The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-11
THE LAST PENSlONER
THE CIVIL WAR LIST WILL NOT BE
EXTINCT UNTIL 1915.
Pension Rolls Expected to Increase
Until 1904. When Taps Will
Sound Rapidly.
Washington Times.

NdSHlilStOn ihSS
The last veteran of the American civil
war will be dead in 1915. According to a
computation made by Mr.. Yaeger. of the
Bureau of Pensions in conformity with the
ordinary tables Of mortality. it has been
reckoned that in 1910 there will remain
626,O 900 civil war veterans: in 1920. 81. 900; in
1890. $1,000: in 1910, $40. In the year 1915 the
last soldier of the civil war will be in his
grave.
At present. the pension roll is lengthen-
ing. More names are being added daily, and
it has been computed that the number of
pensioners will not begin to decrease until
1904, or Eve years hence. 1t is estimated
that there are 10000 men who fought in
the Union armies during the civil war. and
who have never applied for a pension. and
a large percentage of these remain to be
heard from within the next few years.
1t must not be understood that simply be-
cause the last survivor of the civil war is
expected to be dead in 1916. that the pay
ment of pensions will stop. In 1914 a sur
vivor may be married to a girl of sixteen
ard she, becoming a soldiers widow, may
live to be ninety years old, so that she
would continue TO draw a widows pension
until the year 81S.
Pensions are being paid to-day to widows
of soldiers who fought in the war of Amer
lean independence and to the daughters of
soldiers who carried muskets under Wash
ington. There are borne on the pension
rolls many widows of soldiers who fought
in the war Of 1872 and pensions are also
H being o PAD r to some re SmrviUors OF Z, TINS ms c War;
of the last fiscal year was 1913. IA. classified
as follows:
Widows of revolutionary soldiers. s;
da1OhfarC nf rounlIfinnQrU Cnl6iQrG l. Crr-
vivors of the war. of 1872. 8; widows of the
soldiers of the war of 1872, 2,407; survivors
of Indian wars, 1892 to ls42, 29ls; widows of
the Mexican war, 10,0l2; widows of soldiers
of Mexican war, S,143. Under general laws,
army invalids. 80, oSO: army widows, ISIS;
navy invalids. 4,S33: navy widows, $500. Act
of June q, 1880. army invalids. 1856; army
widows. ls,7Sa; navy invalids. 14,543; navy
widows, 5,944; army nurses, Cos.
At the close of the year, June 80, 1895,
the annual value of the pension roll was
$l3o.9 400, an increase in value over the
is not only increasing in numbers but in
values. II Is said by Commissioner Evans
that the list will continue to increase in
pensions for increased disabilities, as pro-
vided by law.
The names of the widows of revolution
airy soldiers, their ages and addresses. fol-
low: Esther S. Damon. widow of Noah Da-
mon, eight-five years old. Plymouth Union,
| VT; Nancy Jones, eighty-fve. widow Of
all OuCS JOnCSDOiO, viii INCDCSSd
Mayer. eighty-fve. widow of Stephen May
er, Newborn, Va; Mary Snead. eighty
three. widow Of Bowdoin Snead. Parksley.
Va; Nancy A. Weatherman, eighty-nine.
widow of Robert Glasscock. Elk Mills,
Tenn.
DAUGHTERS OF 177s SOLDIERS.
The names of the daughters of revolution
| airy soldiers follow: Hannah Newell Barrett.
ninety-nine years old, daughter of Noah
| Harrod, Boston, Mass; Susannah Chad
wick, eighty-four. daughter Of Elihu Chad
wick, Emporium, Pa; Sarah c. Hurlburt.
eighty-one, daughter of Elijah Weeks, Little
Marsh, Pa; Eliza Sanford, daughter of
William Sanford. Bloomfield, N. j.; Ann
NJ. Slaughter, ~eighty-nine. daughter of Phil
lip Slaughter, Mitchell Station. Va; Rhoda
| Augusta Thompson, seventy-eight, daughter
| Of Thaddeus Thompson, Woodbury., Conn;
| Augusta Tuller. daughter Of Isaac Way.
The names OF the three surviving SOL
diers of the war of 1872 are Hiram Cronk,
Elijah Glenn and ELEANOR Smith. Cronk
| IS ninety-nine years old, served with the
| New York troops. and lives in northwestern
New York. Glenn is 1913 years old. served
| with the Maryland tSoops. and lives at New
| ark. n. ]. Smith is l3 years old. served
with the New Hampshire troops, and lives
The amount expended for pensions in the
district Of Columbia last year was $l,oS2,
1907. which was distributed among SOS
1 ltISloLciS
America has pensioners throughout the
world. In foreign countries there are pen
sioners as follows: Austria Hungary, n;
Algiers, 2: Argentine Republic. 4; Australia,
SO; Azores islands, 1: Bahamas. 2; Belgium.
Is; Bermuda. s.; Bolivia, l; Brazil, s.; British
Guiana. /; Bulgaria. /: Canada. 2.1e2: Chile,
10; China. 10; Comora islands, 1; Costa Rica,
&: Cuba, 4: Cyprus, 2; Danish West Indies,
2; Denmark. q: Dutch East Indies, l: Dutch
West Indies. 2: Ecuador. 3; England. 800;
Egypt, 1; Finland. /; France. 62; Germany
Sa2: Greece. 5; Guatemala, 4: Hawaii, 2,
Man. 2: Italy, "a; japan. II; Korea, i: Ii.
beria, s; Madeira, 4; Malta, 3; Mauritius. 1
Mexico. III: Netherlands. 10; New Zealand
s: Nicaragua. q: Norway. 40; Paraguay. !
Peru, Z: Portugal, z; Russia, 1. Salvador, i
Scotland. 81: Seychelles islands. 2; Siam, 2
Helena. i: Sweden. As: switzerland, "a
Tahiti. 2: Turkey. Z; United States of Co
icmbia, 8: Uruguay. 3: Wales. Is: West
One of the interesting features brought
out By an inspection of the pension rolls II
the humber OF omcers of high rank wink
yielded up their lives during The clvil war