Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-09-05 | Page 6 | Hermit's Death Reveals Story

HERMITS HERMIT'S S 'S DEATH STORY Old Soldier Had Family but Refused to Live at Home Preferred DugOut Out Life to Any Other LINCOLN eb Sept 5 The Tho Tho death of Henry A. A Walton who o had bad been living liv lh in bag ing alono alone for years au In a out dug in Sheridan count county where he was wag known knon n as tho the county hermit reveals ro a curious story ston Walton served ed during during- tho the Civil ChU war ar as 35 asa asa a member ber of n an n Illinois regiment t. t After After Af u Af- Af ter the th war w ho he en engaged in business but hi his old wound troubling him idna ho became a n vcr very taciturn man Ono day his bis wife reproved him sharply for hi his churlishness churlish churlish- ness neou and he ho disappeared This was in an Ho He was WI located the following i in Missouri is ouri h year var by a n. n son Bon but when ho h discovered tb the tn fact t he dropped out of sight over ni night ht I His Ills wife reared rd their little and andin family in in time timo removed remo to Belleville Kan In 1000 she made mado an application for n a pen pen- sion sIon Thero Thera is a 3 clause in the tho law which gives tho the wife ife of soldier a n. the tho right to toB B l n is n if s eli m A M i 1 V A Vi 1 n ft n s 1 10 V u ben been heard of for seven coven years CArs The Tho pension WB was awarded her and she pho be drew the mone money up until 1905 One d day y a 1 pension examiner visited her Ho He said that a a. Henry A. A Walton whoso whose record as a soldier was wasen given en the I same samo as that of ot her husband had bad applied applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied for lor a pension He had a 8 photograph photograph photo photo- graph with him and this notwithstanding In ing it deprived her ber of her little monthly stipend she identified as u her husband Ho lie was then living in a 3 hut on the HIe outskirts out out- skirts kirts kirt of an m Arkansas forest She immediately immediately im im- im- im tel medil mediately wrote fot to him suggesting that he rejoin her but instead he be n again un dis dis- dis appeared The Tho next ned heard of Walton was when he applied for 20 a month under the till 75 years clause Ho He was traced trough this application to northwestern Nebraska Mrs Walton was u informed because it was necessary to examine the family Bible BibIo to prove l his is real ral age He was found to be bo living his bis usual hermit life in Sheridan county count and his family loft left him unmolested Mrs Mm Irl Walton will now receive a widows widow's A pension