Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
NameMary Elizabeth Gardner 
, 2C2R
, 2C2RBirth2 Apr 1849, Natchitoches Psh LA
DeathDec 1917, Stockdale, Wilson Co TX Age: 68
BurialStockdale Cemetery, Wilson Co TX
FatherJoseph William "Peter" Gardner (1810-1869)
MotherMartha Anne Stacy (1822-1882)
Spouses
1Columbus Heathcock , GG Uncle
, GG UncleBirth1842, New Market, Madison Co AL
Death14 Dec 1895 Age: 53
FatherAlfred Hathcock (1810-1885)
MotherElizabeth Cook (1816-?)
Marriage6 Jan 1865, Castroville, Medina Co TX
ChildrenMary (1866-<1910)
John Henry (1868-1950)
Sarah (1876-)
William Claude (1878-1969)
Leona (1883-1949)
Margaret (Maggie) (1886-1950)
Alma (1890-)
Ethel (1893-1984)
Callie (1876-ca1902)
Notes for Mary Elizabeth Gardner
On 31 May 1902, Columbus Heathcock's widow, Elizabeth Heathcock filed an application for a widow's pension. Comptroller's File No 9407, Approved September 30, 1902.
To the honorable County Judge of Wilson County, Texas.
Your petitioner, Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock respectfully represents that she is a resident citizen of Wilson County, in the State of Texas; that she is the widow of Columbus Heathcock, 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 Columbus Heathcock 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 Elizabeth Heathcock
Q. What is your age? Answer 52 years of age
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Wilson County Texas
Q. How long have you resided is said County and what is your post office address? Answer 20 years, PO Stockdale Wilson County 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 you occupation if able to engage in one? Answer I have now occupation
Q. What is you phisical condition? Answer Very Poorley
Q. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer Columbus Heathcock
Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date were you married to him and where? Answer Castroville Tex. Jany 6 1865
Q. What was the date of his death? Answer December 14th 1895
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. State in what company and regiment your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension enlisted in the Confederate Army, and the time of his
servivce therin? Answer Comy. E. 3rd Texas Infantry, Arbuckles (Co.) Lucketts Regiment - served 3 yrs.
Q. If you deceased husband served in the Confederate Navy, state when and where, and the time of such service? Answer No
Q. State whether or not you have received and pension or vetran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state
what penson or vetran donation land certificate you have so received. Answer No
Q. What rean and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such property and value. Answer Our
wagon and two mules valued at $185.00
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. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer No
Q. Did your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension, ever desert the Confederacy? Answer No
Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer Yes
Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law.
Elizabeth Heathcock
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31 day of May A. D. 1902
H B Gaugen
County Judge, Wilson County, Texas
The State of Texas, County of Wilson Before me H. B. Gaugen, County Judge in and for Wilson County, Texas on this day personally appeared M. S. West and J. Degen who are personally known to me to be credible citizens who being by me duly sworn in oath State that they personally know that Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock, applicant for a pension as the widow of Columbus Heathcock deceased is in truth and fact the Widow of the said Columbus Heathcock deceased that they personally know that the said Columbus Heathcock deceased enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier as claimed by his said Widow in the above and foregoing application and that they further know that the said Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock Widow of the said Columbus Heathcock deceased is unable to support herself by labor of any sort.
Witnesses M. S. West
J. Degen
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 25th day of Sept A.D. 1902
H. B. Baugen
County Judge Wilson
County Texas
To the honorable County Judge of Wilson County, Texas.
Your petitioner, Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock respectfully represents that she is a resident citizen of Wilson County, in the State of Texas; that she is the widow of Columbus Heathcock, 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 Columbus Heathcock 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 Elizabeth Heathcock
Q. What is your age? Answer 52 years of age
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Wilson County Texas
Q. How long have you resided is said County and what is your post office address? Answer 20 years, PO Stockdale Wilson County 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 you occupation if able to engage in one? Answer I have now occupation
Q. What is you phisical condition? Answer Very Poorley
Q. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer Columbus Heathcock
Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date were you married to him and where? Answer Castroville Tex. Jany 6 1865
Q. What was the date of his death? Answer December 14th 1895
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. State in what company and regiment your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension enlisted in the Confederate Army, and the time of his
servivce therin? Answer Comy. E. 3rd Texas Infantry, Arbuckles (Co.) Lucketts Regiment - served 3 yrs.
