Depositions of Caswell Tate
Contributed by Judith Martin
CASWELL TATE’S MARRIAGE RECORD
Marriage Bond
February 2, 1842 on record in Madison County Kentucky signed by Caswell TATE and James RAYBOURN.
“Certify that the above was solemnized by me according to the custom of the
Christian Church and fully complied with by the parties the 3rd of April 1846”.
Signed
Thacker Bush
MILITARY RECORD OF CASWELL TATE
October 10, 1860
Joined for duty at Richmond, KY for a
period of three years
March 5, 1862
Mustered into U.S. Service by Capt. H.
C. BANKHEAD, U. S. A.
March 17, 1862
Enrolled as Pvt. In Capt. BUTLER’S
Company, 26th Regiment in Kentucky Infantry at Camp Andrew Jackson,
Tennessee at the age of 42 years old.
March - December
Present as Private with Company F
26th in Kentucky Infantry. (Captain BUTLER’S Company
became F)
January & February 1863
Present as Corporal;
REPORT OF ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, DC
June 22, 1876
Pension No. 223094
“It appears from the
Rolls on file in this office that Caswell TATE was enrolled on the 10th
day of October 1861, at Richmond, Kentucky in Company F, 26th
Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers, to serve three years or during war, and
mustered into service as a Private on the 5th day of March 1862 at
Camp A. Jackson, Tennessee in Company F 26th Regiment of Kentucky to
serve three years or during the war. On the Muster Rolls of Company F of
that Regiment for the months of January and February 1863 he is reported
Corporal, Present. His name is not borne upon any subsequent Rolls of
Company or on Rolls of Company B same Regiment (with which Company F was
consolidated in April 1864)”
This man died April 7, 1863 in Regimental Hospital of “Dropsy of Heart”.
Signed ………….
Assistant Adjutant General
DECLARATION FOR PENSION OF CHILDREN UNDER SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE
State of Kentucky, County of Madison
On the day of July 1877
personally appeared before me, James TEVIS, Clerk of the Madison County Court
the same being a court of record within and for the county and state aforesaid,
Benajah TATE, a resident of Foxtown District, County of Madison, Kentucky, age
24 years who being duly sworn according to law makes the following declarations
in order to obtain the pension provided by acts of congress for children under
16 years of age: That he is the only legal guardian of Caswell TATE, the
only minor child at the time. (The others named below being over 16 years
old now) Being the legitimate heirs of Caswell TATE who volunteered under
the name of Caswell TATE on the 10th day of October 1861 and was
enrolled in Nashville, Tennessee, 8th of March in Company F,
Kentucky Infantry in the war of Rebellion who died of consumption caused by
exhaustion at Bowling Green, Kentucky on the 7th day of April 1863
and who bore at the time of his death the rank of Corporal. That he left
no widow surviving him, his wife having died July 5, 1860 and that Polly S., Benajah,
Shelby, Patsy and Caswell TATE are the only surviving children of said Caswell
TATE who were under age of 16 at the time of his death. Said children
were the issue of said soldier as follows, dates of being stated:
That the father was
married under the name of Caswell TATE February 3, 1846 by Reverend T. Bush to
Amanda Rebourn, there being no legal barrier to such marriage, that the said
children have not aided or abetted the rebellion, and that no prior application
has been filed. That declarant hereby appoints A. F. BURNAM his attorney
to prosecute the above claims; that his residence is at Foxtown District in the
county of Madison, state of Kentucky and that his post office address in
White Hall, Madison County Kentucky.
Attest Benejah TATE
C. F. BURNAM
Claimant’s Signature
N. B. DEATHERAGE
Also appeared C. F.
BURNAM, residing in Main ? Street in Richmond, Kentucky and N. B. DEATHERAGE,
residing in Main Street in Richmond, Kentucky persons whom I certify to be
……………
NO. 223.094
ACTS OF JULY 14, 1862 AND MARCH 3, 1873
Benajah TATE, White
Hall, Kentucky guardian of minor children of Caswell TATE, Corporal in Company
F, 26th Kentucky Infantry Volunteers. Died at Bowling Green, Kentucky
April 7, 1863.
