Random History Bytes 056: Ocean County Pensioners
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OCEAN COUNTY PENSIONERS.
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The following is a complete and correct list of all
persons resident in this county drawing pensions in 1863
from the United States Government, with the causes for
which such pension is allowed, and the amount paid them
monthly, as compiled from the records of the Pension
Department:
BAYVILLE.
George R. Worth, gunshot wound right arm, $10.
BARNEGAT.
Phebe Ludlow, widow, $8; Sarah Edwards, widow
(Navy), $25; Tunis Bodine, survivor of 1812, $8.
BAYHEAD.
Jane C. Van Doren, widow, $8; Margaret King,
widow; $8; Ann Voorhees, widow, $10.
BENNETTS MILLS.
Charles T. Mathews, disease of lungs, $10; Joseph
I. Voorhees, amputation right arm, $24; Thomas Clayton,
gunshot wound right arm, $10; John B. Hyers, diseased
lungs and eyes. $12; Wm. H. Conover, injury of
back, $4; John H. Mathews, disease of lungs, $8; John
G. Voorhees, gunshot wound left shoulder, $10.
BRICKSBURG.
Mary Estel, widow 1812, $8; Daniel D. Williams, disease
of the lungs, $4; Lavinia M. Carter, mother, $8.
CASSVILLE.
Ellison Jamison, gunshot wound in head, $2; John
F. Brown, gunshot wound in neck, etc., $10; Susan Hagaman,
widow, $16; Lydia A. Brown, mother, $8.
COLLIERS'S MILLS.
Lewis Southard, injury right side, $6.
FORKED RIVER.
Samuel R. Penn, typhoid fever, etc., $6; Ann Britton,
mother, $8; Ezekiel Lewis, survivor 1812, $8.
HORNERSTOWN.
Charles H. Hankins, wound right hand, $4; John
Errickson, wound right forearm, $6; Isaac Vanhise, disease
of heart, $8; Daniel H. Hopkins, $4; Deborah Hopkins,
widow, $8; Mary Likes, mother, $8; Zachariah Hawkins,
wound in left side, $4; Wm. A. Parker, wound left
shoulder and jaw, $8; Margaret Curtis, widow, $8; Henry
H. Hawkins, gunshot wound right foot and right knee, $6.
ISLAND HEIGHTS.
John J. O'Hara, gunshot wound left shoulder, $6.
JACKSONS MILLS.
Thomas L. Reynolds, chronic diarrhoea [sic], $8; Charles
H. Rose, gunshot wound right forearm, $4; Rebecca
Burke, widow, $8; Sarah M. Cook, $8; Caleb Bennett,
minor children, Samuel Leming, guardian, $12; Jas. H.
Hendrickson, injury left side, etc., $2.
LAKEWOOD.
David Brower, gunshot wound right arm, left thigh,
and sunstroke, $12; Thomas Fisher, gunshot wound left
shoulder, $4; Holmes Johnson, disease lungs, $18; Peter
Reynolds, $15; John B. Estrelle, measles, typhoid fever,
etc., $2; Charles M. Dix, sunstroke, $4; David Matthews
$18; John W. White, gunshot wound left leg, $8; Mary
Norcross, widow, $8; Mary Megill, widow, 1812, $8;
James White, gunshot wound right leg, $8; Eliza Sterne,
mother, $8; Emeline Holt, widow, $8; Hester Hagerman,
widow, $8; Eunice A. Gordon, widow, $21; Henry
Burd, gunshot wound left forearm, $2; Sophia D. Adams,
widow, 1812, $8; James W. Grove, chronic diarrhoea, $4.
MANCHESTER.
Mary Gettier, widow 1812, $8; Catharine S. Carman,
widow, $8; Benj. T. Phillips, chronic rheumatism, $24;
Nimrod Nicols, gunshot wound right leg, $1; David
Noyes, gunshot wound in head, $6.
MANNAHAWKIN.
Joseph Cranmer, gunshot wound forehead, $12;
Samuel Curtis, Navy, $20; Thomas C. Samson, injury to
right knee, $4; Henry Allison, frosted feet, $12; Joseph
Bishop, injury to abdomen, $2.
METEDECONK.
Abraham W. Osborn, injury to abdomen, $4; John
Johnson, $18; James G. Truax, disease stomach, $4; Wm.
H. Hall, $4; James M. Petit, chills and fever and
rheumatism, $4.
