Case of Jacob Boone
No. 265.326
Exhibit A
On this 13th day of May 1883, at Bradyville, County of Adams, State of Ohio, before me, H. C. LaForce, a Special Examiner of the Pension Office, personally appeared Jacob Boone, who says: his age is 60 years, his P. O. Address as above and his occupation a farmer, and that he is the identical Jacob Boone who enlisted as a Private in Co. "A," 40th Regular Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Mounted on October 18, 1863, and discharged in December 1864, on account of term of service expiring. And that he was never in the military or naval service. And that he was sound in every respect when he enlisted and free from piles and injury of testicles and that he is now an applicant for pension on account of piles and injury to right testicle, both of which were received while in said service and in the line of his duty.
Q: When and how did you receive the injury to testicle?
A : About the middle of November 1863 while in pursuit of Peter Everett, near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, whilst riding as fast as our horses could go, my horse stumbled and fell on his knees and threw me on the pummel of my saddle and he (illegible word) and fell again and threw me back in the saddle again, and hurt my right testicle.
Q : What did you do then, did you go on with your command?
A: I went on but it pained me right smart, we did not go very far until we stopped. My testicle was sore but did not swell much. I got some liniment and used. I was not treated by any physician for it, it got so in a month that it did not hurt me much and I went on duty and did duty til along in December I think it was I took piles.
Q: How did your piles come on?
A: I allowed it was riding so much, they come on gradually I guess, my bowel did not come out only a lump about as big as a marble but they broke and run blood out, and they have never come out more than that, but they break and bleed and keeps my pants wet, and they have been that way off and on ever since. They would break about once and some times twice a month ever since if I lift or chop it makes it worse.
Q: How has your testicle been since you came from the Army?
A: It gradually got bigger and of late has affected my leg and side and one eye.
Q: Were you treated for your piles while in the Army?
A: No sir, only by myself.
Q: Have you ever been treated for them since your muster out?
A: Yes, about six years ago I first asked Dr. Purdy about it and he said he could not do it any good, he told me to take physic and keep my bowels open.
Q: Has any physician treated you for your testicle since your muster out?
A: No one but Purdy the first was about a year ago he drew water out of it.
Q: How much were you disabled from performing ordinary manual labor on account of injury to testicle in 1865 and each year since?
A: About ½ until six years ago and since that I was disabled 2/3 until now.
Q: How much were you disabled in 1865 and each year since on account of the hemorrhoids?
A: About 1/3 all the time til now.
Q: How much of an ordinary man's labor was you able to perform in 1865 and each year since?
A: I suppose about 1/2 til six years ago and since that 1/3.
Q: Which disease has disabled you most?
A: The testicle.
Q : Where did you reside for five years before enlistment?
A: On 3 Mile Creek near where I do now. Q: And since your discharge?
A: The same place.
Q: Who was your family physician before enlistment?
A: Dr. Purdy.
Q: What witnesses do you want to testify in support of your claim and what do you expect to prove by them, and their P.O. addresses.
A: I want on contraction:
Ellis Palmer, Bradyville
Maj. Fred Bierbower, Maysville, Kentucky
Wm. Glover, Maysville, Kentucky
James Hunt, Maysville, Kentucky
Henry Boon, On Little 3 Mile
On continuation I want:
Ell is Palmer, Bradyville, Ohio
House Mitchell, Manchester, Ohio
Jos eph Chain, Bradyville, Ohio
Sam Matthews, Bradyville, Ohio
Q: Do you desire to be present in person or to be represented by an attorney during the examinations of the witnesses for the purpose of hearing their testimony and of cross examining them, etc.?
A: I want Capt Shelton to attend to it for me.
Q: Where have you resided each year since you came from the Army?
A: I lived on Samuel Bradford's farm nine years.
Q: What were you doing there?
A: I had a little lease there on some land and worked for Bradford some.
Q: Where have you lived since that?
A: Where I do now here on Little Three Mile.
Q: Who were your nearest neighbors when you lived on S. Bradford's place?
A: Samuel Bradford, Samuel Mathews, Henry Boone.
Q: Where are they?
A: Samuel Bradford is dead; the others are living there yet.
Q: Who were your most intimate friends and associates during the first few years after your return from the Army?
A: Mr. Samuel Mathews and my brother Henry were.
