Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6,321, William Turner, Va.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | NUMBER
Va. | Turner, William | W. 6,321
Sarah
CONTENTS
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Virginia 16.658
William Turner - of Amherst in the State of Virginia who was a Pri + S: in the [left blank]
commanded by Captain [left blank] of the Ret commanded by Col. Christie in the Va line for 1 year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia the rate of 55 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of Sept 33.  and Sent to J. Thompson
Amherst- Va

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833. 137.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar:34 27.50
$165.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by N. Rice - - Clerk,  Book E Vol. 6 Page 29
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2643 Rep d
Virginia-
Sarah Turner widow of William Turner, Deed
who died on the 30th September, 1834. of Amherst in the State of Virginia
who was a pri: + Sergt in the [left blank] command by Captain [left blank] of
the Regt. [left blank] command by Col: Christie - in the Virginia line for priv: + Sergt $55 -

Inscribed on the Roll of Richmond at the rate of 55 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 1st August, 1834-

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of May 1839 and sent to John Thompson Jr: Amherst, Co. Ho. +

Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839 $252.08
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept: 27.50
27.59
$279.58
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3d}

Recorded by WM Stewart-- Clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 159
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Wiliam Turner yea. 9780
Admit as
Pri 3 mo 10
Sert 9 mo 45
$55
P. 317
Sp: Let 30-march
J. Thompson
amherst
Va
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BRIEF in the case of William Turner County of Amherst in the State of Va.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1, Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 72 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Years, Months, Days. | As a | Gen.

in 17 | 3 | Private | Capt. Thermond
3 | Maj Sergt | Capt Christian
3 | " | Capt Landon Gen Lawson
3 | Sergt + Ensign | Capt Higgbotham

5. In what battles was he engaged? none
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Albemarle Amherst Co Va
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary
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.

Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk.
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9780
William Turner
Declaration for a pension
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On the 21st day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of Amherst County now sitting, William Turner a resident of the said County aged about 72 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 act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832.

That he was born in the County of Albemarle sometime in the year 1760, and that he has a register of his age at his residence, and that
when the Revolution opened it found him residing in the County of Amherst, a County adjoining to Albemarle and that after the location of the Barracks in Albemarle for the County of the British prisoners taken at the North (but the month or year he does not remember) he was detailed as a private in the militia to serve a tour of three months at
the said Barracks. That he marched from the County of Amherst and served the said tour of three months under the command of Capt Philip Thurmond. That he remembers nothing which is worthy of remark that occurred in that service except the death of Capt James Garland who was also in service at the Barracks and was there killed by a  centinel on duly- That after this period he was again called into the seance from the County of Amherst and served another tour of three months, as
orderly sergt stationed at Rockers near Richmond, in a company commanded by John Cristian from the said County - That thereafter
who was again called into the service from the same County and was engaged in what is called the Guilford expedition and served out his tour as orderly sergeant to the company commanded by Capt Young Landrum that he does not remember to what rest his company was attached in that expedition, but he does remember that it was attached to Genl Lawsons brigade. That the company to which he was attached was not engaged in the battle of Guilford, but was so near the scene of
action, that he saw the dead and wounded removed from the field of Battle, and he well remembers seeing Gent Edward Stevens
removed from the Battle ground badly wounded, that he was discharged from this service at Rensowells Mills in the State of North Carolina after a service of three months that thereafter and very soon he was again drafted in the service from the same County, on a tour of duty for three months. intended to aid in the reduction of York Town. That he marched from the County of Amherst as a sergeant in a company commanded by Capt Benjamin Higginbotham, and on the line of March to York Town was appointed and commissioned an ensign in the said company
which commission in the great lapse of time he has lost. That some days after joining the Army before York Town under the command of Genl Washington, he together with his captain were discharged as
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supernumerary officers and ordered to return to their homes. That their discharge as aforesaid took place but a few days before the capitulation of the Post That since the period of the Revolution, he has continued to reside in the County of Amherst, that he has no documentary evidence to support his said claim for service, nor does he recollect, that he
ever recd any if heard they have been lost, nor does he know any living Witness or Witnesses by whom he could prove his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Wm Turner

We Daniel Day a Clergyman residing in the County of Amherst + Jesse Beck residing in the said County hereby certify that we are
well acquainted with Capt William Turner who has subscribed + sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 72 years
of age. that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Daniel Day
Jesse Beck

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after pulling the interrogatories prescribed by the was department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states and the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Daniel Day who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of
Amherst, and that Jesse Beck who has also
signed the same is a resident in the County of Amherst and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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Virginia
I Robert Tensley Clerk of the Court of Amherst County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said
[illegible, covered by seal] in the matter of the application of William Turner for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty seventh day of August one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two in the fifty seventh year of the Commonwealth.

