{"id":4229,"date":"2017-03-01T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2017-03-01T04:22:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T04:22:00","slug":"an-indian-war-pension-for-fighting-against-geronimo-and-the-apaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4229","title":{"rendered":"An Indian War Pension for Fighting Against Geronimo and the Apaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Marie Burns, alias Eahny, enlisted in Captain R. H. Marmon&#8217;s Company I of the First New Mexico Cavalry. \u00a0He saw action in the summer of 1885 as his unit was involved in a campaign against Geronimo and the Apaches in New Mexico. Burns was granted a pension for his service in the early 20th century. In future posts we will look at various records from his pension application and records, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>letters from his daughter to the pension department<\/li>\n<li>letters from the local Indian school regarding his pension<\/li>\n<li>affidavits regarding records of his marriage and his surviving children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, a very interesting record&#8211;and something of a departure from our usual fare.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4230\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/burns-1-1024x520.jpg\" alt=\"burns-1\" width=\"750\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/burns-1-1024x520.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/burns-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/burns-1-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/burns-1.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Marie Burns, alias Eahny, enlisted in Captain R. H. Marmon&#8217;s Company I of the First New Mexico Cavalry. \u00a0He saw action in the summer of 1885 as his unit was involved in a campaign against Geronimo and the Apaches in New Mexico. Burns was granted a pension for his service in the early 20th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jose-marie-burns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}