Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10362, Asa Beach, Conn.

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Service Conn.
Beach, Asa
Number: S. 10362
Contents  carded

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20706
New York
Asa Beach

of Cayuga Co. in the State of N. York
who was a private in the Corps commanded by Captain Lewis of the Regt. commanded by Douglass - Col. in the N. York for 14 mos 29 days.
Claimant died 27 Sep. '32 Certificate sent to Elizabeth Beach his widow
$43.33
    3.19
$46.52

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 46 Dollars 52 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of Sept. 1833 and sent to A. Gould Auburn
Arrears to the 4th of Sept '32 $69.78
allowance ending 27. Sept '32  2.53
$72.31
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by P Stiles, Clerk
Book E. Vol 4. Page 48
Conn. Line
Jany' 21/05
Records corrected

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Asa Beach
Pension Papers
Served 2 years
1,3

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State of New York
Cayuga County  
I Samuel M Plumb a clergyman residing in the town of Fleming in said county do certify that I was well acquainted with Asa Beach late of Fleming aforesaid now deceased. That the said Beach was a member of the Church under my pastoral charge until shortly previous to his death in good and regular standing. that I believe the said Beach to have been seventy four years of age that he was reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion.
Samuel M. Plumb
Sworn & Subscribed the 24 day of
January AD 1833 before me
R Cook Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Cayuga County
I _ the subscriber do certify that I reside in the town of Fleming in said County. that I was well acquainted with Asa Beach, formerly of said town of Fleming now deceased, that he was in my opinion seventy four years of age that he was reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lived to have been a soldier of the Revolution and I concur in that opinion.
Ebenezer Gould
Sworn & subscribed the 15th day of
January AD 1833 before me
A. Tifft
Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
Cayuga County.  I Michael S. Myers Clerk of said County do certify that Henry Tifft & Robert Cook Esquires before whom the foregoing certificates were made were on the day of the date of said certificates justices of the peace in afor said county. that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said justices and believe the signature of the said Henry Tifft to the certificate of the said Ebenezer Gould. and the signature of the said R. Cook to certificate of Samual M Plumb to be genuine
Witness my hand & seal of office the 24th day of
January AD 1833.
M. S. Myers, Clerk

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State of New York
Cayuga County.  Elizabeth Beach of Fleming in said county, to the undersigned justice of the peace known to be a person of truth & veractiy, being duly sworn deposes and says that she is sixty seven years of age and is the widow of Asa Beach deceased late of the town of Fleming aforesaid. That she was married to said Beach in the month of February AD 1781 at the town of Waterbury in the County of New Haven State of Connecticut. And this deposent further says that said Beach was born in the town of Waterbury aforesaid August 1st AD 1759 as appears by a record of his age entered in the family bible which record she believes to be correct. That said Beach continued to reside in said town of Waterbury until about four years after the Revolutionary Ware when he moved to the town of Little Hoosack in the State of New York where he resided about two years. that she and the said Beach then returned to the town of Waterbury aforesaid where they resided about nine years from thence they removed to the town of Lisle in the County of Broome in the State of New York where they continued to reside about nineteen years. from thence they removed to the town of Scipio in the county of Cayuga in said state where they continued to reside about four years from thence they removed back to the said town of Lisle where they continued to reside about four years. from thence they returned to the said town of Scipio where they resided about two years - from thence they removed to the said town of Fleming where they have continued to reside until about the month of June last when said Asa Beach went to the town of Barker, late the town of Lisle in the said County of Broome where he was taken sick and continued to decline in his health until the 27th day of September AD 1832 when he died at the said town of Barker and was buried, that she this deposent was present at said death &