Robert Tensley

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4107 Sarah Turner wid of William Va. 
Act July 4, 1836
Married 1780
Dec'd 1834
Allow $55 per anm from {blank space] 1834

Jno Thompson Jr
Amherst CH, Va.
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At a Court of Quarterly Session begun and held for Amherst County the Court House on Monday the 19th day of November 1838
Sarah Turner this day filed her Declaration and certain papers therewith in order to obtain a pension from the government of the United States which Declaration is in the following words to wit;
Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third action of the act of Congress of the 4th July
1836
State of Virginia}
County of Amherst} ss.
On this 19th of November 1838 personally appeared before the County Court of the County aforesaid in the state aforesaid, it being a Court of record, Sarah Turner a resident of the said County aged 77 years on the 4th day of March next who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed the 4 July 1836. That she is the widow of William Turner who was a private
orderly sergeant and Ensign and served as such in the Virginia Militia and service of the united states in the war of the Revolution-- that her said husband in his lifetime filed his declaration for his services under the Pension act of the 7th June 1832 and obtained a certificate for a pension that is to say for the sum of Fifty five Dollars pr year which he received semiannually up to the 4th September 1834, the original certificate of which pension will be if practicable procured from his Executor and forwarded herewith-- that so great is the lapse of time that she cannot of her own knowledge spark of the duration of his said service but she does verily believe that his declaration upon oath relating thereto is true and she hereby refer to an office copy of that declaration also to the copy filed in the pension department at Washington together with the evidences therewith as a part of this her declaration-- she further declares that the was lawfully married to the said William Turner on the 20th day of August 1780 Seventeen hundred and Eighty-- that her marriage as aforesaid was celebrated by the Reverend James Irvine a minister lawfully authorized to solemnize marriages and belonging to the Presbyterian church, that no licence from the clerk of the County of Albemarle the residence of her father was obtained, but the banns were thrice proclaimed in the church which was then and still is one of the moves prescribed by law for celebrating the rites of Matrimony in Virginia she further declares that her said intermarriage
took place with the said William Turner for the termination of his last period of
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service to wit on the day + year aforesaid and that her said husband died on the 30th day
of September 1834 and that she hath remained his widow and unmarried ever since all which will appear by the proof herein refered to + hereto annexed

Sarah her X mark Turner

Sworn to & subscribed the day + year before written in open Court
Samuel M Garland C.A.C.

Nelson County to wit:
This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Frances Bailey aged Eighty seven years and made oath in due form of law that she is well acquainted with Sarah Turner the widow and relict of William Turner deceased and has been acquainted with her for the last seventy years past and that she well recollects when the said Sarah intermarried with the said William which took place on the 20th day of August in the year 1780 and that the marriage
aforesaid was celebrated by Samuel Irvine a minister of the Presbyterian Church after the banns had been thrice proclaimed in the church as was some times the mode of celebrating marriages in that day and that she understood and believes that the said William drew in his life time a pension from the government of the United States for his revolutionary services under the act of the 7th of June 1832 which is mentioned to identify the said Sarah as his widow and that the said William departed this life at his residence in the County of Amherst on the 30th day of
September in the year 1834 -- Given under my hand this 30th day of October 1838

John Diggs ( J.P.)

I certify that Frances Bailey who has made the foregoing affidavit is respectable and creditable person given under my hand this 30th day of October 1838

John Diggs (J.P.)

