Pension File # 2778
State of Tennessee
SOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
NAME O. H. Wade
Filed May 17, 1900
Allowed _________
FILE IS STAMPED AcceptedSOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
I, O. H. Wade a native of the State of Tennessee and now a citizen of Tennessee, resident at Bells in the County of Crockett in said State of Tennessee, and who was a soldier from the State of Tennessee in the war between the United States and the Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid under the Act of the General Assembly of Tennessee, entitled “An Act for the benefit of indigent and disabled soldiers of the late war between the States, and to fix the fees of attorneys or agents for procuring such pension, and fixing a penalty for the violation of the same.” And I do solemnly swear that, while in the discharge of my duty in the service of the Confederate or United States as a member of Company G, I was wounded in the battle or battles of or Forest raid into Memphis Tenn, and from the effects of such wound or wounds was disabled as follows: Gun shot or Minnie ball through the ankel and heel, and that by reason of such wound and disability I am now entitled to receive the benefits of this Act. I further swear that I do not hold any National, State, or County office, nor do I receive aid or pension from any other State, or from the United States, and that I am not an inmate of any soldier’s home, and that I am unable to earn a reasonable support for myself and family. I do further solemnly swear that the answers given to the following questions are true:
In what County, State and year were you born?
Answer: In Rutherford County Tenn.
When did you enlist and in what command? Give the names of the regimental and company officers under whom you were serving at date of wound or other disability.
Answer: Enlisted Jan 1861. 12 Tennessee Regiment Capt Jhon Massey. Col Green.
In what battle or battles were you wounded, and, if not in battle, state under what circumstances you received the injury or injuries?
Answer: was wounded in Forest raid into Memphis, as we were falling back out of Memphis I was shot by a sharp shooter. Co. was throwed out to proctect his rear
What was the precise nature of your wound or disability, if any?
Answer: Was shoot through the instep ankle & heel anyling? shot causing the ankel to be perfecty still. still a running sore has never healed up
What limb, if any, did you lose by reason of said wound or wounds, and, if no limb, state fully your disability, and in contracted in the service, and is said disability permanent?
Answer: lost no limb. Ankle stiff and a running sore
Were you incapacitated for service by reason of said wound or disability incurred?
Answer: Yes sir
Were you discharged from the army by reason of said wound or disability?
Answer: Yes sir
If discharged from the army, where were you and what did you do until the close of the war?
Answer: was at home, was not able to do anything
What was the name of the surgeon who attended you?
Answer: Dr. Shoul
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How did you get out of the army, when and where?
Answer: On Furlough
Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government?
Answer: No sir
If so, when and under what circumstances?
Answer: Never took it
Are you married, or have you been married?
Answer: have been married
If so, what is the size of your family living together?
Answer: Have no family with me
What are the respective ages of your wife and children living with you?
Answer: One boy forty years old on thirty
To what sex do your children belong?
Answer: both boys
Are not some of your children able to support you?
Answer: Are not
In what business are you now engaged, if any, and what do you earn?
Answer: Not engaged in any
What estate have you in your own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: Have no Estate
What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: Has non
How have you derived support for yourself and family for the past five years?
Answer: Have been living with my brother he is dead now
Do you use intoxicants to any extent?
Answer: Do not use them at all
How long have you been an actual resident of the State of Tennessee?
Answer: All my life which is Seventy Four years
Have you an attorney to look after this application?
Answer: Yes sir
If so, give his name and address.
Answer: Eugene Casey – Bells Tenn
Witness my hand, this 9 day of March 1900
(Signed) O. H. Wade
WITNESSES:
(Signed) N. I. Hess, M.D., Physician
(Signed) A. C. McLeary, Witness
(Signed) ______________, Witness
I bear cheerful witness to the fact that O. H. Wade was in the Command I was in under Forrest and that he made a good soldier & is a true, worthy man in every sense.
D. W. Harris
State of Tenn
Crockett County
Personally appeared before me D. B. Dodson Clerk of the County Court for said county D. W. Harris who makes oath in due form of law that the above statement is true to the best to the best of his knowledge & belief.
This May 17th 1900
D. B. Dodson, Clerk Co. Ct.
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett COUNTY.
Personally appeared before me, J. C. Best a Nory Public, of said County, the above named O. H. Wade, the applicant, with whom I am personally acquainted, and having the application read and fully explained to him, as well as the statements and answers therein made, made oath that the said statements and answers are true.
Witness my hand, this 10 day of March 1900
(Signed) J. C. Best, Notry Public
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County
Personally appeared before me, J. C. Best, a Notry Public of said County, the above named N. I. Hess one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, and who is a physician of good standing, and being duly sworn says that he has carefully and thoroughly examined O. H. Wade, the applicant, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities:
He was shot in foot producing a compleat anychlapes? of ancle joint and an old running sore of foot that has never healed and I think he is totaly disabled from any kind of worke for life he is not able to walke any distance
Witness my hand, at office, this 10 day of March 1900
(Signed) J. C. Best Notay Public, Clerk.
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Gibson County
Personally appeared before me, — L. Dunlap Clerk of the County Court of said County, the above named A. C. McLeary and ________________ whom I am personally acquainted, and know to me to be citizens of veracity and standing in this community, and who make oath that they are 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 their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim, and that said applicant’s habits are good and free from dishonor. And they further make oath to the following facts touching the applicant’s service in the Confederate army:
That applicant enlisted above the time he states & in the command he states & that he was a faithful soldier & brave & —- & that when Gen Forrest’s Command went into Memphis, applicant wade? — along & was shot in the ankle & heel in Memphis then & has never got well of it & has been badly crippled ever since & —- —– & they were in the army with him —- Memphis with him & have known him ever since & that he was not able to Serve in the army after he was wounded.
Witness my hand, at office, this 15 day of May 1900
(Signed) W. N. L. Dunlap, Notary Public