Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1917 — CIVIL WAR VETERANS PASSING [ARTICLE]

CIVIL WAR VETERANS PASSING

Deaths among-civil war veterans made large gaps iri. the government pension rolls during the last year. The report of Commissioner Saltsgaber of the pension bureau made public Saturday, shows that the names of more than 50,0 00 of the old soldiers passed from the list, reducing their total to 286,009, hardly more than- a third of what it - was eighteen' years ago. There was a net. reduction in all pensioners of 38,000 and in the amount paid for pensions of $6,000,000. Pensions aggregating $159,155*,009 went to 709,572 persons.