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State of Louisiana }
Record of Orleans }SS
On this sixteenth day of October A. D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-five, personally appeared before me, William S. Benedict, Deputv Clerk of the U. S. District Court, in and for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the same being a Court of Record, Rebecca Nixon, widow of Geo.
H.	Nixon, aged Seventy-eight years, a resident of New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, who being duly sworn according to law' declares that she is the identical Rebecca Nixon, who was a pensioner on the roll of the agency at New Orleans, and whose pension certificate is herewith returned; that she has resided since the first day of January as follows: at New Orleans, La., that during this period her means of subsistence have been-Charitv-from friends and relatives; and that she has not in any manner encouraged the rebels, or manifested a svmpathv with their cause and that she was hist paid her pension to the 3rd day of September 1859.
This application is made for the purpose of securing a restoration of her name to the pension rolls and of obtaining a new certificate, such as she may be entitled to under existing law's, reference being made to the evidence heretofore filed in the Pension office to substantiate her original claim.
P. O. Address No. 288 Calliope St, Corner St. Charles and Callioppe St. N. O. La.
Rebecca Nixon
Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 16th day of October 1865.
W. S. Benedict
By Clerk U. S. Dist. Court Eastn Dist of La.