Chapter 130. granting a pension to the widow of James A
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CHAP. 130.— An Act granting a pension to the widow of James A. Kelly.February 15, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Margaret C. Simmons.Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Margaret C. Simmons, widow of James A. Kelly, a member of Company F, commanded by Captain W. F. Sanderson, regiment of mounted riflemen, United States Army, in the war with Mexico, who received a certificate of merit for distinguished services, signed by the President of the United States and countersigned by the Secretary of War, dated May third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and recorded number fifteen in the Adjutant-General’s Office May tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; who died the twelfth of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, in Vallejo, California, leaving the beneficiary of this act a widow, who subsequently married James E.
Simmons, who died the twenty-ninth of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, at Saint Elizabeth Asylum in Washington, District of Columbia, leaving said Margaret C. Simmons a widow in destitute circumstances and advanced in age, being now in her sixty-eight year of age, and that she be paid at the rate of twelve dollars per month from and after the passage of this act during her widowhood. Approved, February 15, 1893.