Bridgeton pioneer., 1911-11-30
HAS CLOSED
PENSION ROLL
They Draw Pensions From
the D. ARA Treas
ured Scrap Book

ton that no more pensions would be
granted to daughters of any war what
soever.
1t was in 1906 that the National So
ciety of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution inaugurated it's system.
and since then the organization has
pensioned nearly 100 women, including
the forty-seven now living.
At Continental Memorial hall, the
national D. A. r. headquarters at
Washington. there is a treasured scrap
book made up of letters written in the
faint, fine chirography of some of the
pensioners, letters that give an insight
into the sturdiness and ruggedness of
character which have gone into the
making of American history.
Il am glad to grant by return mail
your request that l write you some
facts concerning my early girlhood,"
one of the pensioners writes to the his
torian of the society, because 1 am
in my ninety-frst year and threatened
with total blindness. so that / shall
not be able to write much more" And
then this same woman goes on to men,
tion incidentally that because she fears
the loss of her eyesight she has, with
the aid of her granddaughters, COM
mitted to memory numerous passages
of Scripture, twenty-one hymns and
one poem of fifty-fve stanzas!
When She Spun Flax.
"I didn't think when ! spun fax in
my younger days." writes another in
thanking the society, "that it would
be presented to me in later years spun
in gold, as l find it in the insignia
which decorates my gold spoon"
Another dwells at length upon those
days in the backwoods when wolves
and Indians were often at her fathers
door and gives thanks for the peace
and protection which a deaf and fee
BILE old woman enjoys today.
Il was the youngest of twelve chill
dren," writes more than one daughter
of Revolutionary soldier And there
is one letter which states naiyely,
my mother, having but seven chill
dren of her own, adopted my three
orphan cousins"
The forty-seven survivors are: Mrs.
Susan Ostrander of Glenwood, Ia;
Mrs. Teresa Hoyt, Reading, Kan;
Mrs. Rebecca laval, Easton, Pa;
Mrs. Frances B. Loveland, Soldier,
Kan; Mrs. Sarah Hatch, Portland,
Me-; Mrs. Mary Rishel, Clintondale,
Pa. Mrs. Sophronia Shaver Case,
Chittenango, N. Y; Mrs. Belinda
Moreland Thomas, Auburn, Ala; Mrs.
Esther Purdy Shepardson, Poolville,
N. Y; Mrs. Frances Stewart, Luray,
Va; Mrs. Melissa Henry, Poolville.
n. Y; Miss Jeanette Blair, Solsville,
n. Y; Mrs. Adelia Hatch, Hatchville,
Mass; Mrs. Mary Ann Scott, Midway,
Mass; Mrs. Aurelia Mcdonald, North
Abingdon, Mass; Mrs. Elizabeth Cham
bers, Columbus, o.; Mrs. Samantha
Flint, Toledo, o.; Mrs. Mary Christie
pher, Athens, Ala; Mrs. Nancy Nc
Kenny, East Mansfield, Mass; Mrs.
Hey Lawson Hill, Lakeport, Cal; Mrs.
Susan Nash, Brighton, Mass; Mrs.
Edythe Zerkle. Letart, w. Va; Mrs.
Cinderella Catlin. Waupaco, Wis;
Mrs. Mary Hoyt, Greene, N. Y; Miss
Mary Danforth, Attleboro, Mass; Mrs.
Wetha A. Lynde, Hartford. Conn;
Mrs. Harriet Sells, Los Angeles, CAL;
Miss Ruth Short, Newburyport, Mass;
Miss Sophronia Yorke, New Market,
N. H; Mrs. Lucinda McMullen, New
Market, Ind; Mrs. Hannah Howard,
Pennington, N. H; Mrs. Almira E.
Leonard, Otto, N. Y; Mrs. Abigail
Strong, Morris, ILL.,; Mrs. Helen Bar
rett. Kalamazoo. Mich; Mrs. Narcissa
Gillespie, Leesburg. Va; Mrs. Eliza
Ann Spencer, Marion, s. c.; Mrs. Julia
Ann Demaray, Lake Odessa, Mich;
Mrs. Sarah Campbell Washington;
Mrs. Lavinia Crofut. Danbury, Conn.t
Mrs. Mary Koyes, Princeton, ILL.,; Mrs.
Emily Welter. Ovid, Mich; Mrs. Caro-
line Johnson, Hastings, Neb; Mrs
Sarah Carl, Sanborn. N. Y; Mrs. Lu.
cinda Hershey, Wayside, Neb.; Mrs.
Phoebe Hungate, Riverside, Cal. and
Mrs. Caroline Randall, Springfield, VT.