In Grimes County, Texas , my relatives included Perrys, Turners, and Gressetts, and others. I received papers from the Texas Archives today, and wonder if you can help me to identify these people, who asked for pensions for serving the Confederacy as soldiers or as the widow of soldiers: W. H. Perry - Grimes County - Pension approved Aug. 31, 1910, Civil War. On the last page of many, it gives his name as William Perry. Enlisted in C Company, 5th Regiment, Texas Cavalry. He had to apply several times before this was granted, because his wife had some property. Mrs. Elizabeth Perry, Approved Sep. 1915. Widow of William Perry, died June 12, 1928, near the town of Richards, Grimes County. Mrs. Mary Barrett, Daughter. W. J. Grissett, Approved February 16, 1903; died December 8, 1924. Private in Co. G, 4th Texas Infantry, Confederate States Army; enlisted July 1861, and discharged april, 1865. Daughter Lizzie Trant asked State Comptroller for information in 1942. Mrs. E. C. Turner, widow of J.W. Turner, Keith, Grimes County. Approved March 12, 1900. Comptroller's File No. 6456. The writing on the application is hard to read, but it looks as if J. W. Turner was in Company B, 3rd Regiment, Arizona Brigade Cavalry Texas. This appears to me to be James Wilson Turner and wife Esther "Esta" Gressett Turner. What do you think? They were my great grandparents. Alfred Gressett, Grimes County, Post Office, Iola, Texas. Approved Sept. 20, 1900. File # 7604. Was in Company E, Baylor Regiment Texas Cavalry. Julia Gressett, deposition for Alfred Gressett's service. She stated that she met him in Leon Co. TX in 1856, and was then in Grimes County. He stated that he came to the state in 1844. All of these applications, and each is several pages long, are available from the Texas Archives. You can go there on the internet, and they will mail them to you for a charge, plus postage, but this seems the best route to go if you want the actual copy of the document mailed to you. If you can tell me more of these folks, I sure would like to know. Lois Perry Richardson, Brenham, TX