Izora Joan Traylor

Notes:

According to her Texas Death certificate, viewable online at FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, she was the daughter of Josh Traylor and Nora Milburn, both of Lousiana. The informant was her daughter, Mrs. F. M. Tillman of Mullin. Isora Casey died in Mullin, Mills County, Texas on June 28, 1941 of Apoplexy and Cardio Renal Vascular Diseases. She was born on Marcy 27, 1859, widowed, and a housekeeper. Her remains were to be interred a the Oakview Cemetery, Mullin, Mills County, Texas.


Izora's husbands were;

1. Mr. Folson, Jolson or Tolson. (only thing I've found is a T. Tolson was a land owner in Mills Co. TX)

2. J.A. Gentry - married Sept 1, 1894 in Mills Co. TX)

3. E.F. Casey - married either Dec. 22, 1919 or on Dec. 21, 1921. The 1919 date is in the marriage book viewed by Charles Strong and the 1921 date is given by Izora on the pension application. (E.F. Casey died March 13, 1924.)

On the 1900 census a 19 year old, single female, Attie Tolson (?), is shown as a daughter-in-law to J.A. Gentry. Believe she should be listed as his step-daughter and her name may be Addie. We know from the pension application that Izora died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. F.M. Tillman of Mullen, Mills Co. TX.

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Widow's Application for a Pension #50300

Name of Applicant: Mrs. Izora Joan Casey

Mills County Postoffice, Mullen

Filed October 22nd, 1931

Approved Oct. 22nd, 1931

Pension allowed from Nov. 1st, 1931

Geo. H. Sheppard, Comptoller of Public Accounts

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The State of Texas,

County of Mills} I, Mrs. Izora Jaan Casey, do hereby make application for a pension pursuant to the provisions of Articles 6204 to 6227, inclusive, of the Revised civil Statutes of 1925 as amended by H.B. No. 150, passed by the Forty-second Legislature at its Regular Session and all other laws of this State relating thereto.

I am a widow of J. Gentry deceased, who departed this life on the 11 day of May, A.D., 1915 in the county of Brown in the State of Texas.

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widow); and I do solemnly swear that I was never divorced from my said husband J. Gentry and that I never abandoned him during his life but remained his true, faithful and lawful wife up to the date of his death. I was married to him on the 2 day of Sept.. A.D. 1894, in the county of Mills (note: Brown was typed in and crossed out and Mills written in), in the State of Texas.

My husband, the said J. Gentry, served as a Confederate soldier (or sailor) in the war between the States of the United States; or (that he was a soldier who, under special laws of the State of Texas during said war, served in organizations for the protection of the frontier against Indian raiders or Mexican marauders) or; (that he was a soldier of the militia of the State of ______ who was in active service during said war.) That my said husband served honorable from the date of his enlistment until the close of the war, (or until he was discharged or paroled in some military organization regularly mustered into the army or navy of the Confederate States until the surrender). He was honorably discharged or paroled?..told to go home at the close of the war.

That I have been a bona fide resident of this State continuously since 1871.

What is your age, and date of birth? __72 years: born March 27, 1859

1. How long have you resided in the county of your present location? __58 years.

2. What is your postoffice address? __Mullen, Texas

3. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate pension law and been rejected? __no

4. If rejected, state when and where ___

5. Did your husband draw a pension? __no If so, give his file number ____

6. Give, if possible, the postoffice address of your deceased husband at the time of his enlistment. ___ Pilot Grove, Grayson county, Texas.

7. What was your husband's full name? __Jesse A. Gentry

8. In what State was your husband's command originally organized? __Texas

9. How long did your husband serve? __nearly three years.

10. If known to you, give date of enlistment and discharge. __enlisted in fall of 1862

11. What was the name or letter of the company, or number of the regiment in which your husband served? If he was transferred from one branch of service to another, give time of transfer, description of command and time of service. (If applicant's husband was a pensioner give his file number, which is evidence sufficient for proof of service.) __Company C. Ninth Texas

12. Name branch of service in which your husband served, whether infantry, cavalry, artillery, or the navy, or if commissioned as an officer by the President, his rank and line of duty, or if detailed for special service, under the law of conscription, the nature of such service, and time of service.__Cavalry

13. To what race do you belong? __White American

Wherefore your petition prays that her application for a pension may be approved and such other proceedings be had in the premises as required by law.

