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- Pensions and increase of pensions for certain soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, etc. February 1, 1909. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
Date: 1909-02-01;
Publication: Serial Set Vol. No.5386;
Report: H.Rpt. 2008
S. 6034. Sarah A. Horr, of Monmouth, Oreg., the claimant in this case, is the former widow of Henry K. Geer, late private and corporal, Company H. Sixth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, who served from July 15, 1861, to July 21, 1865, and was honorably discharged. Her soldier husband died October 17, 1874, and she filed a claim at the bureau April 16, 1885, under the general law, which was rejected January 29, 1908, for the reason that she was unable to prove that the soldier's death was the result of his military service
Claimant was married to the soldier March 31, 1864, while he was at home on veteran furlough. On March 14, 1880, she remarried one Peter Horr, who died in 1894. She has not since remarried and is now a widow. Because of her remarriage she has no pensionable status at the bureau under the acts of June 27, 1890, and April 19, 1908. She is now 65 years of age, in feeble health, and in poor circumstances. The evidence shows that she has no means of any kind and is entirely dependent upon charity for support. A physican testifies that she is physically incapable of performing manual labor or of earning a living. She was the wife of the soldier during the time of his service in the war and her case comes within the rule of the committee in respect to bills for remarried widows. A pension of $12 per month is recommended in her case.
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