MEXICAN WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APPLICATION ABSTRACT - HESTER LEMONS
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August 07, 2002
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Mexican War Pension
Company "E" First Missouri Mounted Volunteers

Date of filing: 3 May 1888
Class: Mexican War widow
Application #: 6453
Certificate: 5727
Act of Congress: January 29, 1887 - Missouri

Mexican War Pension, Act of January 29, 1887, Widow's Brief
Claimant: Hester Lemons
P.O. Mount Vernon
County: Grant
State: Oregon
Soldier: Isaac Lemons
Rank: Private
Company: E
Regiment: 1st Mo. Mtd. Vols.
attorney: Stoddard & Co.
P.O. Mount Vernon, Oregon

Enlisted Date: 27 June 1846 - 24 June 1847 (11 months 28 days).

Claimant: age 58
date of marriage: 4 Oct 1849
Date of soldier's death: 7 March 1866, near Wyandotte, Wyandotte, Kansas
Record of evidence: Certificate of Discharge
Date of filing: 23 August 1888
approved October 18, 1888

Was in Battle of Sacramento on or about 28 February 1847

Witness affiviat:
Volney Mitchell,
I served with Isac Lemons in Co. E, 1st Regt. Mo. Cavalry or Mounted Volunteers, 
John D. Stepheson (Stevenson), Capt. and A. W. Donophan, Col. (Doniphan) and 
enlisted at Fort Leavenworth on or about of 27 June 1846. Discharged about 20th 
of June 1847 at New Orleans. Sworned 17 February 1888.

Isaac Lemons and Hester Noble were married by Rev. Thomas Boyd near Fort 
William, Franklin, Missouri.

Description of Isaac Lemons: about 6 feet high, weigh about 170 lbs, light hair 
and blue eyes.

Children named: John W. Lemons, Laura J. & James C. Lemons
(5 Sep 1888 showed 3 children living and 2 deceased)

The family lived in Missouri 14 years then moved to Kansas. Hester and family 
moved to Oregon 1875.

Distant relatives (affiviate dated 5 Sep 1888): James Fitzwater age 60, and 
Nancy Fitzwater age 58 of Lebanon, Linn, Oregon. Nancy was at marriage of Isac 
and Hester.

Hester Lemons died 14 January 1920. Stoppage order made 23 October 1920.

Footnote: Col. A. W. Doniphan is the same person who refused to kill Joseph 
Smith, the Prophet of LDS Church on orders of the county officers near Kansas 
City, giving reasons that the acts taken against Joseph Smith was not 
constitutional and not proper.