Show apay A V widows of r vets of 1812 fu S astill SS still till gives give s pens pensions lons to widows of men who fought I 1 11 years ago washington how long a pension list persists utter after war Is over Is shown in a striking manner by the rolls rolla of the government for the war of 1812 and for the alio mexican war there Is ia not inot a veteran of the war of 1812 alivo yet it cost the government for pensioners of that wr during tho i 0 past I 1 year on june 80 last there were 88 widows ani and one dependent daughter of veterans 0 of 1812 on the pension list the seventy fifth anniversary of the close of the mexican war was celebrated on may 80 last and yet during tho the fiscal year 1023 there were 40 49 veterans and 1030 1630 widows of veterans who fought in that war receiving 17 in pensions from the govern ment V it Is a curious fact act that not one ot of the pensioners of the war of 1812 was born when the war was concluded the oldest Is one hundred and four years old while the youngest Is sixty three one other Is over the ono one hundred mark the rest range between eighty and one hundred years the explanation Is that tho the veterans married women much younger than themselves la in the the widow pensioner sixty three years old liar her husband must have been from forty foty firo to fifty five years older mexican vets veta over ninety all of the veterans of the mexican warace va rare over ninety years of age the oldest one being urbaan changeur Chan deur ot of san francisco who passed the one hundredth milestone on juno june 0 1023 A unique mexican war case Is that tha of william brown of quinden N J who itt at tho the tender age of enlist id d in the marine corps and fought throughout the war 1 1 I war Is n costly business not n ot only from tte tle point pointon of view of actual fighting expenses but also that ot of paying pensions to the old and disabled vet 14 A trans crans and their dependent widows and children dren als of the bureau of pensions assert back in 1877 thero there vero persons on tho the pension rolls 0 the government involving g an annual disbursement of this was when the largest number of war of 1812 and mexican war pensioners were acra anthe on the rolls A few years later civil war veterans began to ako ake advantage of the pension privilege and the expense jumped much higher pensions total while thero there are no te separate parate figures available as to just what the ds bunic bume menta ments were to war of 1812 and mexican war pensioners tor to r those years it Is known eliat they figured vr very y heavily in the total in 1885 ah the pension disbursement amounted to with persons persona on the rolls Fro From then on it gradually increased until 1010 when the cost was with persons on the rolls vor for 1023 1923 the total a mount amount of pensions paid out was 11 COO most of this amount artio of course was paid tot to civil war and spanish war pensioners less than 0 nt it going to pensioners of the tha war of 1812 and mexican war there are no longer any soldiers who actually fought in the war of the pension rolls the st one being hiram cronk who died in ava N Y in 1005 at the tha age of one hundred bundred and five the last soldier pensioner 8 of the revolutionary war was waa daniel P I 1 bakeman who died at freedom N X y in 1800 at the age of one cati hundred and nine years while the last ink pensioner of tho the revolutionary war was esther eather S damon widow of noah damon who died at plymouth union vt in 1000 at the age of ninety six sir years widows widow pensioned all told approximately widows of soldiers of the war of 1812 were granted service pensions the high water mark being reached la IZ 1870 when there were on the rolls the original widows of soldiers of 0 the war of 1812 who were granted pensions had shrunk to 0 only n ay iy 40 an on june 30 80 since that time deft death th lias has claimed ono one of them reducing tho the figure to SO 39 of the many thousands of veterans and widows ot of veterans of the mexican war who were granted pensions only 40 49 veterans and 1430 widows of veterans remain an idea of how fast the number is decreasing can bo be trained gained by the figures for the lie last fiscal year on june SO 30 1022 there here were 40 pensioners of the war of 1812 compared to only 40 one year later on june 80 1022 there were 1031 Mex mexican icar war pensioners on the rolls compared to only 1083 one year later the amount paid to pensioners of the war of 1812 ranges anywhere from 10 to it a month dut but most of them receive not over 00 50 a month it till all depends on the extent of their disability and the amount necessary to insure them proper er medical attention |