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Stephen Fall, 41, of Lebanon Center wrote a letter to Edwin H. Hosmer at the U.S. Pension Bureau office in Portland on behalf of Mary F. Fall, his mother.
Mrs. Fall sought a pension because another son, Isaac Fall of Co. G of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, was killed at Aldie Gap, Virginia. Stephen Fall wrote that his mother lived "on a little farm of 2 cows and one horse" and the latter was not paid for. Mary Fall was 84 years old. They did not have the money, he said, to hire a housekeeper or maid to help her.
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About This Item
- Title: Mary F. Fall Civil War pension request, Lebanon, 1890
- Creator: Stephen Fall
- Creation Date: 1890-10-25
- Subject Date: 1890-10-25
- Location: Lebanon, York County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 22, Box 4/2
- Collection: Zebulon King Harmon papers
- Object Type: Text
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- Center Lebanon (Me.)
- Military service--1860-1870
- Poor persons--Maine--Lebanon
- Soldiers--Maine
- Soldiers--Massachusetts
- United States--Army--Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865)
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States--Pension Bureau
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