General Notes

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On 8 Apr 1914, Lena filled out an Application for Widows to Be Placed on
Pension Roll after Death of Husband in the Shelby Co., AL.  On 6 Apr 1916
she had an update to her pension. In said pension the following is
written: I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I married my husband, on
account of whose service in the Confederacy I draw a pension, prior to
April 1865, the exact date of our marriage being 10 Dec 1855. Her
signature is next.  Later she had to reapply due to an amendment to the
previous act for pension.  She recorded verbally to the Judge of Probate
(the blanks, which were filled, had a different writing than her
signature) that she was living with her son-in-law, Mr. Jackson, husband
of Ida Lee McEwen; she was born in Newton GA on 9 Jul 1839; her father
was Jesse Melton and he died at Marblevalley, Coosa Co., AL; she had
lived in the States of MS, GA, & AL and the counties of Tallapoosa,
Coosa, and Shelby, which all three are in AL; her post offices were
Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., Rockford, Coosa Co., and Columbiana, Shelby
Co.; she moved to AL when she was a small child; her husband enlisted in
the State of MS in infantry as a private, the 31 Miss Infantry; he was
wounded in and around Baton Rouge, LA and he was literally shot to pieces
in the face, arms and legs; he was discharged at Jonesborough, GA "on
account of inability for future service, on account of wounds as above,
August 1864"; he was not paroled; he drew a pension in Shelby Co., AL;
and the pension is only income she has.  She signed it on 29 Nov 1920.
Lena died in the home of her daughter, Ida Lee.