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burial, soon after which she returned to Fleming aforesaid her place of residence.
And this deponent further says that Mahitabel Sperry wife of Philo Sperry, John Beach, Eliza L Parsons wife of Orlando Parsons, Harvey B Beach Ransom Beach & Mary C Boughton wife of David Boughton, are the children, heirs and only heirs at law of said Asa Beach. that from the time of her marriage with said Asa Beach in the month of February AD 1781 to the time of his death she lived and cohabitated with him constantly. She further says that she was born in the same neighborhood with said Asa Beach, and continued to live in the same neighborhood until the time of and during the Revolutionary War. She further says she well remembers that said Asa Beach performed four terms of service of about six months each during the time of the Revolutionary War and before the time of her marriage with him that the first of said tours of service commenced in the summer of AD 1776 about the time that the British entered New York. She further says she remembers that the second of said terms of service commenced in the summer about the month of June 1777, that he served in the company of Capt. Peter Curtis and continued to serve until the month of December following whne he returned home. She further says that he very soon entered the service in a company of Waggoners as she believes and continued to serve a term of about six months. She further says the last of said six months tours closed, and that said Asa Beach returned home about the twenty fifth of December AD 1780 it being the December previous to her marriage.  She further says that she knows of his having been in said service only from the fact that he was absent from h ome during said times

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that it was reported and generally believed in the neighborhood that he was in said service and from the fact that she was accustomed to receive letters from him whilst so absent, which stated that he was in service.  and which were some times dated at or near head quarters of the American Army. She further says that from her best recollection each of said times of service was about six months and that they would all amount to two years. And this deponent further says that the said Asa Beach was frequently engaged in other service than as above stated in short terms she well recollected that he went once to New Haven in said service and was absent about eight or ten days and that he was frequently called out at other times in cases of alarm. But at what particular times she is unable very particularly . that she heard the said Asa Beach shortly before his death speak of three months service performed by him at [torn paper] and difference time from those above stated and has no doubt that said three months service was performed as stated by said Beach.
Elizabeth Beach
Sworn and Subscribed to this
16th day of January 1833
before me as
Ephraim Hammond
Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
Cayuga County I Michael S Myers Clerk of said County do certify that Ephraim Hammond before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was on the day of the date thereof a justice of the peace in afor said County.
That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice and believe his signature to the said affidavit to be genuine. Witness my hand and seal of office the 25th day of January AD 1833
M. S. Myers, Clerk

Affidavit in the matter of Asa Beach

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State of New York
Cayuga County.  On this fifteenth day of June AD 1832 before me the Subscriber first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga in said State personally appears Asa Beach aged seventy three years resident in the town of Fleming in the County of Cayuga & State aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late Act of Congress entitled "An Act Supplementary to the Act for the Relief of Certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution" that he the said Asa Beach enlisted in the town of Waterbury in the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, in the company commanded by Captain John Lewis in the Regiment commanded by Col. ___ Douglass in the month of July in the year one thousand and seven hundred and seventy six. That he continued to serve in said Corps until the twenty fifth day of December following, having served a term of about six motnhs when he was discharged at North Castle in the state of New York that he was in the battle of the "Heights of Harlem" on the 10th Sept. in the same year.
And he further declares that he the said Asa Beach enlisted in the town of Waterbury in the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut aforesaid in the company commanded by Captain Peter Curtis in the Regiment commanded by Col. Roger Enos in the month of June 1777 that he continued to serve in said Corps until the month of

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December in the year 1777. When he was discharged at "Horse Neck" in the state of Connecticut. And he further declares that he in the same month of December AD 1777 enlisted at Horse Neck in the State of Connecticut in the Company of "Waggoners" commanded by Captain Aaron King in Col. Hughes Regiment, that he continued to serve in said "department" (the Quartermaster department) until the month of June in the year 1778 when he was discharged at the town of Fish Kill in the State of New York.  And he further declares that he the said Asa Beach again enlisted in the town of Waterbury in County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut in the Company Commanded by Captain John McGregor in Col. __ During's Regiment about the first of July in the year one thousand and seven hundred and eighty that he joined the army in the State of New Jersey continued to serve in said Corps until the month of December following. about the twenty fifth of the same month when he was discharged at the Highlands near West Point int he State of New York, that each of said times of service about six months - that he has now no other evidence in his possession of his said services.
Asa Beach
Sworn & declared before me this day & year aforesaid
J.L. Richardson
First Judge of Common
I, Joseph L. Richardson first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Asa Beach did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding

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declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the procedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress dated June 15th 1832.
J.L. Richardson

