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 Pension Record
 Douglas County Kansas
 Transcribed by Fred Smoot of Sausalito CA
 Scans contributed by Jennifer Woods
 Transcription made from scans of Affidavit of John S. Baker, from 
 the Widow's Pension Claim of Rebecca White (nee Campbell) Baker.
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Oval handstamp [1]:
US PENS___ OFFICE
NOV 30 1__7

Docket in pencil:
Half brother -
Marriage

Rectangular handstamp [incomplete]:
____
TO EXAMINER
__ 8 __ 87

[Text of Statement]

In the matter of James Baker Decd an Applicant for Invalid Pension No 
509.592 of Co. F. 74. Regt Penna Infantry

John S. Baker a witness of Lawful age being duly sworn, deposeth & saith, I 
am fifty five years of age, & a half brother of the above applicant James 
Baker Deceased. I was present & witnessed the Marriage of James Baker my 
Brother, & Rebecca Campbell, now the widow and relic of James Baker Decd, 
on the 4th of March AD 1846, on the farm near Town of Marion Indiana County 
Penna. the Ceremony was performed by Rev John Selby since deceased. I have 
known the parties intimately ever since, & know that they have lived 
together as man & wife up to the time of my Brothers death on the ___[1] 
November AD 1885, ___[1] recognised as Such in the Community in which they 
lived.

I was a member of Company A, Sixty first Penna Infantry, I did not see 
James Baker while he was out in the service, but saw him on the day of his 
return to his family in Indiana County Penna, or the day after, & know he 
was then sick, & Complaining of Diarrhoea & after he entered the Army = had 
been exposed to cold rains & snow, Cough & Cold & settled on his bowels = I 
also know that he was under the
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Care of his family Physician Dr. John K. Thompson of Marrion Penna. for 
quite awhile after his return from the Army, and after his removal to 
Tennessee he wrote back to me in Penna to go to Dr Thompson & and get the 
same Medicine he had given before & forward to him in Tennessee, that his 
old disease had returned upon him. I got the Medicine & sent it. = I 
afterward removed to Tenn & Saw my Bro -- who told me he had been very ill 
& supposed he would die, but after he got the Medicine sent by Dr. Thompson 
he got some bet-___ ___ ___[1] Cough ___ ___ ___[1]the disease, both he and 
his ___ ___ ___ _____[1] when I went to Tenne that for one year or more he 
was to totally disabled from labour, was often times both repose, and after 
that time, unable to work for days at a time = would then be better & able 
to do some things at light labour = sometimes at his trade of shoemaking, 
but I am unable[2] to state the proportion of time he was in that 
condition - have not lived near him since he left Tenne in 1879 until about 
one year before his death, when he was in very bad health. I am now a 
resident of Kansas City Mo, & have been for the last five years.

/s/ John S. Baker

Subscribed and sworn to before me
Clerk of the district Court this 28" day of October 1887
J.L. Briston
by E _ Steele deputy

[1] Line covered by fold in the page of the original document.
[2] Word "unable" repeated in the original.