Pension Application of 1887
Pension Files of Peter Cooper
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Form 4. Leg Lost.
APPLICATION For Relief by Soldiers Maimed or Disabled during the Late War, under Act approved February 25, 1887.
The State of Alabama, }
COUNTY OF Dekalb }
Personally appeared before me, L L Cochran Judge of Probate in and for said County, Peter Cooper who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that when a Private in Company B of 6th Regiment of Georgia Infantry and while in the discharge of his duty, on the 5th day of April 1862, at Yorktown in the State of Virginia he lost his left leg; that he was a resident of Alabama on the 25th day of February, 1887, and is a resident at the date of this application; that he is engaged in the business of farming ; and that his taxable property does not exceed one thousand dollars in value.
SWORN to and subscribed before me, this 6th day }
of June , 1887. }
Peter [his x mark] Cooper
Applicant.
L. L. Cochran
Judge of Probate of Dekalb County.
The State of Alabama, }
COUNTY OF Dekalb }
I hereby certify that the duplicate of the foregoing application and affadavit is on file in my office, and that I believe the statements made therein are entitled to credit.
GIVEN under my hand this the 6th day of June , 1887.
L. L. Cochran
Judge of Probate of Dekalb County
Duplicate to be filed in the office of the Judge of Probate.
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