On Mary Ann's pension application:
W.A. served in "Company 'C', 10th Confederate regiment from Ala. & Ga."
and some one else had written above this "& 5th ala battallion"  She
continues by saying "served 3 years".

CSA Military Orgainization:
	Corps
		Division
5 Ala		Battalion (Brigade for federal army)
10th				Regiment
'C'					Company


I received the photocopies from the state.  The document is sworn before
county judge D.W. Crow and notarized and there is no indication that she
didn't sign it.  Her signature appears not to be the same as the writing
in the rest of the document.

There were two witnesses, J.W.McAllister and J.H.Malone who state that
they knew her as the widow of W.A. Turner (states that he died June 18,
1899) and that they know that W.A. enlisted in the Service of the
Confederacy and served the duties of a soldier.
The document is dated 14 July, 1899 and she gave her address as "Andrews
in Wood Co. Texas".
She says she was 64 at the time of the application which would have made
her birthday in 1834 or 1835.
The really interesting thing is she says she was married Oct. 17, 1856
in Talladega Co. AL.
W.A. served in "Company 'C' of the Confederate regiment from Ala. & Ga."
and some one else had written above this "& 5th ala battallion"  She
continues by saying "served 3 years".

Asked to describe any real or personal property she owned she wrote "I
own no land.  The only personal property I have is one cow & yearling
worth about $25.00 and 3 head of hogs worth about $6.00"


A copy of a "Mortuary Warrant" is attached.    It is notarized and
states that Mary A. Turner "was on the morning of 9th. day of April,
A.D. 1919, killed by a cyclone.  There was no attending physician and
the document is the testimony of W.M. Taylor, "who is engaged in the
under taker's business".  He states that she was buried in Ebenezer
Cemetery,  The funeral was paid for by her son in law, T.A.Cartwright
(Thomas A., Lula's husband) who paid a sum of Forty Dollars".  It goes
on to say Mary A. was making her home at said T.A. Cartwright's Route
#1, Mineola, Texas when she was killed. The notary was C.W. Vickery. 
This "Mortuary Warrant" seemed to have something to do with compensating
T.A.Cartwright for the Forty Dollars he spent to bury Mary.A. 

There is another document signed October 11, 1913, stating that Mrs
W.A.Turner, 80, wishes to be placed on the roll of pensioners for
totally disabled widow of Confederate soldier.  This was sworn before
R.E.Bozman, county judge of Wood Co. Texas.  
There is another sworn statement for the same time, from a physician,
Dr. W.T.Black M.D.  He states, in his own hand, that her condition would
be classified as physical feebleness, caused by age or senility.  He
sates that he has known Mrs W.A.Turner for 10 years and that such
condition has existed for the greater part of this time.
Seems like I remember Grannie telling me the doctor who saw her after
Dad's birth was a Dr. Black?  This statement would have been three
months before Dad was born. It maybe the same Dr.

Even considering the two different age statements, there appear to be
enough connections here to say this is William Armstrong Turner's widow
and my great great grandmother.  It also gives us his military
organization and states that they were married in Talladega Alabama on
Oct. 17, 1856.  This gives us a lot more to go on for finding William
Armstrong.