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Confederate Pensions and Records - Pension Office - Pension Payment Financial Records

 Series
Identifier: 058-01-024

Scope and Contents

The volumes cover 1912 - 1929. They contain: (1) requisitions for payment of pensions; (2) letters refunding money to the State Treasury and corresponding receipts; (3) statements of fees due ordinaries; (4) memoranda concerning amounts due for payments of pensions by counties; (5) memoranda concerning amounts of funeral expenses paid; (6) annual reports to the governor on the status of the Pension Office, (7) orders to strike names from the pension rolls; (8) interpretations of the pension laws, (9) sundry other related records. Other copies of some of these items are to be found in other series. The loose records for 1958 - 1981 contain records of payments to widows filed by county; records of payments to widows who lived in the A.G. Rhodes Confederate Soldiers' Home, 1963 - 1973; copies of Confederate widow's pension files; miscellaneous administrative files such as correspondence relating to widow pensioners, laws and regulations, requisitions for payments, newspaper clippings, etc.

Dates

  • Created: 1912-1981

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Unrestricted

Extent

0 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement Note

In most cases the items have been pasted into the volumes, but in some cases they have been attached with metal fasteners. Items are arranged within the books in a roughly chronological order. There is no index.

Title
Confederate Pensions and Records - Pension Office - Pension Payment Financial Records
Author
Georgia Archives
Description rules
Local
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Georgia Archives Repository

Contact:
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States