Meanings of necessitous person in English

Such taxes, therefore, fall almost always upon a necessitous person, and must, therefore, be frequently very cruel and oppressive.

His purse was open to all in need, and he "often sold" his single mule in order to relieve some necessitous person.

Since then this very ill-clad and really necessitous person has devoted himself to the honourable but exceedingly arduous and in general unremunerative occupation of story-telling.