{"id":8518,"date":"2019-03-08T04:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T04:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8518"},"modified":"2019-03-08T04:04:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T04:04:53","slug":"the-widow-didnt-get-the-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8518","title":{"rendered":"The Widow Didn&#8217;t Get the Pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/32959_032848-03736-768x508.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve received the pension images from the Civil War pension file for Thomas Graves who served in Company B of the 42nd Missouri Infantry. Graves was survived by a widow, a woman who was born Sarah Newman in Rush County, Indiana, in the 1850s.<\/p>\n<p>By the 1880s she was in the general area of Randolph County, Missouri. It was hoped that Graves&#8217; pension file would provide some information on her. It was also hoped that she applied for a pension under Graves&#8217; name even though there was no reference to her on the index card for Graves. Widow&#8217;s names are usually included on these cards&#8211;there is even a space for their application number and certificate number on them.<\/p>\n<p>Her omission from the card was not a mistake. There is no widow&#8217;s application for Sarah in Thomas&#8217; pension file. There is no communication at all from her in the pension file. Sarah did not receive a pension in Thomas&#8217; name.<\/p>\n<p>But there was still information on Sarah in the file. Which goes to show that even if the widow didn&#8217;t apply that there still may be details on her in her husband&#8217;s pension file<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve received the pension images from the Civil War pension file for Thomas Graves who served in Company B of the 42nd Missouri Infantry. Graves was survived by a widow, a woman who was born Sarah Newman in Rush County, Indiana, in the 1850s. By the 1880s she was in the general area of Randolph [&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":[],"class_list":["post-8518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518","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=8518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}