A deposition from Sarah answers the questions
raised by the government. She indicates that the
Hancock County clerk could not locate the marriage license;
although Hancock County sustained two courthouse fires
and no marriage records before 1930 exist, those fires
were in 1885 and 1930 and had not yet happened.
Personaly [sic] came before me a Justice of the
peace in and for a fore aforesaid [sic] State
and County Sarah Walker and deposes and
says that her said husban [sic] Edward Walker
never done any other Service or served under and
other Captain that that alledged [sic] in her
former decloration [sic] that She knows of that
Richard Mitchell was the draftsman who
drew up his decloration he gave no power of Attorney
to any person to prosecute the claim for his land
warrant that she can not produce a coppy [sic]
of the record of her marrage [sic] that She has
had the Clerk's office surched [sic] and the marrage
records of the date of her mariage [sic] is lost
or So mislaid that it can not be found and that
the She relyes [sic] upon the evidence of the
magistrate who celebrated the marriage
attest - J. C. Gillenwaters J. H Standiford
Sarah Walker [her mark]
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this July the
24th 1879
J. B. Southern J. P.
[on back:]
War 1812
Additional Evidence in
in Case Sarah Walker
widow of Edward Walker
No 32.566
Filed by J. S. Kellogg
Attorney 215 PA Ave S.E.
[A stamp also appears on the back which is also
cut off; it appears to be a receipt date of 1
August 1879 at the pension office.]