Q: Who did you work with the first year and for the next few years?
A: Cyrus and Amos Bradford but the most of the time I worked for myself on the ground I had leased.
Q: Please begin with the accident and give me a history of your injury and the symptoms of the same from that day until this.
A: The horse stumbled and fell on his knees and throwed me upon the pummel of the saddle and mashed my right seed, it hurt me bad but I went on and it swelled some that day, but it was swelled worse next morning and was sorer and there was a ridge running down my side to my seed and the seed was swelled some and was sore. I went to the drugstore and got some Chinese liniment and rubbed it, it got better in about a month, and I didn't do any duty for about a month. It still kept sore and pains in it and the cord never got as small as it was before and it kept getting bigger and bigger gradually all the time until two years ago Dr. Purdy cut it then and took from one to two quarts of water, and since that it filled up again and "busted" inside of me, and the water run up in me someplace and Purdy said it scattered in the skin, and in two or three days the water had all gone up and then in a few days it began coming back in it again and it has pained me all the time and sometimes very bad.
/s/ Jacob Boone, deponent Subscribed before me this 13th day of May 1883, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
/s / H. C. LaForce, Special Examiner
Th e Special Examiner's Notation: "Doubtful"
Exhibit C
State of Ohio
County of Adams, SS:
On this 19th day of December A.D. 1881, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Joseph Chain, age 48 years, Samuel Mathews, age 44 years; Ellis Palmer age 64 years, and House Mitchell, age 59 years and Thomas Lowe age 56 years, all of Bradyville post office, except House Mitchell, his address is Manchester, Ohio. Persons whom I certify to be reputable and entitled to credit and who after being duly sworn according to law, say in relation to Jacob Boone, late of Co. A., 4th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, and in relation to his claim No. 265.326 for Invalid Pension that they have known him well and personally for the last 30 to 40 years and lived near neighbor to him before and since his enlistment and labored with him before his enlistment in aforesaid service at various kinds of labor such as reaping, cradling, chopping, house and barn raising, and never heard him complain of any disability whatever before his enlistment in aforesaid service and believed him to be clear and free from any disability of testicles and hemorrhoids before his said enlistment, and from his ability to labor believed him to be a stout, hearty, able-bodied man before his enlistment. Affiants have known him personally well ever since his discharge out of aforesaid service and have labored with him and know that he is greatly disabled on account of disability of testicles and hemorrhoids of which he has complained ever since his discharge to the present time affiants have saw him often since his discharge sometimes daily and weekly and do not consider him able to perform any hard manual labor whatever but he being a poor man is compelled to do light labor on farm. The above declaration is made from affiants own personal knowledge, living near neighbors to him and therefore believe he contracted the aforesaid afflictions while he was in the U. S. service, and have no interest whatever in the prosecution of the above claim.
/s/ Joseph Chain Samuel Matthews, Ellis (X) Palmer, (his mark), House Mitchell, Thomas LoweFiled by John Shelton, Bradyville, Ohio.
Jacob Boone was issued a $4/month pension on 5 November 1883; increased to $8 on 5 February 1890; and increased to $12 on 7 October 1891. Jacob died 19 February 1902, having been paid pension by the Pension Agent at Columbus, Ohio up to the 4th day of December 1901.
No. 265.326
Exhibit A
On this 13th day of May 1883, at Bradyville, County of Adams, State of Ohio, before me, H. C. LaForce, a Special Examiner of the Pension Office, personally appeared Jacob Boone, who says: his age is 60 years, his P. O. Address as above and his occupation a farmer, and that he is the identical Jacob Boone who enlisted as a Private in Co. "A," 40th Regular Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Mounted on October 18, 1863, and discharged in December 1864, on account of term of service expiring. And that he was never in the military or naval service. And that he was sound in every respect when he enlisted and free from piles and injury of testicles and that he is now an applicant for pension on account of piles and injury to right testicle, both of which were received while in said service and in the line of his duty.
Q: When and how did you receive the injury to testicle?
A : About the middle of November 1863 while in pursuit of Peter Everett, near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, whilst riding as fast as our horses could go, my horse stumbled and fell on his knees and threw me on the pummel of my saddle and he (illegible word) and fell again and threw me back in the saddle again, and hurt my right testicle.
Q : What did you do then, did you go on with your command?
