Greene-Fulton County IL Archives Court.....John Cather, John Cather January 1854
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Written: January 1854
Recorded: 1854

John Cather Affidavit Green Co., Illinois 1854
State of Illinois
Green County
Before me, Clerk of the county Court of said County this 4th day of January 1854 
personally appeared John Cather and being dully sworn upon his oath says
That Robert M. Cather the individual who made the foregoing Declaration for Pension

Money was formerly known to him while residing in the State of Ohio at, and 
previous to the year 1812 – That he a brother of said Robert M Cather and lived 
with his father at the time Robert M Cather left his home in the said State and 
enlisted in the Army of the United States in the War of 1812. That he knew said 
Robert M Cather to have been an able bodied man, fully competent to perform 
Military duty at the time he enlisted in said War … Cincinnati Ohio. That he was at

home, when said Robert M Cather returned in the Spring of 1814, after an absence of

about Six Months – That when he returned he, Robert M. Cather was riding on a 
horse, and was unable to get off alone, and assistance was rendered him before he 
could dismount – That the cause of his disability was reumatism, as was stated at 
the time, and as he always understood – that he knows the said Robert M. Cather 
while in said service, and that he has Rheumatism ever since, caused by said 
service. That he remembers said Robert M. Cather under took to learn this wagon 
makers trade sometime after his return from said War, And after he had recovered a 
little, by means of the constant application of remedies but he was unable to do 
work as it on account of the rheumatism in his back and hips, and was compelled to 
quit after a few days. He has not seen the said R. M. Cather for a few years, but 
from the time of his said return to some time about- the year AD 1822 he knows said

Cather was not an able bodied man capable of doing a man’s work, - and that said 
disability – was caused as aforesaid – and that he believed and is well satisfied 
that the said disability is still continuing – and that he is a worthy man, and 
further says not – signed John Cather

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