Veterans (or their survivors) filed for pension benefits from their place of residence. Many who served in this regiment moved to Northern states immediately after discharge but others moved northward later.
Widow – 464,772 / —–
Declaration for Widow’s Pension, Hannah M. Williams, 20 August 1890
65 years old; residence, Lenovor [?], Chester County, Pennsylvania
“she was married under the name of Hannah M. Jackson to said Joseph H. Williams on the 13th day of April A.D. 1879 by Rev. Robt White at Black Horse”
General Affidavit, Solomon States and Marshall R. Miles, 7 February 1891
[States] 34 years old; residence, Parkersburg, Chester Co., Penn; residence, Parkersburg, Chester Co., Penn
[Miles] 37 years old; residence, Parkersburg, Chester Co., Penn; residence, Parkersburg, Chester Co., Penn
“They certify that Hannah M. Williams has not remarried since the death of Joseph H. Williams her husband. We have been acquainted with her for eight years — also that her means of support is on two wash places, at one place every week, the other every other week with 50 cts for each washing is all she has to live on. House & lot worth about $150 (one hundred fifty dollars, the furniture if at public sale would not bring even $50 (fifty dolls).”
1st U.S. Colored Cavalry 
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