Georgia:  Coweta County: Government Pension Statistics 
9 January 1925

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The Newnan Herald, Friday, January 9, 1925


More than 14,000 names were dropped from the Government pension roll during 
the last year, reducing the total to 525,539. Pension payments for the 1924 
totaled $229,994,777 or $333,017,723 less than for the previous year. 
Statistics just made public show that Civil War pensioners decreased 21,808 
last year and now number 146,815, whole widows and dependents of Veterans of 
that war declined from 264,580 in 1923 to 253,136 in 1924. Spanish-American 
war, pensioners, however, increased 16,645 to 85,038, and the number of widow 
and dependent pensioners of this war advanced from 13, 67 to 16,104.