Q. If you deceased husband served in the Confederate Navy, state when and where, and the time of such service? Answer No
Q. State whether or not you have received and pension or vetran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state
what penson or vetran donation land certificate you have so received. Answer No
Q. What rean and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such property and value. Answer Our
wagon and two mules valued at $185.00
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. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer No
Q. Did your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension, ever desert the Confederacy? Answer No
Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer Yes
Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law.
Elizabeth Heathcock
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31 day of May A. D. 1902
H B Gaugen
County Judge, Wilson County, Texas
The State of Texas, County of Wilson Before me H. B. Gaugen, County Judge in and for Wilson County, Texas on this day personally appeared M. S. West and J. Degen who are personally known to me to be credible citizens who being by me duly sworn in oath State that they personally know that Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock, applicant for a pension as the widow of Columbus Heathcock deceased is in truth and fact the Widow of the said Columbus Heathcock deceased that they personally know that the said Columbus Heathcock deceased enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier as claimed by his said Widow in the above and foregoing application and that they further know that the said Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock Widow of the said Columbus Heathcock deceased is unable to support herself by labor of any sort.
Witnesses M. S. West
J. Degen
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 25th day of Sept A.D. 1902
H. B. Baugen
County Judge Wilson
County Texas
Research notes for Mary Elizabeth Gardner
1900 Census Justice Precinct 3, Wilson, Texas
Name Age
Mary E Heathcock 56
John A Heathcock 33
William C Heathcock 18
Leona Heathcock 16
Margaret Heathcock 13
Alva Heathcock 9
Ethel Heathcock 6
1910 Census Justice Precinct 7, Bexar, Texas
Name Age
William C Heathcock 29 head
May E Heathcock 60 mother
Ethel Heathcock 16 sister
Stell Holland 10 nephew
Name Age
Mary E Heathcock 56
John A Heathcock 33
William C Heathcock 18
Leona Heathcock 16
Margaret Heathcock 13
Alva Heathcock 9
Ethel Heathcock 6
1910 Census Justice Precinct 7, Bexar, Texas
Name Age
William C Heathcock 29 head
May E Heathcock 60 mother
Ethel Heathcock 16 sister
Stell Holland 10 nephew
Notes for Columbus (Spouse 1)
Columbus Heathcock appears in the record for the first time in 1861 when he enlisted under Captain Arbuckle in the Texas Infantry. The fortunate fact that his discharge papers state that he was born in Madison County Alabama provides definite evidence that the Alfred Heathcock of Wilson County was the same Alfred Hathcock who lived in Madison County in the 1830s and 1840s. On 6 January 1865 Columbus Heathcock married Mary Elizabeth Gardner in Castroville, Texas. In 1868 he filed for a 160 acre homestead on the Ecleto Creek in Wilson County. The land was just to the south of his father's homestead. There was a dispute over the boundaries of this claim, as the surveyor apparently included a part of the M. C. Wing claim. Columbus abandoned his claim and the land was later claimed and eventually patented by J. D. Fly.
Notes for Columbus (Spouse 1)
Notes for MARY ELIZABETH GARDNER:122
On 31 May 1902, Columbus Heathcock's widow, Elizabeth Heathcock filed an application for a widow's pension.
123Comptroller's File No 9407, Approved September 30, 1902.
To the honorable County Judge of Wilson County, Texas.
Your petitioner, Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock respectfully represents that she is a resident citizen of Wilson County, in the State of Texas; that she is the widow of Columbus Heathcock, 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 Columbus Heathcock 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 Elizabeth Heathcock
Q. What is your age? Answer 52 years of age
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Wilson County Texas
Q. How long have you resided is said County and what is your post office address? Answer 20 years, PO Stockdale Wilson County 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 you occupation if able to engage in one? Answer I have now occupation
Q. What is you phisical condition? Answer Very Poorley
Q. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer Columbus Heathcock
Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date were you married to him and where? Answer Castroville Tex. Jany 6 1865
Q. What was the date of his death? Answer December 14th 1895
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. State in what company and regiment your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension enlisted in the Confederate Army, and the time of his
servivce therin? Answer Comy. E. 3rd Texas Infantry, Arbuckles (Co.) Lucketts Regiment - served 3 yrs.
