Thought I might as well add my "Isaac Cain" to the bunch.
A few months ago, I obtained a copy of my great-great-grandmother's "Widow's
Application for Confederate Pension" from the Texas State Archives. This
application was dated 6 June 1930, less than two weeks before Susannah
(Holland) CAIN died after being bedridden since October of 1929. In a cover
letter (from the County Judge) which accompanied the application, W. F.
Schlosshan observed that, "...she (Susannah) is very old ~ more than 88 years,
and she was not able to furnish all the information in her application...."
In said application it is alleged that Susannah stated that she was married to
Isaac Cosby CAIN in 1858 in Franklin County, Alabama. It is also alleged that
Susannah stated that her husband had died in 1865 in Alabama. In another part
of the same application, it is stated that Isaac CAIN "...may have died
before being discharged."
HOWEVER, "their" daughter, Mary Susan (CAIN) Pounders, was born 30 September
1873 in Franklin County, Alabama ~~ c. eight years after Susannah supposedly
said that Isaac died.
A letter dated 24 May 1930 from the War Department in Washington stated the
following: "...the records show that one Isaac Cain enlisted August 10, 1862,
at Columbus, as private of Company I, 42d Alabama Infantry, C.S.A....The
company muster roll for September and October, 1862,...reports him absent,
taken prisoner and paroled October 5, 1862. Another records shows that he was
paroled at Bolivar, Tennessee, October 13, 1862. No later record of him has
been found...."
Susannah's pension application was approved, but it appears that the only
payment made was after her death, when her grandson made an "Application for
Mortuary Warrant."
Any comment or input is welcome.
Thank you ~~
Vickie (Pounders) Everhart
Ellis County, Texas
(south of Dallas)