Horace Hudson, Company I

The officer and his widow’s applications included near identical comments from many community members. Statements in the later years are more varied. He disappeared for a time but returned to their home shortly before his death. Of six children only their daughter’s identified by name.

Invalid — 946, 154 / 672,283
Widow — 808,440 / 593,054, Catharine Hudson

Questionnaire (Form 3-402), Horace Hudson, 4 May 1898
[married] Cathrine A. Hudson maiden name Siple applied for divorce and shall succeed
[when, where, by whom] Dec 7th 1867, Rev A. Reynolds at Oneonta
[record] no certificate; her mother and my brother were witness; brother, Sarel Hudson of Oneonta
[previously married] no
[living children] “have no children which I acknowledge”

Sworn Statement, Sarah M. Smith, 22 May 1899
residence, Rennselaer, Rennselaer County, New York
“She was present and witnessed the marriage of Catharine A Siple to Horace Hudson … Oneonta, Otsego Co, State of NY, Dec 3d 1867″

Sworn Statement, Ida Mandel, 24 May 1899
residence, Oneonta, Otsego County, New York
“She was present at and witnessed the marriage of Catharine A. Siple to Horace Hudson at Oneonta, Otsego Co, NY on the 3d day of Dec 1867”

Sworn Statement, William H. Siple, 25 May 1899
“Catharine A. Siple was not married previous to her marriage to Horace Hudson”

Sworn Statement, Samuel Mendel, 5 June 1899
residence, Oneonta, Otsego County, NY
“He was acquainted with Horace Hudson previous to his marriage to Catharine A Siple”

Sworn Statement, James Robert, 7 November 1899
residence, Oneonta, Otsego County, NY
“He was acquainted with Horace Hudson previous to his marriage to Catharine A Siple … Horace Hudson was never married prior to his marriage to Catharine A Siple”

Sworn Statement, Sylvester Ford, 8 November 1899
61 years old; residence, Oneonta, Otsego County, NY
“He is acquainted with Catharine A. Hudson … the said Catharine A. Hudson was never married previous to her marriage to Horace Hudson”

Sworn Statement, Charles O. Hanford, 23 December 1899
49 years old; residence, East Meredith, Delaware County, New York
“He is acquainted with Catharine A. Hudson and her husband Horace Hudson, and that the said Horace Hudson deserted his wife Catharine Hudson about the First of January 1896 … and that the said Catharine A. Hudson is a person of good moral character and in necessitous circumstances”

Sworn Statement, Alva Emery, 20 December 1899
66 years old; residence, East Meredith, Delaware Co, NY
“Acquainted with Catharine A. Hudson and her husband Horace Hudson, and the said Horace Hudson deserted his wife Catharine A. Hudson about the First of January 1896”

Sworn Statement, William A. Black, 12 February 1901
35 years old; residence and post-office address, [illegible], Wayne County, Pennsylvania
“[Hudson] has boarded with him for the past 5 years and during that time he has not been a well man …. he could scarcely wait on himself and if he lives from now on he will have to be waited on as he is suffering from Bright’s Disease … no income other than his pension, and has no friends here”

Sworn Statement, Dr. Daniel E. Drake, 13 February 1901
residence and post-office address, [illegible], Wayne County, Pennsylvania
“I have been practicing medicine 11 years. I have known said soldier for the past 5 years or more. I hae treated him profesionally about 2 years.”

General Affidavit, E.S. Bisbee, 27 May 1904
33 years old; residence, Meredith, Delaware Co, NY; post-office address, Mendale, NY
“He is the town clerk of the town of Meredith, Delaware County, NY and as such town clerk is the custodian of the vital statistics of said town and of the records thereof, he further says that he has examined said records as to the death of Horace Hudson late of said town of Meredith deceased and that the following is a true transcript from said record of the same
Date of death: May 12, 1904
Age: 75 yrs 2 mos 3 days
Chief Cause of Death: Cerebral Hemorrhage
Contributing Cause: Chronic Bright’s Disease

General Affidavit, Ida Mendel, 4 July 1904
67 years old; residence, Oneonta, Otsego County, New York; post-office address, Oneonta, Otsego County, New York
“She was well acquainted with the claimant and her late husband Horace Hudson … she was present at the marriage of claimant and said Horace Hudson … at Oneonta, NY on the 3rd day of December 1867 by Rev. A. Reynolds, a minister of the gospel”

General Affidavit, Catharine A Hudson, 16 July 1904
58 years old; residence, Meredith, Delaware Co, NY; post-office address, Mendale, NY
“That she has no property real or personal or [illegible] except a little household furniture, that she has no bonds, stocks, or investments … and has no income from any source except her own manual labor, that her income from her manual labor amounts to about $15.00 per month, and that no person is legally bound to provide for her support. Also that there is no public or church record of claimant’s marriage to the soldier, and no public or church record of the birth or baptism of said minor child, Hilda Henderson.”

