Witnesses and those who filed statements to prove marriage and death include Maria Rice, W. Thorne, Gilbert Thorne, Chas. Houghtaling, and Chas. Barnum. All of those who filed are from Minnesota and four out of the five from Hastings, where Maria…
This document includes both the original application rejection and the later rejection of Maria's second application. The Board of Review rejects the first application because the attorney has not included evidence that Rice's cause of death, acute…