| Philip SEIBER Jr's. Military Pension file |
| WIDOWS PENSION PAGE 3 of 3 |
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| Documents transcribed below. |
| WAR OF 1812 DECLARATION OF A WIDOW FOR PENSION. To be executed before Judge or Clerk of Court State of Alabama County of Calhoun On the eighteenth day of October A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy two personally appeared before me A. Woods Judge of the Court of Probate, a Court of Record in and for the County and State aforesaid, Mrs. Courtenay Sieber was born on 12th of June A. D. 1795, a resident of near Town of Jacksonville, County of Calhoun, State of Alabama, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Philip Sieber, who served the full period of sixty days in the Military service of the United States in the War of 1812, and who was the identical Corporal Philip Sieber who was drafted in Captain James Tunnells & Luit McAadoo Company Tennessee Militia Regiment of C of Johnson Brigade, of Gen C?ien Chester Division, at Knoxville, Tennessee, on the about ?? day of September 1814, and was honorably discharged about the close of the war on the day of 1815; that He was stationed at White Alabama and was not engaged in any general Battle. She said Courtney Sieber and a Land Warrant as the Widow of Philip Sieber Dis?ond No � 17.169. Recorded in miscellaneous Military Grants Vol 23 page 175. as given on the Patent, dated 10th of April A. D. 1853 to which reference is made. that she was married under the name of Cornteny Lively to said Philip Sieber on the thirthieth (30th) day of December A. D. 1813, by Rev Wiliom Tunnel Baptist Minister, at near Clinton Anderson County, Tennessee, there being no legal barrier to such marriage; that her said husband died at near Jacksonville Calhoun County, Ala on the Tenty Ninth day of November, 1838, and that she has not remarried since his death; that at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States did she or her said husband adhere to the cause of the enemies of the Government, giving them aid or comfort, or exercised the functions of any office whatever under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United states; that she will support the Constitution of the United States; that she is not in receipt of a pension under any previous act; that she makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the pension rolls of the United States, under the provisions of the act approved February 14, 1871, and hereby constitutes and appoints, with full power of substitution and revocation, Charles E Bishop of Washington D. C. her true and lawful attorney, to prosecute her claim, and obtain the pension certificate that may be issued; that her post office is at Box 21 Jacksonville, County of Calhoun State of Alabama; that her domicile or place of abode is near Jacksonville, Courtney Sieber Application Attest: Aaron Mead David Sieber. Also personally appeared Aaron Mead and David Sieber, residing in Said County and State, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who being by me duly sworn, say, They were present and saw and in my presence said Courtney Sieber, the claimant, sign her name to the foregoing declaration; that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of said claimant, and their acquaintance with her, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and she has not remarried since the death of her husband, but remains his widow; and at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States did she, or her said husband, adhere to the cause of the enemies of the Government, or give them aid or comfort; and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim Aaron Mead David Sieber Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 18th day of October A. D. 1872, and I hereby certify that the contents of the above declaration were fully made known and explained to the applicant and witnesses before swearing, including the words erased, and the words ??????, added; and that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim. A. Woods, Judge of Probate For Calhoun Co, Ala. (updated June 2003) |
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