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GENERAL AFFIDAVIT
State of Pennsylvania, County of Tioga, ss:
In the matter of Minor=s pension claim No. 390687 of Annette, minor of Andrew Bockus, Co. G-45th Pa. Vols.
ON THIS 27th day of January, A.D. 1896, personally appeared before me ___________ in and for the aforesaid County, duly authorized to administer oaths Martin L. Havens aged 52 years, a resident of Brownlee, in the County of Tioga, and State of Penna. Whose Post-office address is as above - and also Harvey H. Smith, aged 62 years, a resident of Brownlee, in the County of Tioga and State of Penna., whose Post-office address is as above and Norman Billinger, whose resident of E. Charleston Pa. Well known to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declared in relation to aforesaid case as follows: That they each and every one have been and personally acquainted with the above named Andrew Bockus and his first wife, Mary Bockus, and knew them both well from their childhood and through their married life up to the time of their death and know positively that they were never divorced from each other until finally separated by death but always lived together as lawful man and wife from date of their marriage all she the mother of Annette Bockus, now Morgan, died and also know that neither of said parents was married prior to their marriage to each other. That affiants lived in same vicinity with Andrew and Mary Bockus all of said period. They also state that the foregoing affidavit was all written in their presence and only from their oral statements made to and written by B. W. Potter at Wellsboro Pa. January 27, 1896 did in making same they did not use and were not aided or prompted by any written or printed statement or verbal prepared or dictated by any other person and not attached hereto.
They further declare that they have no interest in said case and are not concerned in its prosecution.
Signed/Norman Bellinger Martin L. Heavens
Signed/Martin L. Havens Harvey H. X(his) Smith
Mark
GENERAL AFFIDAVIT
State of Pennsylvania )
) ss.
County of Tioga )
In the matter of Pension Claim of Annette B. Morgan, minor of Andrew Bockus late Co. AG@ 45th Pa. Vols.
Personally came before me a Clerk of Court in and for aforesaid County and State, Rev. A. C. Shaw aged 50 years, citizen of the town of Wellsboro County of Tioga State of Pennsylvania, well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declare in relation to aforesaid case, as follows:
That he is pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Wellsboro Tioga Co. Penna. That on the 29th day of April 1882 (Eighteen Hundred and Eighty--Two) he the said pastor united in marriage Zylphia Bockus, said to be the widow of Andrew Bockus, and Joseph Root both of Wellsboro Pa. When the ceremony was performed, according to the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.
That he the said affiant was at the time of said ceremony a duly ordained minister of the gospel and pastor of the Presbyterian Church of said place and has a clear recollection of officiating at said marriage ceremony the date being fixed by him by personal reference to the marriage certificate, given by the affiant to said Zylphia Root and Joseph Root--now in the possession and which he recognized and identified as the same made by himself in his own handwriting and is therefor positive as to the accuracy of the above date.
I further declare that I have no interest in said case, and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Signature of affiant/ A. C. Shaw, minister of the
Gospel and Pastor of the Presb. Church of
Wellsboro, Pa.
GENERAL AFFIDAVIT
State of Pennsylvania )
) ss.
County of Armstrong )
In the matter of the pension claim of Andrew Bockus decd No. 321,153.
Personally came before me a Justice of the Peace in and for aforesaid County and State John K. Maxwell MD.(asst. Surgeon 45 Pa. Vols) aged 62 years a citizen of the town of Worthington, County of Armstrong, State of Pennsylvania, well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being fully sworn, declares in relation to aforesaid case, as follows:
I was Asst. Surgeon of the 45th C. V. during part of 1864 -1865. I have a somewhat indistinct recollection of Andrew Bockus (or Backus as I always called him) of Co. G as I believe, He very frequently attended ASick call@ and to the best of my recollection was affected with hoarseness amounting frequently to aphroid. I understood it to have resulted from Measles contracted before I knew him. Being frequently scarce of expectorants, I remember having to give him ADovers Power@ often, as the only article we had likely to relax his cough. I mention this fact as it corroborates my recollections above stated. He was affected as above mentioned during the whole time I belonged to the regiment.
I further declare that I have no interest in said case, and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Signed/ John K. Maxwell
Late Asst. Surg. 45th P.V.
GENERAL AFFIDAVIT
State of Pennsylvania )
) ss
County of Tioga )
In the matter of the pension claim of Andrew Bockus (dec) late of G 45th Regt. Pa. Vols.