A: I went on but it pained me right smart, we did not go very far until we stopped. My testicle was sore but did not swell much. I got some liniment and used. I was not treated by any physician for it, it got so in a month that it did not hurt me much and I went on duty and did duty til along in December I think it was I took piles.
Q: How did your piles come on?
A: I allowed it was riding so much, they come on gradually I guess, my bowel did not come out only a lump about as big as a marble but they broke and run blood out, and they have never come out more than that, but they break and bleed and keeps my pants wet, and they have been that way off and on ever since. They would break about once and some times twice a month ever since if I lift or chop it makes it worse.
Q: How has your testicle been since you came from the Army?
A: It gradually got bigger and of late has affected my leg and side and one eye.
Q: Were you treated for your piles while in the Army?
A: No sir, only by myself.
Q: Have you ever been treated for them since your muster out?
A: Yes, about six years ago I first asked Dr. Purdy about it and he said he could not do it any good, he told me to take physic and keep my bowels open.
Q: Has any physician treated you for your testicle since your muster out?
A: No one but Purdy the first was about a year ago he drew water out of it.
Q: How much were you disabled from performing ordinary manual labor on account of injury to testicle in 1865 and each year since?
A: About ½ until six years ago and since that I was disabled 2/3 until now.
Q: How much were you disabled in 1865 and each year since on account of the hemorrhoids?
A: About 1/3 all the time til now.
Q: How much of an ordinary man's labor was you able to perform in 1865 and each year since?
A: I suppose about 1/2 til six years ago and since that 1/3.
Q: Which disease has disabled you most?
A: The testicle.
Q : Where did you reside for five years before enlistment?
A: On 3 Mile Creek near where I do now. Q: And since your discharge?
A: The same place.
Q: Who was your family physician before enlistment?
A: Dr. Purdy.
Q: What witnesses do you want to testify in support of your claim and what do you expect to prove by them, and their P.O. addresses.
A: I want on contraction:
Ellis Palmer, Bradyville
Maj. Fred Bierbower, Maysville, Kentucky
Wm. Glover, Maysville, Kentucky
James Hunt, Maysville, Kentucky
Henry Boon, On Little 3 Mile
On continuation I want:
Ell is Palmer, Bradyville, Ohio
House Mitchell, Manchester, Ohio
Jos eph Chain, Bradyville, Ohio
Sam Matthews, Bradyville, Ohio
Q: Do you desire to be present in person or to be represented by an attorney during the examinations of the witnesses for the purpose of hearing their testimony and of cross examining them, etc.?
A: I want Capt Shelton to attend to it for me.
Q: Where have you resided each year since you came from the Army?
A: I lived on Samuel Bradford's farm nine years.
Q: What were you doing there?
A: I had a little lease there on some land and worked for Bradford some.
Q: Where have you lived since that?
A: Where I do now here on Little Three Mile.
Q: Who were your nearest neighbors when you lived on S. Bradford's place?
A: Samuel Bradford, Samuel Mathews, Henry Boone.
Q: Where are they?
A: Samuel Bradford is dead; the others are living there yet.
Q: Who were your most intimate friends and associates during the first few years after your return from the Army?
A: Mr. Samuel Mathews and my brother Henry were.
Q: Who did you work with the first year and for the next few years?
A: Cyrus and Amos Bradford but the most of the time I worked for myself on the ground I had leased.
Q: Please begin with the accident and give me a history of your injury and the symptoms of the same from that day until this.
A: The horse stumbled and fell on his knees and throwed me upon the pummel of the saddle and mashed my right seed, it hurt me bad but I went on and it swelled some that day, but it was swelled worse next morning and was sorer and there was a ridge running down my side to my seed and the seed was swelled some and was sore. I went to the drugstore and got some Chinese liniment and rubbed it, it got better in about a month, and I didn't do any duty for about a month. It still kept sore and pains in it and the cord never got as small as it was before and it kept getting bigger and bigger gradually all the time until two years ago Dr. Purdy cut it then and took from one to two quarts of water, and since that it filled up again and "busted" inside of me, and the water run up in me someplace and Purdy said it scattered in the skin, and in two or three days the water had all gone up and then in a few days it began coming back in it again and it has pained me all the time and sometimes very bad.
