MILITARY (CIVIL WAR): Amelia Travis Deposition, Bridge Creek, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Extracted from the Civil War Pension File of 
Euphemia Davenport Hills Jobs Brown, 
Widow of David O. Hills

Deposition of Amelia Devenport Travis

State of Wisconsin     )
                       )ss
County of Eau Claire   )
     On the 9th day of March A.D. 1868 before me a Justice of the 
Peace within and for the county and state aforesaid, personally 
appeared Amelia Travis a resident of the town of Bridge Creek in the 
county and state aforesaid, aged 39 years, a person who I certify to 
be respectable and entitled to credit who being by me first duly sworn 
according to law deposes and says; that she resides as aforesaid and 
is aged as aforesaid; that she was acquainted in his life time with 
David O. Hills, deceased, who was a Private in Company "I" 61st 
Regiment N.Y. Vols. And is acquainted with Euphemia Jobs, who was the 
widow of said David and is the guardian of the children of said David, 
and as such guardian is seeking application for a pension for said 
children; that she was acquainted with said David for Ten years prior 
to his death and has been acquainted with said Euphemia for thirty 
years last past; that she was present on the eight day of April 1860 
at a certain house in the town of Alma in Jackson county state of 
Wisconsin and saw said Euphemia delivered of a male child; that at 
that time said David and Euphemia were living together in lawful 
wedlock as man and wife; that said child was named Charles Henry 
Hills; that she has known said child continuously since that time 
and said child is the identical child now called by that name; that 
she well recollects the date of said birth and the same is as is 
above stated.
     She further says that she has no interest in the said claim of 
Euphemia Jobs as such guardian for such pension as aforesaid.
                                 Amelia Travis

(statement of Notary obscured by Certified Statement of Clerk
of the Circuit Court of Eau Claire, which follows)


State of Wisconsin,        )     I, Martin Daniels, clerk
Eau Claire County, ss.     )  of the Circuit Court of Eau Claire 
County, certify, that H.S. Baldwin , whose name is subscribed to 
the annexed and foregoing certificate of acknowledgment, was, at 
               the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace within and 
               for said County, and duly authorized by the Laws of 
               this State to take the same; that I am acquainted 
  (seal)       with the hand-writing of said H.S. Baldwin and 
               believe his signature, subscribed thereto, to be 
               genuine; and that the said  is executed and 
               acknowledged according to the Laws of the State of 
               Wisconsin.
In Testimony, Whereof, I hereunto set my Hand and affix the Seal of 
the said Court, at Eau Claire, the 10th day of March, A.D. 1868
                                  Martin Daniels, Clerk.

Submitters notes:  Euphemia and Amelia were daughters of Brazilla 
(also spelled Barzillah) and Mary O. Devenport/Davenport, from 
Onondaga County, New York and later Madison County, New York. On 
the 1880 census of Fairchild (Dist 139), Eau Claire County, WI, 
Brazilah Devenport is in the household of his son John.
Amelia was the wife of John A. Travis.

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