Approved for rejection on the ground of the inability of the claimant aided by a special examination to establish her right as the legal widow of the soldier. From weight of evidence it appears that she was never married to soldier by ceremony or custom and that they did not cohabit as man and wife so as to constitute a marriage within the meaning of Sec 4705
January 30 1891
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Information used from Katie Cleage’s Widow’s Pension file.
For links to the other posts in this series, click this link – Katie Cleage’s Pension Hearing
Well just DAMN!
This is real life. No guarantee of a happy ending.
Oh no!
Sad but true.
Did she have an appeal? I sure hope so. Sometimes what was rejected last month got approved later on. So sorry this happened to her.
She does have an appeal. It will be coming up.
This is so unfair – though your comment about an appeal is giving me a bit of hope.
Time will tell.