NC, LENOIR, Military, Civil War Pensioners ========================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by Mary Simmons February 2001. ========================================================== The Daily Free Press Kinston, N.C., Tuesday, December 15, 1903 PENSIONS OF OLD VETS Warrants Have Arrived and Are Being Distributed by Clerk Collins OVER $2,700 COMES TO THIS COUNTY One Hundred and Fifty Old Confederates and Widows Will Receive a Christmas Present from the State. The pension warrants for the old Confederate soldiers and widows of soldiers entitiled to pensions, have been received by Clerk of the Court Plato Collins and he is busy distributing them to the pensioners. There are about 150 in all, aggregating over $2,700 to be paid out in this county to battle scarred veterans of the "Lost Cause" and it will prove a happy Christmas blessing to many. The pensioners are divided into four classes: 1st class, $60; 2nd class, 45; 3rd class, $35, and 4th class, $14. All the widows' pensions are fourth class. The following is a list of the pensioners and they are urged to come and get their money: SOLDIERS Simon Dawson Lewis Grady L. F. Malpass Lewis M. Wiley Ben Dawson Morris Foy John D. Rice Jesse Sutton Wm. I. Taylor Isaac E. Taylor John A. Williams B. F. Aldridge James B. Carter James Allen Hines Thomas Jackson Richard Phillips Oliver H. Pearce George W. Rhodes Daniel Stroud Ira Smith D. L. Stone Jesse Stanley Stephen Board Isaac Braxton L. L. Barfield John Brown Alexander J. Barfield Asa H. Battle D. R. Bostick Jacob Cox R. P. Claytor W. D. Chambers W. B. Casey J. W. Dawson W. M. Dail James W. Daughety James Davis Wm. W. Denny Lewis H. Evans John Eubanks James Elmore John R. Gray Henry Goodman Thomas Herring William Hamilton J. B. Hill Samuel Hughes Major A. Jackson William Jenkins Joe Jenkins J. R. Jenkins James Jones Benjamin Jones J. M. Joyner J. E. Koonce John William Koonce Luther S. Kennedy John William Langston Rigdon W. Moore Logan Metts Nathan D. McDuffy J. W. Malpass W. J. Mitchell Jordan Potter J. P. Parrott Z. Pate Thomas Perdue Lacy Phillips Joseph J. Register John W. Roberson D. G. Sellars J. H. Sheppard Richard Slaughter Stephens Simmons Lemuel Skinner John W. Simmons Nathan Skinner Major F. Sanderson James A. Spence W. J. Taylor James Thigpen George Turner A. G. Tyndall Louis Tayloe Walter J. Tuton Bradock Ivey Taylor S. M. Thigpen James B. Vance Jerry Waters James M. Ward Felix Whaley David M. Whaley Clark M. Wade James Williams Marshal G. Waller William Waters WIDOWS Patsy Brown M. Brown Eliza Barnett Jane Downward Jane Dawson Matilda Dail Sarah J. Daughety M. Faulkner Eliza Foyles A. E. Green Susan J. Gray Sallie Grant Hannah Howard Elizabeth Hughes Mollie Huggins Jane Heath Sarah Elizabeth Harrison Julia Hines Roxie Huggins Nancy Ann Harrison Bettie Hinson Caroline Johnson Miriam R. Loftin Rebecca Moody Nancy Maxwell Sallie Outlaw Louisa Parker Mary J. Potter Sarah Elizabeth Parson Ann Pate C. Quinn Susan Rouse Martha Skeans Catharine Stroud Susan Sparks Susan Spence Polina Stanley Martha Ann Julia Tyndal Eliza Tyndal C. E. Tyndal Winnie Taylor Susan Underhill Winnie Wiggins Nancy Wade Evaline Whaley Nancy Williams Nancy B. Waters Alice Waller Julia Whitley