{"id":1986,"date":"2024-12-10T22:53:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2024-12-10T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:54:00","slug":"issue-5-10-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/10\/issue-5-10-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 5-10 Is Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/casefile_clues_5_10-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/casefile_clues_5_10-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/casefile_clues_5_10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/casefile_clues_5_10-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/casefile_clues_5_10.jpg 1063w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this issue of <em>Casefile Clues<\/em>, we look at a 1914 letter<a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> in a Civil War pension file where the writer claims the widow of the veteran was not his legal wife. This pension file was obtained as a part of a larger research project on the widow in question in hopes that the file contained significant information on the widow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subscribe now (link on the top of every page of our website) and get in on the discovery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Letter to Commissioner of Pensions, 15 December 1914, C. M. Stewart of North Liberty, Iowa, veteran\u2019s pension application no. 352,246, certificate number 216,497; service of Thomas M. Graves (Pvt., Co. B, 42nd Mo. Vol. Inf., Civil War); Case Files of Approved Pension Applications, 1861-1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D. 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