Q. If you deceased husband served in the Confederate Navy, state when and where, and the time of such service? Answer No
Q. State whether or not you have received and pension or vetran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state
what penson or vetran donation land certificate you have so received. Answer No
Q. What rean and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such property and value. Answer Our
wagon and two mules valued at $185.00
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. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer No
Q. Did your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension, ever desert the Confederacy? Answer No
Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer Yes
Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law.
Elizabeth Heathcock
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31 day of May A. D. 1902
H B Gaugen
County Judge, Wilson County, Texas
The State of Texas, County of Wilson Before me H. B. Gaugen, County Judge in and for Wilson County, Texas on this day personally appeared M. S. West and J. Degen who are personally known to me to be credible citizens who being by me duly sworn in oath State that they personally know that Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock, applicant for a pension as the widow of Columbus Heathcock deceased is in truth and fact the Widow of the said Columbus Heathcock deceased that they personally know that the said Columbus Heathcock deceased enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier as claimed by his said Widow in the above and foregoing application and that they further know that the said Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock Widow of the said Columbus Heathcock deceased is unable to support herself by labor of any sort.
Witnesses M. S. West
J. Degen
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 25th day of Sept A.D. 1902
H. B. Baugen
County Judge Wilson
County Texas
On 31 May 1902, Columbus Heathcock's widow, Elizabeth Heathcock filed an application for a widow's pension.
123Comptroller's File No 9407, Approved September 30, 1902.
To the honorable County Judge of Wilson County, Texas.
Your petitioner, Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock respectfully represents that she is a resident citizen of Wilson County, in the State of Texas; that she is the widow of Columbus Heathcock, 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 Columbus Heathcock 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 Elizabeth Heathcock
Q. What is your age? Answer 52 years of age
Q. In what County do you reside? Answer Wilson County Texas
Q. How long have you resided is said County and what is your post office address? Answer 20 years, PO Stockdale Wilson County 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 you occupation if able to engage in one? Answer I have now occupation
Q. What is you phisical condition? Answer Very Poorley
Q. What was the name of your deceased husband? Answer Columbus Heathcock
Q. Were you married to him anterior to March 1, 1866? If so, on what date were you married to him and where? Answer Castroville Tex. Jany 6 1865
Q. What was the date of his death? Answer December 14th 1895
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. State in what company and regiment your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension enlisted in the Confederate Army, and the time of his
servivce therin? Answer Comy. E. 3rd Texas Infantry, Arbuckles (Co.) Lucketts Regiment - served 3 yrs.
Q. If you deceased husband served in the Confederate Navy, state when and where, and the time of such service? Answer No
Q. State whether or not you have received and pension or vetran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state
what penson or vetran donation land certificate you have so received. Answer No
Q. What rean and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give list of such property and value. Answer Our
wagon and two mules valued at $185.00
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. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer No
Q. Did your deceased husband for whose services you claim a pension, ever desert the Confederacy? Answer No
Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer Yes
Wherefore your petitioner prays that her application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law.
Elizabeth Heathcock
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31 day of May A. D. 1902
H B Gaugen
County Judge, Wilson County, Texas
The State of Texas, County of Wilson Before me H. B. Gaugen, County Judge in and for Wilson County, Texas on this day personally appeared M. S. West and J. Degen who are personally known to me to be credible citizens who being by me duly sworn in oath State that they personally know that Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock, applicant for a pension as the widow of Columbus Heathcock deceased is in truth and fact the Widow of the said Columbus Heathcock deceased that they personally know that the said Columbus Heathcock deceased enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier as claimed by his said Widow in the above and foregoing application and that they further know that the said Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcock Widow of the said Columbus Heathcock deceased is unable to support herself by labor of any sort.
