LAUDERDALE COUNTY, ALABAMA
CIVIL WAR
1914 PENSIONERS LIST
The Florence Herald, Thursday, October 1, 1914, p. 2.
Contributed June 2004
by Lee Freeman
Confederate Veterans
The Florence Herald, Thursday, October 1, 1914, p. 2.
List of Those Reinstated on the Pension List
The State Pension Board at Montgomery has written Judge James F. Koonce of Florence, enclosing the following list of Confederate Veterans who have been restored to their original place [o]n the pension roll:
B. T. Allen |
Eli Arnold |
Mary Brumley |
Thomas Burgin |
J. C. Chesser |
C. H. Coffman |
John A. Copeland |
D. C. Crow |
G. W. Duncan |
T. J. Duncan |
John Foust |
Mrs. E. C. Fulton |
Mary E. Green |
Miles Maroell |
Lula R. Hipp |
G. W. Kelley |
Susan J. Killen |
A. L. Lindsey |
W. E. Mann |
Sarah May |
J. O. A. Pace |
Mary E. Parrish |
Julia B. Powers |
Mary Jane R[o]bertson |
Celeste Till |
Caroline Wallace |
Sarah A. Williams |
Mrs. T. J. Joiner |
Mary A. Martin |
Velma? Farris |
Mary E. Young |
Levina Morrison. |
These parties drew a pension until sometime ago
when the roll was revised and 67 names were stricken from it. Judge Koonce
believed that in many instances those who had been deprived [o]f the meager
reward for the valiant services they or their loved [ones] rendered the cause
for which the South struggled, were justly entitled to the little pension. H[e]
therefore set about t[o] bring justice to bear. For [more] than a month he
spared neither time nor money in collecting information that would prove them
deserving. He went to Montgomery and appeared in person before the Confederate
Pension Board with the result that thirty-four have been fully restored to the [li]st
of pensioners, and three, Mrs. S. E. Green, A. W. Green, and W. A. Phillips,
have been continued until December next. Judge Koonce is confident that they
will [also be] restored, making a total [of] 37.
This means that ab[o]ut $3,000 will be paid to the Conf[ed]era[te] Veterans of
Laud[e]rdale county that, had it not been for the untiring and strenuous [e]fforts
[of] Judge Koonce, never would hav[e] reached them. It is justly the[i]rs and
they should have it.
Many of our citizens are under lasting obligations to Judge Koonce for his
successful efforts in their behalf.
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