GILES COUNTY VA PENSION APPLICATION:  DUNCAN, VIRGINIA
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WIDOW OF A DECEASED SOLDIER, SAILOR OR MARINE FOR A PENSION. 

NAME: Virginia A. Duncan, age 82 years (Jan. 28, 1849), widow of Wm. Kyle
Duncan who died Sept. 5, 1928; married on  March 20, 1878 by Rev. James
Dauthat.  Resided with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Croy.  Comrade of husband:
James Meredith

GILES COUNTY, VA (Hoges Store)

MEMBER OF: See letter to County Clerk below:

**The undersigned James Meredith having been duly sworn before me deposeth and
says, that he was born in Giles County, VA on March 17, 1847, that in March
1865, both he and William K. Duncan appeared before an army officer of the
Confederate states and inlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and were
granted fifteen days leave of absence before joining the army.  When the
fifteen days were expire, both he and the said William K. Duncan, left home
together from what is now called Hoge Store and proceeded as far  as  the top
of Brush mountain in Montgomery County VA at which place we met scar soldiers
returning home from the war saying that the war was about over and advised us 
to  return home which we  did.  This was about the last of March 1865. William
Duncan and myself were raised colse together and I knew him well and saw him
often untile the time of his death.  I also have know Mrs. Duncan all her life
and know the facts as she states to be true.  March 21, 1931 Signed: James
Meredith.  Sworn before James Andrus, Notary Public

***A following letter says that Meredith was put on pension files and that a
statement was needed by Virginia Duncan.