/s/ Jacob Boone, deponent Subscribed before me this 13th day of May 1883, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
/s / H. C. LaForce, Special Examiner
Th e Special Examiner's Notation: "Doubtful"
Exhibit C
State of Ohio
County of Adams, SS:
On this 19th day of December A.D. 1881, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Joseph Chain, age 48 years, Samuel Mathews, age 44 years; Ellis Palmer age 64 years, and House Mitchell, age 59 years and Thomas Lowe age 56 years, all of Bradyville post office, except House Mitchell, his address is Manchester, Ohio. Persons whom I certify to be reputable and entitled to credit and who after being duly sworn according to law, say in relation to Jacob Boone, late of Co. A., 4th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, and in relation to his claim No. 265.326 for Invalid Pension that they have known him well and personally for the last 30 to 40 years and lived near neighbor to him before and since his enlistment and labored with him before his enlistment in aforesaid service at various kinds of labor such as reaping, cradling, chopping, house and barn raising, and never heard him complain of any disability whatever before his enlistment in aforesaid service and believed him to be clear and free from any disability of testicles and hemorrhoids before his said enlistment, and from his ability to labor believed him to be a stout, hearty, able-bodied man before his enlistment. Affiants have known him personally well ever since his discharge out of aforesaid service and have labored with him and know that he is greatly disabled on account of disability of testicles and hemorrhoids of which he has complained ever since his discharge to the present time affiants have saw him often since his discharge sometimes daily and weekly and do not consider him able to perform any hard manual labor whatever but he being a poor man is compelled to do light labor on farm. The above declaration is made from affiants own personal knowledge, living near neighbors to him and therefore believe he contracted the aforesaid afflictions while he was in the U. S. service, and have no interest whatever in the prosecution of the above claim.
/s/ Joseph Chain Samuel Matthews, Ellis (X) Palmer, (his mark), House Mitchell, Thomas LoweFiled by John Shelton, Bradyville, Ohio.
Jacob Boone was issued a $4/month pension on 5 November 1883; increased to $8 on 5 February 1890; and increased to $12 on 7 October 1891. Jacob died 19 February 1902, having been paid pension by the Pension Agent at Columbus, Ohio up to the 4th day of December 1901.
Case of Jacob Boone
No. 265.326
Exhibit A
On this 13th day of May 1883, at Bradyville, County of Adams, State of Ohio, before me, H. C. LaForce, a Special Examiner of the Pension Office, personally appeared Jacob Boone, who says: his age is 60 years, his P. O. Address as above and his occupation a farmer, and that he is the identical Jacob Boone who enlisted as a Private in Co. "A," 40th Regular Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Mounted on October 18, 1863, and discharged in December 1864, on account of term of service expiring. And that he was never in the military or naval service. And that he was sound in every respect when he enlisted and free from piles and injury of testicles and that he is now an applicant for pension on account of piles and injury to right testicle, both of which were received while in said service and in the line of his duty.
Q: When and how did you receive the injury to testicle?
A : About the middle of November 1863 while in pursuit of Peter Everett, near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, whilst riding as fast as our horses could go, my horse stumbled and fell on his knees and threw me on the pummel of my saddle and he (illegible word) and fell again and threw me back in the saddle again, and hurt my right testicle.
Q : What did you do then, did you go on with your command?
A: I went on but it pained me right smart, we did not go very far until we stopped. My testicle was sore but did not swell much. I got some liniment and used. I was not treated by any physician for it, it got so in a month that it did not hurt me much and I went on duty and did duty til along in December I think it was I took piles.
Q: How did your piles come on?
A: I allowed it was riding so much, they come on gradually I guess, my bowel did not come out only a lump about as big as a marble but they broke and run blood out, and they have never come out more than that, but they break and bleed and keeps my pants wet, and they have been that way off and on ever since. They would break about once and some times twice a month ever since if I lift or chop it makes it worse.
Q: How has your testicle been since you came from the Army?
A: It gradually got bigger and of late has affected my leg and side and one eye.
Q: Were you treated for your piles while in the Army?
A: No sir, only by myself.
Q: Have you ever been treated for them since your muster out?
A: Yes, about six years ago I first asked Dr. Purdy about it and he said he could not do it any good, he told me to take physic and keep my bowels open.
Q: Has any physician treated you for your testicle since your muster out?
A: No one but Purdy the first was about a year ago he drew water out of it.