October 14, 1875
APPLICATION FILED: AUGUST 10, 1877
Attorney:
In the claim number
220094 of the minor heirs of Caswell TATE for a pension; we the undersigned who
have testified as witnesses, to wit: Nancy REBOURN, Susan PATTESTON, Emma
OLDHAM, Zachariah TATE, James ANDERSON and C. C. HARRIS state they have no
interest in this claim.
Signed by above
Sworn to before me
by (the above named) this May 21st, 1878
G. B. MILLION, J. P. of M. C.
ZACHARIAH TATE
State of Kentucky
County of Madison
Zachariah TATE states
that his age is 65 years, he is a resident of Clark County Kentucky and a
brother of Caswell TATE, deceased. He died on the 7th April 1863 at Bowling Green,
Kentucky while a Union soldier. His wife’s name
before his marriage was Amanda RABOURN. His children were Pleasant TATE
born January 9, 1847, Polly TATE born March 15 etc………….. So far as I know or
ever heard there never was any church record of baptism of the children.
Such a record is unknown to families of ------- Commonwealth of Kentucky especially
outside of the Roman Catholic and British Episcopal Churches.
Dr. Jacob L. WHITE,
the family physician of my brother Caswell TATE, has been dead for a number of
years and Mrs. Nancy RABURN, the grandmother of these children, whose affidavit
has been given in this case was no doubt present at the birth of them and she
is truthful and reliable witness and no better evidence of their birth can be
-------- except that a paper extracted from the old family Bible is filed and
made part of this affidavit marked T. This writing is in the -----------
hand writing of my deceased brother and this was taken from the only family
Bible owned by him. There was always an affectionate relationship between
my deceased brother and myself and I know the facts affirmed by me. On
this paper T there seems to be two names of James, a child and an un-named
infant who had died before Caswell TATE went into the army.
Zachariah TATE
Also the statement
of James W. RABURN; this affidavit states his age is 32 years and he is a half
brother of Amanda TATE, deceased, and he knows the persons named in the
preceding affidavit of Zachariah TATE ------------
JAMES W. RABURN
Children of Caswell
TATE, deceased and the facts as to there being no church or public record of
their ages and the death of WHITE, the family physician is true and that his
mother, whose affidavit has been heretofore filed, had knowledge which is
reliable of all the facts stated by her. He also has enclosed the paper
extracted from the family Bible of Caswell TATE and referred to it to
show the dates of the births of Caswell TATE’S children who were under age at
the time of his death.
James W. RABURN
PAGE FROM THE FAMILY BIBLE
Lists the children
listed above as well as;
NANCY TATE RAYBOURN
Nancy RABURN says
that she is the aunt and step-grandmother of all of the children of Caswell
TATE. That she lived not exceeding a half of one mile from the home of
said TATE during his lifetime. That she has personal knowledge of the
time of the births of all of said children, having seen them all before they
were a week old and been actually present at the birth of some of them.
She says their birth was duly recorded in the family Bible at the time they
were born, and that these dates thus shown are as follows:
There is no public
record of the births of these children, or church records are kept in this
state or anywhere else in this county that I have ever known of. The
physician who attended at the birth of these children was Dr. Jake WHITE of
White Hall, Madison County Kentucky (I myself assisted as midwife at the birth
of some of them) who died some 12 or 14 years ago and this information as to
the ages of these children is correct and is the most reliable that can be
ascertained.
Nancy REBURN
Sworn to before the
Justice of the Peace of Madison County Kentucky this the 18th of January, 1878.
Overtan BIGGERSTAFF
BENAJAH TATE
Also the affidavit
of Benajah TATE who states in ---------- to the letter of Honorable ---------
of Pensions dated 6th ------- 1878 filed herewith that he can make
no better proof of the facts of the births of his father’s children that has
been heretofore made except that he tore out of the old family Bible the page
appended to the foregoing affidavit of Zachariah TATE and J. W. RABORN and he
prays that the ----------- claim for a pension so long delayed may at last be
granted -------------
Benajah TATE