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Submitted by Randi Richardson
The information in this database was extracted from an "Old Bloomington" column written by D.C. Miller which appeared in the December 10, 1947 issue of the Bloomington World. This newspaper is available on microfilm at the Monroe County Public Library in Bloomington, Indiana as well as the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis.
The information in D.C. Miller's 1947 column appears to come from List of pensioners on the roll January 1, 1883, a 5-volume set that was published by the Government Printing Office in Washington, DC in 1883 because Congress had asked the Secretary of the Interior to compile a list of everyone who was receiving a federal pension for military service (including widows and minor children). The 1883 set of books have been digitized and can be browsed for free on Google Books and Internet Archive; Volume 4 contains the listing for Indiana by county. These books contain the pensioner's name, their post office address, the cause of their pension, the amount of their monthly pension, and the date it was granted.
And if you have access to a Fold3 subscription, you can find even more information from the digital files they have of pension documents. For example, pension documents for Eliza Gentry show that she was the widow of John W. Gentry of Company G of the 38th Indiana Infantry, who died on September 19, 1863 of wounds received in the battle of Chickamauga, Tennessee. The pension documents also include a copy of Eliza's 1852 Monroe County marriage record and list the names and birthdates of all of their children who were under the age of 16 at the time of John's death.
Last Name | First Name | Type of Pension |
Abram | Lucinda | widow |
Adams | William H. | |
Adams | Wilson | |
Alexander | William M. | |
Bailey | Susan E. | widow |
Baker | Harry | |
Beck | John H. | |
Bicknell | Henry H. | minor |
Billings | William E. | |
Board | James M. | |
Bode | Marie | survivor |
Bowers | Eli | |
Briscoe | Margaret | widow |
Burke | Daniel | |
Burks | Susan | mother |
Buskirk | Elizabeth | widow |
Buskirk | William H. | |
Cagee | Robert | |
Cain | Melinda | widow |
Campbell | John | |
Campbell | Samuel | |
Carter | Amelia | widow - 1812 war |
Carter | Clara | mother |
Cates | Nancy | widow |
Cathcart | Mary | 1812 war |
Chambers | David | |
Chandler | Andrew | |
Chandler | Joshua | |
Chandler | Silas | |
Chestnut | Thomas J. | |
Clark | Sarah | mother |
Collins | Thomas N | |
Cooksey | Vincent H. | |
Core | Charles G. | |
Cracraft | John T. | |
Crafton | Henry | |
Deckard | William | |
Downing | Richard | |
Eakin | Vanelia | widow |
East | Nancy | mother |
Eller | John T. | |
Farmer | Elizabeth W. | widow |
Farmer | Elizabeth W. | widow - 1812 war |
Farmer | William M. | |
Fox | Nancy | widow |
Freeman | Joseph | |
Fulford | Jonathan H. | |
Gaskins | Hosea | |
Gaskins | Thomas M. | |
Gaston | James H. | |
Gentry | Eliza | widow |
Getzendanner | William | |
Gibbs | Theodore | |
Glares | Alvin | |
Graham | Robertson | |
Haley | John | |
Harbison | Joseph C. | |
Harrell | John C. | |
Harris | Joseph H. | |
Harris | Martha E. | widow |
Hawkins | Thomas E. | |
Helms | Eliza C. | widow |
Helms | Elizabeth | widow |
Holland | Edward | |
Ison | Henry | |
Jackson | Granville | |
Jackson | William J. | |
Johnson | Susan | widow |
Keck | Nancy J. | widow |
Keith | John L. | |
Kelley | Alexander | |
Kelley | Mary | widow |
Knight | Elijah | |
Lamkins | George W. | |
Langley | John T. | |
Lewis | Catherine | widow |
Lewis | Joseph | |
Livingston | Julia | widow |
Livingston | Martha | widow |
Lucas | Elizabeth | widow |
Lyons | John H. | |
Maginnis | Thomas | |
Manley | James F. | |
Marshall | Christiana | widow - 1812 war |
Massey | Andrew T. | |
Maxwell | Mary D. | widow - 1812 war |
McKinney | Lawson E. | |
McLaughlin | Daniel | |
McLaughlin | Ruth | widow |
Meadows | William H. | |
Mercer | Thomas | |
Millen | Sophia | widow |
Moore | Alvis | |
Moreland | George W. | |
Myers | Mary R. | widow |
Nichols | John | |
Nicholson | Johnathan | |
Parkins | Francis | |
Perry | Henry F. | |
Peterson | Mary | survivor |
Poling | Sarah | widow |
Rasco | Robert | |
Reeves | George W. | |
Rice | Thomas E. | |
Richardson | George | |
Ripley | John | |
Robertson | James T. | |
Roddy | Joseph B. | |
Roddy | Mary A. | widow |
Ross | James L. | |
Sater | Joseph | |
Seeks | George | |
Skirvin | James M. | |
Slocumb | Matilda | widow |
Smith | Mary E. | widow |
Smith | Reuben | |
Smith | Rosanna | widow |
Southern | William | |
Spencer | James K. | |
Spencer | Mary E. | widow |
Spires | Sarah | widow |
Stephenson | George T. | |
Stepp | Francis | |
Sumner | Benjamin | |
Tilley | Nancy | widow |
Voss | Lydia | mother |
Walker | Cynthia | mother |
Walker | Joseph | |
Watson | William | |
Webb | Jesse F. | |
Weimer | Louis | |
Wolfe | Margaret | widow |
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