Archive:Civil War Pension File, Jesse B. Whitney

From the Civil War Pension File of Jesse B. Whitney Co. F, 9th Maine Infantry Widow, Iona Wallace Widow’s Application #402039 National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.

On 2 August 1889 from Bradley Co., Tennessee, Iona Wallace signed a Declaration for Widow’s Army Pension. She is forty years old, and a resident of Cleveland, Bradley Co., Tennessee. She is the widow of Jesse B. Whitney, who enlisted in Maine on 21 September 1861 as a Private in Co., F, commanded by Capt. E.S. Bisbee, in the 9th Regiment of Maine Volunteers. While in the service and in his line of duty he contracted disabilities from which he died at Faribault County, Minnesota on 11 May 1881. She was married to Jessie B. Whitney in Faribault Co., Minnesota on 8 December 1864. Her maiden name was Iona Annis. She remained a widow of Jessie B. Whitney until she remarried to Charles Wallace on 21 July 1883. The following are the children of herself and her deceased husband who are alive and under the age of sixteen:

  Charles E., b. 2 June 1866
  Sidney G., b. 4 May 1868
  Cora E., b. 10 February 1873
  Ada B., b. 27 May 1875

Her husband had never previously married and left no other minor children. Witnesses to the declaration are Paul Crites and M.L. Julian.

Paul Crites of Sherman Heights, Hamilton Co., Tennessee submitted testimony that Charles, Sidney and Ada remain alive, and that Cora died 9 January 1891.

Rev. J.E. Conrad, age 75, of Mapleton, Blue Earth Co., Minnesota testified that on or about 8 December 1864 he performed the marriage ceremony between Iona Annis (now Iona Wallace) and Jesse B. Whitney.