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Within this publication, you can search approximately 20,000 approved pension applications of widows and other dependents of US Navy veterans who served between 1861 and 1910, originally filmed by NARA. Search for a name, ship, place, or keyword. Or, use the browse menus to locate a sailor by surname. Case files include where and when a man served, details of his service, his life before the war, and his family, including information about his widow, children, and sometimes his parents. Continue…
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Annotation added: Henry Back, 65y of Bristol, Pennsylvania
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Annotation added: William Terneson, 59y of Bristol, Pennsylvania
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Annotation added: Maggie S Bach, 40y of Bristol Pennsylvania
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Annotation added: Anton Terneson, 39y of Bristol, Pennsylvania
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Annotation added: Henry Baek, 65y of Bristol, Pennsylvania
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Annotation added: William Terneson, 59y, of Bristol, Pennsylvania
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Annotation added: Benjamin Stracker
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Annotation added: Watson G Drinkwater, 65y of Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine
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Annotation added: Cumberland County, Maine
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Annotation added: Affiant is therefore qualified to testify from personal and positive knowledge, that Benjamin Strickler the name in the death certificate and the sailor Benjamin Stracke and the claimants deceased husband Bernard Stracker were the one same and identical person.
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Annotation added: William Terneson of Bristol, Pennsylvania
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Annotation added: Benjamin Strickler death certifucate 50y 11 Dec 1892 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Annotation added: Georgianna Shroder res. Philadelphia 19y b. Baltimore
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Annotation added: Benjamin Straker, fireman, res. Philadelphia, 23y, born Prussia Germany
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Annotation added: Benjamin Straker married Georgianna Schroder 10 June 1867 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Source Information
Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War and Later Navy Veterans (Navy Widows' Certificates), 1861-1910. Original data from: The National Archives
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