Personally came before me a clerk of _______ in and for aforesaid County and State, H. D. Demming aged 62 years, and a citizen of the town of Wellsboro county of Tioga State of Penna., well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declare in relation to aforesaid case, as follows:
I was Hospital Steward of above Regt. Having formerly been a member of Co. G of the same Regt. I remember well that about the time of the ______ Harbor engagement in June 1864 that said Bockus was suffering from a trouble with his throat and lungs which he did not recover from during his term of service. Some little time before his discharge he lost his voice by reason of this disability and could only speak in a whisper and was excused from duty by reason of it. He however remained with the Regiment and voluntarily helped about cooking rations for the company when he was able to do so. I treated him after Surgeon Maxwell left the Regt. Tell he was discharged. My P. O. Is Wellsbor, Tioga Co. Pa.
I further declare that I have no interest in said case, and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Signed/ H. D. Demming
Late Hospital Steward 45 Pa.
DECLARATION FOR ORIGINAL INVALID PENSION
State of Kansas )
) ss
County of Pawnee )
On this 17th day of October a. D. One thousand eight hundred and seventy nine personally came before me Daniel Fink, Clerk, of the District Court, a court of record within and for the County and State aforesaid, Andrew Bockus aged 47 years, a resident of Larned, County of Pawnee, State of Kansas, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Andrew Bockus who entered service under the name of Andrew Bockus on the lst day of January 1864 as Private in Company AG@ of the 45th regiment of Penna. Vols. Commanded by Copl. R. G. Richards and was
DISCHARGED near Alexandria, Va. On the 14th day of June 1865 by reason Surgeon Certificate
that his personal description is as follows: Age, 47 years; height, 5 feet l0 l/2 inches; complexion,
dark; hair, black; eyes dark. That while a member of the organization aforesaid, in the service and in the line of his duty near Peterburgh in the State of Virginia, on or about the __- day of Nov., 1864, he contracted lung disease caused by exposure, at Petersburg, Va. May 1864 he contracted chronic diarrhea caused by exposure and improper diet.
That he was treated in hospital near Harpers Ferry, Va. Chestnut St. Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.
That he has never been employed in the military or naval service otherwise than as stated above.
That since the 14th day of June A.D. 1865 he has not been employed in the military or naval service of the United States. That since leaving the service this applicant has resided in the town of Charleston, Penna and in the State of Kansas and his occupation has been that of a farmer. That prior to his entry into the service above named he was a man of good, sound, physical health, being when enrolled a farmer. That he is now wholly or in part disable from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor by reason of his injuries above described, received in the service of the United States; and he therefore makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the invalid pension roll of the United States.
He hereby appoints, with full power of substitution and revocation,
GEORGE E. LEMON
of Washington, D. C. His true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute his claim. That he has never received or applied for a pension. That his Post Office Address is Larned, County of Pawnee, State of Kansas.
Signed/ Andrew x Bockus
Two witnesses to Claimant=s Signature sign here: W. C. Edwards and John Gleeson
Also personally appeared Hiram D. Demming and J. W. Ritter residing at
Wellsboro, Tioga Co. Pa.
Persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who being by me duly sworn, say that they were present and saw David Colegrove the claimant with whom they are well acquainted and whom they fully identify as being the person represented sign the foregoing application for pension. And that they have no interest in said claim.
Signed/H. C. Demming
J. W. Ritter
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th day of Jan. A. D. 1890
I hereby certify that the contents of the foregoing declaration were fully made known and explained to the applicant and witnesses before swearing and that I have no interest in said claim either direct or indirect.
Clerk of the Court of Sessions
In the pension claim of Zylphia Root, (formerly Bockus) Certificate No. 39003l.
State of Pennsylvania
County of Tioga,
Personally appeared before me a clerk of the court of Record in and for above county, Zylphia Root, (formerly Bockus) who being duly sworn says that she is the widow of Andrew Bockus formerly a member of Company g. 45th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, who died October 15th 1880.
That she was married to said Bockus many years prior to his death but has lost her marriage certificate. Carrie Bockus a daughter of said marriage was born December 4, 1877. After the death of her said husband Bockus she remarried Joseph Root on the 19th day of April 1882.
That she is past 80 years of age and is now the recipient of a pension under number 390031, as the widow of her said former husband Andrew Bockus. The said root having died an inmate of the poor house in said county.
....makes application for an increase of ....to forth dollars a month. Her Post Office address is Tioga Pa. R. D. No.-2.