Q: How much were you disabled from performing ordinary manual labor on account of injury to testicle in 1865 and each year since?
A: About ½ until six years ago and since that I was disabled 2/3 until now.
Q: How much were you disabled in 1865 and each year since on account of the hemorrhoids?
A: About 1/3 all the time til now.
Q: How much of an ordinary man's labor was you able to perform in 1865 and each year since?
A: I suppose about 1/2 til six years ago and since that 1/3.
Q: Which disease has disabled you most?
A: The testicle.
Q : Where did you reside for five years before enlistment?
A: On 3 Mile Creek near where I do now. Q: And since your discharge?
A: The same place.
Q: Who was your family physician before enlistment?
A: Dr. Purdy.
Q: What witnesses do you want to testify in support of your claim and what do you expect to prove by them, and their P.O. addresses.
A: I want on contraction:
Ellis Palmer, Bradyville
Maj. Fred Bierbower, Maysville, Kentucky
Wm. Glover, Maysville, Kentucky
James Hunt, Maysville, Kentucky
Henry Boon, On Little 3 Mile
On continuation I want:
Ell is Palmer, Bradyville, Ohio
House Mitchell, Manchester, Ohio
Jos eph Chain, Bradyville, Ohio
Sam Matthews, Bradyville, Ohio
Q: Do you desire to be present in person or to be represented by an attorney during the examinations of the witnesses for the purpose of hearing their testimony and of cross examining them, etc.?
A: I want Capt Shelton to attend to it for me.
Q: Where have you resided each year since you came from the Army?
A: I lived on Samuel Bradford's farm nine years.
Q: What were you doing there?
A: I had a little lease there on some land and worked for Bradford some.
Q: Where have you lived since that?
A: Where I do now here on Little Three Mile.
Q: Who were your nearest neighbors when you lived on S. Bradford's place?
A: Samuel Bradford, Samuel Mathews, Henry Boone.
Q: Where are they?
A: Samuel Bradford is dead; the others are living there yet.
Q: Who were your most intimate friends and associates during the first few years after your return from the Army?
A: Mr. Samuel Mathews and my brother Henry were.
Q: Who did you work with the first year and for the next few years?
A: Cyrus and Amos Bradford but the most of the time I worked for myself on the ground I had leased.
Q: Please begin with the accident and give me a history of your injury and the symptoms of the same from that day until this.
A: The horse stumbled and fell on his knees and throwed me upon the pummel of the saddle and mashed my right seed, it hurt me bad but I went on and it swelled some that day, but it was swelled worse next morning and was sorer and there was a ridge running down my side to my seed and the seed was swelled some and was sore. I went to the drugstore and got some Chinese liniment and rubbed it, it got better in about a month, and I didn't do any duty for about a month. It still kept sore and pains in it and the cord never got as small as it was before and it kept getting bigger and bigger gradually all the time until two years ago Dr. Purdy cut it then and took from one to two quarts of water, and since that it filled up again and "busted" inside of me, and the water run up in me someplace and Purdy said it scattered in the skin, and in two or three days the water had all gone up and then in a few days it began coming back in it again and it has pained me all the time and sometimes very bad.
/s/ Jacob Boone, deponent Subscribed before me this 13th day of May 1883, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
/s / H. C. LaForce, Special Examiner
Th e Special Examiner's Notation: "Doubtful"
Exhibit C
State of Ohio
County of Adams, SS:
On this 19th day of December A.D. 1881, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Joseph Chain, age 48 years, Samuel Mathews, age 44 years; Ellis Palmer age 64 years, and House Mitchell, age 59 years and Thomas Lowe age 56 years, all of Bradyville post office, except House Mitchell, his address is Manchester, Ohio. Persons whom I certify to be reputable and entitled to credit and who after being duly sworn according to law, say in relation to Jacob Boone, late of Co. A., 4th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, and in relation to his claim No. 265.326 for Invalid Pension that they have known him well and personally for the last 30 to 40 years and lived near neighbor to him before and since his enlistment and labored with him before his enlistment in aforesaid service at various kinds of labor such as reaping, cradling, chopping, house and barn raising, and never heard him complain of any disability whatever before his enlistment in aforesaid service and believed him to be clear and free from any disability of testicles and hemorrhoids before his said enlistment, and from his ability to labor believed him to be a stout, hearty, able-bodied man before his enlistment. Affiants have known him personally well ever since his discharge out of aforesaid service and have labored with him and know that he is greatly disabled on account of disability of testicles and hemorrhoids of which he has complained ever since his discharge to the present time affiants have saw him often since his discharge sometimes daily and weekly and do not consider him able to perform any hard manual labor whatever but he being a poor man is compelled to do light labor on farm. The above declaration is made from affiants own personal knowledge, living near neighbors to him and therefore believe he contracted the aforesaid afflictions while he was in the U. S. service, and have no interest whatever in the prosecution of the above claim.
