Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 29,604, John Casey, Va.
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SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Casey John. W 29,604.
or Caisey
Mary
CONTENTS
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7005
Virginia
John Casey
Kanawha Co. in the State of Virginia
was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Armaugh of the Regiment commanded by 
Maj Armaugh in the Virginia
line for Two & a half years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of February 1833 and Sent to
A. W. Qurrier 
H of Rep's

Arrears to 4th of March 1833 $160.00
semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 40.00
$200.00

(Revolutionary War
Act of

Recorded by W.L. Williams
Book E Vol 1 Page 4

(illegible) - being two 
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one - (illegible)
(illegible) Land grants
in Kentucky

Let 13 March 1835 (illegible)
" " " Co. Clerk
" " "  3 (illegible)
2nd (illegible) Hon C. A. Trimble

Certificate (illegible) 22 Nov 35 L Maxwell
Day forwarded to Clerk of Ct. W.L.W.

Jarvis Newsom 16/60

1872 May 22 Hon E.C. (illegible)
of this (illegible) - not really in
(illegible) probably this is the 
(illegible) before (illegible)
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Virginia Sct.
At a Circuit Superior Court of Law & Chancery
held for Kanawha County the 15th day of January 1833
Present Lewis Summers Esqr. one of the Judges of the General Court, and Judge of the 19 Circuit in the 10th Judicial District

On this 15th day of January 1833 personally
appeared before the Judge of the Circuit
superior court of Law and Chancery for Kanawha County, state of Virginia, John Casey a resident of the County of Kanawha and Commonwealth of Virginia aged 69 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he enlisted for during the war in the line of the Virginia State Troops in the month of October 1779 , (being then under sixteen years of age) as a light horseman. At the time of his enlistment, he was a resident of Amelia County, Virginia, but enrolled himself at a place on the Chesapeak bay then known as Raggid, Raylands Islands.
He enlisted under Capt Armaugh in a squadron or regiment commanded by Major John Nelson. His other and immediate officers as recollected, were Lieutenant Dudley Diggs and Cornet, William Graves: The deponent served under these Officers, except Major Nelson who resigned
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sometime before his own discharge, until he was regularly discharged at the termination of the war. The troop in which the deponent enlisted, a short time before consisted of three divisions, called first, second & third troops, but they had been so much reduced in numbers about the time he enlisted that they found it appedient to unite and form but two troops
The squadron consisted of two troops when the deponent enlisted - viz - The troop to which he was attached commanded by Capt. Armaugh, Lieutenant Dudley Diggs and Cornet William Graves, and the troop commanded by Capt. John Armstead and Lieutenant Nathaniel Savage, Cornet not recollected.
The deponent was, at no time during his 
service, engaged in any battles, though the
nature of his service brought him frequently
in the presence of the enemy and concerned 
in the Capture of small parties of straylers, 
in beating up the quarters of the enemy and
other services peculiarly the duty of the
light horse at that period.
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His principal service was in the Eastern 
counties of Virginia, and he was stationed at 
different times near Portsmouth, Suffolk Old
Town, Williamsburg, Old James Town and Hampton.  His troop was stationed in the neighborhood of Petersburg when that place was entered by the British then in pursuit of the American troops commanded by General La
Fayette.  At the time York Town was surrendered 
to the combined force of France and America & thus terminated the act of the revolution, this deponent was confined with sickness in the hospital at Hanover on the Pamunky river;  but after his recovery he accompanied his troop from Hanover to Winchester, Frederick County, where the prisoners taken at Yorktown were stationed in quarters.  From Winchester he was marched down to Yorktown where he received his discharge in March 1782 having served two years and a half.
The deponents discharge was in writing signed by Dudley Diggs his Lieutenant in the absence of his capt.  This discharge
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was returned to him by the auditor or commissioners in Richmond there kept as he thinks by a Mr. John Starks, from who he received a printed certificate of his service and discharge. This certificate has been mislaid and can not now be provided.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or an annuity, except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency in any state -
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court
this 14th day of January 1833.} John Casey
teste A. W. Quarrier Clk.} x his mark
after examining several witnesses
And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
Virginia Sct
I Alexander W. Quarrier Clerk of the Circuit Superior Court of Law & Chancery of Kanawha County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Casey for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 17th day of January 1833, and in the 57th year of the Commonwealth
A. W. Quarrier Clk
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John Casey
from 1779 private
2 1/2 years.
$80.
look in Va State
Roll

on Roll

on Roll

Hon. Mr. Maxwell
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BRIEF in the case of John Casey
County of Kanawha in the State of Virginia
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 69.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
Enlisted in 1779 Octr.
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
"2 1/2"
Rank.
As a
private.
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt. Armaugh, Major John Nelson,
Lieut. Dudley Diggs, Cornet Graves, 
Va. State Troops.
Cavalry.

5. In what battles was he engaged? none

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Amelia Cty. Va.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Neither

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

F. Waugh Examining Clerk.
Feb. 13, 1833.
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U.

Application for Service Pension.

WAR OF
Revolution

WIDOW OF
John Casey
of Capt.
Co. - Reg't of -

Invalid claim herewith.
Mr. Webster says the
Dec O.K.
File by L.C.W
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U.
WAR OF 1812.
CLAIM OF WIDOW FOR SERVICE PENSION,
Under the provisions of Section 4736 to 4740, (inclusive,) Revised Statutes, and the Act of March 9th, 1878.

N. B. - All the blank spaces in this form must be carefully filled up in accordance with the instructions on the back hereof: and from the best information possessed, or obtainable, by the applicant.

State of Ohio
County of Ross} SS:
ON this 21 day of July A.D. one thousand eight hundred and Seventy-Eight, personally appeared before me, R J Twe JP, the same
within and for the county and State aforesaid, (1) Mary Caisey aged 68 years, a resident of Fayette County, in the State of Ohio, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of (2) John Caisey deceased, who was the identical (2) John Caisey who served under the name of (4) John Caisey as a (5) private in the Company commanded by Captain Armstrong, (or Armon,), in the - Regiment of  -
commanded by - , in the war of the Revolution; that her said husband (6) Enlisted at Albemarle Va on or about the - day of - , A.D. -, for the term of -, and continued in actual service in said war for the term of (7) 2 years & about 6 Months, and whose services terminated, by reason of (8) honorable discharge, at Richmond Va, on the - day of - , A.D. - . She further states that the following is a full description of her said husband at the time of his enlistment, viz: about 20 years at Enlistment & 88 years old at his death, occupation Farmer born at Albemarle Va, height about 5 feet 8 inches, hair, Sandy, Eyes blue, Complexion Light
She further states that she was married to the said John Caisey, at the city (or town) of Jackson, in the county of Jackson, and in the State of Ohio, on the - day of - , A.D. - by one (10) -, who was a (11) Justice of the Peace; and that her name before her said marriage was Mary Cox; and she further states that (12) She never was married before, but John Caisey was formerly married to Jane Bobby, & Lucinda Martin, who both died but, dates of death unknown and that her said husband (13) John Caisey, died at Mason County, in the State of Virginia, on the - day of - , A.D. -, and that she has not again married; and she further declares that the following have been the places of residence of herself and her said husband since the date of his discharge from the Army, viz: (14) In Albemarle Va Jackson Co Ohio, Kanawha Co Va & Mason Co Va. time at each place unknown. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the pension to which she may be entitled under Section 4736 to 4740, (inclusive,) Revised Statutes, and the Act of March 9th, 1878, and hereby appoints -, of - , her true and lawful attorney, to prosecute her claim; and she further declares that she has heretofore made no application for (15) Pension, her said Husband was a pensioner of the U.S. at date of his death, but she cannot give particulars, & she does not know whether he ever obtain a Land Warrant, or not

NO FEE TO BE ALLOWED IF THIS BLANK IS USED.
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and that her residence is No. -, - street, city (or town) of - county of Fayette, State of Ohio, and that her post-office address is Washington C.H. Fayette County Ohio, care of S.B. Yeoman, Box 426
Mary Caisey x her mark
(Signature of claimant.)
ATTEST:
L. R. Simpson
John Bene

ALSO personally appeared Nelson Davis, aged 55 years, residing at No. Richmonddale Ross County Ohio, and Elizabeth Davis, aged 54 years, residing of the same place, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being by me duly sworn, says that they have known the said Mary Caisey for 35 years and for 40 years, respectively; that they were present and saw her sign her name (or make her mark) to the foregoing declaration; that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of said claimant and their acquaintance with her, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be; and they further say that they are able to identify her as the person who was the wife of the identical (16) John Caisey who rendered the service alleged in the above application (in the company of Captain - in the regiment of - , in the war of -) by the following named facts and circumstances, viz: (17) They often visited fathers house and represented themselves as man and wife and lived as such near my fathers residence Mrs Davis said that they often visited her fathers house living in the same neighbourhood and it was claimed By all that new them that they were man and wife
and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.
Nelson Davis x his mark
Elizabeth Davis x her mark
Attest L. R. Simpson
R. J. Tweed (Signatures of witnesses.)
SWORN to and subscribed before me this 20 day of July, A.D. 1879; and I hereby certify that the contents of the above declaration, &c., were fully made known and explained to the applicant and witnesses before swearing, including the words - , erased, and the words -, added; and that I have no interest direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim. Nelson Davis and Elizabeth Davis are not in my opinion able to travel to  Chillicothe the seat of Justice of said county, for the following reason Nelson Davis has inflamed legs and Mrs davis health is very delicate and it would Be dangerous to their health
R J Tweed JP
R, J, Tweed J.P
[L.S.]
(Official character)

The State of Ohio,} I, E W Pearson Clerk of the
Ross County, SS.} Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that R. J Tweed Esq. was, at the date of taking the annexed, Affidavit
- a Justice of the Peace
within and for said County, duly authorized to take the same; that I know his hand-writing, and verily believe that his signature to said certificate is genuine; and that the annexed instrument is executed according to the laws of the State of Ohio.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Chillicothe this 22nd day of July A.D. 1878
By - Deputy. E. W. Pearson Clerk.
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NOTES.
1. Here allege full name of applicant.
2. Here allege full name of soldier.
3. Here allege again the name of soldier.
4. Here allege the name under which the soldier served.
5. Here allege the rank under which the soldier served.
6. Here state "enlisted," "volunteered," or "was drafted," as the case may be.
7. Here state the number of days or months of service rendered by the soldier; fourteen days being the shortest period for which service
pension is by law allowed, unless the soldier was actually engaged in a battle. If the claim is made for battle service the blank should be so varied as to allege such service in addition to the allegation of term of service.
8. Here insert the words "an honorable discharge," or "death," as the case may be.
9. Here let a full description of soldier follow, giving age, occupation, birth-place, height, color of hair, eyes, and complexion, and any other particulars as to description.
10. Here allege the name of the person who performed the marriage ceremony.
11. Here state the official character of the person who performed the ceremony; i.e., whether a minister of the gospel or a justice of the peace, &c.
12. Here state whether the claimant or her husband (the soldier) had been previously married; and if either had, the name of the former husband or wife should be stated; and the date and place of the death of, or divorce from the former consort should be alleged.
13. Here insert the name of the husband on account of whose service and death the claim is made.
14. Here state all the places of residence; if in a city, giving the street and number; and from and to what dates he resided at each place.
15. If any application for bounty land or pension has previously been made, state the fact here, giving the date, and number if possible, and the act of Congress under which the claim was made; and designating whether it was a claim for bounty land or pension, and whether a warrant for the land or certificate for the pension was ever issued.
16. Here insert the name of the soldier.
17. Here name all the facts and circumstances which enable the witnesses to swear, from a personal knowledge, that the claimant is the widow of the identical person who rendered the service alleged in the claim.

All services rendered by the soldier in the war for which claim is made, or in any other war, with the names of officers in each service, must
be given in the application.
If this blank is used, it will be useless to fill the spaces relating to the appointment of attorneys.
If the service was rendered as a substitute, the name of the principal for whom the substitute served should be given.
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19,554
May Casey
wid of 
John
Rev. War.
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Supplemental Declaration of Mary Casey.
Widow of John Casey soldier of the War of the Revolution

On this 27th day of February A.D. 1880 personally appeared before me a Clerk of Court within and for the County and state aforesaid Mary Casey aged 78 years a resident of Washington in the County of Fayette and State of Ohio who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of John Casey who served as a Private in Cap. Armongs Company of the Continental Army of Virginia in the service of the United States in the War with great Britian known as the war of the Revolution,  that her said Husband enlisted into the service as aforesaid in Albemarle County Virginia and was honorably discharged and that to the best of her knowledge and recollection:  Isom Bailey and William Bailey, and Benjamin Hensley and a man by the name of Miller and one John Jones were his mess mates and Comrades in Arms.  That she was married to the said Soldier John Casey by one Frederick Winfold J.P. at Jackson County Ohio and that her Maiden name before her said Marriage was and that she believes that there is a Legal Record of her said Marriage at Jackson C.H. Jackson County Ohio  That her said Husband was Enrolled as one of the United Pensioners of Kanawa County Virginia on the twenty first day of February A.D. 1833 and also obtained a Bounty Land Warrant for two hundred acres of Land which to the best of her knowledge and information was numbered three thousand five hundred and thirteen and was located in some part of the State of Ohio by one William Lytle.  She further says that her said husband John Casey died at Mason County Virginia on the    day of    10.  about 30 years ago
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and that she has never since his death remarried and that she is now a widow and that she has never received a Pension from the United States.  That their swelling house at Kanawha County Virginia was destroyed by fire and that he said Husband's Pension Certificate and all of his books and papers were destroyed and which has deprived her of the means of information and evidence of the services of her said Husband so as to enable her to obtain the pension allowed her under the Acts of Congress.  That she makes this supplemental Declaration for the purpose of being placed on the roll roll of Pensioners of the United States under the provisions of the act of June 7th A.D. 1832, other Acts of Congress and hereby substitutes in connection with her present Attorney S.C. Chase of Frankfort Ross County Ohio to prosecute her claim and procure the issuance of a Pension Certificate to her and that her Post Office address is Washington C.J. Fayette Co. Ohio
Mary Casey x her mark
Witness
Emanuel Lookado
F.H. Miller

Also personally appeared Emanual Lookado and F.H. Miller residing at Washington C.H. Ohio and at Washington C.H. Ohio respectively in Washington Fayette County Ohio persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being by me duly sworn according to law say they were present and saw Mary Casey the claimant make her mark to the foregoing declaration  that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of said claimant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States did she adhere to the cause of the enemies of the Government or give them aid or comfort and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.
Emanuel Lookado
F.H. Miller

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27yh day of March A.D. 1880 and I hereby certify that the contents of the above supplemental Declaration [illegible] were fully made known and explained to the applicant and witnesses before swearing and that I have no interest direct or indirect in the prosecution of this claim.
EW Welsheimer Clerk
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State of Ohio
Jackson County.  SS

PROBATE COURT
I, Jno J.C. Evans
Sole Judge and ex-officio Clerk of the Probate
Court, a Court of Record within and for the
County and State aforesaid.
Do Hereby Certify, that John 
Caisey and Mary Cox were
Joined in Marriage
by Frederick Winfough, a Justice of the Peace
duly authorized to solemnize  Marriages in said
county, on the 26th day of May
A.D. 1831 as appears from the Records of
Marriages of said Court.
Witness my signature and seal of Said Court, at
Jackson, Ohio, this 11th day
of June A.D. 1878
Jno J.C. Evans 
Sole Judge and ex-officio Clerk, &c
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July 5, 88 - 60 days to 
penor; P.A. for last
payment. M
Sept. 17, 1888
Pen Agt to D.W
3rd and advised
Pens. informed.
M
APR 24 1888

(3-232.) M.G.
No. 7,706
Revolutionary War
29604
Mary Casey
widow of
John Casey
Rank Private
Company Capt. --vaghs
Regiment Va Line
Rate per month $8.00
Commencing Mch 9" 1878, and $12
" March 19" 1886.
Certificate dated Oct 4", 1887,
and sent Oct 4", 1889.
Pay --- Agency.
Fee none

Oct. 26. '87-
P.A. to suspend; 3" Aud.
advised; PA. for last
paym't.
Telegram sent this day.
(pending investigation as
to remarriage.) M.
Nov. 2. '87 - P.A. to resume;
3" Aud. advised. (pending
result of spl. ex.) M.
Nov. 25. '87 - P.A. to suspend;
3" Aud. advised.
(Pending further spl. inves. (as to remarriage
or ad. that.) Nov. 5, 87 M.
Check & voucher covering
first payment called for.
move into 187 G.A.C.
Pen. Agt. to enquire to whom
payment of pen. was made
& to what address. See res Copy
G.A.C.
Dec. 8/87 Written to P.A. Columbus O.
to report to whom Cert; Voucher and Check
was forwarded, and asking, transmittal of
of any letters sent him by S.C. Chase
H.P.B.
Apl 20/88. Orig voucher &
p & check ret to Sec'y. J.P.H.
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section

August 4, 1927

Mrs. Roy E. Brown
332 Van Deman Ave
Washington Court House, Ohio

Madam:
I have to advise you that it appears from 
the papers in the Revolutionary War Pension Claim
(W.29604) that the husband of Mrs. Mary Casey, a 
resident of Washington Court House, Fayette County, 
Ohio in 1878, was John Casey or Caisey, who died in
Mason County, Virginia (later West Virginia) in
October 1845.

Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner.

I discussed this case with Mrs. Finch -
and we decided to only give this meagre
data, as the case is bad all through.
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8155
Rev War
Invalid

File No. 8155
John Casey
Pri Rev War
Act:  June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. 1st, page 38
Arrangement of 1870

29,968
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Act of: March 9, 1878
Mary Caisey
Fayette Co, Ohio
Widow of: John Caisey
Capt. [Armong or Arnom-difficult to determine spelling]  
Va
Died: [blank]

Received: Aug 5, 1878
Clairmont
Washington C H.
[detail cut off in image]: as above
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Contributed by FamilySearch
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[many stains, handwritten notes/stamps-much is difficult to make out]
9/18
Rev. War. 50
Ex'r.
See 29.968 Act. March
No. 19554
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Mary Caisey [Casey]
widow of
John Caisey [Casey]
Died Oct. 1845
[REJECTED stamped on right of this]
[blank lines leading to]: other claim.

[REOPENED stamped on blank lines leading to]: ,187 [date?]. 
Clerk.

Application filed: June 21, 1878
Attorney: S. B. Yeoman
P.O. Washington C. H.
Ohio
[Handwritten at bottom of L side of page: 'Suspended...illegible 3/8']

[Handwritten notes on R side - top of page written upside down]:
March 31/85 [?] [handwriting difficult to read]

June 26/78 [Letter to atty Yeomen
Declaration. Where and when pension[er] name of Capt. Col and some officers. White]

Feb 8/79 Rejected as this man was never in service. Atty informed. White

March [?/80] Letter for [illegible] from [1780] to 1845. White

April 27/80 [Condit] to Hon Geo. L. Cower. White

May 18/80 Letter to Hon Geo S. [Arnasse] rejecting the claim. White

Sept 1/[80] The testimony adds nothing [to claim]. White

Feby 14/81 Yeomans suspended and [illegible] 
[by] his asst. No action taken. White 

Feb 27/82 No action seems [possible]. White

Sept [6]/82 Yeomans [informed] that he cannot receive in [illegible]. White

Jan. 18/83 S.C. Chase in formed through [rest of entry cut off]

[note across R page vertically illegible]
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(3-224.)
No. 19554
-, Ex'r.
OLD WAR WIDOW.
Mary Caisey
P.O.
widow of
John Caisey
Rev'y War
Died at
Oct. 1845
other claim. BOARD OF REVIEW
AUG 3 1887
Rejected
Clerk.

Application filed: June 21, 1878
Attorney: S. B. Yeoman
P.O. Washington C.H.
Ohio.
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Mr White
This case is rejected.
The provisions of Sec 4740 R.8. providing that the evidence upon which the soldier was pension, shall be conclusive as to service to entitled the widow to a pension is not applicable in this case.
While this mans name was inscribed on the roll through fraud as is shown, and his name stricken from the rolls during his life time, he cannot be regarded as a
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pensioner within the meaning of the Act.  Your brief shows that pensioner was probably paid to date of death (1845) while the papers in the case show that he received but 200 in all, or one payment after the first, which would be 4 Sept 1833.  During the remaining 11 years of claimants life he failed to claim pension but appears to have accepted the action of the office as final.
In the case is the
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report of the Special Agent upon which his name was dropped
The Act of March 9, 1878 has no bearing on case.
Please file these slips in case that it may be seen what action is based on.
C.F. Sawyer
Febry 6, 1879

I concur in the above 
Longshaw
Aug 4/87
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Commissioner's Desk

No. 19.554

Claimant: Wid. Casey
Writer J.W. Leever
Rev War
Re Review[?]
Referred to Agt's Div.,
Sept. 27, 1887
Line 17, page 127
File with case
To com'r.

Why has no answer been returned to my desk?
Endorse the reply on the other side.
John C. Black,
Commissioner.

10/10, 1887
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By personal direction of the Hon. Commissioner the letter referred to was delivered to Col. Butterfield then Actg chief Board of ReReview who today informs me that the case has been allowed.
HC Bell
Chief Agents Div

Oct 11/87

P.O. Washington Ohio
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No. 18,554
Rev'y War

"Personal"
J.W. Leever,
Washington C.H., Ohio
Sept. 22, 1887.

124/17

Has read in the newspapers that a pension has been granted Mrs. Casey, a Revolutionary War widow, but for some cause she has not received it, and is in an almost starving condition.
That he writes as a comrade of the G.A.R., and with a feeling of the F.C. & L.
Adds that her agent is C. Chase, and either the Gov't has not paid the money or he has not been  square, and asks Gen. Black to give the matter his attention.
Mas. Mary Casey, (Widow),
Revolutionary War.
No.

[STAMP]
[illegible] Agts
[illegible] Rept in person
Commissioner

Agts Div
[illegible]
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Relict of the Revolution,
Mrs. Casey, of Washington Court-House, the Last Survivor But One - Just Pensioned by the Government.
Special Dispatch to the Enquirer
Washington C.H., Ohio, August 5. - The Enquirer reporter say Mrs. Mary Casey, widow of John Casey, a Revolutionary soldier, to-day.  She lived in the southern suburbs of Washington C.H., Ohio,  in a little old cabin.  The following cut is an excellent representation of this venerable old lady.
[image]
Mrs. Casey is a large, stout-looking person, is quite gray, and shows the effects of age.  She was married to John Casey, an old gentlemen seventy-eight years of age, when she was but sixteen.  When the Revolutionary War broke out, Mr. Casey was living in the mountains of Virginia, and was among the first to rush forth in defense of liberty and independence.
After the war was concluded Casey settled in Kanawha County, Virginia.  He lived as a planter for many years, and became well known throughout the neighborhood.  Mrs. Casey, whose maiden name was Cox, says that her husband was about seventy-eight years of age when he came on a trip to Jackson County, Ohio, and that upon this occasion they both met for the first time, and were shortly afterward married.  After the old soldier's death his widow returned to Ohio, where it became necessary for her to toil for a living.  One of her sons is in the regular army, and is said to be a handsome, well built fellow.
Mrs. Mary Casey, of Washington C.H., and Mrs. Tilton, of New Hampshire, are said to be the only Revolutionary War widows, receives a pension from both the State and National Government, amounting in all to about $300 a year.
The people of this city are glad to know that Mrs. Casey has been granted a pension, and that she is now blessed with a competency for the rest of her life.
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knee.
It was at an hour of the morning when
few passengers were astir. A dozen or
more men were in the cabin when the
hatch was crushed out of shape against
the forward bulkhead. Some of them
were pretty badly frightened, and two
made haste to put on life-preservers.
The ship was run at a very low speed
until a survey was made of the damage,
and a new hatch rigged. Then she re-
sumed her speed, and made port with-
out further incident.
Third Officer Bennett, who has had a
lot of fun in Canada, said last night that
he felt, as the ship rushed down the wat-
ery gulf and plunged into the big wave,
just as he did the first time he rode down a
toboggan slide when the toboggan jumped
the track, and flung him breathless into
a snow bank. The wave seemed to tower
above him, he said, much as a covered
pier towers above a man in a small boat
in a North River slip.
Count Phra Darun Kaksha, Secretary
of the Siamese Legation, who was one of
the passengers, said last night: "Only a
few of us were up when the ship ran into
the wave. There was a terrible sea, and
the ship was plunging right ahead
through the waves. Presently there
came a bigger one than ever, and the head
of the ship was buried in it. It seemed as
though the ship was going down by
the head right to the bottom. Every
thing loose on the deck was dashed about,
and the iron-work of the bridges, one of
them forty-five feet above the water-line,
was twisted and bent as though it was of
common rope. It seemed a long time
that the water was dashing over us, but
at last the ship shook herself free and
rode on top again. After that the engines
stopped awhile, and the ship did not
plunge into the waves so."
None of the officers of the Umbria had
ever met such a wave before, but they are
not infrequent on the Atlantic. The
steamer Westernland run into one some
time ago, and when it broke on board it
cut down through the turtle-back much
as a cleaver would cut through the ribs
in a side of mutton.
Among the seven hundred and forty-
two passengers brought over by the Um-
bria were Tony Pastor, W. E. Gladstone,
H. B. Payne, E. G. Gilmore, L. C. Del-
monico and C. G. Franckiyn.

A TERRIBLE VICE.
The Sure Road to Ruin and Death.
[New York Sun.]
One of the most remarkable divorce
cases which ever came before our Courts
has now been settled by the reconcilia-
tion of the discordant pair. Mrs. Deems
sued her husband for separation on the
ground of ill-treatment, and when her
complaint was dismissed Dr. Deems pre-
pared to bring a counter suit for divorce,
which was discontinued on Monday, the
parties having come to an amicable agree-
ment.
The allegation of Mrs. Deems in her
complaint was that her husband, who is
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Widow
F29604

[illegible]

Personal.
S.C. Chase,
PO Box 597, Washington, Ohio
Oct. 14, 1887.

Respectfully asks why the pension of Mary Casey, if allowed is not paid;  that the press thro the country announced to the world that a pension had been paid to the last known Widow of the War of the Revolution;  artist came and took her photograph;   historians besieged her by letter for a sketch of her life;  and still she survives but bids fair to starve to death, as she has not had at any time during the last 40 days more than a few meals ahead of total destitution
Mary Case, widow of
John Casey, Clmt.
No. 19,554
War of the Revolution.
(Newspaper slip enclosed)
Allowed
Oct 4. 1887 at $8 from Mar 9, 1878
from Mar: 19, 1886, Sent Oct. 4, 1887
[obscured] Agency
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Bureau of Pensions,
Office of the Commissioner
August 8, 1887.

[STAMP]
O.W.& N.
August 8 1887
Received

Action and order:
Gen. Cort:-
Genl. Black wants the exact condition of the pension rolls, so far as widows of Revolutionary soldiers are concerned.
W.H. Scudder
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Nate
There is nothing whatever in this certificate to show that this allowance of 200 acres of land made by Virginia Nov 9" 1784 was made to the John Casey who alleged service in Capt. Armaugh's Co of Virginia "State" Troops:  and the dcd husband of Mary Casey claimant No 19,554 but it does refer to a certain John Casey who was in fat a soldier of the Virginia "Line" in Capt. Barretts Co, in the regiment commanded by Col William Washington and who received bounty land warrant No 779. now on file in this office & to which reference is made
Longshaw R
Aug 4/87
Page 34

Respct returned to Col [illegible] chief of the O.W & Navy Div.

The within papers were found in the pension Claim:
No 19.554
Mary Casey
widow of John Casey

who alleged services in Capt Armaugh's Co of the Va Line.
They have no connection with the above claim whatever
Longshaw
Rev
Aug 4-84=
Page 35

Aug 2/87
The special examination upon which soldier's name was dropped, went but little into the merits of the case.  As soldier was able to establish to the satisfaction of the office a service of 2 1/2 years in the Rev War, there cannot be a doubt that he served honestly and faithfully 14 days, the time necessary to establish his widows claim under act of March 9-1878, and the claim is submitted for admission under said act, without considering the question of the restoration of soldiers name.
L.C.W.

Aug 4 1887
I do not concur
Longshaw
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19554
Mary, widow of John Casey
Va. Line Rev. War

Respectfully referred to the "Two Chiefs" for consideration by direction of Col. Poor.
Evans. ReRein
Aug 11/87
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3513

File with Case
S.C. Chase, (Atty.)
Washington C.H., Ohio
May 2, 1887

Asks for a re-examination of the claim of Mary Casey, a widow of a soldier of the Revolutionary War
Ref. No. 19,554, Rev'y War.
Mary Casey, widow of John Casey, clmt.

OK 32

To Chf. Old War Div
Action Ans
May 4, 1887
Commissioner.
Page 38

Although not bearing on the question of Casey's service the following discrepancies in the widows statements are presented
In stating that her decd husband was a pensioner, she declares March 27, 1880 that her husband's pension certificate, with other papers were destroyed when their dwelling house was burned in Kanawha Co. Va.
In her informal declaration, filed June 21, 1878 she stated that his papers were destroyed by her decd husband in a fit of temporary insanity.
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Her attorney in April 1886 states that the widow informs him that Casey was robbed of his pension certificate by two notorious roughs.

In her affidavit filed March 30, 1885 the widow states that soon after her said husband received his first payment of pension two young men came to their house a few minutes after her said husband had had an epileptic fit (to which he was subject) and frightened him into giving up his certificate to them.  They also took the certificate of a man named Hanover, a neighbor, who subsequently went to Washington & obtained another.
Page 40

Act of
Mar. 18, 1818

Act of June 7 32

This act placed over 30,000 pensioners on the rolls
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C

JFB

Ctf 7706
Mary
Widow of John Casey

Respectfully referred to Mr. Smith Chief of Certificate Div with request that claim be given an Old War Widow jacked instead of 1812

Very Respectfully
JB Cait
Chief O.W. & N. Div
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No. 19,554
Mary Caisey
Widow of John Caisey,  Rev. War

The controversy in the case is whether John Caisey, whose widow clmt is, was a solder in the Rev. War.

On the 21st of Feby, 1833 a certificate for pension was issued to John Casey of Kenawha Co. Va. as a private in Co. commanded by Capt. Armaugh, Regiment commanded by Maj Nelson in the Virginia line for two & a half years.  Amount of payment being "arrears to March 4, 1833 $160. Semi-an'l allowance
Page 43

ending 4 Sept 1833  $40  total $200"
The evidence upon which such pension was allowed, was a statement certificate to by A.W. Quarrier, Clerk of the Circuit Sup.  Court of Law & Chancery for Kanawha County, Va. under date of Jan'y 17, 1833.  as "the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Casey for pension."
These proceedings consist of Casey's declaration & the following entry, to wit:
"and the said Court after examining divers witnesses do hereby declare its opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states"
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3
In his declaration (signed by x-mark) he asserts that he was then (1833) 69 years of age - that he enlisted in October.1779 when under 16 years of age for during the War in the Virginia State troops, as a light horseman under Capt. Armaugh, reg't commanded by Major John Nelson;  his other officers being Lieut Dudley Diggs & Cornet Wm Graves;  that he served under these officers (except Major Nelson, who resigned) until regularly discharged at the close of the War;  that the troop in which he served at first consisted of three divisions, but was afterwards consolidated into two divisions - one under the Officers named
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4

and the other commanded by Capt. John Armstead and Lieut. Nathaniel Savage;  that his principal service was in the Eastern Counties of Virginia, and his troop was stationed near Petersburg, when that place was entered by the British in pursuit of the Americans, under General LaFayette;  that he was not engaged in any battle during the War, the nature of his service (a light horseman) however bringing him frequently in the presence of the enemy;  that at the time of the surrender of Cornwallis he (Casey) was in hospital at Hanover, on the Pamunkey, but he rejoined his troop
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and received his discharge at Yorktown in March, 1782, having served two years and a half;  that his discharge was signed by Dudley Diggs his Lieutenant in the absence of his Captain and it was by him returned to the Auditor's or Commissioner's Office in Richmond, then kept, he thinks by Mr. John Garks, from whom he received a printed certificate of his service and discharge:  certificate mislaid.
In 1835 the matter was placed in the hands of Spe. Agent W.G. Singleton, for investigation. 
He took the testimony of Casey and of three
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6

of his neighbors.
The pensioner in his statement before Special Agent, stated briefly as in his declaration, except that he then gave the name of his Captain as "Vaughison" instead of "Armaugh" as set forth in the declaration.  He also states that for a part of his term of service he was on recruiting service - and that his troop was for a while attached to Gen. Mughlenberg's Regt of Riflemen & that he introduced no evidence of his service.
Joseph Thomas (born 1759) testified that he knew Casey from 1798, often conversed with him about the Rev. War, never heard him pretend that he was a soldier therein
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7

until subsequent to the passage of the Pension law;  that Casey is a younger man than he.

William Bayly aged 77, a pensioner testified before Slp Agent he had known Casey for forty odd years "had heard him in days past say he was a soldier in troop of horses during the War of the Rev.;  that the Capt. ran away and the Co. dispersed and returned home;  that Casey has often repeated this fact in his presence."

Samuel Bayly says he has often heard Casey say that he was in service during the Rev. War as a trooper for about six months only.
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8

The spcl. Ex. reported as follows - viz: "This man's statement is wholly unsatisfactory.  I can't resis the belief that he is an imposter.  If he was in the regular service as he states, his name I presume can be found on the Roll.  Nothing short of this, or positive proof by credible witnesses, would satisfy me of his service.  I should judge from his appearance that he can't exceed sixty five years old."

Upon consideration of the above report, the man's name was dropped from the pension rolls, and the Clerk of the Court of Kanawha County was so informed under date of March 13, 1835 and requested to advise Casey
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9

of the fact (Letter Bk Dec'r 13 1834 to May 4, 1835 page 318)

The matter was not called up again until in 1860 one Lewis Newsom, (who asked information for one Mr. Martin, "an heir of John Casey") was informed of rejection.

