Show THEY DnA w PENSIONS AS THE WIDOWS OP flBVOLU TIQNAflY SOLDIERS Hthl Interesting Old AVnmen llrsnlnt Money frtim I lule omnubn Were l lrlot In IJIfl The I West 110 OflT IKIIHONS think of the vrnr of M the revolutlun IJ uch an ancient nf Mir 11 we look back upon It now that It seemi Incredible In-credible that then l Il ihould still be I llv InK among us anyone y any-one wh < I able In glvo p ronil recollections recol-lections of huH historic dss Irt In the report of the commlsiloner of > enslon It nppeari that there nre eight widows of revolutionary revolu-tionary soldiers who arc living and drawing pensions from the government govern-ment and none of them 10 I extraordinarily extraordin-arily ol I either They were clearly old men darlings In the earl eirs of the preient centur a they wera all man ear > ounger than their pMrlutle husbands They tell wonderful atorlef of the great war which gave blrlh to the nation n1 never tire describing Iho hrd hlp of their respective husbands hus-bands To them the war of the revolution revolu-tion li I something real not an event toot be read to-ot In hooks sas New York World None of these living revolutionary revolu-tionary wld iwa fi r ai old ni the century a fact which ihows that their hub nlo were well along I the mlleitonti of life bl9I h SiT 1VUL Mtr7 I0 They al E riS ru ID show that the revolution had beaut who after the war were conquered by feminine youth nllaul I l for Men oni of these deir oil ladles will tell you u un rlously that she was considered a treat beaut In her day and that she > md plent of admirers joung nnd old Mrs Tally Itlchnrdson Is I the vldest r these Interesting widows Hhe was birn ninetyfour years ago nnl her husband wan uouiipy juciiaruson who munni an1 struggled with tho New York 4roops The old lady li I now living In the little town of Knit Ilethel Wlmlsnr count VI Her husband fought under rlchulrr Herklmer nnd Arnold and helped those warriors lo beat off llur KOno and his Indian allies Mrs Itlch tlson tells many sturles about the war J her husband was In the thickest of many big halites The youngest of Iht widow Is I Mrs Mary Knead who Is only 19 ars oil and quite a handsome woman today Her husbanl Iliwdoln Bnead was a Virginian and fought with the tronp that Washington lovml l m of all The old Indy li I now living In the email village of Iarksley In the county of Accomac Va not far from where her husband was born an 1 raised Mrs Hncnl s huiband wai n commissioned oftlcpr In the revolution and was probably born In KM although his widow was not born until UIII Hhe was not married until lUll and at Ihnt I lime the revolullonar hero wa > uld enough to be her gran father Mr Nancy Clou another of the rldows Is very proud of the fact that her husband wn one of the men who risked hi life to establish the nation I The old l lady I n Virginian On IKIIU I eu l aiked by the Hunday World I to glvo I an account of her life she kindly wrote out the following My I huiband William Clou I was a revolutionary soldier I have often I heard him tell of the hardship he went through In the war and how he wilkM and marched for rnllrs on Ice and snow how he waded through rivers and IHT his feet would bleed I have heard him tell how they would come so near Han InK that the would no Into a cornfield corn-field where the Ilrltlsh fed their horsus and there they would pick up the scattered scat-tered gralna lu keep themselVM from starving I think he salil h > wa > > at th urrender of Yorktovvn and marched four days without getting a mouthful My huiband age was 92 a well u I can remember Mr Cloud wa a fine sensible nan and woi well respected I by nil who knew him lie was a bud nss min and was chairman of th court for forty years He was high sheriff i the county when he died Un i III on his deathbed he was strongmint ed pert and active He died In 181 on the 81h of r bru nr nnd my youngest child a boy w4 j born the same rta about half nn hour before Mr Cloud died lie waa In hl iwniea and named him Washington 11 ter the father of hli country The houn wai cronded He repeated hli with over and over I toll him that all ho Wte4 us t knnw wai that the child n