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PENSION MONEY NOW BEING PAID VETERANSCheck Was Received This Week From Pension CommissionerThe 139 pensioners in Butts county are being paid this week, the $8,310 due this county having been received this week.The check came in the first of the week and a large part of the money has already been paid out. The patient veterans are now rejoicing upon being paid the money due them.The pension money is late in being paid this year, on account of the depleted state of the treasury. The money should have been available several days ago, but when the teachers were paid the pensioners had to wait until some money came in.Under the head of old class widows, who receive $60 a year, there are fourteen names as follows: Mrs. J Z L Bailey, Mrs. Mary Ann Edwards, Mrs. S G Etheridge, Mrs. Emaline Evans. Mrs. C. F Fincher, Mrs. Mary B Gray, Mrs. Mary E Ham, Mrs. Martha Hat-taway, Mrs. Lucy Jones, Mrs. C A Ogden, Mrs. J A Pace, Mrs. S E Pelt, Mrs. N E Settle, Mrs. Rose W Vickers.The 17 indigent widows receive $60, as follows: Mrs. Amanda Aiken, Mrs. Virginia Byars, Mrs. Sophronia Clark, Mrs. Harriett Foster, Mrs. Nancy Go-ens, Mrs. A J Grant, Mrs. A M Hanes, Mrs. Martha M Jinks, Mrs. Mary C Lemon, Mrs. M A Moody, Mrs. M F McElhenney, Mrs. E. M. Ridgeway, Mrs. E A Smith, Mrs M E Thomason, Mrs. Susan Ann Thaxton, Mrs. M E Thaxton, Mrs. Sarah E Washington.The 14 disabled soldiers receive the following amounts: Jas. F. Carmichael $50, J. A. Davis 55, J. A. Dodson 5, B. F. Deason 50, W. V. Garner 50, Joseph Jolly 100, R. W. Mays 50, J. G. Moore 50, J. R. McGough 50, J. A. McCord 50, A. F. Pritchett 50, G. W. Ray 50, J. P. T. Smith 100, L. D. Watson 100. (The last two veterans having died during the year their widows will receive their pensions).The 73 indigent soldiers receive $60 each, as follows: J C Adams, Asa Ammons, G W Beeland W J Bledsoe, J R Bryant, E C CawThon, W D Craw*-ford, J P Crawford, W R Dickerson, H P Dodson, 8 Dobey, M L Duke, M M Fogg, J B Foster, F W Gilmore, J 8 Gregory, W C Gunn, W J Gunnels,J R Harris, J F Hamlin, R E Hamil, R E Hatcher, J W Heard, C H Heath, W D Hencely, J W Hi 1 ley, F M Hodges, T J Hollifield, J P Johnson, James Jolly, J L Kelley, J H Kelley, W J Kimbell, R J Lynch, R R Maddox, J G Maddox, H R Maddox, JohnC Maddox, John L Martin, Isaac Moore, William Moss, T B McLendon, J T McLain, John IJ McKinley, Jesse McKle-roy, J R McCord, Zed Piper, L M Pettigrew, M Plymale, J J Prickett, F C Stephens, J G Saunders, W T Smith, Wilson Smith, L E Stephens, J T Stewart, J H Skinner, R A Thornton, W W Thaxton, C H Thornton, H T Thompson, J E Thaxton, E J Thompson, F M Thornton, J H Thurston, T J Thurston, F L Watts (dead and pension w ill go to his widow') , B F Watson, J L Willard, R A Wilson, J C Williamson, P B M Wells, W A Waldrop.Of the w idows approved under the new* service law’ of 1910there are 16 and they receive $60 each as follows: Mrs. Frances Bonnett, M rs. Martha Barnes, Mrs. P D Cardell, Mrs. Elizabeth Gunn, Mrs. Laura Gaston, Mrs. Katherine Hollifield, Mrs. W H Jenkins, Mrs. Fannie Johnson, Mrs. E A Lewis Mrs. MC Mackey, Mrs. M C McCall urn, Mrs. A C Smith, Mrs. Nancy Treadwell, Mrs. Susan B Wells, Mrs. Lethia Williamson, Mrs. A J Waldrop.The five following soldiers will receive a pension of $60 under the service bill: R M Harper, J F Preston, D Z Plymale, John F Thaxton, FL Wal-1 thall.
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Jackson Butts County Progress
Jackson, Georgia, US
Fri, Feb 17, 1911
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