Confederate Application for Pension
John William Sykes
from Orange Co., NC
from the Archives in Raleigh, NC
State of North Carolina,}
County of Orange }
On this 5
day of
July A.D. 19 18 ,
personally appeared before me,
Chas.
Strayhorn
, C. S. C., in and for the State and County aforesaid,
John William Sykes
, age
71 ,years, and a resident at
Efland
postoffice in said County and State, and who being duly sworn,
makes the following declaration in order to obtain the pension under the provisions of an
act entitled "An Act
for the relief of certain Confederate Soldiers, Sailors and Widows," ratified March
8, 1907; That he is the identical
John Wm Sykes
who enlisted in Co.
I ,
2 Reg. Junior Reserves
N. C. State Troops, on or about the
day of ,
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 1907. 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 1st }
day of July , 19 18 }
John W Sykes
Chas. Strayhorn }
Signature of Applicant
Signature of C.S.C.}
Also personally appeared before me
T. D.
Tinnin
, who
resides at
Hillsboro
postoffice,
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
John Wm Sykes
, 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 1 st }
day of July , 19
18
}
Thos. D. Tinnin
Chas. Strayhorn
}
Signature of Witness..
Signature of C.S.C.
}
Also personally appeared before me
a physician in good standing in said County and State, and being duly sworn, says that he
has carefully and thor-
oughly examined
, 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-fourth or not, in order to
accomplish the classification called for under the new Pension law passed by the General
Assembly
of 1907).
Sworn and subscribed to before me, this
}
day of
, 19
}
}
Signature of Physician
Signature of C.S.C.
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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
John William Sykes
for a pension under the provisions of an act
entitled
"An Act for the relief of certain Confederate Soldiers, Sailors and Widows,"
ratified March 8,1907, and the
proofs filed in support thereof; that we are satisfied the said
John William Sykes
is the identical person who enlisted in
Company I ,
2 Regiment of Junior Reserves
, Troops, on or about the
day of
186 4 , 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 imme-
diately 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
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 aid from any other source for the State of
North
Carolina, and therefore his application is correct and just under the act.
{Seal} Chas Strayhorn
Clerk of Superior Court
(IMPRESS COUNTY SEAL HERE)
Approved:
Jno
w. Graham
Wm
M.Jones
W. C. Cole
County Pension Board
Flap on Front of Folder
ORANGE,
SOLDIER'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
Act of March 8, 1907
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John William Sykes
who enlisted in Company I - 2 Regiment
North Carolina State Troops. Junior Reserves
Approved
(Big Check)
ORANGE
,
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Filed by Board of Pensions of
County, N.C.,
day of
, 19
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