Notes:

Name Age Occupation Birthplace
Harmon Stapp 47 years Farmer Burke Co, N.C.

Taken from book, 1864 Census for Reorganizing the Georgia Militia, Page 240 (Forsyth County), Abstracted & Compiled by Nancy J. Cornell
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Armstrong's Co., 4th Georgia Cavalry - State Guards
Stapp, Harmon
Private
Appears on Company Muster-In Roll of the organization named above. Roll dated Ami, August 25, 1863
Enlisted Aug 4, 1863 at Ami, Forsyth County, Georgia

RECORD OF EVENTS OF HARMON STAPP'S SERVICE WITH THE 4TH GEORGIA CAVALRY - STATE GUARDS


1863, Aug 4 Enlisted at Ami, Forsyth County, Georgia

1862, Aug 31 Appears on Company Muster-In Roll as "Present. Valuation in dollars: Horse $300; horse equipments $20. Remarks: Xx name appears as Harmon Stebb"

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Staff, Harman
Hall County, GA
554 Military District
2nd Lieutenant, Mar 23, 1864
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Stapp, Harmon
Forsyth County
See 39th Senatorial District Ga Militia District #841
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According to the 1870 Agricultural Special Census (#3) of Gwinnett County, Georgia, Harmon Stapp owned 45 acres of improved land, 40 acres of woodland, and 30 acres of other unimproved land, $50 worth of farming implements and machinery, 1 horse, 2 milk cows, and 1 other cattle, 18 sheep, 3 swine, 40 bushel of winter wheat, 50 bushel of Indian corn, 15 bushel of oats, 20 lbs of wool, 25 bushel of sweet potatoes, 50 lbs of butter, 50 lbs of honey, $15 of forest products, and $150 value in home manufacture. In all his farm was worth $500.
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INDIGENT PENSION 1900

Harmon Stapp
County: Gwinnett

Power Of Attorney
State of Georgia, Gwinnett County
I, Harmon Stapp, hereby authorize WW Young of Buford, GA to receive and receipt for the pension allowed, and requestthat he remit same to me at Buford by cash. Witness my hand and seal this 23 day of Jan 1900.

(signed) Harmon Stapp Executed in the presence of John P Webb, Ordinary


State of Georgia, Gwinnett County
Harmon Stapp of said State and County, desiring to avail himself of the Pension Act (Section 1254, Code), hereby submits his proofs, and after being duly sworn true answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:

WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Harmon Stapp in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Buford P.O.
HOW LONG AND SINCE WHEN HAVE YOU BEEN A RESIDENT OF THIS STATE? Since 1819 all of my life.
WHEN AND WHERE WERE YOU BORN? in 1819 in NC
WHEN AND WHERE AND IN WHAT COMPANY AND REGIMENT DID YOU ENLIST OR SERVE? in July 1864 in Co K, 30 Regt Ga Vols.
HOW LONG DID YOU REMAIN IN SUCH COMPANY AND REGIMENT? About 8 months in same Co and Regt
FOR HOW LONG A PERIOD DID YOU DISCHARGE REGULAR MILITARY DUTY? About 8 months
WHEN, WHERE AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES WERE YOU DISCHARGED FROM SERVICE? In April 1865 at the surrender at Macon, Ga and was honorably discharged.
WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT OCCUPATION? Nothing.
HOW MUCH CAN YOU EARN (GROSS) PER ANNUM BY YOUR OWN EXERTIONS OR LABOR? Nothing.
WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR OCCUPATION SINCE 1865? Farming and Blacksmith when able.
UPON WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING GROUNDS DO YOU BASE YOUR APPLICATION FOR PENSION, VIZ: FIRST, "AGE AND POVERTY" SECOND, "INFIRMITY AND POVERTY" OR THIRD, "BLINDNESS AND POVERTY?" Age and poverty.
STATE HOW LONG YOU HAVE BEEN IN SUCH CONDITION THAT YOU COULD NOT EARN YOU SUPPORT? I am old and not able to get about without help. I am 81 years of age and have nothing to live on. Not able to do any work in 5 years.
WHAT POVERTY, EFFECTS OR INCOME DO YOU POSSESS, AND ITS GROSS VALUE? Nothing.
WHAT PROPERTY, EFFECTS OR INCOME DID YOU POSSESS 1894 - 1899, AND WHAT DISPOSITION, IF ANY DID YOU MAKE THE SAME? Nothing. I have libed in Hall County til 1897 since that time have lived in Gwinnett County.
HOW WERE YOU SUPPORTED DURING THE YEARS 1898 AND 1899? by the help of my children.
WHAT PORTION DID YOU CONTRIBUTE THERETO BY YOUR OWN LABOR OR INCOME? he swares he does not know he contributed any.
WHAT WAS YOUR EMPLOYMENT DURING 1898 AND 1899? not able to do anything thing and had no income.
HAVE YOU A FAMILY? IF SO, WHO COMPOSES SUCH FAMILY? I have a wife, she is supported help of children. No homestead.
ARE YOU RECEIVING ANY PENSION? none

