Octavious Spencer Forbis

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Octavious S Forbis

Civil War Pension Application

Sent for by Sharon Pierce and typed by Elaine Nall Bay.

Reproduced From the Holdings of the Texas State Archives

FORM No. 1

CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION

Name of Applicant,

• Octavous S. Forbis
• Rains County
• Post office Emory, Texas

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Comptroller’s File No. 3392

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I have carefully examined the within application for pension, together with the proof in support thereof, and I recommend that the application be approved

• this 9 day of Oct
• A.D. 1899.
• Wm. J. Smith
• Pension Clerk

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I hereby approve the within application for pension, this 9th day of October A.D. 1899 R.W. Finley, Comptroller

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No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should be Forwarded to Comptroller

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FORM No. 1

APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899.

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THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Rains}

To the Honorable County Judge of Rains County, Texas.

Your Petitioner, Octavious S. Forbis respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Rains County, in the state of Texas, and that he makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act passed by the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved May 12, A.D. 1899, the same being an act entitled "An act to carry into effect the amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that aid may be granted to disabled and dependent Confederate soldiers, sailors, and their widows under certain conditions, and to make an appropriation therefor," and I do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true.

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NOTE – Applicant must make answer to all of the following questions, and such answers must be written out plainly in ink.

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• Q. What is your name? Answer Octavious S. Forbis
• Q. What is your age? Answer 71 years old
• Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Rains
• Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address: Answer 32 years. My P.O. address is Emory, Texas
• Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? if so, state when and where. Answer I have not.
• Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer Not able to engage in one
• Q. What is your physical condition? Answer verry bad
• Q. If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn a support, state what caused such disability. Answer Disease of kidnies Rheumatic & Cestic -aws
• Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer Company B. 10th Texas Cavilry. I served from 1861 to 1856
• Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where and the time of your service. Answer never done any servise in navy
• Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state what pension or veteran donation land certificate you have received. Answer I have received nothing
• Q. What real and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such property and value. Answer I own no real estat I own personal property amount of value $50.00
• Q. What property, and what was the value thereof, have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to the date of this application? Answer none
• Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer none
• Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer Yes
• Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support? Answer I am
• Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer no
• Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? Answer No
• Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this state? Answer Yes

Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law.

• (Signature of Applicant) O.S. Forbis Sr.
• Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17 day of June A.D. 1899
• (seal)
• Jas. A. Boyd
• County Judge, Rains County, Texas

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AFFIDAVIT OF WITENSSES.

(Note-There must be at least two creditable witnesses.)

THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Rains}

Before me Jas. A. Boyd County Judge of Rains County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Presly P. Rains and I.J. Gunter who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know Octavious S. Forbis the above named applicant for a pension, and that the said Ostavious S. Forbis is unable to support enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier (or sailor) as claimed by him in the above and foregoing application, and that they further know that he, the said applicant, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort.

• (Signature of Witness) P.P. Rains
• (Signature of Witness) I.J. Gunter
• Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21 day of June A.D. 1899
• (seal)
• Jas. A. Boyd
• County Judge Rains County, Texas.

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AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN

THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Rains}

Before me Jas A. Boyd County Judge of Rains County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared Dr. W.A. Duffy, who is a reputable practicing physician of this County, who being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and thoroughly examined O.S. Forbis applicant for a pension, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities which render him unable to labor at any work or calling sufficient to earn a support for himself: He had chronic rheumatism and chronic replsitis of long standing

• (Signature of Physician) W.A. Duffey, M.D.
• Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19 day of June A.D. 1899.
• (seal)
• Jas. A. Boyd
• County Judge RainsCounty, State of Texas.

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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE

THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Rains}

I, Jas. A. Boyd County Judge of Rains County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 21 of June A.D. 1899, before me came to be heard the application of Octavious S. Forbis for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law of this State, approved May 12, A.D. 1899; that the answers of said applicant to the questions propounded were made under oath as before me as the same hereinbefore appear, and that the foregoing affidavits of Doctor W.A. Duffy who is a reputable practicing physician of this county. I also certify that the said applicant S. J. Coker is not an inmate of the Texas Confederate Home, nor otherwise disqualified under the provision of Section 12, of the Confederate Pension Law. I further certify that after considering all the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said Octavious S. ForbisI find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and I hereby approve said application.

• Witness my hand and seal of office at Emory Texas this 21 day of June A.D. 1899
• (seal)
• Jas. A. Boyd
• County Judge, Rains County, State of Texas.

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CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIOINERS

THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Rains}

We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of Rains County, Texas, do hereby certify that the foregoing application of S. J. Coker for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon Jas. A. Boyd County Judge of this Rains County, to the Commissioners of this Rains County, at a regular term thereof on the 15 day of August A.D. 1899, and after a careful consideration of the same we find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided for by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and we hereby approve said application. Witness our hands and seal of office at Emory this 15 day of August A.D. 1899.

(Signature of Commissioners)

• L.M. Vincent – W. W. Garrett – J.A. Abercrombie – W.M. Kitching