THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS FROM A GENERAL AFFIDAVIT MADE BY AMOS DUBOSE OF NEWTON COUNTY, TEXAS IN THE MATTER OF WINFORD SPENCE APPLICATION FOR PENSION. GENERAL AFFIDAVIT STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF NEWTON IN THE MATTER OF WINFORD SPENCE APPLICATION FOR PENSION. ON THIS 9TH DAY OF MARCH A.D.. 1894 PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE ME, (NAME NOT LEGIBLE), IN AND FOR THE AFORESAID COUNTY, DULY AUTHORIZED TO ADMINISTER OATHS, AMOS DUBOSE , AGE 69 YEARS WHOS POST OFFICE ADDRESS IS NEWTON, TX. , WHO BEING DULY SWORN, DECLARED IN RELATION TO SAID CASE AS FOLLOWS: I WAS MUSTERED IN SERVICE OF THE INDIAN WARS IN FLORIDA WITH WINFORD SPENCE, NOW DECEASED, ABOUT MARCH 1841, DISCHARGED SOMETIME IN APRIL 1841, IN CAPT WILLIAM REDEN COMPANY. THE 1ST LEFTENANT WAS WHEELER, I DO NOT RECALL HIS CHRISTIAN NAME. 2ND LEFTENANT MARTIN CHASTAIN, PRIVATE WILIAM BAGGETT, JOHN YEARLY, MORGAN J. TANNER, SEBORN ANDERSON, JOHN ANDERSON, ISAAC R. SPENCE. I WAS NOT PROMOTED BY ANY PRIVATE OR WRITTEN STATEMENT OR RECITAL PREPARED OR DICTATED BY ANY OTHER PERSON. I FURTHER DECLARE THAT I HAVE NO INTEREST IN SAID CASE AND AM NOT CONCERNED IN ITS PROSECUTION. AMOS DUBOSE (SIGNATURE OF AFFIANT) COMMENT: THE STATEMENT MUST HAVE BEEN REQUESTED BY WINFORD SPENCE'S WIDOW TO OBTAIN THE PENSION AS THE STATEMENT SAYS THAT WINFORD SPENCE IS DECEASED. THERE IS NO MENTION OF WHO ASKED FOR THIS AFFIDAVIT OR WHERE THEY LIVED. JIM SPENCE