's service.  Living relatives of the applicant and their addresses are also listed.  Letters of support are frequently present.  Some rejected applications are also included in the series.  Many applications have notations as to discharge or death.

Name Service of Date
Adams, Carrie    late husband James Adams in Company C, Fifteenth Regiment Infantry.   4/1/1929
Bush, Susan Emma    brother Drayton Dausby in Company A, Nineteenth Battalion Cavalry.   8/9/1950
Dominick, Carrie    late husband Daniel T. Dominick in Company G, Thirteenth Regiment, Infantry.   2/5/1941
Eargle, Ellen Miller    father Simeon Miller in Company F, Palmetto Battalion, Light Artillery.   7/25/1947
Griffin, Lizzie    brother Bluford Fowler Griffin in Company E, Seventh Regiment, Cavalry.   8/27/1947
Harris, Maggie E.    father S. Z. Bateman in Company A, HolcombS Legion, Infantry.   6/10/1949
Hayes, T. J., Mrs.    husband T. J. Hayes in Company A, Fourth Regiment, State Troops.   3/28/1928
Hodges, Addie Sims    father Benjamin Augustus Sims in Company B, Eleventh Regiment, Mississippi Infantry.   9/5/1936
Hutchinson, Mary S.    father James J. Hutchinson in Company B, First Regiment, Infantry (Greggs).   12/2/1943
Kibler, Gussie F.    father D. W. T. Kibler in Company F, Twentieth Regiment, Infantry.   4/26/1945
Kibler, Mary Elizabeth L.    father George Solomon Livingston in Company H, Third Regiment, Infantry.   3/23/1954
Perkins, Carrie    father Henry D. Boozer in Company E, Seventh Regiment, Cavalry.   6/16/1951
Pugh, Ellie    father E. H. Pugh in Company A, Fourth Battalion, Reserves.   2/7/1939
Rankin, Hannah    father Henry Clay Rankin in Company G, Thirteenth Regiment, Infantry.   5/25/1940
Riser, Anna E.    father Noel L. Chapman in Company F, Palmetto Battalion, Light Artillery.   11/11/1940
Salter, Sallie Wells    father Elijah Wells in Company D, Twenty-Second Battalion, Georgia Artillery.   12/28/1926
Sloan, O. D.    husband, William Hemphill Sloan in Company F, Twentieth Regiment, Infantry.   12/21/1925
Whittle, Clara E.    father C. W. Lindsey in Company F, Ninth Regiment, Reserves.   1/5/1938

Source: Series 128005, South Carolina Archives

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