General Affidavit, Elizabeth McCully, 27 July 1904
53 years old; residence, Oneonta, Otsego Co, NY
“She was well acquainted with the above named claimant and her late husband Horace Hudson … She was present at the birth of said soldier’s daughter S. Hilda Hudson … born on the 18th day of July 1889 at Davenport Center, Delaware County, NY, that she was present at the said birth as a nurse of assistant. That the attending physician was Dr. G.A. Mahorg.”

General Affidavit, James Roberts and George Reynolds, 29 August 1904
[Roberts] 77 years old; residence, Oneonta, Otsego County, New York; post-office address, Oneonta, NY
[Reynolds] 74 years old; residence, Oneonta, Otsego County, New Yor; post-office address, Oneonta, NY
“well acquainted with Catharine A. Siple and Horace Hudson from the type they became of marriageable age until they were married to each other in December 1867 … We state the foregoing facts from personal knowledge and recollection.”

General Affidavit, William L. Low and Tracy L. Shaver, 12 November 1904
[Low] 52 years old; residence, Meredith, Delaware Co, NY; post-office address, Meredith, Delaware Co, NY
[Shaver] 33 years old; residence, Meredith, Delaware Co, NY; post-office address, Meredith, Delaware Co, NY
“known and lived neighbor to the said Horace Hudson and said Catharine A. Hudson for two years immediately prior to the death of said Horace Hudson on May 12th 1904 … daughter Hilda Hudson is still living and resides with her mother.”

Deposition, Mrs. Catharine A. Hudson, 23 May 1905
58 years old; post-office address, Merridale, Delaware County, New York
“I do not know the date of his enlistment or discharge. I have his commission as First Lieut … he was in the service about three years … married December 3, 1867 by Rev. A. Reynolds. The minister has since died. We were married at my home in Oneonta, Otsego Co., NY. There are two living witnesses to the marriage. Mrs. Ida Mendell and Saul Hudson, a brother of soldier. … His brother Saul knew me before my marriage … I had lived in Oneonta some 10 or 12 years before my marriage. Mrs. Mendell, Jas. Roberts, & Geo W. Reynolds knew me prior to my marriage … [my husband] was 15 years older than I. I had known himin the neighborhood of two years prior to my marriage. I became acquainted with him after he came from the army … Hudson, Geo W. Reynolds, and James Roberts knew him well prior to our marriage. Mr. Reynolds and he enlisted together I think … [After the war] we were running a boarding house then just as we do now … He died May 12, 1904. I have not remarried since his death. I own no property either real or personal and have no income except what I am able to come by my own labor. I had six children by soldier, three of whom are still living but only one was under 16 years old age when soldier died. Her name is S. Hilda Hudson and she was born July 18, 1889. She is still living and makes her home with me.”

Deposition, Henry G. Sheldon, 23 May 1905
68 years old; post-office address, Meridale, Delaware Co, NY
“I have known the claimant Mrs. Catharine A. Hudson for 15 or 20 years … I got acquainted with them when they lived at East Meredith. He left a hardwre store there. I used to trade with him some. Then I knew of him going off and leaving her at East Meredith. He was gone several years and she went and brought him back to her home her and he lived with her til his death, a period of a year or a year and a half.
“She took care of him during that time. I attended his funeral and know that he was buried from the hosue where she now lives. I was living in East Meredith when he left her but I don’t know why he went away … She has always been a woman of good character and I never heard a word against her character except what he said. After he went away she conducted a boarding house out in East Meredith and here, and I never heard a harmful word against her.”

