Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1918 — Our Pensioners In England. [ARTICLE]

Our Pensioners In England.

Tn his way, John Davis, who died at his Bermondsey home in Blue Anchor Taine—an appropriate address for an old sailor—did much useful work on behalf of Englishmen who, like himself, had fought in the American Civil war, relates a writer in the Westminister Gazette. There are something like 150 of these men still living in this country; and John Davis was instrumental in rescuing many of them from the workhouse and getting them pensions, which the United States government was always willing to pay if it had known where to find the men. On the last occasion I chatted with the old man in his little parlor, furnished like a ship’s cabin, he told me of a rumor that the pensions were to be stopped unless the men returned to America, but he wrote later to say that this rumor was quite without foundation.