From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Mar 12 22:06:55 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2D56tjb008954; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:06:55 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2D56s1p025874 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:06:54 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k2D2aUFI011439 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:36:30 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k2D2aTBK011438 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:36:29 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k2D0XKFI011200 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:33:20 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k2D33Y8h013892 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:03:34 -0700 X-Envelope-From: juanita2@cox.net Sun Mar 12 20:03:34 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2D33Yjb013883 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:03:34 -0700 Received: from centrmmtao05.cox.net (centrmmtao05.cox.net [70.168.83.79]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2D33Xne025431 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:03:33 -0700 Received: from DH433L51 ([24.255.150.191]) by centrmmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060313030327.GRCO5868.centrmmtao05.cox.net@DH433L51> for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:03:27 -0500 From: "juanita" To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:03:49 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Civil War Message-ID: <44148CB5.27724.86002311@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <4414CC65.8050907@tm.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Civil War pension records are difficult to figure out sometimes. My 2nd gr grandfather and one of his sons fought in the Illinois troops. The son was killed a couple of weeks before the war ended...he was not married. My gr grandfather was discharged after 3 yrs. service due to arthritis. When he tried to get a pension after his release from the military, it was denied. He later requested a pension based on his deceased son's military service, saying the son had supplied a portion of his livelihood before the war and that he (the parent) was unable to work any longer. After filing many requests and proofs of his service and that of his deceased son's, the Gov't granted him a $12/mo pension. All of the pension file in Washington is in the name of the deceased son....not the parent who actually rec'd. the pension. When I requested the pension record on my 2nd gr grandfather, I was told he didn't receive one....several years later, on a whim I decided to see what there was in the Archives on the son who'd been killed. I didn't expect to find a pension had been paid on his military service, since he had no wife or children. At the time, I didn't realize his father had actually been the one to draw the pension. One of the bonuses in getting the pension file on the deceased son's service was a copy of my gr grandfather's marriage license. He had to prove to the Gov't that he had been married to the deceased son's mother. I'd looked for a marriage record in Buffalo NY several years earlier because I knew they'd lived there before going to Illinois, but there was nothing in the court house. The copy of the marriage certificate provided to the Gov't. & kept in the Archives was in Latin originally and recorded in the St. Louis Roman Catholic Church in Buffalo. It was dated in Oct 1835. It also contained a translation in English (for which I was grateful!) It is apparently the only record of my ancestor's marriage. juanita > My Great Grandfather faught in the Civil War for another man, but he > got the pension money. However it aways came in this mans name and > when he died his death records are all in the name of this other > person. >