(Signature of Applicant) Izora Joan Casey

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20 day or October A.D., 1931

Roy Simpson

County Judge Mills County, Texas

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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES

The State of Texas

County of Mills }

Before me, Roy Simpson, County Judge of Mills County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared P.H. Clements and John A Hester, who are personally known to me to be credible citizens who, being by me duly sworn on oath state that they personally know that Mrs. Izora Joan Casey, applicant for a pension as the widow of Jesse A. Gentry deceased, is in truth and fact the widow of Jesse A. Gentry deceased; that they personally know that she has remarried since the death of her husband, for whose services in the army she claims a pension and that they have no interest in this claim, and that she is now a widow of E. F. Casey, deceased.

(Signature of Witness) P.H. Clements

(Signature of Witness) Jno. A. Hester

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 20 day of October, A.D. 1931

Roy Simpson

County Judge Mills County, Texas



AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES

The State of Texas

County of Mills }

Before me, Roy Simpson, County Judge of Mill County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared P.H. Clements and John A. Hester, who are personally known to me to be creditable citizens, who, being by me duly sworn, on oath state that they personally know the above named applicant for pension, and that they personally know that the said Mrs. Izora Joan Casey has been a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas since 1885 and that they have no interest in this claim.

(Signature of Witness) P. H. Clements

(Signature of Witness) Jno. A. Hester

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 20 day of October, A.D. 1931

Roy Simpson

County Judge Mills County, Texas

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Statement

1. I was married to E. F. Casey December 21, 1921;

2. E. F. Casey died March 13, 1924.

Am now a widow and am asking for this pension as the widow of my soldier husband J. Gentry.

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Ist Ind.

War Department, A. G. O., July 15, 1931 - To The Adjutant General, State of Texas, Austin, Texas.

1. The name Jessie Alvin Gentry has not been found on the rolls on file for soldiers in service in the Confederate States Army.

2. The records show, however, that one J. Gentry enlisted September 26, 1862, at Pilot Grove, Texas as a private in Co. C. 9th Texas Cavalry, C. S. A. The company muster roll for May and June, 1864, the last roll on file, shows him absent, at Hospital wounded June 24. No later record of him has been found. J. E. Bery was captain of Co. C., of the above named regiment.

3. Jos. C. Hart, Jr., was captain of Co. E. 9th Regiment Texas Cavalry.


C.H. Bridges

Major General

The Adjutant General

2nd Ind.

O. A. G., State of Texas, Austin, Texas, July 27, 1931.

To Mr. John S. Chesser, Goldthwaite, Texas

Inviting your attention to above 1st indorsement.

By authority of the Adjutant General.


Joseph K. Johnson,

Capt., A. G. D., TNG

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Receipt from the J. H. Randolph Lumber Co. (Lumber, Hardware, Grain, Funeral Directors) for casket, hearse, grave, etc. for Mrs. Izora Joan Casey in the amount of $100.00. Signed by Z. T. McCown

Sworn before me this 3 day of July 1941. O.E. Rice, Notary Public in and for Mills Co., State of Texas.

Received by; Mrs. F. M. Tillman.

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Handwritten letter;

Mullin, Tex

Nov. 1, 1931

Mr. Sheppard,

Kind Sir, I wish to thank you for granting me a pension. I feel grateful to you in every way. May the all wise God bless you is my prayer.

Mrs. Izora Casey

P.S. Mr. Sheppard, I will send you a letter we received from Mr. Nance which we appreciated very much.

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Typed letter;

Duncanville, Texas, Oct. 21

Honorable Geo. H. Sheppard,

Austin, Texas

Dear Mr. Sheppard-

We have the pleasure of submitting to you the pension application of Mrs. Izora J. Casey, Mullen, Texas, who is the widow of the Confederate veteran, Jesse Gentry, deceased, but who was a life long citizen and soldier of this state.

If there is anything short in this paper will be glad if you will so inform me.

Truly,

Chas. P. Nance

(This letter is stamped; "Received Oct. 22, 1931 Comptroller's Office")

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Duncanville, Texas 10-25-31

Dear Mrs. Tillman and your mother, Mullen, Texas;

We certainly have not only to thank you but congratulate both of you for the success attained. When papers are filed right then my source of information ceases. While the Comptroller recognizes my work as a pension agent very satisfactorily as a rule he goes by the law which directs that the action taken is to notify the applicant instead of myself.

The approval of a pension means much not only to the applicant but to me. Our success as a pension representitive depends wholly upon the amount as well as the quality of work submitted; and let me add, the quality of work governs the weil or woe of my employer. I could not have represented your dear old mother if I had not at first gotten your confidence as a pension builder and she perhaps for a long time to come would have groped in darkness still because of her unbelief in me as such. I have never in all my life laid down on any work undertaken in all these years that have come and gone, and by the help of my friends and backing of strenerous years of hard study and work and a familiarity of what I profess to be and know, I cannot lay down on it now.