Nelson County to wit
This day personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Jane Dawson aged seventy five years and made oath in due form of law, that she is well acquainted with Sarah Turner the widow
and relict of William Turner deed, and has been acquainted with her for the last sixty
years past and that she well recollects of being present when the said Sarah intermarried with the said William which took place on the 20th day of August in the year 1780 and that the marriage aforesaid was celebrated by Samuel
Irvine a minister of the Presbyterian church after the banns had been thrice proclaimed
in the church as was some times the mode of celebrating Marriages
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the year 1760 and that he has a register of his age at his residence and that when the
Revolution opened it found him residing in the County of Amherst a County adjoining to Albemarle- And that after the location of the Barracks in Albemarle for the security of the british prisoners taken at the North (but the month or year he does not remember), he was detailed as a private in the militia to serve a tour three months at the said Barrocks - That he marched from the County of Amherst and served the said Tour of three months under the command of Capt Phillip Thurmond. That he remembers nothing which is worthy of remark that occured in that service except the death of Capt James Garland who was also in service at the Barracks and was there killed by a centinal on duty-- That after this period he was again called into the service from the County of Amherst and served another tour of three months as orderly sergt stationed at Rockets near Richmond in a company commanded by John Christian from the said County, that thereafter he was again called into the service from the same County and was engaged in what is called the the guilford expedition and served out his tour as orderly sergeant to the company commanded by Capt Young Landron, that he does not remember to what Regt his company was attached on that expedition but he does remember that it was attached to Genl Lawsons brigade that the company to which he was attached was not engaged in the Battle of Guilford but was so near the scene of action that he saw the dead and wounded removed from the field of battle
and he well remembers seing Gent Edward Stephens removed from the Battle ground badly wounded-- that he was discharged from this service at Rensowells mills in the state of
North Carolina-- after a service of three months that thereafter and very soon he was
again drafted in the service from the same County on a tour of duty for three month
intended to aid in the reduction of York Town, that he marched from the County of Amherst as a sergeant in a company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Higginbotham and on the line of March to your Town was appointed and commissioned an ensign in the said Company which commission in the great lapse of time he has lost that some days after joining the army before York Town under the command of Genl Washington he together with his captain were discharged as supernumerary officers and ordered to return to their homes that their discharge as aforesaid took place but a few days before the Capitulation of the Port that since the period of the Revolution he was continued to reside in the County of Amherst. That he has no documentary evidence to support his said claim for service nor does he recollect that he ever received any if he did they have been lost nor does he know any living witness or witness by whom he could prove his services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present
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in that day and that she understood and believes that the said William drew in his life time a pension from the government of the United States for his revolutionary services under the act of the 7th of June 1832 which is mentioned to identify the said Sarah as his widow and that the said William departed this life as his residence in the County of Amherst on the 30th day of September in the year 1834
Given under my hand this 30th day of October 1838
John Diggs J.P.

I certify that Jane Dawson who has made the foregoing affidavit is a respectable and creditable person, Given under my hand this 30th day of October 1838
John Diggs J.P.

State of Virginia}
Nelson County} to wit:
I Spotswood Garland, Clerk of the County Court of Nelson County in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that John Diggs who hath signed the foregoing certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission bears date on the 21st day of
June 1808 and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court this 31st day of October 1838 and in the 63rd year of the Commonwealth

Sp. Garland, Clerk of Nelson County Court

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At a Court of Quarterly Session continued by adjournment and held for the County of
Amherst on Tuesday the 21st day of August 1832
William Turner a Revolutionary soldier filed his declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed on the 7th day of June 1832 in these words. -
On this 21st day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of
Amherst County now sitting William Turner a resident of the said County aged about 72 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 act of congress passed the 7th day of June 1832 That he was born in the County of Albemarle some time in
1832
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and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
Wm Turner

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, and made oath thereto also a certificate of Daniel Day a Clergyman and Jesse Beck which was also sworn to + is in these words-"We Daniel Day a Clergyman residing in the County of Amherst and Jesse Beck residing in the said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Capt William Turner who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion"
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Daniel Day
Jesse Beck

And the Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Daniel Day who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Amherst, and that Jesse Beck who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Amherst and is a credible person and that then
statement is entitled to credit
A. Copy
Teste
Samuel M. Garland ck.

The above are copies of papers filed with the foregoing Declaration and refered to above:
And the said Court doth order it to be certified to the Pension Department in the City of
Washington that it satisfactorily appears to the Court from the affidavits of Francis Bailey and Jane Dawson that Sarah Turner who hath made the foregoing declaration was lawfully married to William Turner decd. late of this County on the 20th day of August 1780 after thrice publishing the banns, without licence from the Clerk or marriage bond a more of celebrating the rites of Matrimony then and still lawful in Virginia- That it also satisfactorily appears to the Court and is known to the members composing the same that the said Sarah is the widow of William Turner decd and that the said William was at the time of his death a pensioner of the United States on account of his Revolutionary services more over it appears to the Court that the said Sarah is a credible person,

I Samuel Garland Clerk of the County Court of Amherst County in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing is a copy of the original declaration with the exhibits therein refered to of Sarah Turner which
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was as it purports subscribed and sworn to in open Court, together with the certificate of the Court by it direction thereto appended
In testimony of all of which I have hereunto signed my name and sealed with my seal which I have caused to be annexed this 2nd day of November 1838.
Samuel M Garland

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[Stamped, round, containing: AMHERST C.H. NOV 27 VA]

4107 Nov 30
Va
4 July 1836
Mrs Turner

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City D.C.
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Amherst Court House 26 Nov 1838.