/s/ Joseph Chain Samuel Matthews, Ellis (X) Palmer, (his mark), House Mitchell, Thomas LoweFiled by John Shelton, Bradyville, Ohio.
Jacob Boone was issued a $4/month pension on 5 November 1883; increased to $8 on 5 February 1890; and increased to $12 on 7 October 1891. Jacob died 19 February 1902, having been paid pension by the Pension Agent at Columbus, Ohio up to the 4th day of December 1901.
No. 265.326
Exhibit A
On this 13th day of May 1883, at Bradyville, County of Adams, State of Ohio, before me, H. C. LaForce, a Special Examiner of the Pension Office, personally appeared Jacob Boone, who says: his age is 60 years, his P. O. Address as above and his occupation a farmer, and that he is the identical Jacob Boone who enlisted as a Private in Co. "A," 40th Regular Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Mounted on October 18, 1863, and discharged in December 1864, on account of term of service expiring. And that he was never in the military or naval service. And that he was sound in every respect when he enlisted and free from piles and injury of testicles and that he is now an applicant for pension on account of piles and injury to right testicle, both of which were received while in said service and in the line of his duty.
Q: When and how did you receive the injury to testicle?
A : About the middle of November 1863 while in pursuit of Peter Everett, near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, whilst riding as fast as our horses could go, my horse stumbled and fell on his knees and threw me on the pummel of my saddle and he (illegible word) and fell again and threw me back in the saddle again, and hurt my right testicle.
Q : What did you do then, did you go on with your command?
A: I went on but it pained me right smart, we did not go very far until we stopped. My testicle was sore but did not swell much. I got some liniment and used. I was not treated by any physician for it, it got so in a month that it did not hurt me much and I went on duty and did duty til along in December I think it was I took piles.
Q: How did your piles come on?
A: I allowed it was riding so much, they come on gradually I guess, my bowel did not come out only a lump about as big as a marble but they broke and run blood out, and they have never come out more than that, but they break and bleed and keeps my pants wet, and they have been that way off and on ever since. They would break about once and some times twice a month ever since if I lift or chop it makes it worse.
Q: How has your testicle been since you came from the Army?
A: It gradually got bigger and of late has affected my leg and side and one eye.
Q: Were you treated for your piles while in the Army?
A: No sir, only by myself.
Q: Have you ever been treated for them since your muster out?
A: Yes, about six years ago I first asked Dr. Purdy about it and he said he could not do it any good, he told me to take physic and keep my bowels open.
Q: Has any physician treated you for your testicle since your muster out?
A: No one but Purdy the first was about a year ago he drew water out of it.
Q: How much were you disabled from performing ordinary manual labor on account of injury to testicle in 1865 and each year since?
A: About ½ until six years ago and since that I was disabled 2/3 until now.
Q: How much were you disabled in 1865 and each year since on account of the hemorrhoids?
A: About 1/3 all the time til now.
Q: How much of an ordinary man's labor was you able to perform in 1865 and each year since?
A: I suppose about 1/2 til six years ago and since that 1/3.
Q: Which disease has disabled you most?
A: The testicle.
Q : Where did you reside for five years before enlistment?
A: On 3 Mile Creek near where I do now. Q: And since your discharge?
A: The same place.
Q: Who was your family physician before enlistment?
A: Dr. Purdy.
Q: What witnesses do you want to testify in support of your claim and what do you expect to prove by them, and their P.O. addresses.
