Several weeks ago I requested information on Willis Austin and his Oklahoma Confederate pension. Several people were kind enough to respond with help on him, but no one had any record of his living in the state of Oklahoma. I now have copies of his Oklahoma pension file. It gives little information of value. In fact, there is absolutely NO information whatsoever on his service, as the application is apparently missing (or else the clerk at the OK archives failed to copy it for me). All that was in his file was copies of numerous letters from Austin to the OK pension board. He apparently moved around a lot and was continuously writing them asking to forward his check to various locations in OK. On 22 Mar 1921, Mrs. Alice L. Austin of Sayre OK wrote to the pension board stating that her husband Willis Austin was sick in Sayre and wanting them to mail his check there instead of their usual address of El Reno. Then on 5 May 1921, she wrote to say that he had died on 18 April 1921. She was then 74 and asked to have his pension continued to her. Can anyone tell me if this is the same man who served in Company C, 17th Louisiana Infantry from Union Parish LA? I am almost certain it is, for in the Compiled Military SErvice Record at the National Archives for Willis Austin of Co C, 17th La. Inf. Regiment, there is a notation that he later received a pension from OK. Apparently the pension board there wrote to the War Department and got his military file. Someone wrote to me that Willis Austin died in TX, but this pension indicates he died in OK. Can anyone clear all this up for me? Thanks, Tim Hudson