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the 23 January 1900. John P Webb. (signed) Harmon Stapp


State of Georgia, Gwinnett County
Personally came before me WW Power, M.D. and W.J. Rowe, M.D. both known to me as reputable physicians of said County, who, being severally sworn, say on oath that they have examined carefully Harmon Stapp, applicant for pension under Section 1254, Code, and after such personal examination say that his precise physical condition is as follows: "Very old and infirm almost entirely deaf, almost demented, suffering severe pain in right side supposed to be due to horse kick in time of Confederate War.

23 January 1900, John P Webb.


State of Georgia, Gwinnett County
J.B. Wright of the State and County, having been presented as a witness in support of the applicant of Harmon Stapp for pension, and after being duly sworn true answers to make the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:

WHAT IS YOUR NAME AND WHERE DO YOU RESIDE? J.B. Wright. I live in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
ARE YOU AQUAINTED WITH HARMON STAPP, THE APPLICANT? AND FOR HOW LONG? Yes, have known him ever since the war 1864.
WHERE DOES HE RESIDE AND HOW LONG AND SINCE WHEN HAS HE BEEN A RESIDENT OF THE STATE? in Gwinnett County Ga in Ga ever since the war.
WHEN, WHERE AND IN WHAT COMPANY AND REGIMENT DID HE ENLIST, AND HOW DO YOU KNOW? July 1864 in Co K 30 Regt Ga Vols. I was with him.
WERE YOU A MEMBER OF THE SAME COMPANY AND REGIMENT? yes.
HOW LONG DID HE PERFORM REGULAR MILITARY DUTY AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF HIS CONFEDERATE SERVICE, AND THE TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS DISCHARGE? About 8 months in said Co & Regt and was discharged at Macon in April 1865 by the surrender he was a faithful soldier. I was with him.
WHAT PROPERTY, EFFECTS OR INCOME HAS THE APPLICANT? Nothing. I live near him and personally know that he has nothing.
WHAT PROPERTY DID THE APPLICANT HAVE IN 1896 - 1899? Nothing, had nothing in those years.
HAS HE CONVEYED AWAY ANY OF HIS PROPERTY IN THE LAST YEARS? He has conveyed away nothing in these years.
WHAT IS THE APPLICANT'S OCCUPATION AND PHYSICAL CONDITION? He does nothing. He is not able to do any work of any sort.
IS THE APPLICANT UNABLE TO SUPPORT HIMSELF BY LABOR OF ANY SORT, IF SO, WHY? He is unable to support himself at any work or calling on account of his age.
HOW WAS HE SUPPORTED DURING THE YEARS 1898 & 1899? His children have supported him for 5 years totally at their own expense.
WHAT PORTION OF HIS SUPPORT FOR THESE TWO YEARS WAS DERIVED FROM HIS OWN LABOR OR INCOME? None.
GIVE A FULL AND COMPLETE STATEMENT OF THE APPLICANT'S PHYSICAL CONDITION THAT ENTITLES HIM TO A PENSION. he is old and not able to work at anything and was a faithful soldier in the Confederate War.

Sworn and subscribed before me, this 23 January 1900. J.B. Webb. J.B. (his X mark) Wright, witness.

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CONFEDERATE WIDOW'S PENSION APPLICATION OF AMANDA STAPP, WIFE OF HARMON STAPP

State of Alabama
Dekalb County
Schedule of Property filed with the Application for Pension
By Amanda Stapp
Real Estate: None
Description of Improvements thereon: No Property of any description
Personal Property: None
Personally appeared before me J. W. Hall, a justice of the peace in and for said State and County, Amanda Stapp who, being duly sworn deposes and says that the foregoing schedule embraces all the property owned by himself and wife, and that the valuation as fixed is a fair and just value thereof.

