Widows' Pension file Page 7

State of New York

City limits of Albany:

                                      Catharine Lynch

Being duty sworn says that she’s

the widow of Alpheus D. Lynch late

a private in Company B of 2C

Regiment of Heavy Artillery New York

volunteers. Defendant further says

that there is no record Church or

public record of her marriage &

that she has no certificate of her

marring with said Alpheus D.

Lynch and the whereabouts of

The Minister who performed said

Ceremony, or the whereabouts of

Witnesses who were present at the

Ceremony all unknown to de-

fendent and that there is no record

Of the baptism of the children or any

Of them, all of which defendant

States of her own personal Knowledge.

Defendant farther says that she was

Married at Newark, New Jersey

Some seventeen years ago & the minister

Who performed said ceremony& witnesses

Who performed said ceremony cannot be

Found defendant said that she can

Furnish no Evidence except the herein

After set forth affidavit to prove her

Said marriage. Defendant further says

That the reason she re-married again in

1864 is that a Chaplain in the army

And the Surgeon at the Hospital (Lincoln)

At Washington D. C. suggested that her