J. M. MCGAUGH

Submitted by Theodore Urbanski

SOURCE: TX Confederate Pension Application: #31820

Private J. M. McGaugh Company A Marshall Rangers

4 th Tennessee Cavalry C. S. A. [Smith’s]

31820

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DEAD FORM A DEAD

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Soldier’s Application

For a Pension

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The commissioner of Pensions reserves the right to call for additional testimony if he deems it necessary.

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Mc Gaugh

Name of Applicant

J. M. Mc Gaugh

Cooke -------------County

Post Office Whitesboro, R 2

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Filed August 3, 1915

Approved August 15, 1915

Pensioned allowed from December 1, 1915

Rejected ____________________________

J. C. Jones

Commissioner of Pensions

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E. L. Steck, Printing , Bookbinding Austin

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FORM A

FOR USE OF SOLDIERS WHO ARE IN INDIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES

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THE STATE OF TEXAS

County of Cooke

I , John M. McGaugh lo hereby make application to the Commissioners of Pensions for a pension to be granted me under the Act of passed by the 63 rd Legislature of the Stare of Texas, and approved April 7, 1913, on the following grounds:

I enlisted and served in the military service of the Confederate States during the war between the States of the United States, and that I did not desert the Confederate services, but during said war I was loyal and true to my duty, and never at any time voluntarily abandoned my post of duty in said service; or [ that I was in the service of the State of Texas during the war, to protect said State, against Indians and Mexicans for more than 6 months]. That I was honorably [discharged] or surrendered at Charlotte North Carolina in May 1865.

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[Give date and cause]

That I have been a bona fide citizen of this State since prior to January 1, A. D. 1900, and have been continuously since a citizen of the State of Texas. I do further state that I do not hold any National, State, city or county office which pays me a salary or fee $300.00 per annum, nor have I an income from other employment or other source whatever which amounts to $300.00 per annum, nor do I receive from any source whatever money or other means of support amounting in value to the sum of $300.00 per annum, nor do I own in my own right, nor does anyone hold in trust for my benefit or use, nor does my wife own, nor does anyone hold in trust for my wife, estate or property, either real, personal, or mixed, either in fee or for life, of the assessed value of over one thousand dollars, exclusive of a home of the value of not more than $1000.00; nor do I receive any aid or pension from any other State, or from the United States, or from any other source, and that I am not an inmate of the Confederate Home, and I do further state that the answers given to the following questions are true:

1. What is your age?---------69

2. Where were you born?----Marshall County, Tennessee

3. How long have you resided in Texas?-----39 years

4. In what county do you reside?-----Cooke

5. How long have you resided in said county, and what is your post office address? -----

39 years Whitesboro Route 2

6. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate pension law and been rejected? If rejected, state when and where. -------Never applied before

7. What is your occupation, if able to engage in one? Farming. What is your physical condition? Bad

8. In what State was the command in which you served organized? -----Tennessee

9. How long did you serve? Give if possible, the date of enlistment and discharge.---- 22 months. Enlisted in September 1863 and served until surrendered in 1865.

10. What was the letter of your company, number of battalion, regiment or battery?----Company A 4 th Tennessee

11. If transferred from one command to another, give time of transfer, name of command and time of service---- Never was transferred

12. What branch of the service did you enlist in---infantry, cavalry artillery or navy? -----Cavalry

13. If commissioned direct by the President, what was your rank and line of duty-----

Private

14. If detailed for special services, under the law of conscription, what was the nature of your service and how long did you serve it? ------Never was detailed from regular service.

15. What is the assed value of your home, if you own a home? ------$500.00

16. What is the assed value of your other property?----$300.00

17. Have you transferred to others any property of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? No have not .

Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for a pension be approved and such proceeding be had in premises as required by law.

(Signature of applicant) J. M. McGaugh

Sworn to and subscribed before me this ….19 th….day of…..February….A. D. 1915

Seal R. N. Bell

County Judge…….Cooke……County, Texas

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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES

[Note.] ----There must be at least two credible witnesses

STATE OF TEXAS

County of ……………………..