In June 1878, Mary Casey filed an informal declaration for pension as the widow of John Casey.  formal declaration was filed Aug't 5, 1878.  She declares that Casey died in Oct. 1845 aged 88:  that he was a pensioner at date of death, but she cannot give particulars and she did not know whether he ever obtained a land warrant or not.
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10

She has filed several affidavits in the claim, from which it appears that she became acquainted with Casey in 1830, married him May 26, 1831. and lived with him in Kanawha Co. Va. until his death in 1845;  that Casey informed her that he lived in Albemarle County Va. from about 1780 to 1800, and in Kanawha County, Va. from the latter date to 1845;  that her said husband obtained a bounty land warrant for two hundred acres of land which she thinks was numbered 2513 and located in some part of the State of Ohio by one William Lytle.

She proves her marriage to Casey as alleged
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The only proof she files tending to show that her husband was a soldier is a certificate from the Registrar of the Land Office of Virginia to the effect that an allowance of land was made by the Gov'r & Council of Virginia Nov'r 9, 1784 to one John Casey "of the Continental line" & a warrant for 200 acres of land was made on the same date.

The records of the Office shown that no bounty was issued under the number 3513, but a warrant was issued to a John Casey, a private in the Virginia line, on Mch. 16, 1819.  This man lived in Kentucky at
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12

time of filing his application in 1819, and claimant's husband never lived there.  This warrant is numbered 779 and the John Casey to whom it was issued was in Capt Barnett's Co. in regiment commanded by Col. William Washington.

Under date of May 11, 1887 by direction of the Hon. Com'r the attorney for Mrs. Casey was requested to forward the papers in Mrs. Casey's possession or any evidence showing that the soldier received a land warrant,
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13

In response to this call the attorney has filed on Sept 1, 1887 a reference to the published Virginia pension Roll showing the clmt's dec'd husband was pensioned and also another copy of the record of the Registrar of the land office of Virginia, showing that one John Casey of the Continental Line was granted a land warrant for 200 acres of land Novr 9, 1784.  This certificate differs from the other copy already mentioned in that at the left hand upper corner is the no. 3513 and on the margin the statement "A duplicate issued to John Casey Apr. 11. 1821"
Page 55

The records of the Virginia State troops (Rev War) are few, incomplete and indefinite.  From a written list of officers of that troop made subsequent to that War it appears that the names of such of the Officers of the Virginia State Cav'y as Casey gave in his declaration, are correct, except that the name of his alleged Captain is Armand (given name not mentioned in this list) and the book gives the name of the Capt of the other Division of Cavr'y as Wm. Amstead, instead of John Armstead, as declared by the man Casey.

The only book record on file of Officers & soldiers of the Virginia state troops
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2

is a record of payments made to those troops subsequent to the War.  The book does not appear to be a book of original entry.

In this book the name of John Casey a Cav'yman does not appear, although there is an entry that John Casey of infantry was paid personally on May 20, 1783 the sum of £20-11s-18.

There is an entry also in this book that Vaghison Armand, a Captain (whether of infantry or of Cavalty not stated) was paid the sum of £349-18s.-88.

Inasmuch as there is no record of payment to a Captain Vaughnson the name given by Casey to the Special Agent
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13

as the name of his
Captain, it would not
be a harsh conclusion
that the name Vaughn
son in Casey's statement
to the Special Examiner
refers to the given name
of Captain Armond.
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1

Case submitted for
adm. by Adjud. Division
was rejected by Re
viewer as per brief
and held up by Re-
review. Bound for
action of two Chiefs
Page 59

Rev. War wid aw
M 19554

Claim withheld until
Monday, 8 Aug. at
request of Cal Calf
Chf OW&N
Longshaw
Page 60

"This Register contains a
"true abstract of all the certif-
"icates issued at the Audi-
"tor's office to Officer and
Soldiers of the Virginia
"Line on Continental Es-
"tablishment"
"J. Pendleton,
Auditor"

"And Office
"1 Aug. 1792"
"Barrett, William, Cap. Cal'y
"himself March 30, 1782-432.

"Story, John, Sol, Cab. Mr. Stratte
"er, Dec, 6, 1784 L35-3-6

"Certificate for one [illegible]
advanced pay upon Special Co Act of Assembly
"Nov. Session 1781
"Carey, John Sol. Cav. Sept. 15, 1784-37-10
Page 61

"A List of State Navy Officers
"who have received Certificates
"for the balance of their full
"pay, &c."
"Digges, Dudley, Jr, Lt. Cavy, 13
"April 1785 L100-S3-d4

Graves, William Cornet & Surgeon
30 Jany, 1783 - L63-S7-d10

"A List of State Soldiers & Seamen
"who have received Certificates
"for the balance of their full pay
"agreeable to Act of Assembly
"passed November Session 1781"

John Casey receiving pay
on this list was a soldier
of infantry and therefore not
the clmt's husband
Page 62

Mary Casey widow of John Casey, — War of Revolution
Number of claim 29968 for widow [?] 
John Casey received a land warrant
for 200 acres, number of warrant — 3.513.
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W.T.P. (3-526.)
S.E. Division,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D.C., April 20, 1888.
No. claim, 7,706
Pensioner
Claimant, Mary Casey,
Soldier, John Casey,
Co Capt. Bruagha Va Line
Revolutionary War
Respectfully referred to
Mr Van Mater, Chief
of Board of Review
to determine whether
the evidence presented
by Spl Exrs, Nichols
and Vanderlip warrant
the dropping of
pensioner name
from the rolls.

D McIntosh
Chief of S. E. Division.
Thos. Reilly,
Examiner.
(10310-25 M.) 6-148
Page 64

(3-535.) S.E.B
Division.
- Examiner.
(Write surname first plainly.)
Wids Ctf No. 7,706
(Class.)
Soldier John Casey
M Co. S. Reg't Army
Submitted Apl 24, 1888.
- Reviewer, -, 188-.
Re-submitted - , 188-.
-Reviewer, - , 188-.
Div. page -.
FROM BOARD OF REVIEW TO
Medical Div.
2d charge
Examiner
2d charge
Sp. Ex. Div. JUN 27 1888
Misc. charges Rowell
JUN 20 1888
Cert. and Acc'ts
Bd. of Rev. page 148
6-217 (Use this slip in re-submitting the case.) (9921-100 M.)

U.S. PENSION OFFICE,
F
RECEIVED
JUN 29 1888
SPL EXN DIVISION.
Page 65

O.W.
File 29,604
(3-555.)

Ctf No. 7,706
Soldier, J Casey
Service, U.S. Army

Mr. Coit
Chief O.W.N Div.
RETURNED SEP 29 1888
The above case has been returned
by the BOARD OF REVIEW to the
SPECIAL EXAMINATION DIVISION,
this day JUN 30 1888, 188-

J.R. VAN MATER,
Chief Board of Review.

11485-5 m
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S.E.D (3-540.)
WTP S. E. D.
Claim of Mary Casey
Ctf. No. 7,706 (Rev. War)
P. O. address, Washington Cst
Ohio.

Special examination in this case is deemed
necessary for the following reasons:
To demand refund-
ment of $980.67
if received by pensioner
to investigated alleged
irregular conduct
of S.C. Chase.

A Erdman
Chief Sp. Ex. Division.
Feb. 18, 1888.
(5741-3 M.)
Page 67

No 7,706
Revolutionary War
Mary Casey-
widow of 
John Casey
Pvt Capt. Armaghs Co.
Va. Line
Respectfully submitted
to Maj. W McE. Dye-
Chief S.E. Div
This case is one on
which action should
be had at once.
Originally the Revolutionary
Pensioner himself, ceased
to draw, for reasons
set forth in the evidence
Some 40 years later,
the present pensioner, 
applied to be put
upon the roll-
After some years of
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2
effort, the claim was
admitted, by order of the
Hon. Commr after a per-
sonal examination of
the evidence

The Certificate dated Oct.
4/87, issued to her-

Immediately thereafter it
was learned that she
was living with a negro
named Luckado-, as was
alleged, in adulterous re-
lations-

The claim was suspended
But in the meantime payment 
had been effected, carrying
arrears - (9 or 10 hundred) dollars)

The Commr - (probably not
knowing the real ground
of the suspension,) ordered
resumption of payment
and suspension was removed
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3

The name is now on the
rolls.

The claim was sent out
for Spl Examr from
which as shown by the admission
of both pensioner and "Lucka-
-do," she was married to
the latter, more than
30 years ago, in Jackson
Co. Ohio.
It is alleged that there
is a record of their marriage
none has yet been obtained-

Under the Ohio law,
it was an illegal marriage
because the Ohio Statute
forbade intermarriage of
whites and blacks.

The pensioner would
therefore be subject to
the Act of Aug 1782, and
antecedent law; because if
the marriage was illegal,
she has lived in adulterous
relations for over 30 years-
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4
About 2 years ago, the
Ohio St. referred to was
repealed;
The repeal of that Statute,
therefore, under the doctrine
laid down by Bishop, in
his treatise on marriage and
Divorce (which is a recog-
-nized authority here,) consum-
mated and perfected the
marriage between Mary
Casey & Luckado-

"If by the law of the place
where parties dwell, a mere
present mutual consent
constitutes marriage then,
if they are living together in
a connection which both
desire should be matrimonial,
but an impediment renders the
marriage void, valid marriage
will instantly arise on the
removal of the impediment
while the mutual wish for
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"marriage continues - It is in-
"-material to the result whether
"the impediment was known to
"the parties or not, nor is this
"a mere rule of evidence; the
law makes them husband & wife
1" Bishop M&D. p. 505
In Ohio, a common law
marriage would be good.

But, in the case of these
parties, an impediment
rendered the marriage
void - to wit; the Statute
forbidding miscegenation

Now, since the Ohio Statute
was repealed, under the
law as cited by Bishop,
in the moment of that
repeal, the marriage
relation instantly arose
between Mary Casey and
Luckado - and they became
so instanti, husband & wife
Sec p 420 new Digest
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This pensioner should
therefore be dropped
by reason of remarriage
at once.

She is shown to have
been very poor, prior
to receipt of arrears
(Oct 21/87)-
I think prompt inquiry
Should be made as
to whether any of the
money can be found now

Criminal action against
her would lie, upon
the execution of her vouchers
in which she necessarily
swore that she had
not remarried - But
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in view of all the cir-
cumstances, I do not
believe the intent to
Commit a fraud upon
the Gov't. can be made
out against her - nor
a voluntary perjury -
So that I should not
recommend criminal pros-
ecution of her -

S. B. Yeoman, now
a fugitive, who coaxed
her to make the claim
undoubtedly was guilty
of crime, under several
sections of Rev. St.
But the limitation has
been against his offenses

S.C. Chase of
Washington C.H. Ohio
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is in my opinion
guilty under #5438,
and 5393, Rev. St. U.S.

The pensioner, as it
appears has not received
the payment made
on Oct 21/87
The fact is shown
that Chase had the
voucher in his posses-
-sion; and the Pension
Agent at Columbus
O. says it was paid.

I think the Pens Agent
should be requested
to state, to whom pay-
-ment was made, to
what address sent, and
whether Chase corresponded
with him relative thereto-
When we know to what
address the check was
sent, we can then follow
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it to the P.O. & see who
took it out - and cashed
it-
The check also should
be called for-

Spl Exn should be
ordered, not only to
ascertain what the
Chances are for a
recovery, but as well,
whether Chase is
guilty enough to
prosecute
W. T. Pierson
Crim'l Disr,
Nov. 19/87-
The name of pensr
should be dropped at
once - Since she never had title
Page 76

Mr. Crutchfield -
Please do all
my slips denote-
Clm is Suspd
First write to Pens Agent
as suggested
Call for hase &
voucher on which
payment
was effected-
Then, when answers
come, to be sent
out for furth. sp exn
as indicated-
Note on Back of
Page 77

Case slip, date &
tenor of letters sent
by you -
& make slip
holding in Cor.
files, until answer
comes
W.TP
Nov 25/87 -

For prompt action
now, & when answers
come - W.T.P
Nov 25/7
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Form No. 1
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. 
Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmitting or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after sending the message.
This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above.
THOS. T. ECKERT, General Manager. NORVIN GREEN, President.

NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK
49 GW SF 2afsd
Received at S.E. Cor. 18th and M Sts., N.W. Oct 26 188-
Dated Columbus O QC 5457
To Hon Jno C Black

Payment to Mary Casey
Widow of 1812 was made
out twenty first. Further
payment will be suspended
G H Borger Pen Agt
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382 (3-441.)
Supervising Section:
Potomac 1 Pot 261
Record
Pages:
O.W.
Cert No. 7,706 Rev. War.
Claimant Mary Casey Widow
Soldier: John Casey,
Service: Pri Capt. Armaghs Co, Va, Line
Claimant's P. O. address: Sunnyside Washington C.H.
Fayette County, Ohio.

Rec'd in S.E.D. Oct 26", 1887, from O.W.N. Div.

REFERENCES.
To Spec'l Ex'm'r J C Nichols Oct 26, 188-
for spec'l ex'm'm at Washington C.H.
Fayette County, Ohio.
To Spec'l Ex'm'r J C Nichols Nov. 2, 188
for futher ex'm'n at -
Fayette County, Ohio
To Spec'l Ex'm'r Van Derlip Feb. 20, 188-
for further ex'm'n at Washington C.H.
Fayette County, Ohio
To Spec'l Ex'm'r - , 188-
for further ex'm'n at
- County, -
To Spec'l Ex'm'r - , 188-
for further ex'm'n at
- County, -
App filed June 21"/78
Brief of "Record" on back of this Slip.
(6781-25,000.)

Henrietta Feb 18/88
Sup Ex - Letter Nov. 2. 87
Page 80

[no text]
Page 81

[no text]
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J.S.E. Special Examination Division,
PENSION OFFICE,
Washington, D. C., Oct. 26, 1887
Revolutionary War.
No. Claim, Ctf 7,706.
Claimant, Mary Casey
Soldier, John Casey
Co. Capt. Armagh Reg't Va Line

Special Examination of
this claim is deemed
necessary, it appearing from
letter of Spl. Ex. J. C. Nichols
dated Oct. 24/87. that clmt
is known as Mary Luckado
and is living with a man
of that name, Point
of exmaination. re-
marriage or cohabitation.

Wm McE Dye M
Chief Special Ex'n Division.
Page 83

Washington, S.C. Oct 26"/87

Cert. 7,706 Widow,
John Casey.
Pri. of Capt. Armaghs Co
Va Line, Rev. War.
Special Examination
of this claim is deemed
necessary, it appearing
from letter of Spl. Ex.
J.C. Nichols, dated Oct.
24/87, that clmt. is
Known as Mary Luckado,
and living with a man
of that name, Point
of examination re-
marriage or cohabitation,
Wm McE, Dye.
W.B.C.
Oct 26"/87
Page 84

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Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmitting or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after sending the message.
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NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK
Do 29 Pd
Received at WASHINGTON C. H., O 1020 MM Standard Time. Oct 28 1889
Dated, Washn. D.C. " 28
To J.C. Nichols Spl. Exn.
WASHINGTON C.H. O
Return at once without
investigating claim of
Mary Casey Certificate
7706
Jno. C. Black
Commsr
Page 85

U. S. Pension Office.
Special Exam'n Div.
Revolutionary
Cert. 7,706
Mary Casey, wid of
John Casey, of
Capt. Armaghs Va Line

Since admission of claim
widow appeared in newspaper
charging pensioner with "adulterous
cohabitation" with a negro
named "Luckado.
Special Examiner Nichols
forwarded newspaper article.
with letter stating that the
article (as he was informed) is
true. Suspension of payment
was ordered, butt he accrued
pension (about $984) had already
been paid. Further payment is now
suspended. Case was sent out for
investigation, But recalled by corre

Oct 31/87.
Page 86

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
JUN 21 1878
PENSION OFFICE

Revolutionary War
Application for Pension
Mary Caisey
Widow of
John Caisey

Filed by
S B Yeoman
Washington C.H.
Ohio
Page 87

The State of Ohio
Fayette County SS
On this 19th day of June A.D. 1848, before the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, a Court of Record within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Caisey a resident of said County aged Sixty Eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the third day of February 1853 and Subsequent acts, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war; that She is the widow of John Caisey (or Casey or Cassey) who was a private in Captain Armaghs Company. She does to know the name of his Colonel or Number of his Regiment or other organization. Her husband was born in Albemarle County Va, and enlisted in said County. She has heard him Say that he was in the battle at Elizabeth - and at Brookes Still. That he was a pensioner at the time of his death, to the best of her recollection, and had drawn his pension there at least but that his papers were all destroyed by himself in a fit of temporary insanity, and never had them replaced
She further declares that she was married to the said John Caisey on the 26th day of May A.D. 1831; that her said husband died on the - day of October AD 1845; and that she is now a widow.
She hereby appoints S. B. Yeoman, of Washington C.H. Fayette County Ohio my attorney, with power of Substitution, to prosecute this her claim for a pension, to receive the certificate when issued and do all other acts necessary to Effect the affect of his appointment
Page 88

Jos. Hidy Jr.} Mary Caisey x her mark
W.C. Tarzey
Sworn to and subscribed before me in open court this 19" day of June A.D. 1818. and I certify that the contents of the within was made known to support before signing, and that I have no interest in this claim for pension
E.W. Welsheimer Clerk of
Fayette County Com-Pleas Court
Page 89

O. W. & N. 
JUN 16 1887
RECEIVED.
B
John Casey
C

PENSION
F JUN 14 1887
OFFICE.

