Application for Relief of Needy Confederate Soldiers:
Application for the Relief of Needy Soldiers and Sailors, Residents of Alabama, who from wounds or other cause, are now unable to earn a livilihood by labor, under Act approved February 13, 1891.
The State of Alabama
County of Tallapoosa
Personally appeared before me, Jos. H. Johnson, Judge of Probate in and for said County, I.D. Strother, who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that when a private in Company D of 14th Regiment of Ala and while in discharge of his duty on the 31st day of May 1864, at Turkey Ridge in the State of Va. he was shot through the left temple, ball coming out back of right jaw, is easily overcome by heat, subject to fall and does fall frequently while at work and in consequence of which loss of limb wound or wounds, he has been rendered physically incapable of making a livelihood by labor; that he was a resident of Alabama on the 13th day of February, 1891, and is a resident at the date of this application; that he is engaged in the business of farming; that his taxable property does not exceed four hundred dollars in value, and that his Salary and Gross Income does not amount to four hundred dollars per year.
Sworn To and subscribed before me, this 9th day }
of July 1891. } (s)I.D. Strother
Applicant
Jos. H. Johnson
Judge of Probate of Tallapoosa County.
