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

EX PARTE
J.C. Bawcom
Applicant for Confederate Pension
IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERATE PENSION
Under Act May 12, 1899, pending in County Commissioners' Court of Burnet County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County.
Answers and depositions of George W. Lacy and Frank Thomas to the accompanying interrogatories propounded to them in the above entitled cause taken before Ike D. White, County Judge, Burnet County, Texas, in accordance with the accompanying waiver.

To the first interrogatory the said witnesses answer:
Frank Thomas says - My name is Frank Thomas, age 61, reside in Burnet, Burnet County, Texas, my post office is Burnet, Texas. George W. Lacy says - my name is George W. Lacy, age 66 years, reside in Marble Falls, Burnet County, Texas. My post office is Marble Falls.

To the second interrogatory said witnesses answer:
We know J.C. Bawcom, said applicant for a pension.

To the third interrogatory said witnesses answer:
Frank Thomas says: I have known said applicant for 45 years. First knew him in Burnet County about 45 years ago and have known him ever since. George W. Lacy says - I have known the said Bawcom ever since 1862. Got acquainted with him when we enlisted in the confederate army in March, 1862, in Burnet County.

To the fourth interrogatory said witnesses answer:
We do. We were all in the same company. He performed the duty of a solider.

To the fifth interrogatory said witnesses answer:
We personally know in what company and regiment the said J.C. Bawcom enlisted in the confederate army. He enlisted in company "B" 21st Texas cavalry in March, 1862, in Burnet County, Texas, and he served from the date of enlistment until May, 1865.

To the sixth interrogatory said witnesses say:
From the said applicants appearance and what he says of his physical condition and what we can see we do not think that he is able to support himself by labor of any sort.

To the first cross interrogatory said witnesses answer:
We know that applicant enlisted and served in the confederate army as above stated because we served with him in the same company and regiment and knew him well in the service. He was the only J.C. Bawcom in the company mentioned and the only one we knew in the army.

To the second cross interrogatory said witness answered:
We are.

To the third cross interrogatory said witnesses answer:
We have already fully answered this interrogatory and gave our reasons for believing as we have stated.

To the fourth cross interrogatory said witnesses answered:
The said J.C. Bawcom never deserted the confederacy.

(Signed) Frank Thomas
(Signed) G.W. Lacy
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 8th day of June 1902