Name of applicant: Mrs. M.J. Mings
Upshur County
Post Office: Gilmer, Texas
Comptroller's File No. 14055
Approved September 26, 1908

THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Upshur
To the Honorable County Judge of Upshur County, Texas. Your petitioner, Mrs. M.J. Mings respectfully represents that she is a resident citizen of Upshur County, in the State of Texas; that she is the widow of J.H. Mings, deceased, who was a Confederate soldier (or sailor), and that she makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension as the widow of said J.H. Mings, deceased, 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: M.J. Mings
Q. What is your age? Answer: 78 years old
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: Upshur County
Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address? Answer: Have resided in Upshur County forty three years, P.O. Gilmer, Texas
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: none not able to engage in one
Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: very feeble
Q. What was the name of your deceased husband?. Answer: J.H. Mings
Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date were you married to him and where? Answer: Yes, married in April 1857
Q. What was the date of his death? Answer: April 26th, 1908
Q. Are you unmarried, and have you so remained unmarried since the death of your said husband for whose services you claim a pension? Answer: yes
Q. In what State was your husband's command originally organized? Answer: in Texas
Q. How long did your husband serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer: This is fully shown in my husbands application on file in Austin
Q. What was the name or letter of your husband's company and name or number of his regiment? Answer: Shown also in said papers
Q. State whether he served in the infantry, artillery, cavalry or the navy. Answer: Infantry
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: None
Q. What real and personal property do you own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such property and value. Answer: 18 acres of land near Gilmer, no residence on it: valued at about one hundred and fifty Dollars, no personal property
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
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: none
Q. Did your husband for whose services you claim a pension ever desert the Confederacy? Answer: no
Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of March, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer: yes

Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for a pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law.
(Signature of Applicant) Mrs. M.J. Mings