Before me……………………….., County Judge of ………………………..County,

State of Texas, on this day personally appeared……………………..who are personally

Known to me to credible citizens, who being by me duly sworn, on oath state that they personally know…………………the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the………………..has been a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas since prior to January 1, A. D. 1900, and that they have no interest in his claim.

(Signature of Witness) Ed Liedske

(Signature of Witness) C. R. Pearman

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this ….. 27 th…..day ……of July…… A. D. 1915

[seal] R. M. Bell

County Judge…….Cooke……County, Texas

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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES

(If possible, the two witnesses should have serves with the applicant in the army, and, if so, let them or either, state it in their oath, their source of knowledge; information regarding applicant’s army service.)

The STATE OF [TEXAS] OKLOHOMA [THE WORD TEXAS CROSSED OUT]

County of Tillman

Before me, W. C. Lukenbill ……..County Judge of Tillman County, State of Oklahoma on this day personally appeared J. M. Welbern who has personally known to me to be a credible citizen, who being by me sworn, on oath state that he is personally acquainted with the foregoing applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in this application are correct and true, to the best of my knowledge and belief, an that he has no interest in his claim, and said applicant’s habit’s are good and free from dishonor. And Said Mr. Welborn further makes oath to the following fact touching the applicant’s service in the Confederate Army: ( State fully your source of knowledge)

Have gives facts which I personally knows. I know that J. M. McGaugh the applicant join my company, the 4 th Tennessee Cavalry, sometime in 1863 and remained with me in the same company until we surrendered near Charlotte, North Carolina in 1865. I know these facts by being personally with the applicant.

( Signature of Witness) X [his mark] J. M. Welborn

( Signature of Witness) J. S. Yarbrough

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 13 th day of March A. D. 1915

[Seal] W. C. Lukenbill

County Judge Tillman County, Oklahoma

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CERTICATE OF STATE AND COUNTY ASSESSOR

I, C. Wesley, State and County Assessor in the County of Cooke, State of Texas, do certify that J. M. McGaugh , or his wife, or his trustee; or trustee for his wife, whose name is signed to the foregoing application for a pension under the Act of the Thirty-third Legislature, approved April 7, 1913, is charged on the tax rolls of said county and with a homestead of the value of Five Hundred Dollars, and of other property, real or personal, or both of the value of Seven Hundred and Seventy Dollars.

Given my hand, this 27 day of July A. D. 1915.

Claire Wesley

State and County Assessor

J. M. Welborn Fredrick, Oklahoma

E. M. Welborn, Lewisburg, Tennessee

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County Court Clerk

E. M. Miller, Clerk Marshall County

Lewisburg, Tenn. …………….191.……

State of Tennessee

Marshall County

This day personally came before E. M. miller clerk of county courts of said county

J. S. Yarbrough whose genuine signature is subscribed as a soldier the above application of J. M. McGaugh and after first being duly sworn say that he updated the affidavit of

J. M. Wellborn as his on statement, that he knows that J. M. McGaugh joined his company the 4 th Tennessee Cavalry sometime in 1863 and remained with me in same company until we surrendered near Charlotte, North Carolina in 1865--that he knows these facts by being personally with the applicant.

J . S. Yarbrough

Sworn before me June29, 1915

E. Miller clerk

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Office of Commissioner of Pensions

State Seal State of Texas

J. C. Jones Commissioner Austin

To the Adjutant General

War Department,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I have the honor to request the military record of J. M. McGaugh who is reported to have enlisted in Company A , Regiment 4th Tennessee Cavalry in the service in the Confederate Army.

Purpose:….. The……………………person above named is an applicant for a Confederate pension granted by the State, and I desire to verify his proof of service.

