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…
List of documents that need to be included in a widow's pension application as proof of marriage to the deceased soldier, if the amount of accrued pension is large. Stamped by the Pension Office.
Maria lived with Horace in Minnesota until his death in 1884, then continued her residence there and in Wisconsin until 1890. In 1891, she moved to Missouri, and now the only proof of her continuous widowhood comes from two residents of St. Joseph,…