State of New York
Cayuga County.  I Michael S. Myers Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that Joseph L. Richardson before whom the foregoing declarations were made under oath, and by whom the foregoing certificate was made, was on the day of the date thereof and still is the first Judge of the Said Court duly commissioned and sworn as such Judge and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge and know his signature to the foregoing declrations and certificate to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name this June 15 1832.
M. S. Myers, Clerk

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Rev War
10362
INVALID.
File No. 10362
Asa Beach
Priv. Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. A Page 28
[Arrangement of 1870]

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6769
3-2233
Bureau of Pensions
Finance Division
Jan. 13, 1927.
Chief Rev War Section.
I have this day received from A. Blanche Edwards M.O. No. 271245
for $2.25 requesting
photostat copy as per letter herewith.
O.J. Randall
Chief Finance Division
[handwritten]:  1927 Jan 17 photos mailed DW

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Auburn N.Y. Jany 25 1833
Sir
Enclosed are papers in support of the claim of the widow of Asa Beach deceased to the pension due him at the time of his death. The certificate of the Court and the proof show all the facts necessary to establish the claim I believe. I have drawn and prepared the papers by following the directions contained in the Regulations so far as I am able to judge what they are. I hope they will be found sufficient. As the claim has once been before the department is it not entitled to an immediate examination?
Please send the result to me.
I am very Respectfully
your obt servt
AGould
Hon. J.L. Edwards 
[in pencil] copy all but this

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Ent'd July 10 1780
disch Dec 14 1780
On rolls 5 mo & 4 days

Admitted
Private 14 mos & 29 days
Pension Certificate to be issued to Elizabeth Beach widow of the claimant. Pension computed the 27th day of Sept. 1832
46.52
23.26
69.78

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State of New York
Cayuga County Amos Gould of Auburn in said county being duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with Asa Beach who subscribed and swore to the declaration hereto annexed in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he had been well acquainted with him for a number of years previous to his death, that from such acquaintance he has no doubt that said Asa Beach was at the time of making said declaration seventy three years of age - and this deponent further says that it was the general impression and belief in the neighborhood where said Beach resided that he was a Revolutionary soldier. That he never heard the fact doubted by any one. That the said Asa Beach was a professor of religion and a member of a religious church of the Baptist denomination under the patoral charge of the Revd Samuel M. Plumb of Fleming in said County of regular and fair standing as he has always understood and believes. That he this deponent wrote the said declaration as dictated by the said Asa Beach that the said Beach in giving an account of his service was more fully explicit than appears by said declaration, but that said declaration was drawn and sworn to before the Regulations under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832 were issued from the War Department and therefore was not drawn in conformity to said Regulations. That very soon after said declaration was written & executed, the said Asa Beach left the said town of Fleming to pay a visit to his relations and connections in the town Barker late the town of Lisle in the County of Broome in said State of New York where he was taken sick and continued in such a state of ill health that he was unable to be remoded to the town of Fleming

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Gould who has subscribed and sworn to one

aforesaid the place of his residence, and consequently unable to make a new declaration in conformity to the regulations adopted for carrying into effect the said Act of Congress.
That said Beach as he has been informed and believes continued to decline and his illness increased until the 27th day of September AD 1832 when he tied at the town of Barker aforesaid. And this deponent further says that when the annexed declaration of said Asa Beach was written by this dpeonent, he learned form said Beach the following facts in addition to those embodied in said declaration. That the first term of service mentioned in said declaration in the company of Captain John Lewis commenced on or about the first of July AD 1776 and was in a copy of State troops or militia and while this deponent has forgotten, that he marched with said company first to New York where he joined the American Army under Gen Washington and continued there with said army until New York was evacuated when he retreated with said army to the Heights of Harlem where he was engaged in a battle with the enemy, from there he marched with said army to the White Plains, and from there he marched to North Castle where he was discharged on the 25th of December following. And this deponent further says that he learned also from said Beach that the second term of service mentioned in said declaration commenced about the first of June AD 1777 and continued until about the middle of December following a term of six months & a half or about that and that said Beach was stationed a great part or all the time at Horse Neck during said term, and he further