Deposition, Marshall Ware, 23 Mary1905
24 years old; post-office address, Meridale, Delaware Co., NY
“I have known this claimant Mrs. Catharine A. Hudson about six years. I knew her when she lived at East Meredith before she moved here. I knew Horace Hudson in the neighborhood of a year before his death…. I used to see him frequently and talked with him often … She and her daughter run a boardinghouse”

Deposition, Sarel Hudson, 25 May 1905
80 years old; post-office address, Oneonta, Otsego Co, NY
“Horace Hudson was my brother … Her maiden name was Catharine A. Siple, or ‘Cassie’ Siple as she was generally known … They were married at her mother’s house by Rev. Reynolds. … They lived together from the time of their marriage til six or eight years ago when he left her and was gone some time in [illegible], Pa. He wrote us from [illegible] as to how poorly he was. We sent the letter to his married daughter or wrote her to his condition … There was no disagreement between them and he left. He was jealous of her but I think unduly so and without cause. She was an active energetic hardworking woman and he was not so energetic and I think she brought more for the house than he did. Then there was considerable difference in their ages.”

Deposition, Geo Reynolds, 26 May 1905
74 years old; post-office address, Oneonta, Otsego Co, NY
“we enlisted at the same time … I knew from before her marriage to soldier … I did not know her well … They moved out of the locality soon after their mrriage and I knew very little of them after that.”

Letter from Ethel L. Burns to Pension Bureau, 13 June 1921
“Gentlemen: You are hereby notified of the death of Catharine A. Hudson which occurred on June 8, 1921.”
Note: Beneath her name, Burns inserted “(Daughter of the deceased)” — Leslie

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Sampson Whiteman, F&S

Veteran officers typically had more financial resources than the troops they commanded but their injuries were often as devastated. This officer began his career in Company L, Third New York Infantry and was promoted to Company K, 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry. He settled in Ohio after discharge.

Invalid — 608,968 / 420,005

Questionnaire (Form 3-065), Sampson J.L. Whiteman, 7 January 1888
“Disability from gun shot wound of left knee incurred at at Basque Creek, Va. about July 1864 … Treatment as follows: in Post Hospital, Newport News, Va from July 1864 to Dec 1864 … Discharged Jan 26, 1866, at Brazos, Tex”
Note: “Basque Creek, Va.” was “Pagan Creek, Va.” — Leslie

General Affidavit, SH Whiteman, 13 February 1888
46 years old; residence, Xenia, Greene Co, Ohio; post-office address, Xenia, Ohio
“Capt Whiteman with a small squad of men detailed from our Regt were ordered to Smithfield on Pagan Creek with instructions as I now remember to bring to Newport News all floating craft and contraband articles, and while on such expedition said detachment was fired on by the enemy in ambush and said Capt Whiteman was then and there wounded. My knowledge of the facts were gained by the report of Capt Whiteman when he returned to camp and by conversation with him and the men of his company at that time”

Sworn Statement, William H. Seip, 5 December 1888
53 years old
“He was a Major in the 1st Regiment US Col’d Cavalry; that the regiment at that time was encamped at New Port News [sic], Va., having on or about the 6th of August, 1864, left Bermuda Hundred, Va. for that place. That while encamped at New Port News [sic], Va. … said regiment was ordered with a detail of sixteen men to go Smithfield, Va. on Pagan Creek, for the purpose of breaking up a contraband mail said to be carried on by means of small boat near said place”

Questionnaire (Form 3-402), Sampson Whiteman, 4 June 1898
[married] “No – wife died Dec 27, 1885”
[when, where, by whom] [blank]
[record of marriage] [blank]
[previously married] [blank]
[living children] “Yes – 5. John G, 30 – Arthur L, 28 – Lawren M, 20 – Grace, 18 – Addie J, 16

General Affidavit, J.L. Carter and J.H. Alexander, 21 October 1899
[Carter] 63 years old; residence, Buena Vista, Polk Co, Oregon; post-office address, Buena Vista
[Alexander] 30 years old; residence, Buena Vista, Polk Co, Oregon; post-office address, Buena Vista
“We are near neighbors and intimately acquainted of claimant and see him frequently from my own personal knowledge and observation … uses a crutch all the time

General Affidavit, U.J. Lehamn, 2 May 1901
32 years old; residence, Salem, Marion Co, Oregon post-office adress, Salem, Marion Co, Oregon
“Whiteman has stopped at my home on different times during the past year and I know from personal acquaintance with him that one of his limbs is entirely useless”

