I find an Annie E. CANTWELL listed in the Oklahoma Confederate Pension Applications INDEX - reel 11, application 4520. Also see CANTRELL (one letter difference in the spelling - I always check those w/ close spellings to see if I recognize a given name) - Benjamin , G. C. and Maggie J. Nothing else listed since it is an index. Copies are available at the Oklahoma Historical Society and from The Oklahoma Department of Libraries Office of Archives and Records 200 Northeast 18th Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105-3298 -- 405-521-2502 -- 800-522-8116 -- Fax: 405-525-7804 I've had great success calling the Department of Libraries by phone to check the spouse name and area where the person of interest was living before spending $ on copies. The index is now online in Adobe PDF format at http://www.odl.state.ok.us/oar/docs/pension.pdf if anyone else wants to check for their ancestor. Good luck, Marti SBaker2842@aol.com wrote on 06:30 PM 4/2/2001: >Dear List......Does anyone know a good source for Confederate Veterans >information? I've tried posting various places and no one ever e-mails me >back with an answer.....maybe they just don't have an answer or maybe I'm >still trying the wrong spots. > > Here is my delima: My great grandfather was in Parker Co. Texas as a > boy of >15 when he became a Commanche scout about 1862......The next year he enlisted >with Simm's Battalion A, Brown's Regiment, Texas Cavalry from Parker County. >About 1920 he moved his family to Ada, OK and was appointed to the Board of >Trustee of the Old Soldier's Home in Ardmore, OK.......this must have been in >the 1930's as the OK Governor was named Marland and he did the appointment. >He was also a State Confederate Pension Commissioner. When my great >grandfather died,.....just two months shy of his 100th birthday, in 1947, it >is reported that he was the last surviving Confederate veteran of Ponotoc >County. ( Some of this information comes from a written oral history and some >from obits when he died in 1947) > >All I am trying to do is get copies or varification of this information. I'd >like to know about the Texas Cavalry unit he belonged to. I'd also like to >know about his appointments to the two Confederate posts. I must be looking >in all the wrong places..............my great grandfather was named William >Bluford CANTWELL, b. 1847, Richland Creek, Madison Co. Ark. and d. 1947 in >Ada, OK. He is buried in Ft. Smith. I could sure use some >ideas.............Thanks, Sharyn > > > > > >c >onfederate soldier in Potonoc County. I even have a very hard to read copy of >a certificate I have been trying without success to find out about this >Texas regiment > > >==== OKGEN Mailing List ==== >Search the Social Security Death Index online for FREE! >http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >The most powerful SSDI search engine on the Internet! Marti mailto:okcreek@usa.com Creek Co. Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcreek/