The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-08-01


Company G, Third Vermont Infan-
try, was transferred to Company
same regiment, on reorganization,
and was honorably discharged or
Individual muster-ou roll March g.
1865. In the first of these cases
an increase is favored from $12 to
500 per month. Mary Sands, now
sixty-five sustained an injury by a
fall from a chair when she was
three years old, which left her per
manently crippled. In the sec
ond case the prospective recipient
who is now forty-eight, and is but
three feet tall, is to come in for a
pension of 500 per month if the
bill passes. From childhood"
says the report, "she has been de-
pendent upon others for her main
tenance and support"
These records of pension cases
not infrequently disclose striking
parallels, as in two of the fore
going. Oscar A. Scribner and Ed
ward d. Sands, the father OF
Mary, were comrades in arms in
Company | of the Sixth Vermont
Infantry-"buddies" the parlance
of the day would call them. En-
listing within four days of each
other, they fought side by side
marched shoulder to shoulder and
fell in the same battle on May 5
1864, at the bloody Wilderness
Today their helpless dependents
one a son, the other a daughter
are calling upon Congress for aid
in their hour of need.
Celia Cary, thirty-seven, of
Poultney, is the third daughter of
a soldier in whose behalf a pen
sion ball has been presented. She
is the daughter of Samuel CARY,
late private Company l, Sixteenth
Regiment New York Heavy Artil-
lery, from December "a, 1868, to
August 81, 1865, who died Sept
ember 20, 1918. "Medical and
other evidence, to quote the re-
port in her case, Indicates that
the claimant since childhood has
been crippled and hunchbacked,
and is not capable of properly
caring for herself" 1t is recon-
mended that she be placed on the
pension roll at the rate Of $50 per
month.
In the case Of Catharine Cellcy,
lightweight years of age, of Ran
dolph, widow Of James M. Celley
''late private unassigned, Second
Regiment, Vermont Infantry, from
August ID, to October 81, 1862"
married to the soldier September
27, 1862, the House committee IA
vored a pension of $35 per month,
but the Senate committee held
that this claimant is "entitled to
no greater rate than that provided
for other Civil War widows, which
is $50 per month" and it is this
amount that is carried in the pend
ing bill.
The name Of Emma Hubbard,
2907 Fifth Avenue, Rock Island,
Illinois, appears on two OF the
House omnibus bills, namely, 1924
and 1914, but that doesn't mean
that Mrs. Hubbard is likely to get
two pensions, ior before these bills
have progressed entirely through
the legislative hopper the error
will be corrected. Mrs. Hlbbard
is the widow Of Oliver d. Hubbard,
late sergeant of Company E, Third
Regiment Vermont Infantry, who
saw service from November 3,
1861 to October 16, 1864, and
survived many years thereafter,
dying April s, 1920. His widow
married the ex-soldier October 10,
1913. The proposed legislation in
her behalf calls for a pension of
$50 per month. She is now Ga
years old.
1t is recommended that the
pension of $12 per month which is
now being received by Mary Nc
Bride, of Essex Junction, be in
creased to 500 per month. Mrs.
Mcbride is the widow Of James
Mcbride, of Troop A, Second
United States Cavalry, late a
Spanish War veteran, who was
in the service from February %,
1896, to February %, 1902. He
died May 30, 1907.
An increase from $50 per month
to $50 was asked in behalf of
Emma f. Waldo, 72 years old, of
Randolph, on account of her help
less and dependent daughter, who
is SO, and the House committee
agreed to that proposition. Their
colleagues in the Senate, however,
said that SAP was the maximum
amount which the Senate commit
tee usually recommended in the
case of Civil War widows with one
helpless child, and that amount
stands in the bill as reported to
the Senate. Mrs. Waldo's huS-
band was Dillingham; Waldo, late
private Company X, Sixth Regi-
ment Vermont Infantry; Company
F., Second Regiment Vermont In
fantry; and Twenty-fourth Com
nany, Second Battalion Veteran
Reserve Corps. He had two per
iods of service, the first being
from September 16, 1861, to June
A. 1862, and the second from July
II, 1863, to November 30, 1868.
He died July Is. 1905.
Bessie B. Waldo Rowland, of
1902 Monroe Avenue, Asbury
Park, N. J., IS the former widow
of a Vermont soldier, William l..
Waldo. late private Company A,