Revolutionary
Page 90

VIRGINIA.
Commonwealth of Virginia,
LAND OFFICE,
Richmond - 188
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS.
No 3513 Council Chamber November 8th 1784
I do certify that John Casy is entitled to
the proportion of Land allowed a private
of the Continental line, who served to the
end of the war
Benjamin Harrison Thos. Merriweather
A warrant for 200 acres issued to
John Casy Nov 9th 1784

Land Office Richmond Va
The foregoing is a true copy of the record of this office as witness my hand & seal of Office this 2nd day of June 1887
J. A. Wingfield Reg Land Office
Fee 50c

A Duplicate issued to John Casy
April 11th 1821
Page 91

7,706
Columbus (3-128.)
Rev. War. WIDOW'S PENSION.
Claimant Mary Casey Soldier John Casey
P. O. Sunnyside, Washington C.H. Rank Private of Co. of Capt. Armagh
County Fayette, State Ohio Regiment Va. Line Rev. War
Rate $8 per month, commencing March 9, 1878, and $12 per mo. from March 19 1886.
By former marriage. None.
By last marriage. None.
Payments on all former certificates covering any portion of same time to be deducted.
All pension to terminate

RECOGNIZED ATTORNEY:
Name None. Fee $- Agent - to pay.
P.O. articles filed - ,18

APPROVALS:
Submitted for Al. Oct. 3d, 1887, Lewis C. White, Examiner.
Approval for a d
Page 92

Report Special Agent
John Casey Pensioner - receive $80
I the undersigned John Casey in persuance of the regulation of the Secretary of the war, give the following [illegible] of my age & Revolutionary Services to wit. I was 71 yrs. old the 9th of September last - I am a [illegible] of Buckingham county. in my 18th year of age (I can't tell what year that was) I Enlisted in a troop of [illegible] at a place called Ragged Island under Capt. [illegible] for during the was, was in active service for two years and a half. Part of the time I was on a recruiting Station. I was all the time in the South Eastern part of Virginia, was never in any engagement. [illegible] was my company [illegible] attached to the main army. We were a while attached to Genl. Muhlenburgs Regt of Riflemen--except on this occasion my company was [illegible] - when Cornwallis was taken I was sick in an Hospital. I introduced no evidence of my services - Wm. Walker [illegible] my Declaration - told him I am in [illegible] I was told [illegible] me nothing - Dudley Diggs was Lt. of my comp[any and William green [illegible] - In witness of the above I hereto subscribe my name Jany 5. 1835  John  his X mark  Casey
Witness
Thomas S. Bartard.
Joseph Thomas (born in 1729.) Says he has Known & been a neighbor to John Casey since 1798. has often [illegible] with him about the Revo. war never heard Casey pretend that he was a soldier in that war until subsequently to the passage of the Pension Law. that Casey is some years younger than himself but how many cant tell--
William Bayly aged 77 yrs a Pensioner, has know Casey for
Page 93

forty odd yrs/ has heard him in days past say he was a soldier in troops of horses during the war of the Revo. that his captain [illegible] - and the company dispersed & returned home - that Casey has often repeated this fact in his presence--
Samuel Bayly says he has often heard Casey say that he was in service during the Revo. war, as a trooper for about six months only.
A Copy-
W. G. Singleton
Jany [illegible] 1835

Note--this mans statement is wholly unsatisfactory -- I can't resist the belief that he is an imposter -- if he was in the regular Service as he states -- his name I presume can be found on the Roll, Nothing Short of this is positive proof of credible [illegible] would satisfy me of his service.  I should [illegible] from his appearance that he cant [illegible] sixty five years old.
W. G. Singleton

John Casey Pen
Kenhawa Cty
Fraud
Page 94

No. 19559 or 19.559

Claim for Accrued Pension of Widow of the War of the Revolution and for pension

State of Ohio, County of Fayette, SS.
On this 26th day of March A.D. 1885; personally appeared before me a Clerk of the court in and for the aforesaid County, duly authorized to administer oaths March Casey aged 75 years, a resident of Washington C.H. in the County of Fayette and State of Ohio whose Post Office address is Washington C.H. Ohio and who, being duly sworn, declares as follows:  that she is the widow of John Casey who was a pensioner of the United States resideing in Kanawa County Virginia now West Va. on February 21st A.D. 1833 and drawed back from March 9th A.D. 1831 that his Annual allowance to the best of her knowledge was Eighty dollars  that he was paid on his first payment the sum of two hundred dollars.  That he obtained a Land Warrant for two hundred Acres of Land which was given to one William Lytle to be located somewhere in the State of Ohio.  That some time after her said Husband received his first payment Two Young men came to their house a few minutes after her said Husband had Had an Epileptic fit to which he was subject and told him that he had too young a wife to have a pension and that they wanted his pension Certificate and as he was feeble and nervous and frightened he gave up his pension Certificate to them and they also went to the House of a man by the name of Hanover and took his pension Certificate from him and that the said Hanover went to Washington City and made known the facts and got another Certificate but that her said Husband was afraid those men would return and kill him if he made an effort to have his pension restored.  and this is the reason that he did not continue to draw his pension regularly to the date of his death
The declarant hereby appoints with full power of substitution and revocation, S.C. Chase of Washington C.H. Ohio her Attorney and authorizes him to present and prosecute this claim and to do any and all acts necessary to effect the purpose of said appointment.
Mary Casey x her mark
(Signature of Claimant.)

J.B. Priddy
Robert Miller
(Two witnesses who can write sign here.)

[STAMP]
Pension Office
Mar 30 1885
Page 95

Also personally appeared J.B. Priddy residing at Washington CH Ohio, and Robert Miller residing at Washington CH Ohio, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being by me duly sworn, say that they were present and saw Mary Casey, the claimant make her mark to the foregoing declaration;  that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of said claimant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be;  and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.
JB Priddy
Robert Miller

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26 day fo March A.D. 1885 and I hereby certify that the contents of the above declaration, &c., were fully made known and explained to the applicant and witnesses before swearing, including the word was erased, and the word is, added;  and that I have no interest, direct or indirect in the prosecution of this claim.
EM Welsheimer 
Clerk of the Com Pleas Cl
[SEAL]

CLAIM FOR

CLAIM OF
Mary Casey Widow of John Casey of the War of the Revolution
FOR
Pension and Accrued Pension

Filed by S.C. Chase
Washington C.H. Ohio

printed and for sale by J.H. Soule, of Washington, D.C.
Page 96

[STAMP]
Pension Office Mar 30 1885


John Caisey
and
Mary Cox

Marriage Record 
1831

Rev
Page 97

Marriage Certificate

State of Ohio,
Jackson County, SS.:  Probate Court.

I, H.C. Miller Sole Judge and ex-officio Clerk of the Probate Court, a Court of Record within and for the County and State aforesaid,
Hereby Certify, That John Caisey and Mary Cox were Joined in Marriage by Fredrick Winfough a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to solemnize Marriages in said County, on the 26th day of May A.D. 1831 as appears from the Record of Marriages in said Court.
Witness my signature and the seal of said Court, at Jackson, Ohio, this 20th day of March A.D. 1885
H.C. Miller
Judge.
[SEAL]
Page 98

State of Ohio}
County of Ross} ss
On this 20th day of March A.D. 1880 personally appeared before me, Clerk of the Court of Common pleas within and for the County of Fayette and State of Ohio
Mary Casey a resident of Washington in the
County and State aforesaid whose claim for
Pension as the Widow of John Casey of the War of the Revolution is No 19554 and who being by me duly sworn according to law says that the said soldier John Casey resided from the year 1780 to 1845 according to the information she received from him in his life time as follows: in Albemarle County Virginia in 1780 and onward to about the year 1800 and from about the Year 1800 to the Year A.D. 1845 he resided in Konawa County Virginia, That her first acquaintance with her said Husband the Soldier John Casey
commenced about the year 1830 in Konawa County Virginia and that her Post office address is
Washington C.H. Fayette County Ohio
Attest
x E. W. Welsheimer x Mary Casey x her mark
x T. Lindsey
Sworn to and Subscribed before me on this 20th day of March A.D. 1880 and I hereby certify that the contents of the foregoing affidavit was made known and fully explained to the Affiant and witnesses before swearing and that the attesting witnesses are residents of Fayette County and State of Ohio and that I have no interest direct or indirect in the prosecution of this claim
2 E W Welsheimer Clerk
Page 99

(3-128.)
WIDOW'S PENSION.
Rev. War 1776
Claimant Mary Casey Soldier John Casey
P.O. Sunny Side, Washington C.H.  Rank Private of Capt. Armagh's Co.
County Fayette, State Ohio  Regimejt Va. Sine Rev. War.
Rate, $8 per month, commencing March 9, 1878, and $!2 from March 19 1886.
[marked out: and two dollars a month additional for each child, as follows:}
By former marriage.{  _____ {Born, ____ 18__. Sixteen, ____, 18 __.} Commencing ___. 18__.
[repeated three times]
By last marriage. { _____ {Born, ____ 18__. Sixteen, ____, 18 __.} Commencing ___. 18__.
[repeated four times]

[In margin:  Revf on Aug 2/87]
Payments on all former certificates covering any portion of same time to be deducted.
All pension to terminate [marked out: ___, 18 __, date of ____]
RECOGNIZED ATTORNEY:
Name None, | Fee $ --, Agent __ to pay.
P.O. ___| Articles filed [marked out: ___, 18__]
APPROVALS;
Submitted for Al. Aug 2, 1887, Lewis C. White, Examiner.
Approved for Rejection, origin of | Approved for ___; death resulted from
Upon the ground that there is no evidence and no record to show that Clms husband served in the Revolutionary War. The records show, that certain John Caisey of Kanawha Co. Va was allowed a pension in 1833, receiving [illegible] & one payment only; that after a special investigation this name was stricken from the rolls on evidence showing that he had obtained his pension through fraud, that this Office duly notified the Clerk of the Kanawha Co Court of its action that no effort was made by the former pensioner to reverse the action of this office from 1835 to his death in 1845; and there is no evidence presented by the widow upon which that action could be reversed and her claim as presented allowing [illegible signature]
Aug 4 - 1887
" 8 1887

Enlisted October 1779 | Invalid application filed in 1818 and , 1832
Mustered ___, 18 __.  |  Invalid last paid to Sept. , 1833
Discharged About 1781  |  Former marriage of soldier none, 18 __
Died October, 1845  |  Death of former wife none, 18 __.
Declaration filed June 21, 1878.  |  Claimant's marriage to soldier May 26, 1831.
Signs by mark no M. C.
Enlisted
Page 100

REVOLUTIONARY WAR WIDOW.
Mrs. Mary Casey, on Sunny Side, is
the Widow of a soldier of the
Revolutionary War, and
Yet the Draws no
Pension.
Mrs. Abigail S. Tilton, of North
Woodbridge, Rockingham county, N.
H., is the last pensioner on the list of
the Revolutionary War, her husband
having been a soldier in that war. This
old lady who is over one hundred years
of age receives annually from the State of
New Hampshire $104, and $194 annually
from the United States Government
, making a total of $298 per year.

Although Mrs. Tilton is the only pensioner
drawing a Revolutionary War
pension, she is not the only person entitled
to one. There is living in a little
two-room cabin on Third street over on
Sunny Side, this city, the widow of a
brave and honorably discharged Revolutionary
soldier, who has never received
a cent from the Government,
although she is at present in abject poverty
. This seems strange, yet it is
nevertheless true. The writer made
the old lady a visit yesterday and found
her engaged in sorting out garden seeds
for planting. She told the following
story which has been vouched for
by persons who have investigated.
I am eighty years of age and a resident
of Washington C. H., Ohio, and
am the widow of John Casey, who was a
pensioner of the United States, and
whose pension certificate was numbered
, to the best of my knowledge, 19,554.
As a soldier of the war of the Revolution
he was pensioned on February 21,
1833 and was paid to March 4, 1834,
the sum of $200. About this time two
ruffians, or robbers, came to our house
in Kanawa county, Virginia, now West
Virginia, and demanded my husband's
pension certificate, and compelled him
to deliver it up to them. They took it
and also went to the house of one Hanover
and took his pension certificate
from him. But Hanover afterwards
went to Washington D.C., and obtained
another certificate. My husband
had epileptic fits and was feeble and
nervous and afraid to make any effort
to recover his pension certificate for
fear that these robbers would kill him.
This was the reason he did not continue
to draw his pension to the date of the
last pay day prior to his death. I was
married to John Casey in Jackson
county, Ohio, under the name of Mary Cox, on May 26, 1831, by Frederick
Winfaugh, J. P. Neither myself nor
husband had been previously married,
and I have remained his widow."
It seems that Casey was seventy-five
years of age when he married Mary
Cox, who was eighteen at the time of
their marriage. He was tall, handsome
and vigorous, while his young bride
had but fairly budded into womanhood.
The old man saw the girl and as the
boys say in these day got "mashed on
her." He won her affections and they
lived with each other in the richest enjoyment
of wedded life until death
called him away. Left alone in the
world, with no means of support and
no relatives to take her in and give her
a home, the young widow was at a loss
to know what to do. Jordan Lookado,
a negro slave who worked about the
house stuck by his " Misses" through
thick and thin; he came with her to
Fayette county many years ago. They
have both been brought to old age, and
the old lady calls Jordan "her man."
They get what help they can from the
township, but withal it is impossible to
keep the wolf from the door.
Some time ago a pension agent of
this
this city took up the old lady's case and
attempted to secure a pension for her.
The Pension Department admitted that
she is the widow of a Revolutionary War
soldier, but because her husband
did not continue to draw the pension
after the time at which Mrs. Casey alleges
the certificate was stolen they refused
to grant the pension. The name of
John Casey has been found in the
official lists of several records of the
Revolutionary War soldiers who drew
pensions, and yet with all this the Pension
Department three years ago refused
to grant the pension, which would
amount to the present time to between
$4,000 and $6,000. It is the general
sentiment among those who are familiar
with the case that it is an outrage that the
old lady is not receiving a pension.
Page 101

Washington C. H. Ohio May 12. 1887
Hon Commissioner of pensions

Sir

I have the honor to refer to the claim
of Mary Casey, Widow of John Casey of
the War of the Revolution whose claim
is No. 19554, which was the No of his pension
Certificate. The old lady has also in her
possession the No of her deceased Husbands
Land Warrant which is, 3513 and has
Explained under oath the reason that the
soldier did not continue to draw
his pension to the date of his death
It seems reasonable to believe if he had
had a pension Certificate and Vouchers
that he would have continued to have
them Executed. The law has provided in
Section 4743 of the revised statues provides
for the Enrollment of this Widdow as a pensioner of the United States and as her Attorney I again appeal to the Commissioner for a reexamination of her claim

Respectfully &c
S.C. Chase
Washington C. H.
Ohio
Page 102

Mrs. Tilton was allowed pension on account
of the services of her former husband
Benjamin Stevens, N.H. Troops W.27780
she was not the last Rev. War pensioner.

There is a great deal of contradictory data
in this claim.
Page 103

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Casey which require further proof or explanation.

1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason
assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he
served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension
he is entitled?
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under thAct of June 7, 1832?
yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished
from any other seal?
yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. If the applicants name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
No
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by th War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
yes

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ___year
___months, and ___ days, I served as a___ .For ___months and ___days, I served as a ___; and for such service I claim a pension.
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3

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed
in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of the office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Page 106

Vol. 61 

Statement of Claimt

[ink stamp:  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PENSION OFFICE
JUN 21 1876]
Page 107

Washington C. H. Fayette Co Ohio
June 19th 1878

Hon. Com'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:
I forward Enclosed, the application of Mary Caisey, widow of John Caisey, for pension. Also Marrige [sic] certificate, of John Caisey to Mary Cox who is the present applicant.
John Caisey it seems, was called or known by the names of Caisey, Casey & Cassey or Cursey. His widow being illiterate, cannot tell what his correct name was, John Caisey was also illiterate but I conclude that his proper name was Casey from the fact that when he got License to Marry Mary Cox he evidently pronounced his name in such a manner that the Court Spelled it Caisey.
Mrs Caisey Says that her husband once had a pension certificate, and drew once, and then destroyed his papers, as She thinks about 14 years prior to his death which occurred in Oct 1845.
Her statement of his Service is from recollection of what She had heard him State. Yours Respectfully
S. B. Yeoman
Page 108

N.O.W. and B.L.
L.C.W
LM

Department of the Interior.
Pension Office.
Washington, D.C.  June 26th 1878

Sir
In the claim of Mary Caisey for pension as widow of John Caisey, Revolutionary War, the claimant is required to file a new declaration as the one on file has no identifying witnesses.
Claimant should state where soldier lived when he enlisted, give the name of some officer of his company or regiment, the place where he lived when he received his pension, and the agency at which pension was paid.
If the soldier or claimant received a Land Warrant that fact should be stated and the number of the warrant, if possible, be furnished.
Please return this letter with your answer.
Very respectfully
JA Bentley
Commissioner
per HWS

S.B. Youman Esq.
Washington C.H.
Ohio.
Page 109

John B. Koontz.
U.S. Pension Attorney
Soldiers' original and rejected claims and increase of pension a specialty.
Washington C.H., O.  April 24, 1888.

