North Carolina Digital Collections-1901 Confederate Pension Applications

Mary Jane Beaman, widow of John A Beaman of Montgomery County, North Carolina.

Widow's Pension Application

Application date 29 May 1835

Married John A. Beaman August 1889

John died 27 September 1914

Courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
North Carolina Digital Collection
1901 Confederate Pension Applications
http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/home/collections/1901-confederate-pension-applications

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I’m currently researching and writing a Civil War story involving the Beaman, Cranford, Hulin, Hurley, and Moore families of Montgomery County, North Carolina. At the onset of the war many of them were members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church They were hard working farmers who owned no slaves; their loyalties and beliefs were strongly tested by the war. In the Piedmont area of North Carolina violence became commonplace as a result of these beliefs, and led to persecution and murder. The story of outliers and Home Guard, conscription and desertion, culminating in the murder of three Hulin brothers is the story I am researching.