Very respectfully,

J. C. Jones TX

Commissioner of Pensions

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War Department

The Adjutant General’s Office

Washington, August 10, 1915

Respectfully returned to the

Commissioner of Pensions

State of Texas, Austin

Neither the name J. M. McGaugh nor the name J. M. McGayh has been found on the rolls, on file in this office, of Company A of any Tennessee cavalry organization numerically designated the 4 th, nor has any record been found of a man bearing either of these names as having been enlisted, captured or paroled in any such organization.

However, the name the name of one J. M. McGayh appears, as that of a private of Company A, on a carded list ( not dated), showing the value of horse Smith’s 8 th (also known as the 4 th) Regiment Tennessee Cavalry C. S. A., the following remark appearing opposite his name “Bay horse value $700.00. An endorsement on said bears the date April 14,1864. Nothing additional relative to the enquiry has been found.

H. P. McClain

The Adjutant General

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31820

Valley View, Texas

6-4-1925

Comptroller Office Austin, Texas

Dear Sir.:

Having been on Confederate Pension roll of this State and my income no longer entitle to same. I stopped same now as conditions have changed again I feel that I am entitled to a pension, my application no. is 31825 P. O. address at that time was Rt. 2 Whitesboro, Texas, the 31 is correct but the 825 makes a little off or incorrect I am destitute having lost all. Should there be anything more that you want to know write me and I will furnish it if I can. J. M. McGaugh

Rt. 1 Box 48

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Letter

June 11, 1925

Mr. J. M. McGarr,

Rt. 1, Box 78,

Valley View, Texas

My Dear Sir:

Replying to your favor of June 4 th, from the statement contained in this letter you are being re-instated on Confederate pension rolls and I am enclosing affidavit to be executed covering issuance of first quarter payments, which will be mailed about August 31 st.

Very truly yours.

Comptroller

KR/fs

Encl.

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APPLICATION FOR MORTUARY WARRANT

The State of Texas,

County of ….Cooke………………………….I. Mrs. Ella Humble

Do hereby certify that I am the person to whom is entrusted the paying of the accounts and indebtedness of the late J. M. McGaugh who was a pensioner of the State and whose file number was 31820 and whose original county was Cooke , Texas

The said pensioner J. M. McGaugh died on 28 thDay of July ….1935 in the town of Gainesville County of Cooke Texas.

The said pensioner died in the home of Mrs. Ella Humble

Who was related to the pensioner was Daughter.

That the warrant, which application is hereby made for, shall be applied to paying all or part of the funeral expenses incurred by said pensioner J. M. McGaugh……………

I further certify that the warrant for the current month has not been cashed by the pensioner, to the best of my knowledge and belief.

I am related to the pension as ……Daughter………………………………...

That my post office address is Gainesville, Texas 830 Pecan Street, Gainesville Texas

Signed Mrs. Ella Humble

Sworn to me this 30 thday of July 1935

Notary Public in and for Cooke County State of Texas

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Certificate of Undertaker

I. George J. Camall, do certify that I am undertaker in the town of Gainesville, County of Cooke, State of Texas. On the 28 th day of July 1935 said body was prepared for burial by me on the 28 th day of July 1935, and that I am of the opinion that warrant herein applied for should be issued to said Mrs. Ella Humble, who makes the foregoing application.

Signed George J. Camall

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Certificate of Physician

I, Dr. I. L. Thomas , do certify that I am a practicing physician, and that I attended

J. M. McGaugh in his last illness, and am of the opinion that his aliments were senility.

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I further certify that I am of the opinion that the Mortuary Warrant above requested should be issued in the name of the aforementioned applicant, in accordance with Act passed by the Thirty-eighth Legislature and approved March 2, 1923.

80032 July 1935 Signed I. L. Thomas

Cancelled Physician Address Gainesville, Texas

July 29, 1935

$25-31820

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Transcribed from the Holdings of the Teas State Archives

Austin, Texas. Approved on August 15, 1915

Complied Confederate Service Records Microfilm roll # 36-38 National Archives Washington, D. C.

Transcribed by Theodore Urbanski

If Any questions please e-mail me at tedsuedoghouse@sbcglobal.net

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