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56m CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
d Session. 1 No. 1676.
BETSEY L. WOODMAN.
DECEMBEa 11, 1900.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. GALLINGER, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 5015.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 5015)
granting a pension to Betsey L. Woodman, have examined the same
and report:
This bill as amended proposes to pension at $17 per month Betsey
L. Woodman, of Concord, N. H., widow of Daniel C. Woodman, late
first lieutenant Company A, Thirteenth Regiment United States Col-
ored Volunteer Heavy Artillery who served from October 20, 1864,
to June 26, 1865, and who died March 19, 1866, of chronic diarrhea
contracted during his military service.
Mrs. Woodman is 70 years of age, and was married to the soldier
October 8, 1853. She filed and established a claim under the general
law and was pensioned at the rate of $17 per month until May 14, 1870,
when she was married to one Moses Sanborn. After her remarriage
the pension was paid to the soldier's two minor children until March
20, 1882, when the younger of them became 16 years of age. There
is no pension now being paid to anyone on account of the service and
death of this soldier. -
Because of nonsupport claimant was divorced from her second hus-
band, Moses Sanborn, May 27, 1884, and she was given the right to
resume the name of her first husband, Woodman. She has not remar-
ried since this divorce. She made no claim at the Bureau for the
renewal of her pension, as she has no title under existing laws.
Claimant is poor and without means of support, and because of her
advanced age is unable by her labor to maintain herself. She was the
wife of the soldier during the war and is now a widow of good charac-
ter and in necessitous circumstances, and her soldier husband died of
disease contracted in the Army. Her case comes within rule 9 of your
committee, which is as follows:
Consideration will not be given to any bill which proposes to restore to the roll the
name of a widow whose pension was forfeited by remarriage unless she was the wife
of the soldier during the period of his military service and is now a widow in actual
need.
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