General Affidavit, Henry Ammon, 27 May 1902
22 years old; residence, Sidny, Marion Co, Oregon; post-office address, Jefferson, Oregon
“I live about one mile from from the aove claimant. I see him over at his home, have assisted him to dress and to bathe to get into waggon [sic] or hack and I do know that he has to have assistance of another person”

General Affidavit, John Keeshnick [sic], 27 May 1902
54 years old; residence, Sidny Precinct, Marion Co, Oregon; post-office address, Jefferson, Oregon
“I live about one mile from the above claimant have known him for sixteen years … I see him quite frequently”

General Affidavit, Roy Porter, 2 May 1901
14 years old; residence, Jefferson, Marion County, Oregon
“I have known the above claimant 8 years. I lived with him during school, waiting on and assisting him to dress, undress, and bathe during fall and winter 1901 & 1902”

Questionnaire (Form 3-389), Sampson J.L. Whiteman, 22 March 1915
[birth date and place] [blank]
[organizations in which you served] “3d NY Volunteer Cavalry — Capt of K, 1st US Vol Col’d Cavly
[post office at enlistment] “Old Town 3 miles north of Xenia, Ohio”
[wife’s full name and maiden name] Margaret A. Whiteman, maiden name Gorley [sp?]
[when, where, by whom] 1867 at Wilmington, Ohio – lost the records when home burned in Jan 1869
[official record] “I do not known as all my papers and records were burned”
[previously married] “none – my wife died Dec 23, 1885”
[names and birth dates of children] John G. White, 1868; A.L. Whiteman, 1870; Laura M, 1876; Grace, 1878; Addie J, 1883; There is 7 grandchildren. I am all alone living with my children. I am past 79, Almost deaf & blind and when I die there will be no call for pension for wife or children for wife dead & children all of age & years old”

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Charles Ouvert, Company L***

This application is straightforward enough until the officer’s widow reveals family secrets and unconventional living arrangements. Events described in this lengthy pension file include residences in Florida, New Jersey, and New York; the Spanish-American War and World War I; and foreign nationals.

Today’s post includes research notes from documents dated 1927. Earlier posts included research notes from documents dated June 1892-April 1924 and research notes from documents dated 1925-1926.

Invalid — 465,488 / 834,526
Widow — 1,231,070 / —–, Caledonia Ouvert

Deposition, Caledonia Overt, 4 January 1927
“Q. Why are you known in New York as Caledonia Wheaton, and in Asbury Park as Caledonia Overt?
A. It became necessary for me to go to work while living in Asbury Park with the soldier and I started out as a dressmaker. I was recognized by the people who employed me as a white woman. One day at my place of employment someone asked me my name. I said Overt. Then that person said ‘Overt. I know some colored people here by that name. So to avoid all embarrassment after that I went by the name of Wheaton and then I came here to New York City to earn a living. I did not want it known that I was colored for I was afraid that it would make it more difficult for me to get the kind of work I could do and wanted to do.”

“I live alone … I teach piano playing and also rent one of my rooms. When I first came to New York I did dressmaking. Then I did draping and I have done all sorts of work. One time I was in an umbrella repair place and during the World War I was a ticket chopper [?] in the employ of the Interborough. I was first at the station at 155th Street and then at different stations along the line.
“John Mansfield [is my roomer] but he is in Brooklyn. He is a very young man … been here for the past 3 months. Before Mr. Mansfield came an Italian had the room. His name was Belsoni. I do not know what his first name is, and before Belsoni was here I had a young German whose name I do not remember. He was only here for 5 or 6 weeks. Before that I did not have anyone. …. Louis Dietz was a white man … [he was here for] something around eight years from January of last year … He is dead. He died here, right in this room, in January 1926. While Louis Dietz was here he was known as Louis Wheaton, He had a wife living but he did not live with here and to avoid all trouble when he came here he took the name of Wheaton … He died under that name and is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in Brooklyn under that name …. I lived with him as his wife for about six years …. The soldier, did not, of course, know that Dietz and I were living together. I would go down to Asbury Park at different times during the year to see the soldier and my mother would stay a few days at a time. … I just had to make a living. [The soldier] was old and could not work and I had to do something so I came to New York where my chances were better. The soldier died in February 1925. At the time of his death I was living here with Dietz and was known as his wife but not as Mrs. Dietz. We were known as Mr. and Mrs. Wheaton. … I lived with Dietz as his wife until he died. … Dietz and I did not get married. How could we get married? He had a wife living and I had a husband living.”
“When I met Dietz he and his wife were living together in Asbury Park and they were neighbors of mine. …. I would not want it known any where that I lived with Dietz as his wife for it became known to Dietz’s son-in-law it would mean disgrace and perhaps considerable trouble for me. Dietz’s son-in-law and daughter live in Asbury Park and I do not want to have to tell you their names.”

