Military Pension Files for widow Rebecca and Private Andrew Clark, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Co. D

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by "Southern rebels" and negro-haters, she was unable

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and the officiating minister is now deceased. That it was never customary to make any record of the marriages of the free colored people in Maryland, or to give any marriage certificates to them.

3rd That there were no eye-witnesses of the ceremony.

4th That there is no church record, of the baptism of any of their children or of any child.

5th That as the best evidence of her marriage she presents the affidavit of George W. Ford of Baltimore County, Maryland, showing that they (Andrew Clark and Rebecca Clark) had habitually recognized each other as man and wife and lived together as such for a definite period next preceding the soldier's enlistment not less than two years.

That an account of the county about Catonsville Maryland being thinly settled and chiefly

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Fold3.com. "Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 - ca. 1910." National Archives Catalog #300020. "Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Veterans of the Army and Navy Who Served Mainly in the Civil War and the War With Spain, compiled 1861 - 1934." Free Access Civil War Records 1-15 April 2019.