Name of applicant: J.H. Mings
Upshur County
Post Office: Gilmer, Texas
Comptroller's File No. 4068
Approved October 12, 1899

THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Upshur
To the Honorable County Judge of Upshur County, Texas. Your petitioner, Jas H Mings respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Upshur 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.H. Mings
Q. What is your age? Answer: 66 yrs old
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Upshur
Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: 33 yrs, Gilmer, Tex
Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so, state when and where. Answer: Have not applied for a pension
Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: Farmer
Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: Unable to work on account of age and general debility
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: A complication of ailments dating back to the war
Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time of your service? Answer: Company "K", 11th Tex Inf, 5 months
Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where, and the time of your service. Answer: Did not serve in Navy
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: Haven't rec'd any aid from the State whatsoever
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: 18 acres of land worth $250. One horse worth $20. 2 head of Cattle worth $20. 10 hogs worth $12.50
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 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 with the exception of what I have listed
Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support? Answer: Yes, sir.
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, sir.
Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? Answer: No, sir.
Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer: Yes, sir.

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

To all whom it may concern
Know ye that James H. Mings a private of Captain O.E. Roberts Company K, 11th Texas Regiment who was enlisted the 22nd day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty two to serve one year is hereby Honorably discharged from the Army of the Confederate States by reason of General disability and injury of the lungs produced by an attack of Pneumonia.
Said James H. Mings was born in Lownes County in the State of Alabama is Twenty nine years of age six feet high fair complexion blue eyes light hair and by occupation when enlisted a farmer.
Given at Camp (Cloughthis?) the 22 day of July 1862
(signed)O.M. Roberts