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Title: Military Pension Files for widow Emma and Private Joseph J. Rice, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Co. D. Special examination by RM Morris. Deposition A of Norman G. Simmons. p. 3
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Where: Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States
When: 16 May 1902
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DEPOSITION A
Case of Emma Rice, No. 717484
On this 16 day of May, 1902, at Camden, county of Camden, State of N[ew] J[ersey], before me, R M Morris, a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Norman G Simmons (Colored), who, being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says:
I am 65 years old, light laboring work, P[ost] O[ffice] 704 Baxter St[reet] in rear.
I was in the U.S. Navy, and Honey Hill. I went with others ashore for 31 days and I came in contact with colored soldiers, and met Joseph Rice and my impression is he was in some Co[mpany] of the 32 U[nited] S[tates] C[olored] T[roops]. The 54 Mass[achusetts] U.S.C.T [pedantic researcher note: the 54th was a state regiment, and never joined the USCT. The 54th USCT was a regiment based out of Arkansas.] was also there. I never met him before. I came to Camden NJ in 1865 and been here ever since. I met Joseph Rice here in Camden N.J. and I knew him up to his death, and he and I carried the hod [brick hods for masonry] together and worked at laboring work. He married the woman who is claiming this pension but I cannot recall her first name or her maiden name. I did not know her before her marriage, but I would see her. I was not present at the marriage, but I saw the Certificate. I do not think he had any previous marriage, nor do I think she was ever previously married. I never heard of any previous marriage.
They lived together until he died. He was sick a year before he died. He was a member of a G[rand] A[rmy of the] R[epublic] with me. I visited him when he was sick but cannot say what his disease was. I was present at his funeral
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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."
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