(as told by Elizabeth Perkins Buchheit)
My great-grandmother ELIZABETH WALKER never got her Civil War pension ‘til my father went down and spent some time in the Veteran’s Administration. And the reason she didn’t get her pension is because she had a trunk which was lost during the Civil War. They were carted around on trains and it was lost someplace. She lost her cup that she won at the Knox County Fair for riding horses and she lost her marriage license. So everything was very difficult. But my father finally got a Civil War pension for maybe the last 5 years of her life.
Great-grandmother’s husband GEORGE never really lived very well at home very after the Civil War. He spent the last part of life in a soldier’s home or VA hospital. My great-grandmother was essentially a single parent. She had just one child, Moira “Maggie” Perkins. Maggie married WILLIAM JOHN FOY.
Filed under: Foy, Perkins, Walker | Tagged: Civil War, Elizabeth Walker, George Francis Perkins, Knox County Fair, Maggie Perkins, William John Foy
