Military Records Search the Index Page for other information on this person. For landowners, go directly to this link (land lots including the W.H. Outlaw Farm) or this link (land lots not including the W.H. Outlaw Farm). For primary life documents and the virtual cemetery, follow this link. Last edit: 2018-01-31 -------------------------------------- Brief biography: W.H.H. Outlaw was born in 1840 in Dale County, Alabama. His mother, Pillie nee Webb, died when he was young, and he was given to the Dawson Webb family (New Lois, Berrien County, Georgia) to raise in 1846. Dawson is likely to have been Pillie's father (making him my 3d greatgrandfather; elsewhere, I have charted (long download) that he is my 4th greatgrandfather on my Sutton line). After the war, documented here, he settled in Lowndes county, then established a successful farming operation on/near Possum Creek Road, Ray City (Berrien County, Georgia). In December, 1896 (more here), he sold his farm to his two younger sons, with the priviso that he could live on it as long as he wished. This sale might have been a mechanism of providing means to their father, or it might have been to set him up to apply for the pension. At the time of his death, he was living with my grandfather, L.G. Outlaw, 3 miles east of Nashville (Berrien County, Georgia).
Service record------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary Initial pension application (not available) declined (Jan 1, 1903)---------Original Second and successful application (Sep 23, 1903)----------------------------Original-------------------------Excerpts Physicians' affidavit for pension application(Sep 23, 1903)---------------- Original ----------------------- Annotated Excerpt Questions for witness (Benjamin Sirmans) (Sep 23, 1903) ------------------Original ----------------------- Annotated Excerpt Ordinary certificate for Sirmans' affidavit (Sep 23, 1903)------------------- Original Deposition by Solomon Griffin for pension application (Feb 1, 1904)--- Original------------------------ Annotated Transcript Support/cover letter by Representative J.P. Knight for pension application (Feb 2, 1904)----------------Original Pension renewal application (Jan 9, 1905)--------------------------------------- Original Pension renewal application (Jan 15, 1906)-------------------------------------- Original Pension renewal application (Jan 11, 1907)-------------------------------------- Original State of Georgia Pension roll (after Apr 1908: death date of another pensioner found on document)- Original State of Georgia Pension roll (after Jul 1910: death status on document)--Original
-------------------------------------- Footnote 1. I obtained the pension records from the Georgia State Archives in 1980. Now, Ancestry has this collection--and some superflous ones (power of Attorney to collect pension, cover pages) that I have omitted. Likewise, the pension records have been available to the public online since 2009 from the Georgia Archives. Thus, my added value is organization, transcription, and interpretation. I obtained the handwritten rosters from the Ordinary's Office, Berrien County, GA, decades ago. Fold3 has additional military records, but they are scant and give few details (e.g., the bounty payment) beyond those in the pension records. For Ancestry subscribers, I have appended the military records to this page.
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