List of Pensioners - January 1, 1883 ...as called for by Resolution of December 8, 1882, Vol. 5, 47th Congress, 2d Session Senate Executive Document 84, Part 5 United States Pension Bureau Washington, D. C., 1883 Newberry County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails Transcribed by Dena Thomason-Whitesell Name of Pensioner Post office Cause Rate Date Cert. # Dewalt, Rebecca Newberry widow 1812 $8.00 Nov. 1878 11,257 Duckett, Dinah white widow 1812 $8.00 Nov. 1880 30,837 Gilliam, Lucy Newberry widow 1812 $8.00 June 1881 31,873 Hargrove, Lucy Whitmire's widow 1812 $8.00 May 1881 31,765 Hatton, Rebecca K. Newberry widow 1812 $8.00 Jan. 1880 28,358 Keller, Elizabeth M. Newberry widow 1812 $8.00 Aug. 1879 26,388 Maynard, Mary Saluda Saluda widow 1812 $8.00 Sept. 1878 9,099 Wilson, Nancy Newberry widow 1812 $8.00 Sept. 1879 27,091 Where to Go From Here Most soldiers or their widows or minor children applied for a pension. In some cases, a dependent father or mother applied. The pension files are indexed by the National Archives microfilm publication T288, General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 (544 rolls) which is also available online at Ancestry.com (for a fee). The pension file will often contain more information about what the soldier did during the war than the Compiled Military Service Records, and it may contain much medical information if he lived for a number of years afterwards. For example, in his pension file, Seth Combs of Company C, 2d Ohio Cavalry, reported: "...my left eye was injured while tearing down a building...and in pulling off a board a splinter or piece struck my eye and injured it badly...it was hurt while in the Shenandoah Valley near Winchester, Va. about Christmas 1864--a comrade who stood by me name Jim Beach is dead." In another affidavit, Seth said he "also got the Rheumatism while on duty as a dispatch bearer on detached duty." To obtain a widow's pension, the widow had to provide proof of marriage, such as a copy of the record kept by county officials, or by affidavit from the minister or some other person. Applications on behalf of the soldier's minor children had to supply both proof of the soldier's marriage and proof of the children's birth. 1883 Pensions were distributed for service in  War of 1812, Mexican and Union Civil War, BUT does not include Confederate Service Pensions. Order Pension Records here...  Back to Newberry County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails  Copyright © by Genealogy Trails - All Rights Reserved With full rights reserved for original submitters This is a FREE website. If you were directed here through a link for which you paid $ for, you can access much more FREE data via our South Carolina index page at http://www.genealogytrails.com/scar/index.html Also make sure to visit our main Genealogy Trails History Group website at http://genealogytrails.com for much more nationwide historical/genealogical data and access to other state/county data