John C. Black
Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir:
Yours under date 20th instant at hand.
The pension certificate granted Mary, widow of John Casey, was granted under Act of March 9th 1878. was dated October 4th 1887 and made payable at Columbus agency.
Yours very truly
J.B. Koontz
Page 110

Board Re-Review.
H.G.B.

Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C., 11th October, 1887.

No. 19,554
Mary Casey,
Widow of John Casey,
Capt. Armaghe's Co., Va. Line, Rev. War.

Sir:
In respond to your recent communication relative to the above mentioned claim, I have to state that I have caused the evidence on file to be carefully examined and have personally considered this case.  You are informed that the claim has been allowed and the Certificate was mailed to the Pension Agent at Columbus, Ohio, October 4, 1887.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner

J.W. Leever, Esq.,
Washington, Ohio.
Page 111

Receipt of Order to Suspend, Resume, or Terminate

U.S. Pension Agency,
Columbus O.
Nov. 4", 1887.

Hon John C. Black
Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir:
I hereby acknowledge the receipt of your order of Nov. 2d 1887 in the case of Mary Casey Rev War Certificate No. 7706 (formerly on    rolls,) directing that payment of pension be resumed.
Very respectfully
GH Barger
Pension Agent.
Page 112

Board Re-Review.
H.G.B.

Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C., 11th October, 1887.

No. 19,554
Mary Casey,
Widow of John Casey,
Capt. Armaghe's Co., Va. Line, Rev. War.

Sir:
In respond to your recent communication relative to the above mentioned claim, I have to state that I have caused the evidence on file to be carefully examined and have personally considered this case. You are informed that the claim has been allowed and the Certificate was mailed to the Pension Agent at Columbus, Ohio, October 4, 1887.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner

J.W. Leever, Esq.,
Washington, Ohio.
Page 113

Board of Re-Review,
Bureau of Pensions, 3rd October, 1887.

No. 19,554,
Mary widow of John Caisey,
Old War.

The papers in this case were submitted to the Commissioner and he decides that the papers shown that the fact of the service of the soldier, in the War of the Revolution, was established before a court of record as required by law, (See. Act of March 18, 1818,) and that said service was for a period of two years and a half.
That said facts so established cannot be set aside in a less formal manner than they were established;  that it is contrary to all practice to allow the statement of a Special Agent to disturb the judgment of a Court, having jurisdiction of the matter, based upon testimony adduced before the Court.
The action dropping the soldier's name was improper and will not be allowed to defeat the widow's claim.
F.W. Poor
Chf. B.R.R.
Page 114

[STAMP]
U.S. Pension Office
F
Mar 1 1888
[illegible].

1 YY
(3-450)
S.E.D.
I. No 7706
Name:  Mary Casey
P.O. Address:  Washington CH
County:  Fayette  State:  Ohio
Recommendation:
WL Van Derlip
Special Examiner.



Recommendation.
May 9, 1888.
Approved for dropping from the rolls.
HS Stotler
Reviewer.
Page 115

 Washington C.H. Ohio  9/22/87

Jno. C. Black
Com. of Pensions Wash D.C.

Dear Sir
Will preface this by begging pardon for addressing you personally but the urgent demands of the case is my excuse.  Some three or four weeks ago a pension was allowed (or so the papers so stated) to Mrs. Mary Casey a Revolutionary War widow.  For some cause or delay she has never rec'd. the same and is now in almost a starving condition living on the charities of the neighborhood  In fact would have been in the County Poor House if she had not been expecting the money which by the laws of the Country are justly due her.  I write this for no personal benefit but as a soldier and a comrade of the G.A.R. and with a feeling of Friendship, Charity & Loyalty.  A Claim agent C. Chase has the matter in hand and [illegible] the government has not paid the money or he has been not altogether square in the matter   He will give Mrs. Casey no satisfaction when she goes to see him about the matter  Hoping you will give this a little of your attention
I am Very Resp.
J.W. Leever
Late Private 107th Ill U.S.
Page 116

Washington C.H. Ohio  Aug 29th 1887
Hon Commissioner of pensions
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the inclosed copy of the Bounty Land warrant was sent as evidence in the claim of Mary Casy Widow of John Casy of the War of the Revolution whose claim for a widows pension is No. 1554 or 1559 and filed or sent to be filed in this claim under Section 3 of the Act of Congress approved March 9th 1878.  
Meanwhile the newspapers have declared that this claim was allowed about 30 days since but no notice of allowance has come to this office.  How is this?  Has the name of this widow been placed upon the rolls of Pensions of the United States?
Respectfully &c
S.C. Chase
Washington C.H.
Ohio.
Page 117

John Casey

MG

(3-464.)
OW&N Division
A.D.W.

Department of the Interior
Pension Office.

Washington, D.C., Aug. 24", 1997.

Respectfully returned to 
S.C. Chase
P.O. Box 597.
Washington C.H.
Ohio.
with the request that he state fully what information he desires and for what purpose it is desired
Wm. E. McLean.
Actg Commissioner

[STAMP]
US Pension Office
Sep 1 1887
Page 118

(3-459)
Department of the Interior,
Office of Special Examiner, U.S. Bureau of Pensions
At Wash. C.H. Ohio
November 14, 1887.

Notice of Special Examination
Case of Mary Casey Crt No. 7706

To Mary Casey, Claimant:
You are hereby notified that, by order of the Commissioner of Pensions, the undersigned will, on the 14 day of November, A.D. 1887, and continuing thereafter as long as may be necessary, at Washington C.H., County of Fayette and State of Ohio, and elsewhere if necessary, conduct a special examination of the aforesaid pension claim, at which time and place all material witnesses will be heard.
And you are further notified that you have the privilege of being present, in person or by attorney, during said special examination, and of cross-examining said witnesses and of introducing any material evidence on your own behalf, if you so desire.
J.C. Nichols
Special Examiner
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(3-459)
Department of the Interior,
Office of Special Examiner, U.S. Bureau of Pensions
At Wash. C.H. Ohio
November 14, 1887.

Notice of Special Examination
Case of Mary Casey Crt No. 7706

To Mary Casey, Claimant:
You are hereby notified that, by order of the Commissioner of Pensions, the undersigned will, on the 14 day of November, A.D. 1887, and continuing thereafter as long as may be necessary, at Washington C.H., County of Fayette and State of Ohio, and elsewhere if necessary, conduct a special examination of the aforesaid pension claim, at which time and place all material witnesses will be heard.
And you are further notified that you have the privilege of being present, in person or by attorney, during said special examination, and of cross-examining said witnesses and of introducing any material evidence on your own behalf, if you so desire.
J.C. Nichols
Special Examiner

Mr. J.C. Nichols
I acknowledge service of copy of above notice this 14 day of November, 1887. and desire the examination to begin at once.
Mary Casey  x her mark

Attest
John H. Culhan
D.H. Hare M.D.
Page 120

S.C. Chase Esqr
Atty at Law
Washington C.H.
Ohio

[STAMP]
US Pension Office
Jun 14 1887

[STAMP]
[illegible]
Sep 1 1887
Received
Page 121

S.C. Chase Atty at Law;  Dear Sir;
The Virginia Pension Roll published (Doc 514) by authority of the Congress of the United States 1834-5.  On page 157 it is found, that for the County of Kanawha of the State of Virginia the name of John Casey was placed as a private soldier on said Pension Roll at the rate of 80$ per annum Feby 21, 1833 at the age of 70 years for his military services in the Virginia Continental line Revolutionary War
Very respectfully
Jas. T. Sutton jr
Richmond Va
June 8th 1887

N.B.  The evidence of his service is on file in the Pension Office.  J.T.S.
Page 122

TBC
O.W. and N Div.
L.C.W. Ex'r.
Rev War Wid No. 18554 Rej.
John Casey
Co. Va. Service Rev'y War

[STAMP]
[illegible] office
May 28 1887

[STAMP] 
O.W. & N
May 28 1887
Received

[STAMP]
O.W. & N. Div.
To Examiner
July 28 1887
O.W. and Navy Files


Department of the Interior
Bureau of  Pensions
Washington, D.C. May 11, 1887
Return this letter with your reply.

Sir:
In response to the inquiry relative to above noted claim, I have to state that the number, 19554, is not the number of the soldier's pension certificate, but the number of the widow's rejected claim.
The number of land warrant, 3513, does not correspond to that of any John Casey found upon the records of this Bureau.
If you will be so kind as to forward to this Bureau the papers now in Mrs. Casey's possession, containing the number of soldier's land warrant, or any evidence showing that he received a land warrant, or any other papers containing soldier's signature, or evidence that may assist in locating his service during the Revolutionary War, the case will receive prompt attention, and information will be

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be given of any further requirements.
Very respectfully
John C. Black.
Commissioner

S.C. Chase Esq.
Washington C.H.
Ohio.

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O.W. and N. Div.
L.C.W. Ex'r.
Rev War Widow 19,554 Rej.
John Casey
Co. Va Service Rev. War

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions.
Washington, D.C. May 11th, 1887.
Return this letter with your reply.

Madam:
In response to the inquiry relative to the above noted claim, I have to state that the number 19,554 is not the number of your husbands pension certificate but the number of your rejected claim.
The number of land warrant, 3513, does not correspond to that of any John Casy found upon the records of this Bureau.
If you will be so kind as to forward to this office the papers now in Mrs. Casey's possession containing the number of soldier's land Warrant or any evidence showing that he received a land warrant, or any other paper containing soldier's signature, or evidence that may assist in locating his service during the Revolutionary War, the case will receive prompt attention and you will be informed as to any further requirements.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner

S.C. Chase
Washington C.H.  Ohio.
Page 125

Washington C.H. Ohio   May 26th 1887

Hon. Commissioner of pensions
Sir,
In reply I have the honor to inform you that John Casey's Bounty Land Warrant was transferred to one William Littler and that the No. 3513 is believed to be the No. of the Patent  That said John Casey was enrolled as a pensioner of the United States on February 21, 1833 and was paid from March 4th 1831 $200.00  His annual allowance was $80.00 per year.  That he resided in Kanawa County Va. not West Va  That his post office address was Melon Kanawa Co. Va.  It is believed to be possible to prove that John Casey's Pension Certificate was taken from his as set forth in the Declaration of the claimant Mary Casey.
Respectfully &c
S.C.  Chase
Washington C.H.
Ohio.

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Washington C.H. Ohio April 12th, 1886

Hon Commissioner of pensions
Sir
I have the honor to refer to the meritorious claim of Mary Casey Widow of John Casey No. 19554 of the War of the Revolution who still survives and urges that her claim be considered.  Please consider that she has complied fully with Section 4743.  She has also given the number of her deceased husbands land Warrant which is No 3513 which is evidence of honorable service.  This aged widow has also complied with Section 4719 of the revised statues and beleives she can yet find living witness in the neighborhood of Mellon Post Office Kanawha County Virginia to verify and corroborate her statement, that her aged husband was robbed of his pension certificate to two notorious Ruffs.  Please review her claim and report again as the citizens of Washington will not stop untill she is again pensioned.  In this claim I will accept of no fee whatever.
Respectfully &c
S.C. Chase
Washington

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[STAMP]
US Pension Office
B
Apr 10 1885

Washington C.H. Ohio   April 6th, 1885

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that no declaration has been filed for pension for a Mary Caisey as Widow of a John Caisey from this Agency and which has been reported under No 19,554 which is the No. of the claim of Mary Casey the widow of John Casey of the War of the Revolution and whose Bounty Land Warrant is No. 3513 as will more fully appear refference being had to the rolls of the General land office its Indices of Warrants and Patents which will exemplify the fact that John Casey served about two years and 6 months in the War of the Revolution and was honorably discharged and who was never known as John Caisey but as John Casey & the fact that the Probate Judge at Jackson in Jackson County Ohio put an i in his name should not militate[?] against this Declaration.
Respectfully &c
S.C. Chase
Attorney
Washington C.H.  Ohio

N.B.
Your report in this claim seems to be an impromptu of Commissioner Beattey which was corrected by Commissioner Dudley to S.B. Yeoman who was then the Attorney. S.C.C.

John Casey Land Warrant is No 3513
Page 128

[STAMP]
US Pension Office
B
Apr 10 1885

O.W. and N. Div.
L.C.W. Ex'r.
Orig Rev War F No. 19,554 Ref.
John Caisey
Co. Rev War 

Department of the Interior.
Pension Office
Washington. D.C.  March 31, 1885.
Return this letter with your reply.

Madam:
Your claim as widow of John Caisey was rejected as the Special Examination showed that the allowance of the invalid claim was procured by fraud and the man John Caisey was not a soldier of the War of 1776.
No allowance of pension or arrears of pension can be made under existing laws.
Very respectfully
John C. Black
Commissioner

Mrs. Mary Caisey
Washington C.H.
Fayette Co.
Ohio.
Page 129

Letter suspending soldiers name
Page 130

Letter Book DEc. 18 1834 to May 4 1835 Page 318.

Department of the Interior.
Pension Office.
Washington, D.C.       , 188

Copy:

War Department Pension Office
March 13th 1835.

To the Clerk of Court of Co. Kanawha C.H. Va.
Sir:
I have directed the names of the following persons pensioners under Act of Congress passed June 7' 1832 residing in the County of Kanawha, to be struck from the rolls, to wit John Casey,......
You will have the goodness to give them the information of the fact.
(signed)  James L. Edwards.
Page 131

Respectfully referred to the Comr. of Pensions.
Wm. H. Webster
Jany 17/83


[STAMP]
Old War & Navy Division
January 16 1883
Page 132

Washington C.H. Fayette Co Ohio Jan 12th 1883

W.H. Webster
Chief of Division of War claims of the Revolution & of 1812

Sir
I have the honor to ask why the claim of Mary Case No 19559 Widow of John Casey who was a pensioned soldier of the War of the Revolution has not been allowed and reported.  Full record evidence of service and identity of his widow has been filed in the Department
Please reply in the premises
Very Respectfully &c
S.C. Chase
Attorney for Mary Casey
Box 597 Washington C.H.
Fayette Co. Ohio.
Page 133

Respectfully referred to
the Comr of Pensions
I know nothing of the
claim referred to or
of the within [illegible] who
is probably [illegible] one
to whom I was introduced at the GAR
Encampment held 
on June last.
Wm H. Webster

Sept 5/82
Page 134

Office of
S.B. Yeoman,
Attorney At Law and United States Claim Agent

Washington, C.H., Ohio, August 31st 1882

Wm. H. Webster
Chief Old War Div. Pension Office

Dear Sir:
After I met you in Baltimore I expected to see you again at Washington, but when I got there I found so much to do I did not have the pleasure of calling on you.
I intended while there to ask you to tell me the status of the claim of Mary Casey, widow of John Casey, No. 26,968, War of Revolution.
The items or memoranda of the case is on the enclosed slip.
Yours Truly in F.C&L
S.B. Yeoman
Page 135

Washington C.H. Fayette Co O Nov 25 1881

Hon. Wm. W. Dudley Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that I have changed my address from Frankfort Ross Co Ohio to Washington C.H. Fayette Co Ohio and that after arriving here, have found that the aged Widow of the War of the Revolution namely Mary Casey whose claim is Numbered 18554 and whose Husband's Land Warrant namely the Land Warrant of John Casey is No 3513 still survives;  and remains the widow of said John Casey, whose services have been fully set forth in evidence derived from the Records of the War of the Revolution at Richmond Virginia to which refference is respectfully made, and action on this claim is respectfully called for without asking the Department for an answer to this letter;  other than a report when the claim is audited.
Very Respectfully &c
S.C. Chase
Attorney for Mary Casey
Box 597 Washington C.H.
Fayette Co. Ohio
Page 136

Frankfort Ross County Ohio  Aug 16th 1880

Hon O.P.G. Clark Acting Commissioner

Sir,
As one of the Attorneys for Mary Casey Widow of John Casey who was a soldier of the War of the Revolution I have the honor to send you the evidence in her claim No 19,554 that the said soldier served three years in said war, as the inclosed official Certificates show that he was entitled to and received 200 Acres of Bounty land and that the said  soldier served from the date of his Enlistment to the end of the War.  This Widow is clearly entitled and we respectfully ask that her claim be audited and that Justice be meted out to her, and we also respectfully refer to the fact that she is entitled to one hundred and sixty acres of Bounty land under Act of March 3d 1855.
Very Respectfully &c
S.C. Chase.
Attorney as Addenda & Auxilliary to S.B. Yeoman
Page 137

Certified Copy of Allowance
to John Casy for 
services in Revolutionary War

Allowance of Land by Va. State

Office Fee $1.00
Page 138

Commonwealth of Virginia
Land Office

Richmond, Va.              188  

I do certify that John Casey is entitled to the proportion of Land allowed a private of the Continental line who served to the end of the War
Council Chamber
Nov 9th 1784.
Thos. Merewether
Benj Harrison

Land Office Richmond Va.
I certify that the above is a true copy of the allowance made by the Governor & Council and that in pursuance thereof a Military Land Warrant for 200 acres was issued to John Casey on the 9th day of November 1784.   All of which is of record in this office
Witness my hand & seal of office this 10th day of August 1880.
J.M. Brockenbrough
Regt. Land Office
Page 139

19554  Mary Caisey

C

OW

[illegible STAMP]
Page 140

N.O.W. and B.L.
L.C.N.

