Application for the Relief of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Alabama Pension No. 9502

The State of Alabama, Cherokee County.
To the Honorable Board of Pension Examiners for said County:

Your petitioner, J. L. Roberts, respectfully represents to your honorable board that he is a resident citizen of Cherokee County, State of Alabama, and that he resided in said State on the first day of January in the year 1899. That he enlisted in the service of the State, or Confederate States, as a Private in company B in the 27th Regiment on the day of August 1861 at Gaylesville in the State of Alabama, That he is now unable to make a living by manual labor on account of hernia and stiff knee joint; That he is at time filing this application 65 years of age, and that his post office address is Hurley, Alabama; That he does not own property either in his own name, nor that of his wife, to the value of four hundred dollars; that his annual income does not exceed four hundred dollars, and that he has no children upon whom he can depend for support. Your petitioner files herewith a complete schedule of all the property owned by himself and wife. In consideration of the foregoing facts, your petitioner asks that his name be placed upon the pension rolls, in the class that your honorable board may adjudge him to belong, that he may participate in the division of the fund provided for the relief of Confederate and Alabama soldiers and their widows, by act of the General Assembly approved February 10, 1899.

Signed: J L Roberts, Applicant

The State of Alabama, Cherokee County,
Schedule of Property med with application for pension by J L Roberts

Real Estate ------------------------------------------- Value
120 acres of land situated in Cherokee County --------- 250.00
Number ------- Personal Property ---------------------- Value
…. 1….   ------- one mule --------------------------- 40.50
…. 1….   ------- one cow ---------------------------- 15.00
…. 8….   ------- hogs and 1 sheep-------------------- 09.00
…. 1….   ------- one clock --------------------------- 01.50
………..   ------- Household and kitchen furniture ----- 29.00
…….   Mechanical and farming tools and implements ---- 03.00
---------------------------------------------Total ---- 98.00

The State of Alabama, Cherokee County,
Personally appeared before me, J A Culpeper, a Justice of the Peace in and for said State and County, J L Roberts, who, being by me duty sworn , deposes and says that the foregoing schedule embraces all the property owned by himself and wife, and that the valuation as fixed is a fair and just value therof.
Signed …. J L Roberts
Sworn to and subscribed before me J A Culpeper, Just of the Peace in and for said County,
this 19th day of April 1899

The State of Alabama, Cherokee County,
Before me, J. L. Savage, Judge of Probate, in and for said State and County, personally appeared John L Roberts who being by me first duly sworn deposes and says that he in now on the pension roll of Cherokee County, in the 4th Class; that he hereby makes application under an Act approved April 24th, 1911, to be placed on the pension roll of the second class on account of his age, he being at the time of making this application over the age of seventy years, or have lost a leg, or foot, or arm, or hand , or the entire use thereof, further states that he was born in Gwenett County, Georgia on this 5th day of December 1833 that he depends solely upon his pension for support and maintenance; that he is unable to procure any other positive proof as to his age, as there is no one in this part of the country can testify as to his birth. (signature of Jon L Roberts appears here, which is very shaken writting)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of August, 1911. J. L. Savage, Judge of Probate

Affidavit of Witness
State of Alabama, Cherokee County,
I J. S. Harwell do solemly swear that I am acquainted with John L. Roberts, whose name is signed to the foregoing application, and that I have known him for 50 years; that, from personal knowledge of him and his general appearance, I believe that he is over seventy years of age as stated in this application . Signed… J L Harwell
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of August 1911. I hereby certify that affiant is known to me and he is a person of integrity and veracity. Signed… J L Savage, Judge Probate

John Landers Roberts