Confederate Application for Pension
Samuel P. Sykes from Orange Co., NC
from the Archives in Raleigh, NC
State of North Carolina,}
County of Orange
}
On this 14 day of June
A.D. 1905, personally appeared before me,
WH Hamilton , C. S. C., in and for the State
and County aforesaid,
Samuel P. Sykes , age
58 ,years, and a
resident at
Hillsboro post-office
in said County and State, and who being duly sworn,
makes the following declaration in order to obtain the pension under the provision of an
act entitled "An Act to
amend Chapter 332 of the Laws of 1901, for the relief of certain Confederate
Soldiers, Sailors and Widows,"
ratified March 2, 1903: That he is the identical Saml
P. Sykes
who enlisted in Co. "G" , 44th
Reg. N. C. State Troops, on or about the 1st day of
June., 186 4 , to
serve in the armies of the late Confederate States, and that while
in said service at ____________________________________,in the State of
______________________ , on or about the ______ day of ________,186__
he received a wound or wounds, etc.
(Applicant will here state the nature and extent of his wounds and disability, so
that a proper classification can be made under the new Pension Law
passed by the General Assembly of 1903. Read said section of said law carefully, and to
accomplish the classification therein called for, let statement here
as to nature and extent of wounds, disability, etc., be very full and explicit.)
He further states that he is , and has been for twelve months
immediately preceding this Application for Pen-
sion, a bona fide resident of North Carolina; that he holds no office under the
United States, or under any State
or County, for which he is receiving the sum of three hundred dollars as fees
or as salary annually; That he is
not worth in his own right, or the right of his wife, property at its assessed value for
taxation to the amount of
five hundred dollars ($500), nor has he disposed of property of such value by gift or
voluntary conveyance since
the 11th of March, 1885, and that he is not receiving any aid from the State of North
Carolina or under any
other statute providing for the relief of the maimed and blind soldiers of the State.
Sworn and subscribed before me, this 14th }
his
day of June , 1905 }
Samuel P. x Sykes
W.H. Hamilton }
mark
Signature of C.S.C.}
Signature of
Applicant
Also personally appeared before me D. M. Cates
, who
resides at Guth? post-office,
in said County and State, a person whom
I know to be respectable and entitled to credit, and being by me duly sworn, say he
is acquainted with
Saml
P. Cates [sic] , the
applicant for pension, and has every reason
to believe that he is the identical person he represents himself to be, and that the facts
set forth in this affidavit
are correct to the best of his knowledge and belief, and that he has no interest,
direct or indirect, in this claim.
Sworn and subscribed before me, this 14th }
day of June , 1905
}
Dennis M. Cate
W.H. Hamilton
}
Signature of Witness..
Signature of C.S.C.
}
Also personally appeared before me
C. D. Jones
a physician in good standing in said County and State, and being duly sworn, says that he
has carefully and thoroughly examined
Saml P. Sykes
, the applicant for
pension, and
finds such disability for manual labor as is 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.
(Let physician here give full and explicit professional information as to the
nature and extent of wounds, disability, stating particularly whether
disability amounts to three-fourths or not, in order to accomplish the classification
called for under the new Pension law passed by the General Assembly
of 1903).
I find Mr. Sykes was not wounded but is blind in one eye and the other one is very weak on this account his disability is perhaps 3/4
Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 14th}
day of June
, 1905
}
C. D. Jones
W. H. Hamilton
}
Signature of Physician
Signature of C.S.C.
}
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, }
Orange
County. }
To the Auditor of the State of North Carolina:
We certify that we have carefully examined the application of
Samuel P. Sykes
________________________________ for a pension under the provisions of an act
entitled "An Act to amend Chapter 332 of the Laws of 1901, for the relief of
certain Confederate Soldiers,
Sailors and Widows," ratified March 2, 1903, and the proofs filed in
support thereof; that we are satisfied the said
Saml P. Sykes
is the identical
person who enlisted in Company "G"
,
44th Regiment of N. C. Troops, on or about the 1st
day of June
1864 , and who was disabled in manner and to the extent stated in the
foregoing certificates of himself and
physician in consequence of a wound received in battle on or about the ____________ day of
__________
186__ , and we certify the following allegations set forth in his application to be true,
namely: That he is , and
has been for twelve months immediately preceding this Application for Pension, a bona
fide resident of North
Carolina; that he holds no office under the United States, or under any State or County,
from which he is receiv-
ing the sum of three hundred dollars as fees or as salary annually; that he is not worth
in his own right, or
the right of his wife, property at its assessed value for taxation to the amount of five
hundred dollars ($500), nor
has he disposed of property of such value by gift or voluntary conveyance since the 11th
of March, 1885, and
that he is not receiving aid from any other source for the State of North Carolina, and
therefore his applica-
tion is correct and just under the act.
{Seal } _W.H. Hamilton__________
Clerk of Superior Court
{IMPRESS COUNTY SEAL HERE}
Approved: J P Lockhart
D. C. Parks
A. S?. Holden
County Pension Board
Flap on Front of Folder
SOLDIER'S
APPLICATION FOR PENSION
Act of March 2, 1903
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Saml C. Sykes
who enlisted in Company G - 44th
Regiment North Carolina State Troops.
June 1, 1864
gen deb -
58
A??'d
4th
ORANGE
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Filed by Board of Pensions of
County, N.C., day of
,
190
July 22, 2000