Department of the Interior
Pension Office

Washington, D.C.  May 18 1880

Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the enclosed letter dated April 3d 1880, and in reply to inform you that the claim of Mary Caisey for pension as widow of John Caisey File No. 19,554 is awaiting evidence to show that John Caisey, her husband, served fourteen days during the war of the Revolution.
The records show that a John Caisey of Kanawha County Virginia was allowed a pension in 1833, and upon the 13th of March 1835 his name was struck from the roll on evidence showing that he procured his pension through fraud, not having served as alleged.
The soldier made no effort during the time from 1835 to his death in 1845 to have his name restored, and the action of March 13" 1835 cannot be disturbed.
The address of your correspondent is Judge S.B. Yeoman Esq. Washington C.H. Fayette Co. Ohio.
Very respectfully
JA Bentley
Commissioner

Hon. George S. Converse
House of Representatives

[STAMP]
U.S. Pension Office
Aug 18 1880
Page 141

Frankfort Ross County Ohio  March 1st, 1880

To the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
As Attorney for Mary Casey Widow of John Casey of the War of the Revolution I have the hon to make refference to the second Volume of the Report of the Secretary of War in obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June A.D. 1834 and of the 3d of March A.D. 1838 in relation to the Pensions on Establishment of the United States as set forth on Page 157 of said Volume which fully exemplifies that John Casey the aforesaid soldier was Enrolled as one of the Pensioners of Kanawa County Virginia on February 21st 1833 and that his pension commenced March 4 1831 In relation to the Land Warrant I respectfully make refference to the Indices at the Office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and also at the Office of the Second Auditor of the Treasury Department in relation to the No of Warrants of Soldier of the Revolutionary War.  And respectfully ask for your report in the premises.
Very Respectfully &c
S.C. Chase
Box 86 Frankfort
Ross Co. Ohio.

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[STAMP]
Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Mah 15 1880

Pension Bureau.

Information desired:
Major Webster
Please give full explanation of the situation of the case
Page 143

N.O.W. and BL.
L.C.W.

Department of the Interior.
Pension Office.
Washington, D.C.  March 10 1880

Sir:
In the claim of Mary Casey for pension as widow of John Casey File No. 19,554, Rev. War, the claimant shall give the name of the places where the soldier resided from the year 1780 to 1845.
Please return this letter with the evidence as above indicated and prompt attention will be taken.
Very respectfully,
JA Bentley
Commissioner
for WBE

S.B. Yeoman Esq.
Washington C.H.
Ohio

[STAMP]
Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Mar 27 1880
Page 144

Washington C.H. Ohio Feby 21st 1879

Hon. J.A. Bentley
Comr of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:
Your letter dated Feby 8th 1879, in reference to the rejection of Mary Caisey's claim for pension as widow of John Caisey, a Revolutionary Soldier, has been received.
After acquainting her with the contents of your letter she makes the following Statement, which at her request I repeat to you:
At the time that John Caisey made application for pension (about 40 or more years ago) he lived in Kanawha County Va.  And his witnesses by whom he proved his service were William Bailey Isom Bailey and Benjamin Hensley, who were messmates and comrades of the said John Caisey in the war of the Revolution.
She says that just before the war (1861) a man by the name of Rip or Ripley Huffman wrote to some one in Washington D.C. in reference to this matter and that he got a reply which she herself saw to the effect that - John Caisey had proved his service and a pension had been granted him and that he had drew once, and she further say that he had papers which she alwas understood were pension papers, and that she distinctly
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remembers that he once went to Charleston Va and brough home some money (a $100.00 she thinks) which he told her was pension money.
That their house burned down and all his papers were burned, including the pension papers.
She thinks his Captains name was "Armong" or "Armond"  That the witnesses herein before spoken of lived at or near Charteston Va;  that John Caisey went personally to Charleston to get their testimony
She seems very positive on all the above points.  She also says that her husband was in the army under General Washington for two and a half years.
She begs that a thorough examination may be made in her behalf, and suggests that there may be a difference in the spelling of names, or some mistake somewhere that can be discovered and rectified.
Respectfully Your obt. svt
S.B. Yeoman

[STAMP]
Department of the Interior
Pension office
Feb 24 1879

29,968
War of 1812 Files
Rejected.

File in Claim
Rev War
Page 146

A.
WIDOW'S BRIEF No. 2.
Rev. War Act March 9/78

Claim No,.

Soldier, John Casey
Lewis C. White, Ex'r
N. O. W. and B. S.
Act Feby 4 1879

Immediate cause of death,
 Reject
Not in
Service
See slip hereunto
C. F. Sawyer
Feb 8. 79
Page 147

WAR OF THE [marked out: REBELLION.] Revolution
Act. March 9 1878
Act of July 14, 1862, and subsequent acts.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
(ORIGINAL WITH INCREASE.)
Mary Casey, widow of
John Casey Rank, Private Company, of Capt Armaugh
Regiment, Va. Line Rev. War.

Residence of claimant, Fayette County, and State of Ohio.
Post Office, Washington C. H. Fayette Co. Ohio.
Attorney, Care of S. B. Youmans, Box 426. Washington C. H. Ohio.
Fees, $__ Articles of agreement, __ having been filed ___
Rate of pension, $Eight per month, commencing March 9, 1878, the date of passage of act. [marked out: and two dollars per month additional for each child, as follows:]
By former marriage  {None. [Here repeated 6 times are blanks following the words "Born", "Sixteen", and "Commencing" with blanks for the date]
By last marriage{ None.  [Here repeated 4 times are blanks following the words "Born", and "Sixteen" with blanks for the date]

Payment on all former certificates covering any portion of the same time to be deducted.
ADMITTED, Feby 4 1879, Lewis C. White, Examiner.
APPROVED, ____ 18__ ___, Examiner

[Written over the above:  Rejected See flip]

DATES SHOWN BY PAPERS>
Enlistment, October 1779  Right accrued, March 9, 1878.
Muster into pensionable rank " Claim completed, June 2, 1879.
Discharge, about 1781 Former marriage of soldier, ---
Death, October 1845 Death of former with, ----
Invalid app. filed, in 1818 and 1832 Claimant's marriage to soldier, May 26, 1831.
# Invalid last paid to Sept 1833 [marked out: death probably] 
Widow's app. filed, June 21, 1878.
CAUSE OF DEATH, Not Stated PLACE OF DEATH, Not stated
# not paid to death, but to Sept 1833.  [illegible] in all
Page 148

ALLEGATIONS OF CLAIMANT.
Other children of soldier by former wife, none
Other children of soldier by claimant, ___
Loyalty of claimant, Presumed.
SUMMARY OF PROOF>
No FORMER MARRIAGE OF SOLDIER> proved
The marriage of ___ to ___
is shown y ___

DEATH OF FORMER WIVES Alleged

MARRIAGE OF SOLDIER TO CLAIMANT
The marriage of John Caisey to Mary Cox
[marked out: is shown by] May 26 1831. Shown by Public Record.
DATES OF BIRTH OF CHILDREN.
none.
DATES OF DEATH OF CHILDREN.
none.
 CUSTODY OF CHILDREN BY FORMER MARRIAGE.
None.
Page 149

PROOF AS TO SERVICE.
The Adjutant General U. S. A. reports the military history of the soldier as follows: ____

PROOF AS TO DEATH.
1st. Report of Adjutant General.  |  5th. Testimony of Officers.
2d. Report of Surgeon General.   |   6th Testimony of Fellow Soldiers.
3d Certificate of Disability   |   7th Testimony of Attending Physician.
4th. Testimony of Army Surgeon.   |   8th Other Testimony.

DATE OF FILING. The Papers in the Rev. War Invalid claim show that John Casey served 2 1/2 years during the Rev. War. In Capt Armaughs Company. Va. line.
Claimant alleges Capt Armans or Armonds CO. and described the places of Residence as appears in Invalid claim.
Claimant is entitled under section 4743, but having failed to apply under that and having applied under Oct March 9 1878 this claim is allowed to commence March 9 1878.
Page 150

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
March 6 1860.

Sir,
I have respectfully to request that you will be pleased to inform me if the payment of the pension of John Casey, of the Richmond, Va. Agency, at $80.- per annum, under the Act of June 7 1832, was suspended about the year 1834, and, if so, for what cause.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
R J. Atkinson
Auditor

Geo. C. Whiting Esq.}
Comm'r of Pensions}
Page 151

Washington March 28th/60

Hon George C. Whiting,
Dear Sir
I enclose the letter of Hon R. C. Hoffman of Jackson, Ohio  Any information relative to the subject of his letter, which may be in possession of the Dept may be communicated to me
Very respectfully
Yours
C A Trimble
Page 152

OFFICE OF
CLERK OF COURTS,
Fayette County,
Washington C. H., O., Aug 2d 1878

Hon Comr of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir:
Mrs Caisey desires me to say for her, that she has no other means to give the dates, Service &c of her husband, except memory of what she has heard him say in reference to it.
She is a very illiterate person and can not give a very plain Statement of anything, but there is no doubt but her husband was in the war of the Revolution. this all his old neighbors concur in, but none of them know anything of the time place or in whose command,
Yours Respectfully
S B Yeoman.
Page 153

(3-149)
Brief for [marked out: Reduction,] Dropping, [marked out: or Continuance.]
Rev War. Pensioner Claimant, Mary Casey.
P.O. Washington C. H. |  Rank, ___
County, Fayette,  | Company, ___
State, O.  |  Regiment, ___
Rate, $12 per month, commencing Mch. 19. 1886,
Pensioned [marked over: for] as widow of John Casey - Revolutionary War

APPROVALS.
Approved for dropping her name from pension rolls,
Submitted April 20,. 1888; W. L. Vanderlip, Spl. Examiner.

Approved for ___  Approved for ___
Dropping claimant's name from the U. S. pension rolls on the grounds that the claimant remarried with Jordan Luckadoo (col'd) about 1854 or 185, and with whom she has lived and cohabited, continuously, since date of marriage. the evidence of remarriage and continuance of cohabitation consists of claimant's own testimony, and that of her present husband, See S. E. reports,
May 9, 1888; H. S. Stotler, Legal Reviewer. ___ Med. Ex. ___, Med. Reviewer.
June 6, 1888; Wormelle, Re-Reviewer | ___, 18 __; ___, Med. Referee.
Pensioned from ___, 18__; for ___
Last paid to ___, 18__; at $ ___

BASIS OF PRESENT ACTION.
Chief of Special Examination Division recommend Dropping, as above.
D. C. Gentsch
Sept 10, 1888. __, Chief Special Examination Division.
After legal notice, the above action is adhered to.

Sept. 10,. 1888.  Wm E McLean
Acting Commissioner
[11657-10,000]  6-370
Page 154

(3-409)
RECEIPT OF ORDER TO SUSPEND, RESUME, OR TERMINATE
U. S. Pension Agency,
Columbus O.
Sept 21, 1888

Hon John C Black
Commissioner of Pensions, 

Sir, 
I hereby acknowledge the receipt of your order of Sept 17, 1
888, in the case of Mary Casey (Revolutionary War)
Certificate No. 7706, (formerly on ___ rolls.) 
directing that [marked out: payment of pension] pensioner be dropped 
from roll.
Very respectfully,
Y. H. Bargar
Pension Agent.

[ink stamp: Mexican War  OCT 3 1888 {illegible] EXAMINER]
Page 155

(3-046.)
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
PENSION OFFICE,
Washington, D. C. Aug 10th, 1881
29604
Madam
To [illegible] tracing the claim referred to in the inclosed papers, THEY SHOULD BE RETURNED TO THIS OFFICE with answers as FULL AS POSSIBLE to the subjoining interrogatories, which answers should be inserted on the [illegible] lines below.
Any communications heretofore received from this office relative to the claim should also be returned.
Very respectfully,
JOHN C. BLACK,
Commissioner

Nancy Luckadoo
Washington C. H. 
Ohio

1888 INTERROGATORIES.
1st. What is the claimant's full name and address, and what relation to the Soldier?  Mary Luckadoo was wife of John Casey
2d.  What is the SOLDIER'S full name and address, his COMPANY and REGIMENT, and from what STATE did he enlist?  Enlisted from Virginia. Private of Capt Armaugh's Co. Va line John Casey
3d. Had he any other service than the one referred to, if so, what?
none
4th. What No. (if any) as given to the claim by the Pension Office? 7,706 Rev War
5th. When, or about when, was the claim filed?
Some time in 1878.
6th If Pension has been paid, at what Agency?
Columbus
(Signature:) Mary Casey now Luckadoo
(6938-10 M.)

[ink stamp:  U. S. P. O. Old War & Navy DIVISION  SEP 15 1888]
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Capt Armagh's Co. Va Line (Rev War)
(3-511.)
Special Examination Division.
Department of the Interior,
PENSION OFFICE,
Washington, D. C., July 5, 1888,
Mrs. Mary Casey now Luckadoo
Washington C. H. 
Fayette Co. Ohio

Madam:
You are hereby informed that it appears from evidence obtained by Special Examiner Nichols and by your own admission that you were remarried about 1854 or 1855, to on Jordan Luckadoo, with whom you have lived and cohabited continuously since date of marriage.
Payment of your pension will be suspended pending the receipt of such answer as you may desire to make; all statements of yourself or others to be under oath.
If, after a period of sixty days from this date, you have failed to satisfactorily rebut the evidence referred to, and no sufficient reason appears why an extension of time should be made, your name will be dropped from the pension roll.
Such evidence must be submitted in the form of affidavits, and the envelope inclosing them to this Office should be marked on the outside "S. E. D.".
Very respectfully,
John C. Black
Commissioner.

(977-5,000.)
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Casey
Sept 10

(rectangular stamp)
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
D
RECEIVED
JUL 14 1888
SPL. EXN. DIVISION

88 - 9 - 17
87 - 9 - 3
 1     0    15

12
12
12
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144.
    5.80
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149.80
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3-398.
Department of the Interior,
Pension Office,
Washington, D.C., July 5 1888
S.E.D.

Genl. G.H Bargar
U.S. Pension Agent
Columbus

Sir:  Please furnish a report in the following named invalid pension case:
Certificate No. 7706 Rev. War
Name of pensioner, Mary Casey, widow
Agency, Columbus.  Last pensioned at $12 per month
Very Respectfully,
John C. Black
Commissioner

Report
Last paid to include Sept 3 1887
GH Bargar
U.S. Pension Agent.
Columbus O.
July 12, 1888
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[STAMP]
U.S. Pension Office
F
Received
Nov 17 [illegible]
[illegible]

3-430
S.E.D.  Pot
Ctf  No. 706
Name:  Mary Casey
P.O. address:  Washington C.H.
County:  Fayette  State:  Ohio
Recommendation:  Drop from rolls

J.C. Nichols
Special Examiner
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Washington CH. Ohio
February 29th 1888

Hon J.C. Black
Commissioner &c
Washington D.C.

Sir
I have the honor herewith to return all the papers in claim Cert. No 7706 Mary Casey, widow of John Casey a revolutionary soldier, whose present P.O. address is Washington CH Fayette County Ohio, together with my report.
In obedience to the instructions contained in the letter of the Hon. Commissioner, herewith attached and marked Exhibit A, I called on Mrs. Casey, or Lookadoo, and was informed by her that she had received the check for nine hundred and eighty 67/00 dollars:  that said check had been endorsed by her, the money drawn at the Peoples and Drovers Bank of this place:  that she had spent the money to pay debts and had now none of it in her possession;  that she had no property and could not make restitution of the amount.  I visited the Peoples & Drovers Bank and was informed, by the cashier, that on Oct 22 1887 Mrs Casey had presented the said check, properly endorsed and had received therefor a certificate of deposit
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for nine hundred dollars and eighty 67/00 dollars in currency:  That on the 10th day of November 1887 she had presented the certificate of Deposit and the amount $900 was paid to her.  I visited the offices of the County Auditor and Recorder but could find no property real or personal listed in her name.  A lot belonging to Jackson Lookadoo has just been sold within the past month for $299.  That is their former house and I spent nearly half a day looking for her and at last found her in a squalid tenement on the opposite side of the town from where she had lived.
I have also investigated the conduct of S.C. Chase in connection with this case, and I cannot find that he has benefitted pecuniarily.  I have taken the sworn statements of the Justice of the Peace and two witnesses who executed Mrs. Casey's voucher.  Mr. Chase says that he did not file the original declaration, and that during his connection with the case, no call was made for proof of continued widowhood and he supposed that call had been made and answered before he was connected with the case.  He has sued Mrs. Casey before a magistrate here for the expenses incurred by him
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in procuring evidence for her and a judgment has been rendered in his favor, which judgement has not been paid.  Mr. Chase advised that he knew Mrs. Casey sometimes went by the name of Lookadoo, but as a marriage between her and Lookadoo was not legal under the laws of Ohio, he took her word for it that she had never remarried since the death of Casey.  I believe that Mrs. Casey still has the nine hundred dollars which she procured on the certificate of deposit and the two hundred dollars for which the lot was sold.  She is a very miserly old woman and remarkably vigorous in mind and body.
S.B. Yeomans who first filed a declaration in the case, absconded from here and is now living at Rosetta Colorado.  He is a pensioner.  I am of the opinion that if Mrs. Casey was arrested for perjury she would turn the money over to the government and I recommend that that course be followed.
Very Respectfully
WL Vanderlip
Special Examiner
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(3-143)
Index Rev. War Widow, Claim No.
Mary Casey wid John Casey

Arrange Papers in Invalid Claims - 1.  Declaration;  2.  Soldier's statements as to original;  3.  A.G.;  4.  S.G.;  5.  Cert. of Dis.  Let history as to origin, continuance, &c follow in regular order.
In Widows' and Dependent Relatives' Claims - Let evidence of soldier's death, marriage, dependence, &c., follow evidence of origin and continuance of fatal disease.