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says that according to his best recollection the said Beach stated at the time of making said declaration that he was sometimes absent from Horse Neck particularly at the time of the taking of Gen Burgoine but when or at what times he was so absent as stated by himself, this deponent does not now remember.
And this deponent further says that said Beach also stated according to his best recollection, that his third term of service mentioned in said declaration in the company of Waggoners commanded by Capt Aaron King in Col Hughes Regiment commenced about one week after the close of the last mentioned term of service and continued a term of six months that being the term of his enlistment. ending the last of June following that his emplopyment was transporting provisions and other stores for the American Army from different places of deposit to said Army at Valley Forge and other places where different detachments of aid Army were stationed in Garrison as this deponent thinks on the Hudson River.
And this deponent further says from the best of his recollection the said Asa Beach also stated at the time of making said declaration that the last term of service mentioned therein commenced about the first of July 1780 that he marched in the company of state troops as he believed commanded by Capt John McGregor in Col Duggs Regiment to New Jersey and joined the American Army and continued to serve with said Army during the whole of said term..that his services were performed in New Jersey at Tappan on the Hudson River and at other places along said river. And this deponent further says that the said Asa Beach also stated that he head not the proof of any living witness to said services; and that he knew of no person

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then living by whom he could prove said services. the said Asa Beach also stated that he never received a written discharge from said service and had no documentary proof thereof as he believes.
And this deponent further says that he is well acquainted with Elizabeth Beach widow of the said Asa Beach deceased. That she is a person of high standing, of good character and of unquestionable truth and veracity. that he has always understood and believed that she was the wife of said Asa Beach, that she always lived and cohabitated with said Asa Beach from the time of his first acquaintance with her until the time of his death a term of about six or eight years. He further says that he has always understood and believes that Mahittabel Sperry wife of Philo Sperry, John Beach, Eliza L Parsons, wife of Orlando Parsons, Harvey B Beach, Ransom Beach, and Mary C Boughton wife of Daniel Boughton are the children and only heirs at law of said Asa Beach deceased. That he is personally acquainted with the said Sperry, Ransom Beach, & Daniel Boughton & has been the wives of the said Sperry & Boughton and has also seen the said John Beach.
AGould
Sworn & subscribed the 18th day of January AD 1833 before me
John Grover
Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Cayuga County.  I Michael S Myers, Clerk of said county do certify that John Grover Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was on the day of the date thereof a justice of the peace in aforesaid county that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice & believe his signature to the said affidavit to be genuine. Witness my hand & seal of office the 25th day of January AD 1833. M.S. Myers

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At a Court of Common Pleas, being a court of record, held at the Court House in the town of Auburn in & for the County of Cayuga and State of New York on the 25th day of January AD 1833
Present
Joseph L Richardson
Asabel Fitch
Augustus F. Ferris &
Gasham Morse
Judges
From the accompanying evidence & depositions produced before and examined by said Court it appears satisfactorily that Asa Beach, late of Fleming in said County is the same person mentioned in the said depositions and the same person who in his life time subscribed and swore to the accompanying declaration taken by & before Joseph L Richardson Esquire first Judge of the said County of Common Pleas in & for the County of Cayuga on the fifteenth day of June AD 1832. By which said declaration and the affidavits hereto annexed it also appears to the satisfaction of said Court that the said Asa Beach was a Revolutionary soldier and served as such a time of two years and three months. And it further appears to said Court that the said Asa Beach is now deceased that he died on the 27th day of September AD 1832 at the town of Barker in the County of Broome in said State of New York. And it further appears that Samuel M Plumb who has subscribed & sworn to the accompanying certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Fleming aforesaid and that Ebenezer Gould who has also signed and swore to the accompanying certificate is a resident in said town of Fleming and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to full credit. And it further appears that Amos

