Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 11930, George Yeager, War 1812 Penn. Residence Of Widow In 1850
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Yeager, George    Number R119
Margaret
Nov 1812.  Penn residence of widow in 1850
Contents
This woman's other husband, James () Reily also served in the Revolutionary War.
See papers written
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Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Daupin Mrs. Margaret Yeager, who being duly sworn according to law did make the following statement
My husband George Yeager served in the revolutionary war and in the war of 1812. I was married to him twenty-seven years since I think in the year 1823. He had received a pension from the state of Pennsylvania of $40 a year. He was entitled to a pension from the U.S. Government but when the capitol at Washington was burned by the Brittish the papers necessary to prove his services were destroyed. and at the time he applied no living witness could be found to supply the defeat. He was opposed to applying to a pension from the U.S. Government as along as he was in good circumstances as he had sufficient to support him
My husband has at one time four or five thousand dollars, but he loaned it out to friends and through too great liberality & misfortune lost it all. The house
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in which we resided for 20 years was sold by the Sheriff and uwe were reduced to poverty. Since my husband's death, I have been suppported ^not by kind friends who knew us in former days. but by my own exertions. I have been 8 years in the poor house. in the summer I sell small articles through the county to help me along, but am now old and feeble and failing in strength. My husband died at the poor house
Sworn and Subscribed before me the 30 day of March A.D. 1850
David Harris, J.P.
Signed Margaret Yeager (her X Mark)
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{side 1}To the Floor the Senate & House of Representative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Your fellow bodies and petitioners hereby to pass an act--to relieve me founded on the annexed statement. and your petitioner would her jury be
Margaret Yaeger (her X mark)
(this is a trifold sheet)
{side 2}
Margaret Yeager of Dauphine
This case was rejected in committee, but for -------in consideration of such service done the House allowed rite by common consent.
{signature} [illegible]
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Rej. File 11930.
Rev. War.

L.M.N.    March 3, 1906.

Mrs. E. D. Townsend,
411 Van Buren Street,
Pueblo, Colorado.

Madam:  

In response to the enclosed letter dated January 8, 1906 and received January 12, 1906, you are informed that this Bureau has no data in regard to the military service of the within named George Yeager, except that in a petition dated March 1850 and addressed to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, requesting an act be passed for her relief his widow, Margaret Yeager of Dauphin Co., states that she is seventy-five years of age and that in 1823 she married George Yeager who had served in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 and had received a pension of $40 per year from the State of Pennsylvania.   

Very respectfully,

Commissioner
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[Left side]

1900 Mar 2. History to Mrs. E. D. Townsend. aw


[Right side]


[Line crossed out]

11.930
P.O.  
Margaret Yeater
Service:  Georgia

Enlisted: 1 - 0 REJECTED, 18  ,
Discharged:  [blank]  , 18  ,

Application fileld:   [blank]  , 18  ,

Alleges:   [blank]

Re-enlisted:  [blank]

Attorney:   [blank]
P.O.  [blank]

[blank] Recognized.     [blank] Contract
[blank] Cert. of Dis.  Searched for [blank], 18
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O. W. + N.      C

Pueblo Colo, Jany 8-06

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Desiring to become a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.  I write asking what information can be furnished regarding my ancestor George Yeager who was a private in Capt. Chas. Gobin's Co. 6th Battalion
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Berks Co. Penna.  

I write to you upon the advice of the Military Secy. of the War Dept. Washington, D. C. as no information could be found in the records there.  

I enclose memorandum of faith regarding same which may assist in research.  

Respectfully

Mrs. Elish Dickson Townsend
411 Van Buren St.
Pueblo Colo.

[Postal Stamp]
PENSION
      A
    JAN
U.   12   S.
    1906
   OFFICE
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COPY.

L. M. H.

May 5, 1855.

J. W. Simonton,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Sir:  

I send you enclosed herewith the Act Feby. 3, 1853 as amended Aug. 5, 1854, and the regulations necessary for carrying its provisions into effect.  

I presume that James Riley was the first husband of Mrs. Margaret Yeager, and if she makes application for the benefits of the Act of 1853, she must make her declaration as Margaret Yeager formerly the widow of James Riley.  It appears that Riley died while in the service and his widow will therefore be entitled to five years half pay at the rate of $3.50 per month (as I presume he was a private) from the close of testimony in her case.  You must prepare her case in strict conformity to the regulations herewith enclosed, so as to secure speedy action in her case.  

Her claim as the widow of Yeager - if she has any, will be examined into and reported to you.  

 I herewith return you the letter of May 7, 1845, from this office addressed to the Hon. A. Ramsey.
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Copy.

Pension Office, February 16, 1857,

Sir:  

In reply to the enclosed letter of Mr. Thomas C. Reed, I have the honor to state that this Office is without evidence of the service of either James Riley or George Yeager, the parties in virtue of whose services in the Revolutionary war Margaret Yeager claims pension as widow.  If George Yeager, the last husband of this claimant, received a pension from the State of Pennsylvania, a copy of the evidence upon which it was granted might suffice to establish a claim for pension, under act of February 3, 1853, and for bounty land, under act of March 3, 1855.  I enclose instructions.  

Mr. I. W. Simonton, an agent for this applicant, was informed on the 5th May, 1855 of the condition of her claims in this  behalf.  

Very respectfully,

Your obt. servant,
George C. Whiting,
Commissioner.

Hon. I. C. Kunkle,
(of Pennsylvania)
House of Representatives.
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Margaret Yeager,
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5686

Margaret Yeager
wid. of  George.
11930

Set: to [illegible] May 5/55

Hon. J. C. Kunkle Feby 16/57

Act of Feb, 3, '53
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Harrisburg Pa. 17th March 1855
Dr. Sir;
I send herewith the Bounty
land claim of George Wiant, of the
War of 1812, whose  warrant when allowed
 you will please forward to my
Address.
Also papers in Margaret
Yeagers case, will you please inform
me, if there is on record such proof of
the services of either of her husbands
Yeager, or Reily, as will entitle her
to Bounty land under the late
act, & if there is furnish me with
what will enable me to make the
application. If two husbands both deceased performed the segninte service
is a widow entitled to Bounty land in
right of each
Yours &
J. M. Simonton
taken out Act  1855
Adams
[illegible] as to act Feby  3/55 sec 1