The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-17
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HARRIET l.. UNDERWOOD of Barton Land.
ing, an applicant for a widows pension,
who had been refused pension while Gen
eral Black was commissioner of pensions,
on the ground that her husband did not die
of any disease contracted in the service and
line of duty, has been granted pension of
Sl4 a month and over 5000 arrears.
CHAUNcEY STANLEY of Rochester made
application for an additional pension in
1885, on account of injury of back, con-
tracted in April, 1862, at Ship Island, in I'M
loading cannon from a vessel. His claim
was rejected, on the ground that the board of
surgeons who first examined him reported
no disability. His attorney, T. j. Deavitt
of Montpelier, took an appeal to the secre-
tary of the interior, and asked for another
examination by another board of surgeons.
He was then ordered to report to the board
at Montpelier for examination, which order
he duly complied with. He was examined,
and has since been granted pension of SIS
month, with over $500 arrears.
ISAAC II. ELLIOT of Waterbury has been
granted an additional pension after taking
an appeal to the secretary of the interior.
His claim was investigated by a special eX-
aminer of the pension office and rejected, on
the ground that the chronic diarrhpa and
malaral poisoning existed prior to his en-
lstment into the United States service. In
his appeal he contended that the testimony
filed in his claim established the fact of his
prior soundness, and besides, the diseases
for which he claimed pension were of a
character that residents of Vermont did
not suffer from, except when they were con-
tracted in another climate. The rejection
was reversed and pension granted at $40
month, with $500 arrears.
SARAH NJ. ORDwAY of Mortified has been
granted pension as the dependent mother
of Lewis f. Ordway, late of Company A.
Thirty-ninth Regiment Massachusetts, Vol
unteerS, on claim which has been pending
in the pension office since March, 1881 The
pension was withheld for the reason that it
was not satisfactorily proved that the apph-
cant was dependent upon her said son for
support, She had another son in the United
States service in a Vermont regiment, who
died in the service, and his body was lost
in its transportation home in 1864 The
body was found, however, and identified,
about four years ago in the cemetery at st.
Adams, where it had been buried near the
entrance to the cemetery so shallow as to
indicate the burial to have been temporary;
but the friends lost all trace of it, until the
box was accidentally found few years
since, when the remains were removed to
the family lot. Mrs. Ordway was granted
pension last week of S12 month and
over $500 arrears.
MARY II. AMsDEN of Mortified was
granted a pension last week, on an appeal
to the secretary of the interior. Her hus-
bhuu ultN III loooi VI ltdIb tllStdSt. he WAS
receiving pension at the time of his death
of $50 month for the loss of an arm at the
shoulder. The attending physicians gave
il as their opinion that the heart trouble
was the result of the wound that made anu
putation of the arm necessary. The ball.
in passing through the shoulder, cut the large
veins and arteries so near the heart as to dis
turb circulation and bring on heart trouble,
The medical referee of the pension office
did not agree with Drs. Mayo and Winch
and rejected the claim of the widow, on the
alleged ground that the soldiers death was
not due to the loss of an arm, for which tbs
soldier was pensioned. Mr.. Deayitt, her at
torney, took an appeal to the secretary OF
the interior, claiming that it was safer TO
rely upon the opinion of reputable physi-
clans who had knowledge of the case than
to rely on the opinion of a medical expert
who never saw the soldier, but formed his
opinion entirely from the papers in the
case The former action of the pension OF
flee in rejecting the claim has been re-
versed and pension of Sl2 month, with
$3.50 arrears, granted to the widow.