Deposition, Caledonia Overt, 6 January 1927
“I told you my father was Frank Crawford. My father was a white man and his name was Francis Wheaton. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the state of Florida. I was born out of wedlock. Judge Wheaton was a Massachusetts man and he later moved to Florida and then he brought my mother and me down there. All this was when I was a little child. My mother and Judge Wheaton lived together in Jacksonville, Fla. and all told [sic], 5 children were born to my mother by Judge Wheaton. All are dead but me and my brother John and I have heard he is dead. The last I heard of him he lived in Peoria, Ills. My mother was married to a man named Hill before she met Judge Wheaton and Hill deserted my mother and she then went to live with Judge Wheaton. My mother for some reason carried the name of Walker and died under that name.”

Deposition, John A. Nelson, 6 January 1927
52 years old; post-office address, 325 West 15th Street, New York City
“I am a foreman in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. I have known [the claimant] for about the past 6 years and I knew her husband the late Louis Wheaton …. I took my meals with Mr. and Mrs. Wheaton … since Mr. Wheaton died I have continued to take my meals here with the claimant”

Sworn Statement, Louis Schmerler, 27 April 1927
residence, Asbury Place, NJ
“has known Mrs. Caldeonia Overt … for sixteen years
[Note: The statement above is handwritten but the statement below is typed on the same paper — Leslie]
“O.R. Holters, MD, of full age … resides in the city of Asbury Park, NJ, and has known Mrs. Caldedonia Overt … for several years.”

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“Unidentified Cavalry Officer”

“The President’s authority to commission the officers of colored volunteer notwithstanding, state executives exerted considerable influence in the selection of officers of Negro regiments. Clamoring for the protection of states’ rights, the governors argued that native white men of their respective states should be appointed officers of the Negro troops they mobilized.”
John T. Blassingame. “The Selection of Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers of Negro Troops in the Union Troops, 1863-1865,” Negro History Bulletin,Vol. 30, No. 1 (January 1967), pp. 8-11.

This photograph of an unidentified cavalry officer is held in the collection of the Missouri Historical Society. The catalog record describes it as a “half-length portrait of a man in uniform with a sword. Subject’s hat has crossed sabers, indicating cavalry.”

See related posts:

“1st U.S. Colored Cavalry in the 19th Century News” (December 23, 2019)
“Black Troops, White Officers” (July 20, 2020)
“Free Military School for Applicants for Commands of Colored Troops” (December 16, 2019)

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Charles Henry Coburn, Regimental Commander

White officers typically served as enlisted men or junior officers in Northern regiments before becoming commanding officers in African American regiments. This officer’s earlier service was as Regimental Quartermaster with the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry . After the war ended he married a woman from Norfolk, Virginia and returned to his hometown  Lowell, Massachusetts.

 

Inavlid — 1,313,825 / 1,105,836
Widow — 921,814 / 692,335, Mary Coburn 

 

Certificate of Marriage, Charles H. Coburn and Mary Victoria McClean, 20 June 1866
Coburn was born in Lowell, Massachusetts; McClean was born in Norfolk, Virginia. Officiated by Reverend J.S.B. Hodges on June 20, 1866 in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Witnesses were: “Mother & sisters of bride, James Parker etc. 
Recorded in the Parish Register of Grace Church, Newark, NJ, Page 464, 465 of Vol. i.”

