Name of applicant: J.C. Bawcom
Burnet County
Post Office: Marble Falls, Texas
Comptroller's File No. 10015
Approved March 17, 1904

THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Burnet
To the Honorable County Judge of Burnet County, Texas. Your petitioner, J.C. Bawcom respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Burnet County, in the State of Texas, and that he makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act passed by the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved May 12, A.D. 1899, the same being an act entitled "An act to carry into effect the amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that aid may be granted to disabled and dependent Confederate soldiers, sailors, and their widows under certain conditions, and to make an appropriation therefor," and I do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true.

Q. What is your name? Answer: J.C. Bawcom
Q. What is your age? Answer: 69 years
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Burnet
Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: Lived in Burnet County about 42 years. Post office Marble Falls
Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so, state when and where. Answer: No
Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: Farmer when able to work
Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: I am unable to do manual labor
Q. If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn a support, state what caused such disability. Answer: Rheumatism Kidney & bladder Trouble
Q. In what State was your command originally organized? Answer: Texas
Q. How long did you serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer: March, 1862 May, 1865
Q. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? Answer: Company "B", 21st Texas Cavalry, Col. Carter's regiment
Q. State whether you served in the infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the navy. Answer: Cavalry
Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state what pension or veteran donation land certificate you have received. Answer: No
Q. What real and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such property and value. Answer: Own no property at all.
Q. What property, and what was the value thereof have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to the date of this application? Answer: None
Q. What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value? Answer: Wife is dead. Left no property.
Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer: None
Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer: Yes
Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support? Answer: Yes
Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer: No
Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? Answer: No
Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer: Yes

Q. If you originally enlisted in the Confederate service from the State of Texas, were you at the date of the passage of this act, a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas? Answer: Yes
Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law.
(Signature of Applicant) J.H. Mings (his X mark)