Posted on: Johnston Co. NC Pensions Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NC/JohnstonPens/3 Surname: Childers, Sellers, Ward, Wilkerson, Eason, Milliner, Millinder ------------------------- Joshua or Milton Joshua Childers I HAVE OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIM ON THE QUERIES BOARDS. =================== Milton Joshua Childers - pension application ==================== Milton Joshua's applied 2 times for a pension and was accepted the second time. He had March 12, 1861 and April 1862 down for the dates he mustered. ==================== NC started accepting applications from veterans for other injury and diseases with the Act of March 2nd. 1901. M.J. was disapproved for the application dated 7/1/1901. ================== Milton Joshua Childers reapplied at age 63 with the ratified Act of March 2, 1903 and was approved. Here are some statements from BOTH applications: *(if different-information on Application #2) State of North Carolina County of Johnston Co Milton J. (M.J.) Childers who enlisted in Co. I of 2nd. Arkansas on or about the date of April 18, 1861 (April 12, 1861), to serve in the armies of the late Confederate States, and that while in said service at Chickamauga Tenn. received a wound. Applicant was shot through the right thigh at the battle of Chickamauga, Tenn. and also suffers from rheumatism and frequently suffers from kidney colic. These diseases were brought on by exposure and hardship in the army and the applicant can not do much manual labor. --- Also personally appeared before me Thel Hooks a physician in good standing in said county.....thoroughly examined M.J. Childers, the applicant for pension, and finds such disability for manual labor as described below, by reason of wounds received while in the discharge of his duty as a soldier or sailor of North Carolina in the service of the late Confederate States. --- Applicant had a ? ? of the right thigh which healed - caused by minie ball. This disability amounts to 1/2. (Mr. Childers was wounded in the right thigh and has rheumatism from exposure during his 4 years service in Civil War. This disability amounts to 3/4.) approved on 7/5/1905 ======================= Other Doctor statements and application for the "Home for Disabled Ex-Confederate Soldiers" at Raleigh, NC. application accepted 9/1917. Friends that signed they knew him as a Confederate solider: W. B. Cole J.T. Barham? (maybe Banham or Basham) William S. Eldridge John Stephenson I.W. Hocutt ------- 7/3/1917 This is to certify that I am Mr. James* Childers physician. That he has just had pneumonia and measles and it has left him in a helpless physical and mental condition. ......has to be looked after by others. He is not even able to get about. Dr. Thel Hooks -------- M.J. Childers respectfully shows that he is on the pension roll of Johnston County. He was a soldier in the confederate army in Co. I 2 ARK. for 4 years and was in the battle of Bentonville Johnston Co.(NC) and he has been a citizen of Johnston Co. since 1865 having married and raised a family near Smithfield, NC. The applicant is now 75 years old. That on or about the date of April 1, 1917 the applicant was stricken with pneumonia which followed by measles and since through his whole body has become paralyzed so that he is totally disabled to do anything. He can only get up as he is helpless and he respectfully asks that he be advanced to the totally disabled list. ------ We have carefully examined the application of M.J. Childers and find him a worthy solider and totally disabled and we commend his advancement to the wholly disabled list. W.M. Murphy W.S. Stevens ========================= 7/5/1920 This is to certify that I have examined James* Childers and find him partially blind and physically unable to make a living for himself. He has also had a slight stroke of paralysis. Dr. Thel Hooks ----- M.J. Childers