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On September 4, 1863, Ann M. Giles, age 22 and a resident of Mitchell, Lawrence County, Indiana, applied for a widow's pension. Her late husband, William Giles, enlisted as a private in Co. H, 67th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. He reportedly died of sickness at Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi, on July 3, 1863. Another document in the same file indicates the William died on July 3, 1862, in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Ann indicated that she married William on November 13, 1859, and her name before marriage was Ann M. Burton. Isaac Carothers, a minister of the gospel, performed the marriage. One child, Lilla, was born to that marriage on December 5, 1861, in Mitchell, Lawrence County, Indiana. John Biggs, who prepared a statement in 1867 on behalf of Ann's application for an increase in her pension, reportedly attended Ann at the time of Lilla's birth and had been a practicing physician in Lawrence County for the past eight years.
A widow's pension was originally granted to Ann in November 1863.
Typed and donated by Randi Richardson.