The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-21
THtRTY-TWO THOUSAND GRAND
ARMY VETERANS ANSWER FIN
AL FOIL CALL YEARLY
DEATH CLAIMS NINETY DAILY
No Pensioners Of Revolutionary War
Livins-lt's Last Survivor Lived for
Eigh,y-siS Years After Close Of
Ths; War-lnteresting Statistics.

Washington. D. G. July 2o.-The
great army that defended the Union,
a. Indicated by the pension rolls. IS
rapidly passing away. Al present
about ninety names a day are drop
ped from the pension rolls This ay-
erage IS equivalent to about 200
deaths a month, or about $1,000 an
nually. am-ng Federal survivors o.
the Ciyn War carried on the pension
lists.
There are no pensioners Of the Rev
ou,ion. or War of 1872 The last
survivor oil the Revolution on the pen
sion rolls was Daniel F. Blakeman,
who died at Freedom, Chattanooga
C-unty, y y April ), 1886 aged lO9
years months and days. The last
pensioner Of the Revolution was Es-
ther Damon, Of Plymouth Union, Va,
who died November H. 1906, aged
~ ytdl =. A'I' - NJ" Dh'J ''t P'''
sioner on account OF the Revolution
remaining IN the roll. She IS Mrs.
Phoebe NJ. Palmeter aged SO years
Of Brookfield, y. H., pensioned by
special act Of congress as the daugh-
ter OF Jonathan Wooley, who served
In New Hampshire company.
The last surviving pensioner OF the
War of 1912 was Hiram Crank, cf
Alya. y. Y, who died May 49, 1905,
aged lO5 years and 10 days. The
/ last survivor of the Revolution lived
| to be four years older than the fast
survivor of the War OF 1872 and un-
| I'll four years after the close of the
~ivil war.
/ The last survivor OF the Revolution
on the rolls lived for eighty-siX years
after the close of that war. II there
is any ldier of the Civil War who
will live eighty-six years after the
close OF the conflict in which he
fought, his name will remain on the
pension rolls until 1851. The last
survivor of the War of 1912 liyed
ninety years after the end of that
struggle. According 10 these in
stances the country may be paying
a pension to the last soldier of the
Civil War in 1859.
The actual number OF survivors cf
the Civil War on the pension rolls
June 30, 1909, was 593,96l At the
close of the Spanish War, in 1908,
there were 726,446 Civil War sur
yiyors on the pension rolls. These
figures relate only to soldiers and sail
ors who actually fought in the war
and do not include widows, children
or orphans.
The number Of names of Civil War
survivors, stricken from the pension
/ rolls on account OF death last year
was 32,S3l in 1908. 34,333, in 1907,
,3Ol in 1906, 29.20S or total of
l27573 dropped from the rolls on &C.
count of death in four years, and the
fiscal year which will close with the
end + the present month will show
about $4,000 more dropped for the
same reason. This is the rate At
which the pensioned old soldier is
passing,
/ Senator McCumber Of the senate
I pension committee. has just caused TO
be prepared an interesting table re-
lative to the ages OF soldiers At the
times OF enlistment. This table shows
/ that of the total number Il enlist
ments, aggreEaung 2.77S,So9 for the
union army and navy, the number o.
enlistments at various ages was as fol
lows:
At 10 and under. %; at II years