being duly sworn says that he is now in the 76th. year of his age. That he is on the pension rolls of Johnston Co and has been for several years and that he is in the 4th. class. That a year or two ago he had a long spell of pneumonia which lasted 3-4 months and that before the got over the pneumonia he had a bad case of the measles and after recovering from these he has been mostly blind and unable to do but very little work and about 2 weeks ago he had a slight stroke of paralysis which leaves him in a helpless condition and he respectfully asks to be advanced to the totally disabled list by reason of said paralysis and sickness. He, here with, files the certificate of Dr. Thel Hooks his attending Physician. We are satisfied that the applicant should be advanced and recommend the same. W.S. Stevens-County Pension Board *Milton Joshua Childers- (AKA -- M.J., James and Jim -he did not like Joshua) ====================== When I searched "Ancestry.com" I came up with 3 choices for him. box 000376 extraction 0005 --record 00000687 Joshua Childers note: J.M. chiders 2 AR. Inf. Co.I --record 00000679 J.M. Childers 1 AR.Vol. --record 00000680 J.M. Childers 2 AR. Inf. Co. I Here are Joshua's cards for his military service records from the State of Arkansas =================== J.M. Childers Private / Private -- 9 cards 1. 28 Feb 1863 - 30 Apr 1863 -- enlisted at Warren by Captain McKenney 8 Jan for the war present 2. 30 Apr 1863 - 30 Jun 1863 - absent ; sent to hospital 25 May 1863 3. 30 Jun 1863 - 31 Aug 1863 -- last paid by Captain Sullivan 30 Jul ;Present 4. 31 Aug 1863 - 31 Oct 1863 -- absent / wounded at the battle of Chickamauga 20 Sep 1863 5. 31 Oct 1863 -- 31 Dec 1863 --absent / wounded at the battle of Chickamauga 19 Sep 1863 6. 31 Dec 1863 -- 29 Feb 1864 -- last paid at Hospital 31 Oct / absent /wounded at battle of Chickamauga 7. 20 Feb 1864 -- 30 Apr 1864 -- absent 8. 30 Jun 1864 -- 31 Aug 1864 -- last paid by Captain Sullivan 28 Feb /present 9. paroled at Greensboro, NC 1865 Miscellaneous cards in J.M. Childers file (pay slips; hospital record,etc...) 10. Register of payments on descriptive lists 1 Jul 1863 - 31 Oct 1863 --paid 11 Nov 1863 by Jno. Decker $44 11. Joshua Childers appears on a register of St. Mary's Hospital Dalton,GA ; complaint: Rubeola; admitted 21 May 1863; sent to : Oliver Hospital 20 Jun 1863 12. The Confederate States -- Form 18; Private J.M. Childers, Co. I, 2nd AR Volunteers. For commutation of Rations while on sick Furlough Oct 6 to Dec 4 Indusine?? 60 days ?? 13. Paid 11 Nov 1863 J.M. Childers, Pvt. Co. I, 2nd AR Vol from 1 Jul - 31 Oct 1863 $44 14. To J.M. Childers Private receipt of same/ signs by mark That's it, that's the entire service file, just as written (or as close as I could come to it) Actually this is a big file compared to most. THANK YOU ANNE WISE FOR GETTING HIS MILITARY RECORDS ============================ MILTON JOSHUA CHILDERS was born December 26, 1843 in MS -not proven, and died January 9, 1924 in Smithfield, NC (Johnston Co). He married JANE ANNE SELLERS April 28, 1865 in NC (Johnston Co), daughter of ALSEY SELLERS and CYNTHIA MILLINER. She was born March 1847 in Selma, NC (Johnston Co), and died 1934 in Smithfield, NC (Johnston Co). ====================== The proven facts that I have about Milton Joshua Childers 1.Milton Joshua (Joshua Milton) mustered out of Warren, Bradley Co. Ark. between 1861-1863. 2. April 1865 at the end of the Civil War Milton Joshua married Jane Anne Sellers, Smithfield, NC. 3. Milton Joshua Childers death certificate states that his father is Andrew Childers. It also states that his mother is Jane Childers. This is the only placed I have names recorded as his parents. 4. Sometime after the war he took his family to meet his relatives in Arkansas. ========================= Sincerely, GG Granddaughter Charlene Nix Deltona, Florida pbsam@n-jcenter.com me3270@yahoo.com