 

Questionnaire, Charles H. Coburn, 18 March 1905
[wife]  Mary Victoria Coburn; Mary Victoria McClean
[where, when, by whom] June 20, 1866 at Scotch Plains, NJ by John S.B. Hodges, DD, Newark, NJ
[record] at Scotch Plains, NJ
[previous marriage] no
[living children] Three — Victoria McLean Coburn, May 7, 1869; Frederic William Coburn, January 30, 1873; Helen Coburn, June 5, 1877

 

Questionnaire (3-447],  Charles H. Coburn, 24 March 1905
[birthdate] March 12, 1839
[birthplace] Lowell, Massachusetts
[date enlisted] August 20, 1862
[place enlisted] Lowell, Mass.
[residence before enlistment] Lowell, Mass
[post-office box before enlistment] Lowell, Mass
[occupation at enlistement] merchant
[when discharged] June 5, 1863
[where discharged] Lowell
[residence after discharge] Lowell, Massachusetts
[present occupation] merchant
[physicial description] 5 feeet, 6 3/4 inches; weight, 150 pounds; blue eyes; brown hair; light complexion; no scars

 

Declaration for Widow’s Pension, Mary V. Coburn, 10 June 1909
“she is the widow of Charles H. Coburn, who was enrolled, on or about 16 day of September, 1862 as a 1st Lieut. Regt. Com, in 1st RRegt. U.S. Colored  Vol Cavalry , and honorably discharged June 3rd, 1863, having served ninety days or moe duirng the late civil war …
“Also personally appeared Hellen C. Stevens, residing in 187 Nesmith S., Lowell, Massachusetts, and Ethel M. Morse,  residing in 187 Nesmith St., Lowell, Massachusetts [acquainted with her] 32 years and 2 years, respectively …”

 

General Affidavit, Frederic McClean, 19 July 1909
36 years old; residence, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; post-office address, Lowell, Massachusetts
“[the couple] was married but once …”

 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Record of Death, Charles H. Coburn, 29 October 1909 [date stamped by Pension Office]
[death date] June 3, 1909
[age] 70 years, 2 months, 19 days
[death place] 187 Nesmith Street, Lowell, Massachusetts
[occupations] Vice President & Treasurer, C.B. Coburn, Co.
[birthplace] Lowell, Mass
[parents’ names] Charles B. Coburn; Elizabeth West
[parents’ birthplaces] Chelmsford, Massachusetts; Salem, Massachusetts
[cause of death] arterio sclerosis 

 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Certificate of Record of Death, 11 June 1909
[Note] The information recorded here is also  in the “Record of Death.” However, this document states that this individual was buried in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts and the previous document.

 

General Affidavit, Lizzie McClean, 19 July 1909
60 years old; residence, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; post-office address, Lowell, Massachusetts
“depose and say that the claimant was never married but once and then to soldier, also that the soldier was never married but once and then to the claimant Mary V. Courn nee McLean….”

 

General Affidavit, Walter Coburn and Agness C. Bartlett, 20 August 1909
[Coburn] 64 years; residence, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; post-office address, Lowell, Massachusetts
[Bartlett] 47 years; residence, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; post-office address, 313 Nesmith St., Lowell, Massachusetts
“I Walter Coburn depose and say that I am the brother of the soldier, relative to the claimant and the soldier living together from the date of their marriage to about 1890 will say that they always lived together from the date of their marriage up to the date of his death and very happily. …
“I Agness C. Bartlett depose and say relative to the claimant and soldier living together from the date of their marriage to about 1890 … up to the date of the soldier’s death and very happily …”

 

General Affidavit, Mary H.C. Rogers and Elizabeth Coburn, 20 August 1909
[Rogers] 69 years old; residence, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; post-office address, Lowell, Massachusetts
[Coburn] 59 years old; residence, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; post-office address, Lowell, Massachusetts
“[the couple] well known to us before their marriage and we know that neither was married befoe and that the widow has not married since.”

 

General Affidavit, George H. Heath, 30 September 1909
35 years old; residence, Lowell, Massachusetts; post-office address, 79 Branch Ave., Lowell, Mass
“That is a clerical error on my part that June third was the correct date of  his death and it was my mistake and I hereby make oath to that effect.”

 

General Affidavit, Mary V. Coburn, 26 October 1909
72 years old; residence, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; post-office address, 745 Hillside Ave., Plainfield, NJ 
“[Coburn] He died on the morning of June 3, 1909, at 6 o’clock a.m. which is correct. The undertaker was particularly told the day and time of day that the soldier died”

 

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