Signed//Zylphia X Root (formerly Bockus)
Witness: Mazie Batz,
Fred Perry
DECLARATION FOR A REMARRIED WIDOW=S PENSION.
State of Pennsylvania,
County of Tioga, ss.
On this 14th day of August 1926 personally appeared before me a clerk of a court of record in and for said county Zylphia Root who being duly sworn declares that she is 78 years of age and is temporarily residing at 320 Soper Street Elmira in the State of New York.
That she was formerly the widow of Andrew Bockus who enlisted on the 18th day of September 1861, in Company G. 45th regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and was discharged June 14, 1865 honorably.
That she was married to said soldier at Round top Pennsylvania on the 10th day of September 1875, the ceremony having been performed by D. A. Evans a justice of the peace who has since died. That her said deceased husband had been previously married to Mary Bockus who died at Charleston in said county on the 18th day of December 1874, and who is buried in said township and the date of her death is inscribed on her tombstone.
That the said Andrew Bockus died in said township of Charleston on the 15th day of October 1880 and is buried in a private cemetery in said township. That she had never been divorced from him. That subsequent to her said husband=s death the pension was made payable to her under certificate No. 396,590, That the number of her application was 32l,153.
That there was born of said marriage a daughter by the name of Carrie Bockus who was born on the 4th day of December 1877, who resides at No-ll, Jackson Avenue Bradford McKean County, Pennsylvania.
That she did not marry again after the death of said Andrew Bockus except that she married Joseph A. Root in May 1881, who died on the 29th day of March 1926, at the Poor House in said county of Tioga. That he did not serve in the military or naval forces of the United States during the civil war.
That the affidavit of Dr. Hugh L. Davis who treated said husband Bockus in his last sickness and who testified to his death as also the affidavit of D. A. Evans who performed said marriage ceremony, and the affidavits of Philander Bockus and wife as to the death of Mary Bockus aforesaid, as well also as other material evidence are filed in pension application Number 321,153. That all of aforesaid witnesses are dead and she prays that said evidence may be considered in this her application for pension.
Premises considered she hereby makes application for a pension as a remarried widow under the act of September 8, 1916, she has not remarried since the death of her second husband Root. She has no other children by either marriage except her daughter Carrie as stated, except a daughter by husband Root who is 33 years of age.
She hereby appoints Henry M. Feet of Washington D.C. her true and lawful attorney to prosecute her claim. That her post office address is No. 320, Soper Street Elmira New York.
A. M. Feet, witness signed/Zylphia x Root
William D. Dibble, 2nd witness
30 Soper St. Elmira N.Y.
Stamp date: Aug. 18, 1926
GENERAL AFFIDAVIT
State of Penna., County of Tioga, ss:
In the matter of Pension Claim of Annette, daughter of Andrew Bockus, Co. G. 45th Pa. Vols. No. 390,687
ON THIS 8 day of June, A.D. 1893, personally appeared before me a clerk in and for the aforesaid County duly authorized to administer oaths Martin L. Havens aged __ years, a resident of Brownlee in the County of Tioga and State of Penna well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declared in relation to aforesaid case as follows:
I am a brother of the claimant=s mother.
I was not personally present at the marriage of said soldier Andrew Bockus to my sister, Mary e. Havens, the mother of the claimant, Annette, but learned of the fact at the time and do know that after their said marriage in December 1852 (or 1882) they lived together and cohabited as lawful man and wife continually up to the death of the said wife, Mary and never so refuted and recognized by anybody in the community when they resided and that the claimant Annette was born to them while living in said lawful wedlock. Neither of said parties were ever previously married. The only living witness of this marriage is Catherine Evans of Kent, Portage Co., Ohio.
Post office address is Brownlee, Tioga co., Pa.
I further declare that I have no interest in said case and am not concerned in its prosecution. The Justice of the Peace, John Gibson, who married said parties is dead, and there was no public or church record of marriage kept in this county at that time.
Signed//Martin L. Havens, applicant
ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES
CERTIFICATE
OF DISABILITY FOR DISCHARGE
Andrew Bockus Private, of Captain Rees G. Richards Company (G) of the
45th Penna. Vetn Regiment of the United States Volunteers, was enlisted
by Capt. Campbell of the 45th Regiment of Penna.@Vols
at Blaines Roads Tennessee on the First day of January, 1864 to serve three
years; he was born in Herkimer in the State of New York, is thirty-four
years of age, five feet l0 l/2 inches high, dark complexion, black eyes,
dark hair, and by occupation when enlisted a farmer. During the last two
months said soldier has been unfit for duty ____ days.* His disease was
contracted while home on sick leave in the month of February 1864.
