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North Carolina Confederate Soldier's and Widow's Pension Applications - FamilySearch Historical Records: Difference between revisions
North Carolina Confederate Soldier's and Widow's Pension Applications - FamilySearch Historical Records (view source)
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Information found in '''Confederate Soldier Pensions''' may include: | Information found in '''Confederate Soldier Pensions''' may include: | ||
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No person holding a national, state, or county office for which he received $300.00 annually, no person with property valued at $500.00 or more, and no person receiving aid under laws for relief of totally blind and maimed was eligible (inmates of the Soldiers' Home, recipients of pensions from other states, and deserters were excluded from benefits under the pension acts, although inmates of the Soldiers' Home were granted quarterly allowances of $1.50 in 1909 -- increased to $3.00 quarterly in 1913). | No person holding a national, state, or county office for which he received $300.00 annually, no person with property valued at $500.00 or more, and no person receiving aid under laws for relief of totally blind and maimed was eligible (inmates of the Soldiers' Home, recipients of pensions from other states, and deserters were excluded from benefits under the pension acts, although inmates of the Soldiers' Home were granted quarterly allowances of $1.50 in 1909 -- increased to $3.00 quarterly in 1913). | ||
Practically each succeeding General Assembly made some change in the pension laws. | Practically each succeeding General Assembly made some change in the pension laws. | ||
== How Do I Search the Collection? == | == How Do I Search the Collection? == | ||