Could it have been a different James H. Ward? Sometimes a widow can collect
a pension. I went to the actual pension for a J. H. Ward of Grayson County
online but the filled in information was barely legible. It was indeed 1902
and the man was 73 years old.

 Since your fellow was long dead and it was a different county, it probably
was just another man with the same name.

 I have had it happen where both the veteran and his wife were both dead
before they were able to apply for a pension. So perhaps that is what
happened in his case.

 Just a thought.

    Beth
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Subject: questions on confederate pension rolls


> I am trying to discern if an ancestor of mine served in the War Between
the States and have some questions that I hope some of you could provide
insight into.
>
> I found a Confedrate pension roll at the VA Library online
(http://199.111.106.8/cgi-bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0319/W0381?71) which
matches as far as the name goes, but this relative of mine (James H. Ward)
died in 1882 and the pension roll cites an "Act of 1902." So if he's dead,
how can he attempt to collect on his pension? Does that mean that 1902 is
when he tried to collect or is the reference to 1902 clerical and maybe a
result of a later entry? If he was dead, who could have collected on his
pension later on?
> The other question I have about that pension roll is that it reads
"Grayson" in the county field, but I don't understand the relevance. Where
he was born, living? He is documented as having died in 1882 according to
Buckingham County records.
>
> Also, what to the roll #s and page #s refer to?
>
> SO... if anyone can provide suggestions on what I can do next or clarify
some of the meaning and relevance of the fields of into on the Confederate
Pension Rolls... I would be most appreciative.
>
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