No. 1
Name and P.O. Address  Claimant
Date of Filing  June 21/78

No. 2
Name and P.O. Address  "  "

No. 3
Name and P.O. Address  Invalid papers
Subject.  showing service of 2 1/2 years and allowance of pension and payment of $200

No. 4
Name and P.O. Address  Public Record
Date of filing.  June 21/78
Subject.  showing marriage

No. 5
Name and P.O. Address Newspaper clippings [illegible] office letters
Subject.  showing claimants P.O. and widowhood
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Index
to Special Examiner's Report.

Claim of Mary Casey   Cert. No. 7706

Pages.  1 to   
Index

Pages. 2 to 4
Summary

Pages. 5 to 8.  
Commissioners Letter
Exhibits. a

Pages 9 to 10
Names of Witnesses Etc.  J.W. Leever
Depositions.  B
Reputation.  Good

Pages 11 to 12
Names of Witnesses Etc.  John T. Hiser
Depositions.  c
Reputation.  Good

Pages 13 to 14
Names of Witnesses, Etc.  James F. Johnson
Depositions.  D
Reputation.  Good

Pages 15 to 18
Names of Witnesses, Etc.  W.R. Dalbey
Depositions.  E
Reputation  Good
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(3-448.)
Index
To Special Examiner's Report.
Claim of Mary Casey  Ctf. No. 7706

Page 1
Index

Page 2
Notice to Claimant

Pages 3 to 6
Summary

Pages 7 to 10
Claimant's statement
Depositions.  A
Reputation.  Good

Pages 11 to 12
Jordon Luckadoo
Depositions.  B
Reputation.  Good

Pages 13 to 14
Claimants final statement
Depositions.  C
Reputation.  Good

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G.A.C.                              [illegible]
Special Examination Division
W.T.P.
JRR

Department of the Interior.
Bureau of Pensions.
Washington, D.C.  Feb. 18, 1888.

Mr. W.L. Van Derlip
Special Examiner,
Washington C.H., Ohio
Pot. Dist.

Sir:
Herewith are sent to you all the papers in the case of Mary Casey, a pensioner under cert. no. 7,706, as the widow of John Casey, late a private in Capt. Armagh's Company, Va. Line, Revolutionary War.
You are directed to call on the said Mary Casey (now Luckadoo) and ascertain from her whether she has yet received the check in payment of her pension;  and, if so, whether she has endorsed it and what dis-

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position she had made of the proceeds.  
Inasmuch as it has been shown that she had remarried and was the wife of one "Luckadoo" at the time of her application for pension, as the widow of the said John Casey, you will, in case said check has been received by her, demand a refundment of the amount hereof being nine hundred and eighty and 67/100 dollars.
Refundment should be made by draft on New York, payable to the order of the Commissioner of Pensions.  
In case the pensioner fails to make such refundment, you are directed to locate the kind, and value of all property owned by her which may be subjected to execution.  In case the pension denies

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having received said check you will call on the postmaster at Washington C.H. and endeavor to ascertain from him to whom the official letter from the U.S. Pension Agent presumably containing said check was delivered.
See also Clayton Lauren and ascertain from him if his signature on the check as a witness to the mark of Mary Casey is genuine and whether the latter did in fact endorse said check.
Then ascertain from the Peoples and Drovers' Bank, by whom the said check was presented for payment, and to whom

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payment thereon was made.
You will also investigate the conduct of S.C. Chase, as connected with this case, with a view to ascertaining whether he has committed any acts, in relation thereto, of a criminal nature.
Make your investigations in this respect thorough.
Return your report at an early date making this letter Exh. A of same.
Very Respectfully
John C. Black
Commissioner

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On 6161

[STAMP]
Bureau of Pensions
Dec 14 1887
Special Exam'n Division

[STAMP]
U.S. Pension Office,
Section A.
Dec 16 1887
Spl. Exn. Division.

[STAMP]
U.S. Pension Office,
Section A.
Dec 14 1887
Spl. Exn. Division.

Columbus Ohio.
Dec 8/87
Bargar G.H.
Pens agt.
In reply to inquiry of Dec. 8. states to whose address ctf. and voucher were sent. ctf 7,706 Rev War
Mary Casey wid of John
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G.H. Bargar,
U.S. Pension Agent

U.S. Pension Agency
Columbus, O., Dec 12" 1887

Hon W.E. McLean
Acting Com" of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Sir - Replying to your letter of Dec. 8" 1887 relative to the case of Mary Casey wid of John Casey Cert 7706. I have the honor to state
The Certificate and voucher in said case was mailed to pensioner named therein at Sunnyside Washington CH. O.  Check #673628 for $980.67 was mailed Oct 21 1887 to said pensioner at same P.O.  The address thereon both in mailing Cert and voucher and check being Mary Casey Sunnyside Washington CH O. and being the address given us in her executed voucher.  Our records do not show any correspondence with S.C. Chase of Washington CH. O. in regard to said case nor have I any recollection of receiving from him any written or verbal communication in reference thereto.
Very respectfully
GH Bargar
Pension Agt.
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H.C.B.
W.T.P.
[illegible]

Special Examination Division.
Department of the Interior.
Pension Office.
Washington, D.C.  December 8th, 1887

Genl G.H. Bargar,
U.S. Pension Agent.
Columbus Ohio.

Sir.
In the admitted pension claim, Cert. #7706. (Rev. War), of Mary Casey, widow of John Casey this Bureau desires to obtain the following information.
To whose address was the certificate, and voucher in above case sent?
To whom was check No. 673,628, issued in payment of amount due Sept 3" 1887, forwarded?
Did you receive any communication from one S.C. Chase, of Washington C.H. Ohio, in regard to said pension claim?  If so, please forward the same to this Bureau, with copies of replies made
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thereto by you.
Return this letter with the desired information at an early day.
Very respectfully,
Wm E. McLean.
Acting Commissioner.
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OW 8844
U.S. Treasury.
Dec 6./87

Secretary
Encloses [illegible] and canc'd check to the order of Mary Casey.
for $980.67

[STAMP]
[illegible]
Dec 7 1887

[STAMP]
U.S. Bureau of Pensions
Dec 7 1887
Special Exam'n Division.

S.E.
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Treasury Department,
Office of the Secretary.
Washington, D.C.  December 6th, 1887.

E.B.

To the Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir:
I enclose herewith in compliance with the request contained in your letter of the 25th ultimo paid and cancelled check No. 673628, drawn October 21, 1887, upon the Assistant Treasurer of the United States New York, by G.H. Bargar, Pension Agent, to the order of Mary Casey for $980.67.
Respectfully yours,
Hugh S. Thompson
Assistant Secretary.
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G.H. Bargar,
U.S. Pension Agent.

U.S. Pension Agency,
Columbus, O., Nov 29 1887

[STAMP]
U.S. [pension?] Office
Dec 2 1887

B 6160

Hon. John C. Black
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Sir - I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 25" inst relative to case of Mary Casey widow Revolutionary War Cer# 7706.
The records of this office show that the first and only payment in said case was made Oct 21" 1887 by check no. 673628 for the sum of $980.67 and that the check was mailed same day to Sunnyside Washington CH. Fayette Co. O.  I have no recollection nor can I find any evidence of ever having received any communication from S.C. Chase relative to said check.  The Asst. Treas. New York has not as yet rendered his statement of checks redeemed Oct '87 and I do not know therefore whether said check has been paid.  Payment of pension in the
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G.H. Bargar 
U.S. Pension Agent.

U.S. Pension Agentcy,
Columbus, O.,         188

above case was suspended by order from your office dated Oct 26" 1887.  Suspension was removed by order dated Nov 2" 1887 and again suspended by order dated Nov 25 1887.

Very respectfully
GH Bargar
U.S. Pension Agent
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7706
ACV

[STAMP]
[illegible] Office
[illegible] 2 1887

OW. 6160

Columbus. Ohio.
[illegible]. 29. /87

Bargar G.H.
Pens. Agt.

Ackldg's communication of 22 int. rel. to payment case of Mary Casey wid Rev. War. ctf 7706

[STAMP]
[illegible]
Dec 14 1887
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No 5642

[STAMP]
U.S. Bureau of Pensions
Dec 1 1887
Special Exam'n Division.

Treasury Dept.
Nov. 29. /87

Auditor third

Encloses orig, voucher ctf. 7,706 Rev. War. Mary Casey.

S.E.
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JBH

29.604
OWW.

1 Enclosure.

Form 168

Treasury Department,
Third Auditor's Office.
Washington, D.C.  Nov 29, 1887.

Sir:
In response to your request of the 25 inst, and by direction of the Secretary, I transmit herewith the original voucher upon which payment of pension was made to Mary Casey, certificate No. 7706 by the U.S. Pension Agent at Columbus, O., for period March 9, 1878, to Sept. 4, 1887.
The letter has this day been referred to the Chief of the Division of Public Moneys, Office of the Secretary, in order that the check called for may be furnished.
Very Respectfully,
Jno. Williams
Auditor.

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions.
(Ed. 9-16-'87-5300.)

FXB.

Ctf. 7706
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Receipt of Order to Suspend, Resume, or Terminate.

U.S. Pension Agency,
Columbus O.
Nov. 28  1887.

Jon John C Black
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir:
I hereby acknowledge the receipt of your order of Nov. 25 " 1887, in the case of Mary Casey Rev. War. Certificate No. 7706, directing that payment of pension be suspended pending further special investigation.
Very respectfully
GH Bargar
Pension Agent

Nov 25 87 - Given clerk
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Washington C.H. O
Nov. 15th 1887

The Hon. Com. of Pensions
Washington DC.

Sir
I have the honor to return herewith the papers in the Revolutionary war claim Ctf No. 7706 Mary Casey as widow of John Casey - late Private of Capt. Armaugh's Company of Virginia Line, and the annexed testimony taken in accordance with the letter of instruction filed in the case and dated Nov. 2, 1887.
The Pensioner is a white woman and the man with whom she lives as wife is colored.
The Pensioner was properly notified of this investigation, and was present in person when Jordan Luckadoo testified in the case.
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I fine on page 336 Digest 1885 "That the remarriage of a widow of a Revolutionary soldier is no bar to pension, provided claimant is a widow at the time of application"
In this case I am informed by the Hon. Mills Gardner an Attorney at Law here that there could not have been any legal marriage prior to last winter, at which time the statute prohibiting the marriage of a white person to a colored person was repealed.  and did not legalize existing marriages.
Therefore notwithstanding the fact that the Pensioner thought she was legally married, she has been living in open and notorious adultery with the said Jordon Luckadoo at least 33 or 34 years.
I do not suppose it is necessary to attempt to prove an illegal marriage, or to take further testimony here at this time as there is no doubt about the relations of the Pensioner and Jordon Luckadoo, with whom she lives.
In case the Pensioner has perjured herself, I have secured two intelligent and
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credible witnesses to her statement and her signature by mark "per letter of instructions to Special Examiner dated May 24, 1886."
S.B. Yeoman absconded from here several years ago for some misdemeanor and nor lives somewhere in Colorado at Rosetta Colorado.
S.C. Chase has acted very suspiciously in the case and I have deferred taking any statement from him until you can consider his actions in the case and give me further instructions, together with the names of the three witnesses he had Pensioner to pay one Dollar a piece for swearing she was a widow at the time she executed her voucher.  She was legally a widow but I doubt if Chase and the witnesses thought she was.  It is very evident to me that S.C. Chase is, and has been all the time, well aware of how this woman was living, and that he has acted dishonorably in prosecuting said claim to completion.
I respectfully recommend that the Pensioner's name be dropped from the Roll, and such other action as you deem necessary in the case.
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Note = It is due the Pensioner to state that she says she thought she was the widow of John Case notwithstanding her marriage to Jordon Luckadoo. and that she only had to prove that she was once the lawful wife of John Casey.  She says she was never asked whether she had remarried or not, and that she had no idea she was swearing to an untruth, when she swore she was the widow of John Casey.
Respy &c
J.C. Nichols
Spl. Ex
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(3-446)
Deposition A
Case of Mary Casey Ctf No. 7706

On this Fourteenth day of November, 1887, at Washington C.H.,  County of Fayette State of Ohio, before me, J.C. Nichols, a Special Examiner of the Pension Office, personally appeared the claimant Mary Casey, who, being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to her during this Special Examination of aforesaid pension claim, deposes and says:
her post office is Washington C.H. Ohio.  her age is 74 years.  Occupation none. and is the widow of the late John Casey who was a private in Capt. Armagh Company Virginia Line, during the Revolutionary War.
Q  Have you ever married again sincee the death of John Casey your late husband
A  Yes Sir.  I was married 33 or 34 years ago to Jordan Luckadoo in Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio. by the Rev Isaac Brown, a Bapt. minister who then lived about 1 mile north of said town of Jackson.  He is dead was killed while in service in the late war.  I do not know what co. or Regt he was in.
Q  Can you name any person or persons who were present at the time you were married.
A  The minister brought a school teacher with him.  But I do not know what his name was.  there was no others present, except us four.
Q  Have you and said Lucadoo been living as Man and wife since then.

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A  Yes Sir.
Q  Have you had any children by the said Jordon Luckadoo.  if so, how many.
a  Yes, Three, Isaah, Matthew and Emanuel.  the eldest one Isaah is 34 years of age.
Q  If you were married to Jordon Luckadoo as long ago as you say how could you swear that you were still the widow of John Casey.
A  I was coaxed to begin an application for pension by S.B. Yeoman and I consented, and he told me to swear that I was the widow of John Casey.
Q  Did he know then that you were married to Jordon Luckadoo.
A  Yes he did.  Because he taught school near where we were living and near Culpepper in Fayette Co. Ohio.
Q  Did you not understand that you were swearing to an untruth in making said oath.
A  I talked to a lawyer here in Wash C.H. and they said I had to begin my application in that way, and I did not know it was wrong.  because everybody that knew me knew I was married to Jordon Luckadoo, and living with 
Mary Casey x her mark
Deponent.

Attest
John H. Culhan
D.H. Hare M.D.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14 day of November 1887, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
J.C. NIchols
Special Examiner
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(3-446.)
Deposition A. Cont.
Case of Mary Casey  Ctf No. 7706

him as his wife.
Q  Have you always been known here as Mary Luckadoo.
A  Yes sir.  We have lived here about 14 years and we never done anything to conceal or hide our marriage.  I always took him about with me.
Q  Have you understood all the questions asked you and are your answers correctly recorded.
A  Yes Sir.

Mary Casey x her mark
Attest
We the undersigned D.H. Hare and John H. Culhan of Washington C.H. County of Fayette in the state of Ohio are witnesses to the fact that the foregoing was carefully and fully read to and freely acknowledged under Oath and signed by Mary Casey by making her mark in our presence.
D.H. Hare M.D.
John H. Culhan
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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14 day of November 1887, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
J.C. Nichols
Special Examiner
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(3-590.)

Claimant's Statement.
Deposition C
Case of Mary Casey Ctf No. 7706

On this Fourteenth day of November, 1887, at Washington C.H., County of Fayette State of Ohio, before me, J.C. Nichols, a Special Examiner of the pension Office, personally appeared Mary Casey, the applicant in the aforesaid pension claim, who says:
Q.  If it should become necessary to further examine your claim, by taking the testimony of witnesses elsewhere, do you desire to be present in person or be represented by an attorney, or both, at such further examination?  If so, you will be notified as to the place and time when it is to be made.
a.  No Sir.  Our marriage is on Record at Jackson C.H. Jackson Co. Ohio.
Q.  Should you change your mind and desire to be present, or be represented by an attorney during any further examination of your case, will you at once address a letter to the "Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.", giving the name and number of your claim, informing him that you have so changed your mind, and desire to be notified when your claim is to be further examined.
A.  I will.
State the name of the person or persons and their post-office addresses, instrumental in the prosecution of your claim for pension.
A.  S.B. Yeoman and S.C. Chase of Wash. C.H. Ohio.  S.B. Yeoman does not live here now.
Q.  State what contract or contracts you have made with such person or persons for their services in prosecuting your claim for pension, and whether such contract or contracts were written or verbal.

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I have no written contract with either one.  Yeoman never said what he would charge.  S.C. Chase said he would charge 10$.
Q.  State the amount of fees paid by you or at your instance, to whom paid, and all the circumstances connected with the transaction.
A. I did not pay Yeoman anything.  I paid S.C. Chase 10$ as a fee and $3.00 for three witnesses he brought here when my voucher come.  He has now sued me for $32.71 for money that he says he advances as attorney.  I will not pay it because I do not owe it and he says he will stop my pension if I do not pay the said $32.71
Q.  Have you any complaint to make as to the conduct, manner, or fairness of the examination of your claim?  If so, please state specifically what it is.
A.  Not as I know of.
Q.  Do you desire to introduce any more testimony before me?
A.  No Sir.
Mary Casey x her mark
Deponent.
Attest
D.H. Hare H.D.
John H. Culhan

Subscribed before me this 14 day of November, 1887 and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
J.C. Nichols
Special Examiner.