Amanda (her X mark) Stapp
2 July 1910
JW Hall
Justice of the Peace
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The State of Alabama )
De Kalb County )
This day comes John R. Jones and being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he saw the birth record made in the family bible of Mrs. Amanda Stapp, and the said record he found record, Amanda Stapp was borned on the 22 day of July 1830, and he further says that he believes Mrs. Stapp to be the age she represents herself to be. Sworn and subscribed before me this 2 day of Aug. 1910

Jas. A. Croley John R. Jones
Judge of Probate
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31367
Class No. 4
Application of Mrs. Amanda Stapp of the County of Dekalb

Report of the County Board.
We, the undersigned members of the pension Board of Examiners for the County of Dekalb, hereby certify that we have examined the within application by law and directed and we find that said application should ___ be granted, and the applicant be placed in Class 4.
W.E. Quinn
J.R. Jones

10 August 1910
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State of Alabama
In the matter of Mrs. Amanda Stapp, Pensioner, to the Honorable, The State Board of Pension Examiners:
The above named pensioner was duly cited to appear within twenty days from the 1 day of April, 1914, and on the __ day of __, 19__ did appear and made the following defense or explanation fo the charge against him, or her deceased husband.

(Handwritten note) Mrs. Stapp has failed to appear after she motioned, and I refuse(?) that she is not eligible to a pension.

7 May 1914
F. S. Ferguson
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7/10/14

Hon F. S. Ferguson

Sir:
I am the widow of harmon Stapp, and I have used every means in my power to find one of his comrades. i have been unable to do so, & I believe them all to be either dead or removed away to posts within (?). I was placed in the Pensions Reel (?) at Lawrenceville -Ga- about 8 - 10 years ago and drew a pension as the Wid of Harmon Stapp Co - B 43rd Ga Infty. I removed to Ala & my pension (?) on Ap 1st 1914- I was (?) that my husband's name was not in the rolls in Co B 43 Ga. I have been sick and had measles(?) - for 5 yearsI have no means of my (?) of what my friends and children furnish. I am in need & mayor's(?) consent help - being unable to write as my self - I am wishing to testify (?) that my husband, served 4 years in the Confederate Army & that 10 days before the war ended he came home on furlough in a crippled condition & before his furlough ended, the war ended. & I write to ask a reconsideration of my claim as I learn that I have been out off the rolls. I am totally unable to appear bef

Wilmer
A. E. acker

Amanda (her X mark) Stapp
R.F.D. No 3
PO Albertville

Harmon married MANGRUM Amanda on 9 Jan 1845 in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Amanda was born on 22 Jul 1830; died in in Albertville, Dekalb County, Alabama; was buried in Albertville, Dekalb County, Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The 1826 Georgia Land Lottery has John Stapp in Capt. Moor's District, Number 272, District 8, Section 1.

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FORSYTH COUNTY LAND DEEDS, BOOK D

This indenture made and entered into this twenty ninth day of June in the year of [our] Lord Eightenn hundred and thirty six between John Stapp of the County and State aforesaid of the one part and William Martin of the County of Forsyth and state aforesaid of the other part witnesseth that the said John Stapp for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars to him in hand paid by the siad William Martin at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted, bargained, sold, and conveyed and do by these presents grant bargain and sell and convey unto the said William Martin, his heirs and assigns all that tract or parcel of Land containing forty acres situate lying and being the second district of the first section of Cherokee County now Forsyth County and State aforesaid known by the number Four Hundred and Twenty (420) to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of Land unto him the said William Martin his heirs and assigns tog

Hardy Strickland & Samuel Edmondson John Stapp (Seal)

State of Georgia, Forsyth County
Personally came before me Mr Samuel Edmondson who being duly sworn saith that he saw John Stapp sign the within deed for the purpose therein mentioned and also saw Hardy Strickland subscribe his name as a witness and myself was a witness likewise sworn to and subscribed beofre me this 7th day of January 1837

WW Vaughan, J.P., Samuel Edmondson. Recorded 10th January, 1837

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(I wasn't sure which John Stepp/Stapp this was, so I have included it with both John Sr. and John Jr.)

Court December Term 1843

Wm J Winn heirs )
vs. ) Case
John Stepp )

The defendant John Stepp according to law and appeared in Court. It is ordered by the court that he be permitted to Swear (hard to read) to said Schedule agreeable & that he be discharged.

John married UNKNOWN Chaney in North Carolina?. Chaney was born about 1789 in Tennessee; died between 1860 and 1870 in Saint Clair County, Alabama; was buried between 1860 and 1870 in Saint Clair County, Alabama?. [Group Sheet]

Gholson married PENNINGTON Alice on 23 Jul 1782 in Wilkes or Burke County, North Carolina. Alice was born in 1759. [Group Sheet]