Sir:/

under cover you will receive the papers of Mrs Sarah Turner, an application for a pension under the act of the July 1836 - you have been so long acting under this law yet I have no dates you have heretofore been called upon to look into our State laws regulating marriages, and this you will have seen it for a period anterior to our Revolution their was his modes, one a licence from the Clerk, the other by publication of the banns in the church. If however you should not look into on record code of 1819 or [illegible] + you will then see it. Be pleased also to say how Mrs Tanner is to obtain the small average one to her of her husbands pension to wit on the 4th to Sept 1834
Respectfully yr ob Sert
John Thompson Jr
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Bedford County Virginia
I do hereby certify that William Turner now of Amherst County Va, and myself served a Touer of duty in the Revolution War of three months under Capt Christian and were stationed near Richmond on Gillies Creek, and that the said
William Turner was an Orderly Sergeant, and
to the best of my recollection, it was in the
year Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine
or eighty, This given under my hand this 27 day of May Eighteen hundred and Thirty Three

Charles Stewart

State of Virginia Bedford County to wit
This day the above named Charles Stewart personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for said County made oath that the foregoing certificate in line - That the said Charles Stewart is a credible witness and is probably 76 years of age. Given under my hand this 27 of May 1833

John W. Holt J.P.
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State of Virginia}
Bedford County Set}

I Robert C. Mitchell Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that John W. Holt Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit of Charles Stewart was made is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified according to law and further that it appears to me that said signature is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 27th day of May one thousand eight hundred
and thirty three

Robert Mitchell C.B.C.

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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6321
Sarah Turner Wid. Wm. Turner Sergt. Va. line

Act: July 4, 1836, Sec. 3d
Index:-Vol. M, Page 285
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Oct. 16/94 Hist to Wm. Bell 2" Dep. Com. Pension Office. C
1894 Nov. 28 Hist to Wm. T. Robins, Richmond, Va.
Jan. 19. 1897. Hist to James B. O'Neill- Phila. Pa RHR
Apr 21/97 Hist to Jas B O'neill Phila Penna. {initialed, illegible]
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Payments to be made at Richmond by the F.W. B. Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Va

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E Vol. 6
Page 29 by N. Rice Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, William Turner of the State of Virginia -- who was a private & Sergeant in the war of the
Revolution - is entitled to receive Fifty-Five -dollars per annum, during his natural life, 
commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States
this 11 - day of September one thousand eight
hundred and thirty three

Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned.}
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
October 17th 1840

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Sarah Turner - a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Agency, at the rate of Fifty five Dollars per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 4th Sept. 1839

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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State of Virginia
Amherst County to wit

This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid Bartlett Cash, and made oath in due form of Law, that he was a Soldier of the war of the Revolution, and served a tour of militia duty from the County of Amherst on what was commonly called the Grilford expedition, and that in that expedition he will recollects to have known William Turner from the same
County of Amherst, who marched on the said expedition in another company, that the said
William Turner was a Sergeant, in his company and the affiant believes served out his tour in that character with fidelity. The exact length of the tour he the affiant does not exactly recollect except that it was about the period of three months -
Given under my hand this 19th day of August 1833
Ambrose Rucker J. P.

Amherst County to wit
I Ambrose Rucker a Justice of the peace for the
County aforesaid and before whom Bartlett Cash hath made the foregoing affidavit and I do hereby certify that the said Bartlett Cash is a credible person and that his evidence is entitled to full credit Given under my hand this day & date first above written

Ambrose Rucker J.P.
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State of Virginia Amherst County Court
I Robert Tinsley Clerk of the County Court of Amherst in the State of Virginia aforesaid do certify that Ambrose Rucker esquire who hath given the within certificates is and was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Amherst duly commissioned and qualified.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and seal of office this twentyeth day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty three in the fifty eighth year of the Commonwealth

Robert Tinsley

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O. W. & N. Division,
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Sir: --
November 29, 1894.
returning herewith your letter
of the 15th inst., you are advised that alone
the maiden name of the widow of William Turner,
nor the gate and place of her act, is state
in any of the papers on file with her claim for
occasion.
by addressing an inquiry to the
Auditor for the Interior Department, J. S.
Treasury Dept, Washington, D.C., stating
the number of the widow's pension certificate
(2243), the date when issued (May 18, 1929),
and the Agency at which paid (Virginia), yea
may be able to obtain the date of the last
payment of pension which will give you, are
imately, the date of the widow's are
Very respectfully,
J. B. O'Neill,
$2715 N. 6th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
1. County Commissioner.