Aren't these pension records marvelous? Thanks, Lynn. >Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:04:33 -0400 >From: "Lynn B. Cunningham" <lcunnin1@bellsouth.net> > >The daughters of James Pope Ballard applied for this pension due to >their deceased father in 1906. >APPLICATION FOR PENSIONS DUE DECEASED SOLDIER. >UNDER ACT APPROVED OCTOBER 9, 1891. > >STATE OF GEORGIA, Pike County. > >Personally before me come Misses Eva Ballard, Mary Willie Ballard, & Essie >Ballard, of said county, after being duly sworn, on oath says that they >are the daughters of J.P. Ballard who was duly enrolled as an indigent >Confederate Pensioner from the county of Pike and was paid a Pension of >Sixty Dollars from Pike County for 1905, and that the said J.P. Ballard >died in Pike County on the 28 day of Jany [sic] 1906, and at the time of >his death a Pension of $60.00 was due him from Pike County and unpaid for >1906. Applicants further swear they are the dependent daughters of said >J.P. Ballard and that their mother who was the lawful wife of J.P. Ballard >married the said on the [blank] day of [blank] 18 [blank] in Pike County, >State of Georgia and they have resided with him from their birth to his >death as his lawful children and are now his dependent children and they >ask that the Pension so due be paid to them. >Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of Feby [sic] 1906. > >J.W. Means >Ordinary >Pike County > >Eva Ballard [LS] >Mary Willie Ballard [LS] >Essie Ballard [LS] > > >AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESS >GEORGIA, Pike County > >Personally came before me [blank], who on [blank] oath says that he knew >J.P. Ballard while in life and that he knows Misses Eva Ballard, Mary >Willie Ballard and Essie Ballard the above applicants that he knows that >the said J.P. Ballard and their Mother [Miss Kittie Avery] were in due >form of law married in the County of Pike in the State of Georgia on the >18th day of October 1870, and that they resided together as husband and >wife from date of marriage to the date of her death on the [blank] day of >about 1890, and I now know that they are his dependent daughters. >J.W. Means >Ordinary >Pike County > >E.F. Dupree [LS] > >Note 1st. This form can be used by guardian of minor children where >there is no widow. > 2nd. Ordinary must send in all cases certified copy of marriage > license attached.