Witnesses M. S. West
J. Degen
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 25th day of Sept A.D. 1902
H. B. Baugen
County Judge Wilson
County Texas
Notes for Columbus (Spouse 1)
Individual: Heathcock, Colunbus
County/State: Wilson Co., TX
Location: E. D. 150
Page #: 074
Year: 1880
Census Data:
Columbus Heathcock, W M 35, Married, Farmer, born Ala, Father - Ala
Elizabeth Heathcock, W F 29, Wife, Married, Keeping House, born LA, Father - LA
Mary A. Heathcock, W F 14, Daughter, At Home, born Texas, Father - Ala, Mother - LA
J. Henry Heathcock, W M 12, Son, At Home, born Texas, Father - Ala, Mother - LA
Sarah C. Heathcock, W F 4, Daughter, born Texas, Father - Ala, Mother - LA
William Heathcock, W M 1, Son, born Texas, Father - Ala, Mother - LA
1900 US Census of Wilson Co., Texas, ED 118, Page 162a
Dwelling 175, Family 165
1. Heathcock, Mary E., Head, W F July 1844, 56, W, 8 children, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Farmer
2. Heathcock, John H. Son, W M May 1879, 30, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas, Farm Laborer
3. Heathcock, William C., Son, W M Dec 1881, 18, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas, Farm Laborer
4. Heathcock, Leona, Daughter, W F Oct 1873, 16, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas
5. Heathcock, Margaret, Daughter, W F Oct 1886, 13, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas, At School
6. Heathcock, Alva, Daughter, W F Jun 1890, 9, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas
7. Heathcock, Ethel, Daughter, W F Oct 1893, 6, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas
1910 US Census of Bexar Co., Texas, ED78 sht 13B
Dwelling 205, Family 218
1. Heathcock, William C., Head, M W 29, S, Texas, Louisiana, Louisiana, Farmer
2. Heathcock, Mary E., Mother, F W 60, Wd, 12/6, Louisiana, Mississippi, Louisiana
3. Heathcock, Ethel, Sister, F W 16, S, Texas
4. Holland, Stell, Nephew, M W 10, S, Texas, Texas, Texas
County/State: Wilson Co., TX
Location: E. D. 150
Page #: 074
Year: 1880
Census Data:
Columbus Heathcock, W M 35, Married, Farmer, born Ala, Father - Ala
Elizabeth Heathcock, W F 29, Wife, Married, Keeping House, born LA, Father - LA
Mary A. Heathcock, W F 14, Daughter, At Home, born Texas, Father - Ala, Mother - LA
J. Henry Heathcock, W M 12, Son, At Home, born Texas, Father - Ala, Mother - LA
Sarah C. Heathcock, W F 4, Daughter, born Texas, Father - Ala, Mother - LA
William Heathcock, W M 1, Son, born Texas, Father - Ala, Mother - LA
1900 US Census of Wilson Co., Texas, ED 118, Page 162a
Dwelling 175, Family 165
1. Heathcock, Mary E., Head, W F July 1844, 56, W, 8 children, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Farmer
2. Heathcock, John H. Son, W M May 1879, 30, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas, Farm Laborer
3. Heathcock, William C., Son, W M Dec 1881, 18, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas, Farm Laborer
4. Heathcock, Leona, Daughter, W F Oct 1873, 16, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas
5. Heathcock, Margaret, Daughter, W F Oct 1886, 13, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas, At School
6. Heathcock, Alva, Daughter, W F Jun 1890, 9, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas
7. Heathcock, Ethel, Daughter, W F Oct 1893, 6, Single, Texas, Texas, Texas
1910 US Census of Bexar Co., Texas, ED78 sht 13B
Dwelling 205, Family 218
1. Heathcock, William C., Head, M W 29, S, Texas, Louisiana, Louisiana, Farmer
2. Heathcock, Mary E., Mother, F W 60, Wd, 12/6, Louisiana, Mississippi, Louisiana
3. Heathcock, Ethel, Sister, F W 16, S, Texas
4. Holland, Stell, Nephew, M W 10, S, Texas, Texas, Texas