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- Prather, Silas Edward Civil War Pension File: Confed. States
File #39396 Filed in TX.
S.E. Prather, Wise Co., TX.
Greenwood Postoffice
Filed Sept., 21, 1923
Approved Oct., 1923
Pension allowed from Sept. 1st.
Lon W. Smith, Commissioner of Pensions
Papers filled out Sept., 17 1923
Discharged sometime in June 1965, at close of War.
77 years of age
Born in Randolph Co., MO.
Resided in TX. 43 years
Presently residing in Wise Co.
Resided in Wise Co., 43 years and Greenwood is his postoffice address
Never applied for pension before
Occupation: Farmer
Physical condition: Fair
State of command in which he served: MO.
Length of Service: Oct. to June
Co. K, 3rd MO. Reg.
Never transfered to another command
Branch was Cavalary, Shelby Brig, Under Sapt. Birt
No commision by President
No special detail
Assessed value of home owned $1920.00
Assessed value of other property $30.00
No property transferred to gain benefits
Signed: S.E. Prather
Sworn on 17th Sept. 1923 before County Judge S.M.Ward, Wise Co., TX.
Affidavit of Witnesses: T.J. McMurray and N.A. Morre before S.M. Ward
17, Sept., 1923 Wise Co., TX.
Affidavit of Witnesses: (To prove the info given by S.E.Prather)
Guinn Williams and J.A. Simmons
Cerificate of State and County Assessor:
Victor Nobles, Stat and County Tax Assessor in Wise Co. certifes Value.
Mortuary Warrant letter written July 28, 1925 to C.L. Christian of Decatur,
TX. rejecting the approval of the Mortuary Warrant because it is over 100 days
ago that S.E. died from the Comptroller.
Letter to Hon. Sam Houston Terrell in Austin, TX. 25 July, 1925 from C.L.
Christian (undertaker) asking for the state to pay the mortuary costs of S.E.
Prather and says that he knows the time limit has passed but Mrs. Maggie
Prather as she did'nt know fo the time limit and was left a widow and is need
of the warrant amount.
Letter to Lon A. Smith, State Comptroller, Austin, TX. on 17 Sept., 1923:
From: County Judge S.M. Ward of Wise Co., TX.
Enclosing the application for Civil War pension without an affidavit from
witness who served with him as he dos'nt know of a single living has not
applied fefore now because he has been able to get by without it but for past
three or four years he has not been able to work his farm and it has not made
enought to pay taxes on it.
From Letter to Adjutant General, War Dept. Washington D.C. from Comptroller
Dept., State of TX. Austin requesting the military record of S.E. Prather, Co.
K, Reg. 3rd. MO. Calv.
The War Dept. response dated 28 Sept., 1923.
Name of S.E. Prather not found on rolls of Co., K, 3rd Mo. Cav CSA, which roll
cover (partially), period of 11 Nov., 1862 to 29 Feb., 1864.
The prisoner of War records show a man named S.E. Prather, private, Co., K
6th MO. Cav. CSA, surrendered at New Orleans, LA. 26 May, 1865 and paroled at
Shervport, LA. 14 June, 1865. Name not found on rolls of said Co., K, 6th
MO. Cav. / No other record found. The 6th MO. Cav. was at one time known as
the 3rd. MO. Cav.
Signed: Robert C. Davis, The Adjutant Gen. by F.F. 2 Oct., 1923.
From State of Mo., County of Macon:
"I, Talton Holman, a resident of Callao, Macon Co., MO. on my oath state that
I have known Silas Edward Prather, for about seventy years and know of my own
knowledge that he was a member of company k, Commanded by Lieut. Col. Cravens,
and Col. Hopper this of Shelby Brigade, and Marmadukes Division."
Signed: Talton Holman
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of Sept., 1923.
Application for Morturary Warrant:
Top part of this form was filled out for Maggie Prather by Albert McNeely,
Justice of the Peace, Notary Public and Exoffico for Wise Co., TX. on 7 July
1925.
Stated that Silas Edward Prather, died 12 Apr., 1925 in Greenwood, Wise Co.,
TX. in his home.
Mrs. Maggie Prather
Widow Application for Confed. Pension:
File #41236
Wise Co., TX. postoffice, Greenwood
Filed 24 Aug., 1925 / Approved 24 Aug., 1925.
Signed by S.H.Terrell, Comptroller of Public Accounts
Certifacte of undertaker filled out by C.L. Christian:
Maggie died 17 Nov., 1930 and her body was prepared 18 Nov., 1930 by C.L.
Christian / Physician filled out by Dr. T.G.Rogers
Dr. T.G. Rogers M.D. Decatur, TX. attened her in her last illness and his
opinion was her ailments were chronic myocarditis.
Maggie's nephew filled out all of the paperwork after her death, thus
it is believed that she and Silas had no children.
Maggie's nephew was Edd Chapman of Greenwood, TX.
He signed her papers Nov., 1930.
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