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Confederate Pension Application

Widow's Application of Pension
Mrs. Maria Jane Caraway
Question	Application number 47269
Date Filed:	*July 30, 1930*
Date Approved	*August 9, 1930*
Date of Mrs. Caraway's Death	*June 30, 1945*
What is your age and date of birth?
How Long have you resided in the State of Texas	*1865*
How hong have you resided in the county of your present residence? and what is you postoffice address?	*56 years Nixon, Texas Rout No. 2*
What is your Husband's full name?	*Martin Van Buren Caraway*
When and whrere were you married?	*September 9, 1875 in Gonzales ,TX*
What was the date of his death?	*March 27, 1912*
In what State was your husbnd's command originally organized?	*Texas*
How Long did your husband serve? If known to you, give date of enlistment and discharge	*3 years*
What was the name or letter ot the company, or name of the battalion, reginment or battery if artillery in which your husband served? If he was transfered from one branch of service to another, give time of transfer,description of command and time of service	*Co. C. of Willis' Battalion of Cavalry of Wauls, Texas Legion*
Name branch of service in which your husband served, whether infantry, cavalary, atillery or the navy or if commissionsed as an officer by the President, his rank and line of duty, or if detailed for special service, under the law of conscription,the nature of such rank, and time of service.	*Cavalry*
Signed	*By her own Mark "X", Maria Jane Caraway*
Date of Signature	*July 30, 1930*

WITNESSES

P.C. Worthy and Q. M. Griffin swore that they knew Sarah Ann Groce was a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas before D.U Ramsey, County Judge of Gonzales County on July 29, 1930.

AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES

F. F. Wood swears that "I was personally acquainted with Martin Van Buren Caraway during his lifetime and was acquainted with him during the years of the war between the state. I was a member of Co.F. of Willis' Battalion of Cavalry of Waul's Texas Legion and personally acquainted with nearly all the members of said Battalion. I know that Martin Van Buren of Cavalry of Wauls Texas legion. I knew and associated with him for months from the time of his enlistment in 1862 to the close of the war in 1865. His service was at all time honorable" signed by his own hand F.F. Wood on July 22, 1930 .

Holmes

APPLICATION FOR MORTUARY WARRANT
Letter to Comptroller of Public Accounts

(typed)
Nixen , TX August 14, 1945

Comptroller of Public Accounts,
Austin, TX

Dear Sir:

Please send us the forms for collection of the Burial Allowance for one Confederate Pernsioner, Mrs. Mary Jane Caraway, who died June 30, 1945 (Note: a line was drawn on the date, to a stamp "Received Aug 21 1945"

Thanking you, we are

          Yours very truly
         Homes Funeral Home
         Signed by R.S.

In Handwritting this note was below the letter

47269
Gonzales
Notice of death not received until August 18, 1945
Too late to issue
Mortuary warrant $50
Jun 30, 1945 warrant # 43926 returned by P. M. (unclaimed" and is was cancelled 8-21-1945
Also July 31, 1945 warrant # 45618 for $50 was cancelled

Letter from Comptroller

Letter from Comptroller

August 21, 1945

Mr. R. S. Holmes
Holmes Funeral Home
Nixon, TX

Dear Mr. Holmes,

I acknowledge receipt of your Letter of August 18, 1945 notifying this office of the death of Mrs. Mary Jane Caraway, which occurred on June 30, 1945.

This is the first notice this office has had of the death of Mrs. Caraway. The law specifies that proof of death of a pensioner shall be made to the Comptroller within 40 days from the date of such death, by affidavit of the doctor who attended the pensioner during the last illness, or by the undertaker who conducted the funeral. Since it has been much longer than forty days after the death of Mrs. Caraway no Mortuary Warrant or burial fund can now be issued. For this reason it would be no use to furnish you blank forms for the collection of the burial allowance. However, I am enclosing you a blank but if same is filed, it can not be approved. I am also enclosing you a copy of the Mortuary Warrant Law.

I am very sorry the application was not filed within the required time specified by the Mortuary Warrant Law.

Yours very truly,

Geo. H. Sheppard
Comptroller of Public Accounts

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Letters to and from the Adjutant General

Comptroller of Public Accounts
State of Texas
Austin

July 30, 1930
To the Adjutant General
War Department
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir;

I have the honor to request the Military record of Martin Van Buren Caraway, who is reported to have enlisted in Company C Regiment Texas Cavalry, Willis Battalion Wauls' Texas Legion in service in The Confederate States Army.

Very Respectfully

Geo H. Sheppard
Comptroller of State of Texas
(typed) Mrs. Maria Jane Caraway

********************************************** War Department
The Adjutant General's Office
Washington August 6, 1930

Respectfully returned to :

The Comptroller,
State of Texas
Austin, Texas

The records show that Martin V. Caraway, not borne as Martin Van Buren Caraway, private, Company I, 1st (McCulloch's) Texas Cavalry, Confederate States Army, enlisted April 15, 1862 at Gonzales and was mustered into service April 20, 1861, at San Antonio, Texas. Age 20 years, Most of the men in the 1st (McCulloch) Texas Calvary had subsequent service in Wauls Texas legion. The company muster rolls for Company C, Willis Battalion, Waul's Texas Legion for September and October 1864, last on file, shows him present. No Later record of him has been found.

No record has been found of his capture of parole as of that organization.

C, H, Bridges
Major General,
The Adjutant General by RD

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