Confederate Widow’s Pension Application of Edna L. Ausborn Caudell
aka Lucinda Edna Caudell.
Widow’s Pension, 1897.
Paid to Mrs. E. L. Caudell of Banks County.
Widow of Wilburn M. Caudell.
Power of Attorney.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
I, E. L. Caudell hereby authorize T. F. Hill of Homer,
Ga., to receive and receipt for the pension allowed and request that he remit
the same to me at Homer, Ga., by T. F. Hill.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this 15th day of March 1897.
Signed: E. L. Caudell
Executed in the presence of Oscar Brown, Logan Perkins
C. S. C.
Affidavit to be Made by the Widow.
State of Georgia,
County of Banks.
In person came before me, the undersigned Ordinary in
and for the County of Banks Mrs. E. L. Caudell, who being sworn according to
law, says under oath that she is the widow of Wilburn M. Caudell, who was a
soldier in the service of the Confederate States, and served as a member of
Company D, of the 42rd Regiment of Georgia Volunteers; that he enlisted in said
services on or about [blank] day of March 1862, and was in the Western Army up
to the 26th day March 1865.
That while in the Army, he was on the 15th day of March 1865,
“Attacked with measles and when he became better was ordered to enter the service again which caused a relapse. Measles settled in his lungs causing consumption of the lungs which resulted in his death in June 29th 1872. [Wilburn M. Caudell is listed in the 1880 Banks county census-he may have died in 1882.] He got worse after he was brought home and from the consumption so contracted he died as stated. He was healthy and perfectly free from consumption when he entered the service. None of his ancestors ever had consumption.”
Deponent further swears that she was the wife of said
deceased soldier during his term of service in the Army, and that she has never
married since his death; that she became his wife on the 28th day of
April 1858, and that she was born in 9th May 1834 and that Georgia
is her home, and was such on 23rd December, 1890, and since said
date she has not lived in any other State or locality. Deponent, as the widow of said deceased
soldier husband, applies for the pension provided by Act of the General
Assembly of Georgia, approved December 23d, 1890, for the pension year ending
February 15th, 1897, and herewith tenders the proof of her right to
receive the pension granted by said Act.
Signed: E. L. Caudell [X her mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 15th
day of March 1897.
T. F. Hill, Ordinary
Notes:
Marriage records in Probate office, Banks county, Ga.:
W. M. Caudell and Miss Lucinda E. Asborn [Ausborn] 28
April 1859, James Brown, M. G.
Georgia Death Index, 1919-1998:
Mrs. Edna L. Caudell
Date of Death-31 December 1923
County of Death-Habersham
Certificate Number-35606-E
Census records consistently list her as either Edna or
Edny Caudell.
Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King