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      Confederate Relief Fund

      Contributed by Lee Freeman


      SOURCE: Florence Times, Saturday, June 4, 1892, p. 3

       

       

      The following named persons have filed their applications for a share of the fund appropriated by the state for disabled ex-Confederate soldiers and for widows of deceased Confederates.

       

      McElyea, Jas. A.

      Carroll, Jas. E.

      Young, F. M.

      Green, V. A. S.

      McMurry, Jos.

      Hough, J.D.

      Wyatt, J. D.

      McElyea, W. H.

      McWilliams, John

      Anderson, J. E.

      Gray, G. S.

      Gullett, M.

      Ridgway, D. A.

      Morgan, Jas. A.

      Glenn, J. M

      Bell, R. F.

      Ott, J.C.

      Green, Leonard

      Deen, J. D.

      Matthews, S. J. Jr.

      Burns, M. B.

      Carr, J. J.

      Stout, D. C.

      Echols,W. E.

      Stone, J. D.

      Weems, C. S.

      Till, E. R.

         

      WIDOWS:

         

      Brackeen, Martha

      Davis, E. A.

      Daniels, Mary A.

      Williams, S. A. E.

      Bevis, M. A.

      Fowler, Sarah

      Hipp, Sallie

      Clements, Caroline M.

      Jones, F. Cyrene

      Dearen, Mary

      Hawkins, Lizzie A.

      Dickerson, N. J.

      Wesson, E. A.

      Williams, Martha

      Garrard, I. K.

      Richardson, P. E.

      Bradley, S. D.

      Massengale, M. F.

      Smith, M. J.

         

      These applications are duly filed and the "relief" afforded will be paid out of the tax of 1892 next year. Those who applied last year will receive their appropriation this year -- in August or September. The amount paid last year was about $10 or $15. It is thought the amount the coming year will amount to more, probably $20 or $25. The total appropriated by the state is about $125,000.