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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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Case No. 410.367
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
CLAIM FOR
Rebecca Baker wid.
James Baker
Co. "F" 74th Pa.
AFFIDAVID OF
John S. Baker
[Oval handstamp]
US PENSION OFFICE
MAR 20 1895
Filed by A.M. Legg Atty.
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T.H. Kennedy & Co.
ATTORNEYS
216 Bank Building, KANSAS CITY, MO. 
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NOTICE - witnesses must give their means of knowledge of the facts 
testified to. 
GENERAL AFFADAVIT

Act of June 27 1890
State of Missouri County of Jackson
In the matter of James Baker
    ON THIS 12th day of February A.D. 1890 personally appeared before me, a 
Notary Public in and for the aforesaid County, duly authorized to 
administer oaths, John S. Baker aged 57 years, a resident of Kansas City in 
the County of Jackson and State of Missouri whose postoffice address is 
1431 Campbell St. well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, 
and who, being duly sworn, declared in relation to the aforesaid case as 
follows:
    I am the brother of the half blood of the above named James Baker, and 
have known him all my life; When he enlisted in the Army on or about March 
1865 he was a sound man in bodily health and free from Chronic diarrhoea or 
any other disease or disability, as far as I ever knew, and had he been a 
sufferer from said disease or any other disease or disability prior to and 
at the time of his enlistment I have every reason to believe do believe I 
should have known it. I think it was the second day after his discharge 
from the Army that I saw him. I know that it was within two or three days, 
and I observed that he was then a sufferer from the same disease which he 
was informed ___ was chronic diarrhoea, and that he had contracted the same 
in the Army. I knew him each year for about four years After his said 
discharge from the Army when he moved to Tennessee.
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    He was ailing all the time from Chronic diarrhoea each year, and was 
not able to do more than half the labor he would have done at manual labor 
had he been free from his disease. I saw him again in Tennessee for four or 
five years from about 1871 to about 1876 or 1877 and he was sick all the 
time more or less from the Chronic diarrhoea and he was disabled at least 
one half. His disease went to his lungs.

/ss/  John S. Baker