My heart goes out in full sympathy and adoration for those grand old heroes who fought, bled and died a thousand deaths for your freedom and mine. My own parents bore the brunt of the conflict while it was on and my own dear brother, like thousands of others, was dragged from the bloody front more times than one as he fought valiantly to uphold General Parsons' and his flag.

Let me say to Grandma that there once was a time in grand old Texas when to ask for pension was, to a greater or less extent, humileating in the extreme; then, it was a necessitous undertaking; an applicant must have wrapped himself in the cloak of indignancy and begged at the gate for mercy. But thank God and the unconquorable ties that binds true friendship together, a pension today is the reverse; it is a token- emblematic of true friendship- it is a reward, tho feebly bestowed, for a service nobly performed. Oh, where is there a Texas today who is not proud that he is not only a Texas but a defender of the Southern Confederacy.

Texas still holds the faith in these old men and women as it did when mens souls were at stake back yonder in the sixties; they defended us then; today our great state, still cognizant of the fact, stands ready and willing to defend them now as they approach the last conflict of life.

We extend our congratulations to your old mother and if we have been instrumental in strewing roses along her pathway, and increasing the faultering steps she has made into a firmer grip on life - if we have served to make her last days her happiest days, our labor in her behalf has not been in vain.


Your friend,





Chas. P. Nance

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Application for Mortuary Warrant

The State of Texas,

County of Mills } I, Mrs. F. M. Tillman do hereby certify that I am the person to whom is entrusted the paying of the accounts and endebtedness of the late, Mrs. Izora Joan Casey, who was a pensioner of the State of Texas, and whose file number was 50300 and whose original county was Mills.

The said pensioner, Mrs. Izora Joan Casey, died on the 28 day of June, 1941, in the town of Mullin, County of Mills, Texas.

The pensioner died in the home of Mrs. F. M. Tillman who was related to the pensioner as daughter.

That the warrant, which application is hereby made for, shall be applied to paying all or part of the funeral expenses incurred by the said pensioner Mrs. Izora Joan Casey.

I further certify that the warrant for the current month has not been cashed by the pensioner, to the best of my knowledge and belief.

I am related to the pensioner as daughter, that my postoffice address is Mullin, Texas.


Signed Mrs. F. M. Tillman

Sworn to before me this 3 day of July 1941

S. J. Eaton

Notary Public in an for Mill State of Texas

Certificate of Undertaker

I, Z. T. Mc Cown, do certify that I am undertaker in the town of Mullin, County of Mills, State of Texas that I had charge of the body of Mrs. Izora Joan Casey, who died in the town of Mullin, County of Mills, State of Texas on the 28 day of June 1941. That said body was prepared for burial by me on the 28 day of June 1941, and that I am of the opinion that warrant herein applied for should be issued to the said J. M. Randolph Lbr. Co., Mullin Texas.

Signed, Z. T. McCown, Undertaker

Certificate of Physician

I, Ruel Slaughter, M.D., do certify that I am a practicing physician and that I attended Mrs. Izora Joan Casey in her last illness, and am of the opinion that her ailments were Apoplexy and Cardio Renal Vascular Disease.

I further certify that I am of the opinion that the Mortuary Warrant above requested should be issued in the name of the aforementioned applicant, in accordance with Act passed by the Thirty-eighth Legislature and approved March 2, 1923.

Signed, Ruel Slaughter, M.D.

Physician's Address, Goldthwaite, Texas

July 1, 1941 Execute and return at once.

(Handwritten at bottom of sheet.)

June 1941 Warrant # 28936

Canceled

(Medical):See attached sources.

Izora married Jesse Abram Gentry on 2 Sep 1894 in Mills County, Texas. Jesse (son of Preacher William G. Gentry and Mary "Polly" ???) was born on 27 Nov 1844 in Kentucky; died on 11 May 1915 in Mullin, Mills County, Texas; was buried in Oakview Cemetery, Mullin, Mills County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Mills Co. TX marriages:

J.A. Gentry married Mrs. I.J. Tolson or Folson Sept. 1, 1894

Danny Jones and Lynda Duncan Miles, on the FindAGrave memorial page they created for Izora, shows she and Jesse Abram Gentry were the parents of Mollie (b. 1896) and Stephen (b. 1897).