LONOKE CO. AR
Formed 1873 from Pulaski, Prairie
 

CEMETERY RECORDS

Lonoke Co. AR cemetery tombstone (from Margie G. Brown 10/2003)
      Bettie Duncan, born Feb. 10, 1848, died June 27, 1907; Mulberry Cem., England, ARK
 

MILITARY RECORDS

Widow's Applicaton for Pension, Conway Co. [AR], Bettie Duncan; Duncan, James Thomas, #1243 (from Margie G. Brown 10/2003)
      Jacket: Allowed $25.00. For further information see N.E. Hawkins. Conway Co. Did not come to death during the war. Filed in my office March 23d 1893. /c/ J.C. Massey, Clrk.
      Proof of Service: Conway Co. AR, appeared J.A.P. Venable of Springfield, ARK, well acquainted with the applicant and the widow of Thomas Duncan deceased, and have known him since 1861. He was a Confederate soldier, belonged to Company I 10th Regiment of Ark. Volunteers, served with that company about 8 months, was then transferred to the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry and remained with that company till captured in 1863 & was imprisoned on Johnsons Island Ohio and remained a prisoner till the end of the war. /s/ Z.A.P. Venable. 28 July 1893, before R.L. Pearle, Notary Public.
      Application for Pension: To the Honorable County Court of Conway County; the undersigned as the widow of an ex-Confederate soldier, applies for a pension under an act of the General Assembly of Arkansas "Act for Relief of Certain Soldiers of the Late War between the States" approved April 1, 1891; she is a bonafide resident of Arkansas for more than 12 months before filing the application; she is the widow of J.T. Duncan who enlisted as a soldier in the State of Arkansas in Co. I of 10th Regiment of Ark. Vols. and continued in service until the end of the war. Z.A.P. Venable was in Prison with J.T. Duncan at Johnsons Island at the closing of Lees Army. He had been in Prison about twelve months. She has remained a widow since the death of her husband, and is now indigent and incapacitated for manual labor by reason of Irritation of bladder, supposed (by Dr. C.C. Stell) to be caused by displacement of the womb. She is not receiving any aid from this State or from the US ... /s/ Bettie Duncan, 15 February 1893, before R.L. Pearle, Notary Public. Witness Z.A.P. Venable and S.K. Duncan, that the facts are true, dated 15 Feb. 1893.
      Proof of Service, Stone Co. AR, appeared David Duncan, citizen of Arkansas, who was personally acquainted with James Thomas Duncan and have known him 44 years; that he was a Confederate soldier, belonged to Company D, 1st Vol. Regiment of Kentucky, Cal. That he served from 1861 to 1864 and was honorably discharged. /s/ David Duncan, 23 June 1902. (MGB: Jasper David Duncan)
      Widow's Application for Pension, Lonoke Co. AR, Bettie Duncan, widow of James Thomas Duncan, served in First Kentucky Regiment of Cavalry from State of KY, discharged about August 1865; bonafide resident of this state, ... that my husband died on 3 May 1887 after close of war, /s/ Bettie Duncan, 28 June 1902.

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