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Re: what was typically used on pension applications for birth place?
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Kathleen Much <[log in to unmask]>
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Kathleen Much <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:34:33 -0700
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In an earlier message Lee Anne Center wrote:

> Has anyone studied Union Civil War pensions enough to know what typically
> was put on pension applications for birth places? Was it the county and
> state or was it the township and state?

It varied. On the Texas and Alabama pension applications I've seen,
the applicant often wrote something like "Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Alabama" or "Possum Valley, Shelby Co. Ala". But I've also
seen just "Shelby County Alabama" and "South Carolina".

Kathleen Much
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