Scott County, Indiana (Civil War)

From the National Archives, Washington, DC:



DECLARATION FOR WIDOW'S ARMY PENSION

State of Indiana,

County of Scott, SS.


On this fifteenth day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty three
personally appeared before me Jessamine G. W. Traylor Clerk of the Circuit
Court within and for the County and State aforesaid a resident of Vienna P. O.
in the County of Scott and State of Indiana aged seventeen years, who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following
declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act
of Congress, approved July 14, 1862.

That she is the widow of Thompson Collings who enlisted in the service of
United States at Vienna in the State of Indiana on the 28 day of July 1862 as a
Private in Company K commanded by Captain Geo. B. Collins in the 66 Regiment of
Indiana Vols. in the War of 1861; who while in the service aforesaid and in the
line of his duty was killed in battle near Richmond in the State of Kentucky on
the 30 day of August A. D. 1862.


She further declares that she was married to the said Thompson Collings on the
17th day of December in the year 1861 that her name before her said marriage
was Anna C. Hogland that her husband, the aforesaid Thompson Collings died on
the day above-mentioned, and that she has remained a widow ever since that
period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed;
that the names and ages of her children under sixteen years of age, at her
husband's decease, and the place of their residence is as follows:


Sarah T. (?) Collings born on the 24 day of March 1863 and resides with her
mother in the County and State aforesaid and she further declares that the
above named child is all and the only child or children surviving of said
deceased.


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