Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1920 — Eighty Widows Drawing Pensions for War of 1812 [ARTICLE]

Eighty Widows Drawing Pensions for War of 1812

Eighty widows of soldiers of the War of 1812 are still on the government pension rolls, according to the annual report of Secretary of the Interior Lane. Pensioners included 215 survivors of the war with Mexico, and 2.739 widows of soldiers. Names of 271,391 Civil war veterans are listed. Deaths of Civil war veterans last year numbered 27.703, compared with 30,446 the year before.