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Gould who has subscribed and sworn to one of the accompanying affidavits is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to full credit. It further appears that Elizabeth Beach who has also subscribed and sworn to one of the accompanying affidavits is the widow of said Asa Beach now deceased. That she was lawfully married to him in the month of February AD 1781 and continued to live and cohabit with him until the time of his death as aforesaid and that she now remains his widow. And it further appears to the satisfaction of said Court that Mahittable Sperry wife of Philo Sperry, John Beach, Eliza L Parsons, wife of Orlando Parsons, Harvey B Beach, Random Beach & Mary C Boughton wife of Daniel Boughton are the children, heirs, and only heirs at law of the said Asa Beach, deceased, and it further appears satisfactory to said Court that the said Elizabeth Beach widow of the said Asa Beach, deceased, is a person of good moral character, a person of unquestionable truth and veracity, and that her statement in the accompanying affidavit made by her is entitled to full credit.
State of New York
Cayuga County
I Michael S Myers Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in aforesaid County do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceding and testimony in the matter of the application of the widow & heirs at law of Asa Beach late of the town of Fleming in said County deceased for the pension due to said Asa Beach deceased at the time of his death. Witness my hand & seal of office the 28th day of January AD 1833. M.S. Myers, Clerk

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Submit in Duplicate 1-681 Phone Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 11981
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostate, and Blue Print Work.
Department of the Interior
Washington
Chief, Division of Publicatons,
Room G 137. January 13, 1927, 192
Please finish work specified below.
Bureau ordering Pension Deliver to Room No. 5033
(All copy for duplicating work should be plain and written in elite type, exactly line for line as it is to appear on finished job.)
Title and description of job photostat copies of 15 pages from the Rev. War pension claim, S.10362, Asa Beach *see request as to size below, made by person paying.

No. of copies 1 of each page. Shall form be kept standing? No.___ days
For further information see A.E. Wilson Room No. 5033 Phone Noo. 541
Approved: [very faint signature]
Chief Clerk of Bureau "Read"
M Wilson
Chief of Branch
Note: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering _______
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Photostate "X" Size Official use? Repay?  Yes  $2.25
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Remarks 
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**STAMP*** Division of Publications Dept. of the Interior Received Jan 13 1927

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[stamp with text "Daughters of the American Revolution"]

Abilene Chapter N. S. D. A. R.
Abilene, Kansas

January 10, 1927

Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C.

[stamp to the right with text "FINANCE DIVISION J. N. K. JAN 13 1927 BUREAU OF PENSIONS.]

Gentlemen: 

I have your letter of January 4th, in reply to mine concerning photostat copies of the papers in the pension claim of Asa Beach, S 10362. Enclosed is money order for $2.25 in payment for the 15 pages at 15 cents per page. I do not care for certification. 

If possible to print this on sheets not more [in left margin handwritten arrow in black ink pointing at this word] than 6 x 9 1/2 inches, I shall appreciate it, as I want to put them in my loose leaf book. I got another set at one time and they worked out very nicely when trimmed. I was advised to be sure and get the affidavit by Asa Beach, but which was not signed on account of his sudden death. Please include this. 

Very truly yours,
Blanche Edwards [to the right handwritten in black ink "Getaf"]

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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section. 

January 4, 1923. [smudged, possibly handwritten '7' on top] [handwritten in black ink or pencil "15 15 / 75 15- / 225]

A. B. Edwards,
S21 Spruceway
Abilene, Kans.

Madam:

I have to advise you, that the Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Shadrack Benham. 
If you desire photostat copies of the papers in the pension claim, S. 10362, of Asa Beach of Waterbury, Conn. said claim was allowed after his death to his widow Elizabeth, the same will be furnished you, at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty-five cents extra for certification, if that is desired. The number of pages to be copied, is fifteen.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this bureau, by money order, or certified check, drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, (not to the order of the Commissioner of Pensions).

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner

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[stamp with text "Daughters of the American Revolution"]

ABILENE CHAPTER
ABILENE, KANSAS

December 23, 1926.

Pension Office, Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Will you please let me know if there is on file in your office anything on the Revolutionary War service rendered by Shadrack Benham of Waterbury, Conn. [handwritten in black ink to the right of Waterbury, 'o']

Also please tell me what would be the charge for photostat copies of the application for pension, etc. by Asa Beach of Waterbury, Conn. Thanking you, I am

Very truly yours,
[signed by hand in black ink "(Miss) ABlanche Edwards.]

A. Blanche Edwards,
821 Spruceway,
Abilene, Ks.

[added by hand in black ink or pencil "S1036 but his pension under Act 1832 was allowed to his widow Elizabeth 15 {written over 12} pages]