15141-25M.
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(3-446.)
Deposition C
Case of Mary Casey Cert. No. 7706

On this 29 day of February, 1888, at Washington CH, County of Fayette State of Ohio, before me, W.L. VanDerlip, a Special Examiner of the Pension 
Office, personally appeared John T Hiser, who, being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this Special Examination of aforesaid pension claim, deposes and says:
My age is 47 occupation Magistrate, P.O. Address Washington CH Fayette County Ohio.  The first knowledge I ever had of claimant was from an article I read in the papers about her.  I have only lived here one year.  Up to the time that her vouchers were signed I never had seen her, but I think I had had a conversation with Dr. Chase about her being a revolutionary widow and what the prospects were of her getting a pension.  It was mere curiosity on my part.  I was in his office on business and I asked him if he had that case.  On the 19th of October 1887 he came to me on the street, asked me if I was busy and I said no, and he asked me if I would go over with him and have Mrs Caseys pension vouchers executed.  Said he would get a hack and two witnesses.  I told him he [illegible] a jack for me.  He got Mr. Dolbey & Mr. Johnson and we went over to Mrs Casey's house.  I had never heard her called Lookadoo.  I have seen an article in the papers

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saying something of a man named Lookadoo who had been a slave of Casey's and who had stayed with his widow and never deserted her.  When he got to her house there was no one there but her and Mr. Chase gave me the paper and I read it to her.  I asked her if she could write and she said no, so I wrote her name and she made her mark.  I then read the declaration below for the witnesses to sign and they witnessed her mark and signed the deposition.  Then I administered the oath to all of them.  I told her she [illegible] hold up her hand and be sworn.  Nothing more was said.  Mr. Chase gave me fifty cents for my services and we all came away together.  I had no pecuniary interest in the voucher or her pension money and I have never seen her since and never heard of the case except that I think I heard Mr. Chase say that she would not pay him the expenses he had incurred in getting up the papers, and I also heard, but not from him that he had brought suit against her for the [illegible].
Q  Do you thoroughly understand and comprehend the questions asked you and have the answers thereto been correctly recorded in this deposition.
A  Yes.
John T. Hiser J.P.
Deponent

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of Feby 1888, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
WL VanDerlip
Special Examiner.
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Deposition D
Case of Mary Casey Cert. No. 7706

On this    day of February, 1888, at Washington CH, County of Fayette State of Ohio, before me, W.L. VanDerlip, a Special Examiner of the Pension
Office, personally appeared James F Johnson, who, being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this Special Examination of aforesaid pension claim, deposes and says:
My age is 44  occupation painter P.O. Address Washington CH Fayette County Ohio.  The first I ever knew of claimant was one day last spring I went over to Sunnyside to see a young man about a job of work and we walked down by her house, and I saw an old woman setting in the front door and he told me that that white woman had a negro staying there with her part or all of the time.  I had seen her often before that within the last three years and had known her as Mrs. Casey.  On the day her pension vouchers were signed I was up by the post office and met Mr. S.C. Chase and he asked me if I would go over to Sunnyside with him and witness Mrs. Casey sign her pension vouchers.  I told him I would go if the thing was all right.  He said he was going to get a jack, but we walked.  He said it was all right and that all I would have to do was to witness her sign her mark so she could get her money.  When we got to her house Squire Hiser read the paper to us, but I cannot

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remember what it was he read to us.  She made her mark and Squire Hiser administered the Oath to her and to Mr. Dolbey and myself and we signed the paper.  I never heard anything about it again until now.  I did not derive any pecuniary benefit from it;  except that Mr. Chase paid me fifty cents for going over there, as a witness fee.  I did not know that Mrs. Casey was married and had never heard of it.  I never had heard the name of Lookadoo in connection with her.
Q  Do you thoroughly understand and comprehend the questions asked you and have the answers thereto been correctly recorded in this deposition.
A  Yes
James F. Johnson

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of February 1888, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
WL VanDerlip
Special Examiner
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Deposition E
Case of Mary Casey Cert. No. 7706

On this 29 day of February, 1888, at Washington CH, County of Fayette State of Ohio, before me, W.L. VanDerlip, a Special Examiner of the Pension
Office, personally appeared WR Dolbey, who, being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this Special Examination of aforesaid pension claim, deposes and says:
My age is 26 occupation reporter and printer, P.O. address Washington CH Fayette County Ohio.  Just about a year ago Mr. JW Lever of this place came to me and told me that there was a revolutionary widow living over on the south side of this town and that she would be an interesting subject to write up.  I was acting at the time as correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer.  I went over with Mr. Lever, and on the way he gave me a history of the case as told by Mrs. Casey to Lever's wife when she was there as a relief agent of the G.A.R.  The history was that she had been married to John Casey a revolutionary war soldier and that when Casey died a colored man, who had been their servant, had been living with her ever since, and that they were destitute and in want.  We went to the house and I saw her and she gave us a history of her husband and said her pension claim was a just one and she hoped she would get it, and she also said she thought that some of her agents had gotten the money and never reported it to her.  She told me that the old colored man who lived there was Jordon Lookadoo

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He was there all the time but he did not say anything.  She never said anything about his being her husband but called him the old man.  She did say that she had some children but did not say who was the father of them.  The impression I had was that the old colored man was merely with her because he had formerly lived with her and her husband and I never did think she was married to him.  The first I knew of her being married to him was when Mr. Deer the Post Master here told me that you said she was sometime after I had visited her and after I had written an account of Mrs Casey which was published.  I met S.C. Chase, having, to the best of my recollection, never talked with him on any subject before, and we got to talking about this case and he said that the case was a just one and he did not see why the pension Department had not allowed it:  that he had been working on the case a good while.  I asked him for his history of the case and he told me substantially the same story as she had told.  [illegible] that on a subsequent interview he told me that he had investigated the case and that there was no evidence that she had ever remarried since the death of Casey.
W.R. Dalbey
Deponent.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of February 188   , and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
WL VanDerlip
Special Examiner.
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Deposition E
Case of Mary Casey cert. No. 7706
Deposition continued

He also said that she had told him that Jordon Lookadoo had been their servant and had always been around the house with her:  That he was a favorite servant.  These conversations with Mr. Chase, which were in the nature of obtaining news items to me, firmly convinced me that she still remained a widow.  When the Vouchers came for the allowed pension Mr. Chase met me and said he was going over to Mrs. Casey's to fix up her vouchers and wanted to know if I had time to go over and be a witness.  Said he had another man and the squire to go and we could ride over in a hack and it would not take long.  I went with him and when I got ready to go I found a Mr. Johnson whom I had never known before, personally, though I knew him to be a respectable citizen, was to be the other witness.  We all walked over there and found Mrs. Casey alone.  Mr. Hiser the Justice of the Peace read the voucher and oath over to all of us and she went up and signed the paper without any hesitation.

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Nothing more said but the reading of the oath and after we had witnessed her mark and subscribed our names to the oath and Squire Hiser had administered the oath to all three of us we came away.  Either the squire or Mr. Chase brought the papers away and that's the last I saw of them.  Someone, I cant tell who, told me afterwards that she had received the money and I made a little "local" of it in the papers.  Mr. Chase gave me fifty cents or a dollar, I don't remember which as a fee for being a witness and thats all the pecuniary interest I ever had in the case.  I have never seen her or had any communication from her since then, or heard anything about her except that I was told that Mr. Chase had sued her because she would not pay him up.
Q   Do you thoroughly understand and comprehend and questions asked you and have the answers thereto been correctly recorded in this deposition.
W.R. Dalbey

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of Feby 1888, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
WL VanDerlip
Special Examiner.
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Deposition B
Case of Mary Casey Cert. No. 7706

On this 29 day of February, 1888, at Washington CH, County of Fayette State of Ohio, before me, W.L. VanDerlip, a Special Examiner of the Pension
Office, personally appeared J.W. Leever, who, being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this Special Examination of aforesaid pension claim, deposes and says:
My age is 55 occupation merchant P.O. Address Washington CH Fayette County Ohio.  I have a store about four squares from where Mrs. Mary Casey used to live.  Have been there for the past 13 years.  She came there to live probably 5 or 6 years ago.  She was known by some as Mrs. Lookadoo and by others as Mrs. Casey.  I never had any talk with her until I went to see her with Mr. Dolbey.  There was some colored people reported to my wife that there was a family down there in distress and needed assistance.  That was about two years and a half ago.  My wife went to see about the case and when she came back she told me that the party was a revolutionary widow.  I can't remember whether she called her Lookadoo or Casey.  We furnished them some relief and then Lookadoo began coming to my place and sometime he told me about the old woman as he called her.  Said that Mr. Chase had been trying to get a pension for her.  He never spoke of her as his wife, or as Mrs. Casey.  He either called her the old lady or

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the old woman. I became interested then. 
I thought if there was a Revolutionary War widow she ought not to be living in adultery. I spoke to Mr Chase once about it, telling him I thought the case ought to be [illegible] through. I went to Mr Dolbeys office after his to go and see her. 
I met him once on the street before that and I spoke to him about it. The day I called on him we both were over to see her and had a talk with her.  Lookadoo was there but he did not say any thing. The conversation was principally about how long she had been married to convey, who Casey was and what position
he held in the Army. She said she had children but we did not question her as to whose they were. That's the only talk I ever had with her. I saw her once after that. Went after her and  took her in a wagon to the photographers. Did not have any conversation with her then about her claim or about her domestic relations. 
I thoroughly understand and comprehend the questions asked me and the answer there unto have correctly recorded in this deposition
I certainly thought that Mary Casey was a widow, and if I had been called on to witness her voucher would have rectified that she was the widow of John Casey and had never remarried
J. W. Leever
Deponent,

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th day of February 1888, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
W.H. Van Derlip
Special Examiner.
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(3-446.)
DEPOSITION   B
Case of  Mary Casey  CTF,  No. 7706

On this Fourteenth day of November, 1887, at Washington C.H., 
County of Fayette State of Ohio, before me J.C. Nichols, a
Special Examiner of the Pension Office, personally appeared 
Jordan Luckado, who being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this Special Examination of
aforesaid pension claim, deposes and says: his post office is
Wash. C.H. Ohio, his age is 74years  Occupation a laborer, and he has known the Clmt. Mary Casey since almost 40 or 50 years ago. She then lived in Jackson County Ohio, that he secured his free papers in Albemarle Co. VA. August 4th 1834, he was then 21 years of age.
By Examiner, witness here produces his free papers all duly signed and executed as he says. That after he got his said free papers [word crossed out] Moved into [word crossed out]  Ohio and first saw Mary Casey in Jackson County Ohio. Can't state the year. She was then a widow and had been for sometime.  
That he married her but he cannot state the time. They were married by Rev. Isaac Brown, a Bapt. Minister who was present with a school teacher, there were only 4 persons present. Himself, his wife, the Preacher, and the school teacher.
2       Can you refer to any person then who knew you were married to
          Mary Casey.
A        Yes Sir, John Huffman knows it, and he was there the last I heard

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       Of him, and when S.B.Yeoman wrote to Jackson C.H.  for the Marriage Certificate of 
     John Casey and Mary Cox they sent him also a Marriage Certificate of My Marriage to Mary Casey, and he Yeoman said he did not need that.
Q   Have you always been present when S.C. Chase came to transact business with your wife the said Mary Casey.
A    Always except when he brought the three witnesses here to swear that she was a widow at the time her voucher came. I then went into another room; and when about 2 1/2 years ago she went over to the Court House to sign for #6002.36 , I was not allowed to go.
Q    Did she get #6002.36 at that time 
A     No Sir.
Q     What was it she signed
A      I do not know, S.C. Chase said it was to get her money #6002.36, but she never got it. He said it was her Bounty Money.
Q     Have you lived with the said Mary Casey ever since your marriage to her in Jackson County Ohio, as her husband and have you had Children by her.
A     Yes Sir. and I have had three Children by 
        her, all boys. 
Q     Have you understood all the questions asked you and are your answers correctly recorded.
 A     Yes Sir.

Jordon Luckadoo  x his mark
Deponent.

Attest
D.H. Hare M.D.                  
John H. Culhan

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14 day of November 1887, and I certify that the contents were fully made know to deponent 
before signing.
J.C.Nichols    Special Examiner.
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SPECIAL EXAMINATION
        DIVISION                 Department of the Interior
           J.S.E.                         BUREAU OF PENSIONS
                                       Washington D.C.  Nov. 2d . 1887.

Mr. J.C. Nichols
Special Examiner
Washington C.H. Ohio.

Sir:
    Revolutionary War claim Ctf. No. 7.706. of Mary Casey, as widow of John Casey - late Private of Capt. Armagh's Company of Virginia Line, is herewith returned to you for the purpose of a thorough special examination to determine whether the claimant has remarried, or has cohabited with any man since the death of the soldier, especially her relationship to "Luckado", by which name she is known in the community in which she resides.
Very respectfully  
A. Erdman, 
[Illegible] Ex. Potomac Dist.
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[a slip of paper is attached to the top of the page blocking a portion of the heading]
[blocked by slip of paper] [Department] of the Interior
[blocked by slip of paper] [Pension] Office,
Wash, C.H. Oct. 24, 1887.
The Hon Com. Of Pensions
Wash. D.C.
Sir
I saw the enclosed slip on Saturday, and this A.M. inquired of Attorney Chase how this woman got the name of Lucadoo, and he informed me that she is living in a house with a colored man by that name. That there are no other occupants of said house. But that there could not be any legal marriage between them. If living in adultery with a man bars such a pension, I think hers is to
barred,
Very Respectfully
Yours AC &c
J. C. Nichols
Spe Ex
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                              (3-398.)                     Mr Mitchell

S.E.D.             Department of the Interior,
                            PENSION OFFICE,
                   Washington, D.C. ,  Oct 26", 1887
Genl G.H. Bargar
U.S. Pension Agent, 
            Columbus .

Sir:
 Please furnish a report in the following-named invalid pension case: 
     Certificate No. 7706 Rev. War.
 Name of pensioner, Mary Casey, widow of John.
Agency, Columbus .  Last pensioned at $_______per month
from_______
Has any payment been made in this case?
Very Respectfully, 
John C. Black,
Commissioner
                                    Report
Last paid to include Sept 3", 1887, at the rate of $12 per month. 
Reduced__________,18____, from $_____ per month to $___per month, from__,18____, and from $___per month to $___per month
 from ___,18___ 
 Paid Oct 21" Telegram ordering Suspension recd Oct 26".
Columbus O        GHBargar  U.S. Pension Agent.
Oct 28", 1887 

Note-When dropped, so state, giving cause. When reduced, state cause and date from which reduced; when no reduction, so state.
Any discrepancy from the statement of this Office shown by the Agency records will be noted.                          (7630-3 M.)
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[handwritten on left, upper side of letter] field Nov 2 ' 87
Receipt of order to suspend, resume, or terminate.

U.S. Pension Agency, 
Columbus, O.
Oct 28", 1887.
Hon John C. Black
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:
I hereby acknowledge the receipt of your order of Oct. 26", 1887, in the case of Mary Casey (1812) Rev. War
Certificate No. 7706, (formerly on [blank] rolls,)
directing that payment of pension be suspended pending investigation as to remarriage.
Very respectfully,
G.H. Baryn Pension Agent.
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John Casey
revolutionary pensioner
requesting to know
why payment was
suspended

John Casey [ writing too faint] 

Agent
Lewis Newsom
Gallipolis  O             [Circular Pension Office 
                                                          Stamp]
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Gallipolis O April 9th 1860
Mr G. C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
A Mr Martin addressed a few lines to me from Kanawha County in Virginia, with a view of securing my services, in the prosecution of his claim as an heir of John Casey, late pensioner for revolution any services. I turned to the report from the Secretary of War, made in obedience to resolutions of the Senate in March 1835, for Kanawha County in Virginia.
I there saw that John Casey was pensioned under the act of 7th June 1832, at $80 per annum.
and when that report was made had received just $200.
That I might trace myself some labor and expense, I addressed a note to the 3d Auditor to be informed in the premises.
By his letter of 13th Ult he says, "relative to the
pension of John Casey, deceased I have to inform you that the same appears to have been paid to Sep 1833 and that on inquiry at the pension office, I find that John Caseys pension was suspended on the 13th March 1835"
Now, as a letter came by last mail on that subject from Mr Martin. I desire to be enabled to inform him; for what reason the pension was suspended.
And if that suspension will deprive his heirs of the arrears claimed by them.
Please inform me at your earliest convenience and oblidge
Lewis Newsom
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[DAR Stamp]     MRS. ROY E. BROWN
                            CHAPTER REGENT
           332 VAN DEMAN AVE. WASHINGTON C. H. OHIO
                                                                  April 4, 1927

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
   In order that we may compile our record of Revolutionary
Soldiers buried in Fayette County I am writing to ask if you may be able to give me information regarding the husband of Mrs Mary Casey who resided in Washington Court House and received a widows pension as late as 1846
Can you give me the husbands given name, date and place of his death.  Thanking you most kindly in advance for your kindness in this matter
Respectfully 
Mrs Roy E Brown              [Circular Stamp]
                                             PENSION
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                                                APR
                                             U.   6   S.
                                                1927
                                               OFFICE