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 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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CA No. 389574
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
CLAIM FOR
Rebecca Baker wid.
James Baker
Co. "F" 74" Pa.
AFFIDAVID OF
John S. Baker
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US PENSION OFFICE
MAR 20 1895
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T.H. Kennedy & Co.
ATTORNEYS
216 Bank Building, KANSAS CITY, MO. 
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US PENSION OFFICE
MAR 20 1895

NOTICE - witnesses must give their means of knowledge of the facts 
testified to. 
GENERAL AFFADAVIT

State of Missouri, County of Jackson,

In the matter of Rebecca Baker, widow of James Baker.

On this 14th day of February A.D., 1895 personally appeared before me, a 
Notary Public in a for the aforesaid county, duly authorized to administer 
oaths, John S. Baker, aged 62 years, a resident of 1431 Campbell St., 
Kansas City, in the County of Jackson and State of Missouri whose 
postoffice address is the same, well known to  me to be reputable and and 
entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declared in relation to 
aforesaid case as follows:

I, John S. Baker do depose and say that I was well and personally 
acquainted with the above named soldier, James Baker,in his lifetime, as he 
was my half brother, and I well remember when he returned home discharged 
from the Army on or about the last of July 1865, to Indiana County, Pa. It 
might have been later, about August or September. He was then well reduced 
in flesh ad suffering what is known as chronic diarrhoea, which he had 
contracted in the Army, as he was a healthy man when he went into the army. 
The said soldier left Pennsylvania on or about the Spring of 1869 to settle 
in Warren County Tennessee; I followed to the same County, on or about 
March 1871, and lived a neighbor to him to on or about Dec, 1878, when I 
left Warren County Tennessee, and moved to Kansas. About two years after 
that he said soldier moved to Kansas, and except during the time from the 
Spring of 1869 to the Spring of 1871; and from the Dec. 1878 to about the 
Summer of 1884, I saw him more or less each 
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and every year from the time of 
his discharge and return home from the Army to his death in November 1885, 
and during all that period of time he was a great sufferer from what his 
physicians called chronic diarrhoea, disabling him on any average of at 
least one half from performing ordinary hard manual labor. The physician 
who treated him said it was the chronic diarrhoea that caused his 
consumption of which he died. This affidavit was all written in my presence 
and only from my own oral declarations now made to T.H. Kennedy, who then 
reduced my testimony to writing at Kansas City, Mo. on the 14th day of 
Feby, 1895, and in writing the same. I did not use and was not aided or 
prompted by any written or printed statement or recital prepared or dicated 
by any other person; and not attached as an exhibition to my testimony.

He further states that he has no interest in said case and is not concerned 
in its prosecution.

            /s/ John S Baker

[Notary seal follows, and abridged here]

State of Missouri, County of Jackson
Term ends Aug. 10 1898 }
            T.H. Kennedy
            Notary Public