{"id":7343,"date":"2018-08-03T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:04:09","slug":"emmars-1918-pension-testimony-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7343","title":{"rendered":"Emmar’s 1918 Pension Testimony: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 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 Illinois Infantry and moved to Iowa after the war.<\/p>\n

Emmar was not John’s only wife. John was not Emmar’s only husband. The multiple marriages for both the Osenbaughs was part of the problem.<\/p>\n

In October of 1918, Emmar made out statements before a special examiner that discuss her life as she could remember it. The 79-year old had quite a bit to remember.<\/p>\n

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Emmar was living with her son Job Pollard. According to Emmar’s testimony, Pollard was a rail road “section man” and she kept house for him. By 1918, John Osenbaugh had been dead for twenty years and had died at the Soldier’s Home in Kansas.<\/p>\n

Emmar had not been married since his death.<\/p>\n

But she certainly had been married before as we will see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 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 […]<\/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":[360],"class_list":["post-7343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emmar-sargent-pension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343","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=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}