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Giving the Name of Each
Pensioner, the Cause for Which Pensioned,
the Post-Office Address, and the Date of
Original Allowance, United States Pension
Bureau Senate
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Volume
IV, Washington. Government Printing Office,
1883
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n 8 Dec 1882, the US Senate
passed a resolution to enumerate, by town,
county, and state, all individuals receiving a
pension. This list is taken from that document.
It is used today as a major genealogical source
for Civil War and the War of 1812 pensioners.
Pensioners in this transcribed version of the
original document are listed by county, post
office and alphabetically by name.
This document, digitally scanned
by Google, can be found on Google Books.
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Pension
List
Linn County,
Oregon
Certificate
Number |
Name
of pensioner |
Post Office
address |
Cause for which
pensioned |
Monthly
rate (USD $) |
Date of
original
allowance |
County
where resided |
| 196467 |
Beebe, James O. |
Albany |
injury to spine |
4 |
Oct 1881 |
Linn |
| 120142 |
Brown, Mary |
Albany |
widow |
8 |
Oct 1868 |
Linn |
| 204109 |
Howard, Amos H. |
Albany |
gun shot wound, right cheek, right
arm |
8 |
Mar 1882 |
Linn |
| 28183 |
Jones, John |
Albany |
wound, both hands |
12 |
May 1864 |
Linn |
| 167459 |
May, James H. |
Albany |
arrow wound, head |
12 |
May 1880 |
Linn |
| 195582 |
Phillips, William N. |
Albany |
chronic diarrhea |
8.5 |
Sep 1881 |
Linn |
| 114320 |
Ramsey, Moria |
Albany |
dependant mother |
8 |
Jun 1868 |
Linn |
| 147535 |
Voss, Christian |
Albany |
gun shot wound, left shoulder |
2 |
Aug 1877 |
Linn |
| 12050 |
Wadsworth, Francis M. |
Albany |
wound in back |
16 |
Jun 1862 |
Linn |
| 21232 |
Bright, Rebecca |
Brownsville |
widow 1812 |
8 |
Mar 1879 |
Linn |
| 197704 |
Chance, Henry H. |
Brownsville |
gun shot wound, right hand |
6 |
Nov 1881 |
Linn |
| 90757 |
Fonst, Louisa |
Brownsville |
widow |
20 |
Dec 1873 |
Linn |
| 16065 |
Hyde, Julius Fay |
Brownsville |
dislocation, right hip joint |
12 |
Jan 1874 |
Linn |
| 41337 |
Ricks, John W. |
Brownsville |
gun shot wound, left thigh |
3 |
Apr 1865 |
Linn |
| 1403 |
Dwyer, Charles |
Halsey |
injury to abdomen (Navy) |
4 |
May 1870 |
Linn |
| 173712 |
Diffenbacker, Fredrick |
Harrisburgh |
varicose veins |
8 |
Sep 1880 |
Linn |
| 203562 |
Sherrill, William H. |
Harrisburgh |
chronic diarrhea, part deaf, dis.
Throat |
4 |
Feb 1882 |
Linn |
| 193657 |
Barrickman, Robert E. |
Lebanon |
diseased eyes |
4 |
Jul 1881 |
Linn |
| 108158 |
Crason, George W. |
Lebanon |
loss left arm above elbow |
24 |
Sep 1874 |
Linn |
| 7262 |
Duncan, Sarah |
Lebanon |
widow 1812 |
8 |
Jul 1878 |
Linn |
| 210743 |
Hand, Crandell |
Lebanon |
diseased lungs |
8 |
Jun 1882 |
Linn |
| 120278 |
Hawken, Samuel |
Lebanon |
gun shot wound, left hip, thigh |
8 |
Dec 1872 |
Linn |
| 149247 |
Johnson, Major |
Lebanon |
total blindness |
72 |
Dec 1877 |
Linn |
| 101822 |
Long, Isaac H. |
Lebanon |
disease of bladder and kidneys |
4 |
Jan 1870 |
Linn |
| 130606 |
Ross, George |
Lebanon |
gun shot wound, right hip |
6 |
Jun 1878 |
Linn |
| 96282 |
Saltmarsh, Isaac |
Lebanon |
gun shot wound, lower jaw, left
shoulder |
6 |
Mar 1869 |
Linn |
| 119728 |
White, Edward T. |
Lebanon |
gun shot wound, right arm |
14 |
Nov 1870 |
Linn |
| 50658 |
Acheson, Nancey |
Oakville |
dependant mother |
8 |
Jul 1865 |
Linn |
| 222107 |
Kyniston, John T. |
Peoria |
slight deafness both ears |
2 |
Dec 1882 |
Linn |
| 18742 |
Belyen, William |
Scio |
survivor 1812 |
8 |
Apr 1872 |
Linn |
| 142307 |
Vanderpool, George W. |
Sodaville |
chronic diarrhea |
8 |
Jan 1878 |
Linn |
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Where to Go From Here
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Most soldiers or their widows or minor
children applied for a pension. In some cases,
a dependent father or mother applied. The
pension files are indexed by the National
Archives microfilm publication T288,
General Index to Pension Files,
1861-1934 (544 rolls) which
is also available online at Ancestry.com (for
a fee).
The pension file will often contain more
information about what the soldier did during
the war than the Compiled Military Service
Records, and it may contain much medical
information if he lived for a number of years
afterwards. For example, in his pension file,
Seth Combs of Company C, 2d Ohio Cavalry,
reported: "...my left eye was injured while
tearing down a building...and in pulling off a
board a splinter or piece struck my eye and
injured it badly...it was hurt while in the
Shenandoah Valley near Winchester, Va. about
Christmas 1864--a comrade who stood by me name
Jim Beach is dead." In another affidavit, Seth
said he "also got the Rheumatism while on duty
as a dispatch bearer on detached duty."
To obtain a widow's pension, the widow had to
provide proof of marriage, such as a copy of
the record kept by county officials, or by
affidavit from the minister or some other
person. Applications on behalf of the
soldier's minor children had to supply both
proof of the soldier's marriage and proof of
the children's birth.
For more information on obtaining military
pension records, visit the United States
National Archives.
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