MILITARY FILES U. S. House Committee on Invalid Pensions
Nancy A. Killough, January 22, 1903 This bill proposes to pension Nancy A. Killough, widow of John H. Killough, late of Company D, Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, at $12 per month. Neither the soldier nor the beneficiary named in the bill have ever filed a claim for pension in the Pension Bureau. It appears from the report of the Chief of the Record and Pension Ofice, dated March 11, 1902, that John H. Killough was a private in Company D, Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, from August 11, 1862, and that he was mustered out with company first sergant July 17, 1865, and from papers filed with your committee in the Fifty-fourth congress it appears that the beneficiary named in the bill was married to the soldier on October 25, 1857, and that she was divorced from him upon her own application on February 14, 1883, and that the court gave to her the care, custody, and control of the minor child born of the marriage with the soldier. There has also been filed with your committee the statement of Hon. John F. Lacey, a member of the House, setting forth that he was a private with the soldier Killough in Company D of the Thirty-third Iowa; that he knew Mr. Killough very well, and served for a time with him in the same company and later on in the same regiment, and knew him up to the time of his death at he was a good soldier; that he was married to the beneficiary named in the bill before his enlistment; that after the war Mr. Killough separated from his wife and his wife obtained a divorce; that Mr. Killough had been dead a number of years, and that Mrs. Killough, who now lives at Unionville, Mo., is in destitute circumstances. In view of the fact that the beneficiary was the wife of the soldier both before and during his service, that he rendered three years of service to his country, and that no one is now receiving any pension on account of his services and death, your committee believes that under these circumstances a grateful Government can well afford to come to the relief of this aged and destitute party and grant her the relief sought for in the bill; hence the same is reported back with recommendation it pass. |