A: I want on contraction:
Ellis Palmer, Bradyville
Maj. Fred Bierbower, Maysville, Kentucky
Wm. Glover, Maysville, Kentucky
James Hunt, Maysville, Kentucky
Henry Boon, On Little 3 Mile
On continuation I want:
Ell is Palmer, Bradyville, Ohio
House Mitchell, Manchester, Ohio
Jos eph Chain, Bradyville, Ohio
Sam Matthews, Bradyville, Ohio
Q: Do you desire to be present in person or to be represented by an attorney during the examinations of the witnesses for the purpose of hearing their testimony and of cross examining them, etc.?
A: I want Capt Shelton to attend to it for me.
Q: Where have you resided each year since you came from the Army?
A: I lived on Samuel Bradford's farm nine years.
Q: What were you doing there?
A: I had a little lease there on some land and worked for Bradford some.
Q: Where have you lived since that?
A: Where I do now here on Little Three Mile.
Q: Who were your nearest neighbors when you lived on S. Bradford's place?
A: Samuel Bradford, Samuel Mathews, Henry Boone.
Q: Where are they?
A: Samuel Bradford is dead; the others are living there yet.
Q: Who were your most intimate friends and associates during the first few years after your return from the Army?
A: Mr. Samuel Mathews and my brother Henry were.
Q: Who did you work with the first year and for the next few years?
A: Cyrus and Amos Bradford but the most of the time I worked for myself on the ground I had leased.
Q: Please begin with the accident and give me a history of your injury and the symptoms of the same from that day until this.
A: The horse stumbled and fell on his knees and throwed me upon the pummel of the saddle and mashed my right seed, it hurt me bad but I went on and it swelled some that day, but it was swelled worse next morning and was sorer and there was a ridge running down my side to my seed and the seed was swelled some and was sore. I went to the drugstore and got some Chinese liniment and rubbed it, it got better in about a month, and I didn't do any duty for about a month. It still kept sore and pains in it and the cord never got as small as it was before and it kept getting bigger and bigger gradually all the time until two years ago Dr. Purdy cut it then and took from one to two quarts of water, and since that it filled up again and "busted" inside of me, and the water run up in me someplace and Purdy said it scattered in the skin, and in two or three days the water had all gone up and then in a few days it began coming back in it again and it has pained me all the time and sometimes very bad.
/s/ Jacob Boone, deponent Subscribed before me this 13th day of May 1883, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
/s / H. C. LaForce, Special Examiner
Th e Special Examiner's Notation: "Doubtful"
Exhibit C
State of Ohio
County of Adams, SS:
On this 19th day of December A.D. 1881, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Joseph Chain, age 48 years, Samuel Mathews, age 44 years; Ellis Palmer age 64 years, and House Mitchell, age 59 years and Thomas Lowe age 56 years, all of Bradyville post office, except House Mitchell, his address is Manchester, Ohio. Persons whom I certify to be reputable and entitled to credit and who after being duly sworn according to law, say in relation to Jacob Boone, late of Co. A., 4th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, and in relation to his claim No. 265.326 for Invalid Pension that they have known him well and personally for the last 30 to 40 years and lived near neighbor to him before and since his enlistment and labored with him before his enlistment in aforesaid service at various kinds of labor such as reaping, cradling, chopping, house and barn raising, and never heard him complain of any disability whatever before his enlistment in aforesaid service and believed him to be clear and free from any disability of testicles and hemorrhoids before his said enlistment, and from his ability to labor believed him to be a stout, hearty, able-bodied man before his enlistment. Affiants have known him personally well ever since his discharge out of aforesaid service and have labored with him and know that he is greatly disabled on account of disability of testicles and hemorrhoids of which he has complained ever since his discharge to the present time affiants have saw him often since his discharge sometimes daily and weekly and do not consider him able to perform any hard manual labor whatever but he being a poor man is compelled to do light labor on farm. The above declaration is made from affiants own personal knowledge, living near neighbors to him and therefore believe he contracted the aforesaid afflictions while he was in the U. S. service, and have no interest whatever in the prosecution of the above claim.
/s/ Joseph Chain Samuel Matthews, Ellis (X) Palmer, (his mark), House Mitchell, Thomas LoweFiled by John Shelton, Bradyville, Ohio.
Jacob Boone was issued a $4/month pension on 5 November 1883; increased to $8 on 5 February 1890; and increased to $12 on 7 October 1891. Jacob died 19 February 1902, having been paid pension by the Pension Agent at Columbus, Ohio up to the 4th day of December 1901.
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