Station: at Alexandria, Va.
Date: June 6, 1865 Signed/ John J. Rogers
Lst Lieut. Co. AG@
I certify that I have carefully examined the said Andrew Bockus Private of Captain Rees C. Richards AG@ Company, and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of : aphonia of sixteen months duration; unfit for transfer to V.R.C.--disability l/3
Signed/ W. R. Blackwood
Discharged this Fourteenth day of June, 1865, at New Alexandria, Va.
The soldier desires to be addressed at
town Charleston, County, Tioga State: Penna.
WAR DEPARTMENT
ADJUTANT GENERAL=S OFFICE
321,153 Washington, March 19, 1887
Respectfully returned to the Commissioner of Pensions.
Andrew Bockus, a private of Company AG@ 45th Regiment Pa. Volunteers is reported:
from enrollment to Aug. 1862; Sept. & Oct. 62; absent sick at Pleasant Valley, Md. Since Oct. 26, 62; same to Dec. 3l, 62; Jan. & Feby 63, present, same to June 30/63; July & Aug. 63, absent left sick at Camp Dennison, Ohio, Aug. 13, 63.
Certificate of Disability reports him discharged June 14, 1865 near Alex. Var. Records also show the 45th Pa. Vols. Ordered on vet. Furlough, Jan. 14, 1864 (SD14). The records of this office furnish no additional information as to furlough.
Signed/R. C. .........
GENERAL AFFIDAVIT
State of Pennsylvania, County of Tioga, ss:
In the matter of pension claim No. 390687 of David Colegrove as Gdn of minor child of Andrew Bockus G 45 Pa. Inf.
ON THIS 29th day of August, A. D. 1892, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the aforesaid County duly authorized to administer oaths Anna Satterly aged 49 years, a resident of Delmar in the County of Tioga and State of Penna well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declared in relation to aforesaid case as follows:
I was well acquainted personally with the soldier Andrew Bockus and
his children and was present as nurse and assistant at the birth of his
child and daughter, Carrie D. Bockus, at Larned, Kansas, on the 4th day
of December a. D. 1877. I have a clear recollection of the fact and date
of said birth and also have a _________ of the date and know that she was
the only child of said soldier by his second and last marriage to Zylphia
Carpenter nee Root by remarriage, and know that said child is still living
and under the care of her said guardian Daniel Colegrove. I also know that
the only other children the soldier ever had were four (one boy and three
girls) by his first marriage and of said four children--only one (now Annette
B. Morgan) was under 16 years of age at time of remarriage of soldier=s
widow.
I further declare that I have no interest in said case and am not concerned in its prosecution. At the time of filing claim, March ll/89 no children of the soldier were under the age of 16 years except Carrie d. Bockus for mentioned.
Signed/David Colegrove as Guardian.
GENERAL AFFIDAVIT
State of Pennsylvania, County of Tioga, ss:
In the matter of Pension Claim No. 390687 of David Colegrove, Gdn. Carrie D. Bockus, minor ch. Andrew Bockus Co. G 45 Pa.
ON THIS 30th of August, A. D. 1892, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the aforesaid County duly authorized to administer oaths Sarah Stone aged 40 years, a resident of Delmar in the County of Tioga and State of Penna. Well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declared in relation to aforesaid case as follows:
I was a near neighbor and personal acquaintance of the soldier above named, Andrew Bockus, and his family while they wee living at Larned, Kansas, and was present in person at the birth of his daughter Carrie D. Bockus at said place on the 4th day of December 1877. I am able to fix the date positively from recollection and associated circumstances and from seeing the girl every few days since and keeping track of her birthdays. Said child was the only child of the soldier by his second and last marriage to Zylphia Carpenter, now Zylphia Root (by remarriage) By his first and only other marriage the soldier had four (4) children: a boy and three girls of whom but one, a daughter now named Annette B. Morgan, was under 16 years of age at the remarriage of the soldier=s widow Zylphia Bockus, now Root.
Post-office address is Delmar Tioga Co. Pa.
I further declare that I have no interest in said case and am not concerned in its prosecution. At the date of filing claim March 11, 1889 no children of the soldier were under the age of 16 years except said Carrie D. Bockus, who is still living and under the care of her said Guardian David Colegrove, said Annette B. Morgan is also still living. The soldier never had any children other than as above stated.
Signed/Sarah Stone
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