On the first Tuesday of the month and on Saturday, July 16, the county Confederate pension board met in the clerk of court’s office to revise the pension list and to receive applications under the new law. The members present were J.R. Hamlin, chairman; L.W. Brooks and J.M. Thrash, with N.A. Miller, clerk ex-officio.
The applicants for pensions were:
J.M. Bracken of Balsam Grove,
W.M. Chastain of Eat Fork,
Elizabeth Galloway of Rosman, widow of J.E. Galloway,
Sarah Jane Shuford of LIttle River, widow of D.M. Shuford.
M.C. Thomas of Toxaway was transferred from fourth to first class.
In revision of the pension list the following names of deceased persons were dropped:
J.S. Heath,
W.H. Raines,
H.D. Whitmire
Mrs. M.A. Conley,
Mrs. S.E. Gravely,
Mrs. R.C. Simmons,
Mrs. Elizabeth Whitmire.
From the front page of the Brevard News, Friday, July 22, 1921
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