was rthlnglon T wa mrrlcv t Mr Plnnd In I he I I tut My oldest chlfd was n girl h In nt 11 lr itoud left 1 me a good h n1 a right smart bit of properly 110 reiupnted m to educate Whlnl > ° ami thought he would make a use tut aim I me I to do > and sent him > < I all I ouM II wa > the best b of I ever say He wu always klnl Mi m ther but he ha been gone rra > me about twentyfive years HeX I He-X rlllnl Ian I and winled me tnt < tn-t him and sent me money I Pfferred to 11 th my daughter 110 h married and living about n mils from where Mr Cloud died I hod a hard time through the late wr All the mne left me wa ex heUIet before that for I had lo edii t ni to children The hardest tntlKas when I hat to give up my son > 10 11 the war and then in gr at Ironies immenretl He was woundr BM liken prlsmer but he sail thoy w re mlithty kind lo him on the other le I had lo sell some of m property Mw tor vn an I ha nol boon abln lo d anlhln NANIY OIOUD Wllow nt llllam Cloud Mrs r Clnil Is I now living In the vlt I hge of HI Ijul Carroll county Vn ll > r son Waihlngton who was born Jill when hli father died at the age of 0 s rvel In Ihe Isle war In the confede ro te arm > The family has been quite wealthy but was Imtxivcilshed by the wu rMrs Mrs Asenath Turner Is I another of Ihe Itevolutlonsry wow who likes I to talk of the great war limes BJje tin written a very Interesting I little f lt story of her life In answer to a request I rvsyN wln nftrht dlh uf r fffn3t rit I lier silUler liusband wKo p name w Xiraurl Durham He lielonged la Ihe Connecticut troops who did great work In the battles of ImK Island and along the bank of the Hudson rlter Mrs Turner Is now living In the town nf Manchester Ontario count N Y Hur t v eNATt UriNirt I rounded by chll Iren grandchildren nnd great grandchll Iren Hhe Is ninety jenrs old and wa married mar-ried when twent > 4in lo Mr Durham This wn In MM when the nation wu fifty > ears nil and when Mr Durham was considerably older Her Intern Init letter follows My name wlin n girl was Anennth Ourlf I WAIl born nnd brought up In Connecticut MamUltld My father died ivlivn I wa two yctir old Wb were ioor and a the custom wn In Ilioso > ld hard limes we chll Iren wi re hound iut I wn quite a young Rlrle when I married Mr Durham in unlllrr husband hus-band He wn a pensioner when I married mar-ried I him but only IJJ n year becausn IIP had n little pro > erty and the country wn poor then We lived In lhi > UP mo nelghliorhood where I was brought up for sevcrnl rars had twu thlldreii both now llv Ing then we came here Into York Htnle when the country wn new nnd very sickly with plenty of wnods and log house Kxceptlng n very few enr I have llvrd In the mm nelgh irhood that Inn tuovir sixty ear UIlII I know I nught to I able to tell n great ilul about the ol 1 war fir hnrdly a day passed but what my huiband told me some Incident of the war but oiuld not write It tu have It read anyhow I presume the chlldrel could Ill more than I can The daughter live In We t Creek N J Mrs heliih ThesonHvi In this town Almanln Durham There are quite a number nf grandchildren grand-children and ereatwnnchlMnn all descendant of the old sol Her husbiind I do not think there Is I such anuihvr In itanc In the whole country I have had no picture t4ken since I was seventy ear old f am now In in nlnelyllnit year nnd v ry feeble Idol I-dol nut leave th house My huiband served two term In Ihe war Once bo wen drafted nnd once he enlisted but I have forgotten how long he nerved eaih time Tours ri speclfuM AHKNATH TlTllNKIt 1 Mr Mary llrovrn I now In her nine t > flrt > enr Her hub nl Joseph llrann fought with tho Pennsylvania truop all through Ihe wur The old Indy II I now living In the city of Knnx vllle Tsnti and can tell many Morle about llm haniihlps her Iteiolutlonary husband encountered There nr two flevoluttonary widow living In the little county of Windsor VI One of them Mm Patty Illchanl son hAl already be n referred to The nther I Air Hither 8 Damon willow of Noun Damon who fought with the Mauachuiett troops Mrs Damon llvea In the old town of Plymouth Union nnd li comparatively young being only eightone year of age |