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From: "Ernest Everett Blevins" <>
Subject: Re: [SUVCW] Help with Possible Pennsylvania GAR Member
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 23:36:38 -0400
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It appears he was either elected or worked for the government with that
address. I think the obit idea is a good one to follow but also check state
legislature "blue books" or bios to see if that might shed some light on it.
Check the archives locally and for Pennsylvania for the GAR records. They
might be in funny places like I know the microfilm for Tennessee GAR is in
the East Tennessee Historical Center in Knoxville but I don't know if they
are in the state archives.

Ernie
List Administrator


On 11/3/07, Ed Norris <> wrote:
>
> I need help determining if this soldier ever joined the G.A.R.
>
> I have a letter written to Thomas M. Jones, Room 524 State Capitol,
> Harrisburg, Penna. It reads,
>
> "My dear Sir: The Commander-in-Chief has read your letter of recent date
> with copy of bill passed by the U. S. Congress concerning your
> eligibility for admission to the Grand Army of the Republic. The
> Commander-in-Chief will look into the matter on his return from
> officials visitations in the West and will write you later. Yours very
> truly, H. H. Bengough, Adjutant-General." (May 15, 1917)
>
> I found the bill, and it reads, "CHAP. 11. — An Act For the relief of
> Thomas M. Jones. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
> Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
> That in the administration of the pension laws and laws governing
> entrance to soldiers' homes Thomas M. Jones be held and considered to
> have been mustered into the United States service as a drummer in
> Independent Company C, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, on September
> eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to have been honorably
> discharged on April twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three:
> Provided, That no bounty, pay, or other allowance shall become due or
> payable by reason of the passage of this Act. Approved, December 30,
> 1916."
>
> He received an invalid pension and his wife received a widow's pension,
> he died November 24, 1917 according to the CW Pension files on Footnote.
> I searched the National Graves Registration database, and he isn't
> listed. I searched with Google and didn't find anything to indicate that
> he was allowed to join.
>
> FCL,
>
> Ed
>
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