Emmar Sargent pension

Emmar’s 1918 Pension Testimony: Part VII

Emmar had a relationship with a man named Gideon Town and that relationship resulted in a daughter Lillie. Gideon took off with the unnamed grass-widow and they were gone three weeks. The grass widow returned to her father’s home near Cromwell. Gideon never came back. He had children but no property and Emmar made no […]

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Emmar’s 1918 Pension Testimony: Part IV

The unnamed step-daughter of Emmar (Sargent) Pollard in Ashland, Nebraska, was older than Emmar and was dead by the time Emmar made out her statement in 1918. Emmar and James Pollard separated sometime after their arrival in Nebraska and Emmar divorced him. She accused Pollard of not providing for her after their arrival in Nebraska. […]

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Emmar’s 1918 Pension Testimony: Part V

The taking of Emmar’s statement by the pension examiner continued the next day-25 October 1918. Emmar left Lincoln, Nebraska, after Joseph Oades divorced her. She landed in Prescott, Adams County, Iowa, remained there a month and moved to Cromwell, Union County, Iowa, where she lived for fifteen years. She went there with  “my boy, Job […]

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Emmar’s 1918 Pension Testimony: Part III

Emmar continued her 1918 testimony by indicating that she had three sisters, one brother, one half-sister, and one-half brother. Her brother, Ira Sargent, returned to Illinois and died. Her sister Minerva married a tailor named Mike Strobel and lived in Chicago, Illinois. Her sister Lucretia married a Davis County man named Fred Price. Price was […]

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Emmar’s 1918 Pension Testimony: Part II

Emmar Osenbaugh continued her October 1918 testimony by providing some family background. It’s important to remember in evaluating and using this information that Emmar was nearly eighty years old at the time of making her statement. She gave her maiden name as Emmar Sargent and indicated that she was born in Darlington, Ontario, Canada, the […]

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Emmar’s 1918 Pension Testimony: Part I

Civil War pension applications can contain a wonderful amount of genealogical and biographical information. That’s particularly the case when an application has issues that require investigation.  Emmar Osenbaugh of Woodburn, Clarke County, Iowa, applied for a widow’s pension based upon the military service of her final husband, John Osenbaugh. Osenbaugh served in Company H, 7th […]

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