Scandal! Illegitimate son fathered by a baseball player! Murder! Husbands return from the dead! Come hear more about the “The Real Widows of the Pension Office” tomorrow at 11 am when Pamela Loos-Noji talks about the colorful true stories she’s encountered while volunteering at the National Archives on the Civil War Widows Pension files project. This letter was the second and final rejection sent to Henrietta Frances Kane in her petition to have her widow’s pension restored. Why was she rejected and what happened to her? Read her story in today’s blog post: http://go.usa.gov/YXTw
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Scandal! Illegitimate son fathered by a baseball player! Murder! Husbands return from the dead!

Come hear more about the “The Real Widows of the Pension Office” tomorrow at 11 am when Pamela Loos-Noji talks about the colorful true stories she’s encountered while volunteering at the National Archives on the Civil War Widows Pension files project.

This letter was the second and final rejection sent to Henrietta Frances Kane in her petition to have her widow’s pension restored. Why was she rejected and what happened to her? Read her story in today’s blog post: http://go.usa.gov/YXTw

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