NEW EGYPT.
Charlotte Appleby, mother, $8; John Vaughn, gunshot
wound left hip, $6; Elizabeth Johns, mother, $8;
Charles Chafey, injury left side, $2; William Berm, gunshot
wound left shoulder, $4; Charles H. Thompson, gunshot
wound left side head, $4; Benj. P. Bussom, effects
of typhoid fever, $4; George H. Horner, gunshot wound
right arm, etc., $10; George W. Dunfee, injury right leg
and left hip, $4; Franklin S. Gaskill, gunshot wound
both thighs, $6; George Yates, $18; Joseph Reynolds,
necrosis right tibia, $6; Henry B. Wright, injury to abdomen,
$4; Joseph N. Emley, $4; William A. Woodward,
chronic diarrhoea, $12; John Reed, gunshot wound
left forearm, $18; John W. Eldridge, chronic diarrhoea,
$4; Curtis Fowler, gunshot wound right leg, $8; Hugh
Dyatt, gunshot wound back, $8; Caroline B. Archer,
widow, $8; Edith Brown, widow, $8; John S. Mallony.
neuralgia, (Navy), $20; Amy Fowler, mother, $8; Harriet
Loveland, widow, $8; Eliza Horner, mother, $8; Clementine
T. Carter, mother, $8; Mary Hulse, widow 1812, $25;
Lydia Woodward, mother, $8; Mary Webb, mother, $8;
Isaac Soper, minor children, $12; Naomi Gant, widow, $8;
Sarah Bell, mother, $8; John McGrath, disease of
lungs, $16.
OSBORNSVILLE.
Charles W. Truax, disease liver, etc., $4; John W.
J. Osborn, disease lungs, $4; Mary Jones, mother, $8;
Hance H. Gant, chronic rheumatism, $4.
POINT PLEASANT.
Harriet E. Jones, $8; Aaron Irons, gunshot wound
left thigh, etc., $8; Roderick A. Clarke, $18; Joseph W.
Fleming, injury right ankle, $6; Joshua J. Pearce,
chronic diarrhoea and rheumatism, $8; John Stout, $18;
Charles Stout, gunshot wound left thigh, $2; Elizabeth
Folsom, widow, $8; Margaret Morris, widow, $8; Mary
Jane Wilson, mother, $8; Herbert Havens, gunshot
wound both thighs and left ankle, $10.
PROSPERTOWN.
Christopher Daly, gunshot wound left forearm, $10;
Lloyd Appleget, injury of right eye, $4.
SILVERTOWN.
John S. McKelvey, chronic diarrhoea, $6; John C.
Irons, survivor, 1812, $8; Alice Bunnell, widow, $8.
TOMS RIVER.
Sarah J. Atterson, widow, $8; Mary Applegate,
widow, $8; Thomas Johnson, injury to abdomen, $8;
Ezekiel Giberson, injury to abdomen, $8; Wm. H.
Hurley, gunshot wound, left shoulder, $6; Helena
Grant, widow. $8; Charles T. Hudson, $4; Garrett V.
Hyers, gunshot wound right shoulder, $2; Abraham J.
Johnson, injury to abdomen, $8; George Walton, disease
heart, $8; Thomas W. Middleton, $10; Robert S. Witherall
alias J. R. Norcross, contracted scar from abscess
right shoulder, $4; Charles S. Applegate, injury to abdomen,
$4; Wm. H. Dorsey, gunshot wound right
shoulder $8; George G. Irons, rheumatism, etc., $l7;
Wallace Irons, disease lungs, $8; George H. Bryan, gunshot
wound left shoulder, $10; Harriet Luker, mother, $8;
Sarah McKenney, widow, $8.
VAN HISEVILLE.
Catharine Johnson, widow, $8; John Cole, $24;
Reuben Camp, chronic diarrhoea and varicose veins left
leg, $8.
WARETOWN.
Samuel Ridgway, gunshot wound left thigh, $3.
WEST CREEK.
James Pharo, heart disease $4; James M. West, gunshot
wound left side of chest, $6; Ensign Miller, gunshot
wound left side of head, $18.
WHEATLAND.
Andrew J. Steelman, injury to abdomen, $8.
WHITING.
Anna Perry, widow, $8.
- "A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties", Edwin Salter, 1890, E. Gardner & Son Publishers, Bayonne, N. J., pp. 347-351.