Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1917 — WIDOW OF LINCOLN PARTNER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WIDOW OF LINCOLN PARTNER

-.Mrs. B. M, Cox, wife of Capt. K. M. Cox, who commanded a company of Illinois volunteers in the ■Civil war, who has applied for a pension in San Francisco. Mrs. Cox said t.hat he? husband died in ISI6 -and she thought she would never need to apply for a pension, but circumstances have changed. Her husband was a law partner of Abraham Lincoln when Lincoln was a struggling lawyer in a little Illinois town.