Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-12-04
PLENTY OF PENSIONS.
WARRANTS FOR THEM RE.
CEIYED ny MIR. MACKEY.
Names Of Those Who Belong to
Each Class and the Amounts to
which All Are Entitled-TotaI
Amount In BuncOmbe.

which All Are Entitled-Total
Amount In BuncOnI,e.
Register of Deeds Mackcy this morning
received from G. W. Sanderlin, state audi
tor sevcnty-one pension warrants for
North Carolina soldiers and their wild.
ows residing in Buncombe county. He
had them mailed to those to whom they
belong to-day.
The pensions are divided into four
classes. The first class includes such
soldiers as have received a wound which
renders them totally incompetent to per-
form manual labor in the ordinary avo-
cations of life. These get $71.OO each.
Under the second class come those who
have lost a leg above the knee or an arm
above the elbow, and they get $53.25
each.
To the third class belong those who
have lost foot or lex below the knee, or
hand or arm below the elbow, or have a
leg or arm rendered utterly useless by
reason OF wound or permanent injury.
Their warrants are for sac. so each.
The fourth and last class is composed
OF all who have lost one eye, and all indi-
gent widows remaining unmarried, and
all other soldiers who are otherwise dis
abled to pcriorrfi manual labor by reason
of wounds received while in the confcdcr-
ate service. They get Sits each.
The first class pensioners in Buncombe
are but three in number, and in the entire
state there are but forty. Those in Bun
combe are, S. S. Lynch, Ashevillc; T. l..
Lytle. Beach; and W. X. West, Busbec.
The second class has five members in
Buncombe and 220 in the state. Bun.
combe's pensioners of this class are: D.
W. Ball, Beach; Thos. ID. Case, Acton;
Geo. w. Rhodes, Hominy; l.. NJ. Liner.
Hominy; and Jas. Parker, Vernon.
OF the third class, Buncombc has seven
representatives out of n total of $50 in
North Carolina. They are: VS.. Beam
Ashcvillc; ; ]. M. Jarrett, Emma; Richard
Mcfarland, Gladys; A. W. Searcy, Fair
view Jas. Sizeman, Riceville, and James
Snider and ]. W. Triplct, Asheville.
The fourth class pensioners in the state
number $3.50, and in Buncombe there
are Sc. OF this latter number, twelve
are soldiers and the remainder widows.
The soldiers of this class are:
J. NJ. Anderson. Luthers; T. o. Butler,
Arden; S. II. Bagwell, Limestone; John
p. Case, Alexander; l.. d. Davis, Leiccs-
ter; ID Harlem, Asheville; w. w. John
ston. Avcry's Creek; ]. NJ. Wise, Can.
dlcrs; w. S. Whitaker, Tweed; w. L. Ry-
mer, Fairview; G. W. Triplett, Asheville
w. II. Warren, Luthers.
The widows coming under this head
are forty-iour in number and their names
are as follows:
lydia Blanchard, Eupha Meadows,
Caroline Redmond, n. !. Walton, Eliza
beth Walton, L. Hooper, S. A. Smith,
Ashcville; NJ. A. Branch, A. A. Morgan,
5. A. Freeman. Morgan Hill; Mary
Adams, Mary ]. Allison, Eleanor Stcpp,
Black Mountain Martha Allen, Candler;
Margaret Banks, Polly lncle, Barnards-
vile; NJ. L. Bastlett, Martha X. Rice.
Riceville; Hannah Clemants, Nancy Lam
ming, Dicey n. Owenby, Christiana Reed,
Fairview Jane Crcascman, Swannanoa;
l.. A. Gibbs, tremoved to) Hendersonville;
Patience Hare, Lucinda Hogan, Adreth
Sorrells, Biltmorc; Adelaide Ingram,
Avcry's Creek; Nancy II. Lance, Demia;
Mary A. Lewis, Arden; Martha McEl-
rath, Canto; Barbara Nix, Tweeds; NJ.
NJ. Rich, Della A. Williams, Margaret
Hall, E. J. Penland. Hominy; Sarah J.
Tow. Mary ]. Wood, Leicester; Nancy
Washburn, Coopers; Sarah ]. West, Bus
bee: Elizabeth Yodcr. Wcaverville; ii.
Hoover, Juno: X. Miller, Bell; J. NJ. Nc
Fee, New Pound
The total amount to be paid out on
these warrants in Buncombe is 81 ,721.75.
The first class gets S213, the second
S266.25, the third S12+S.50 and the
fourth 1904.