Mrs Byard seeking information about Robert Byard, believed to be her husband (two ads)
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Mrs. Byard seeking information on her husband, Robert Byard, who enlisted in Company C, 4th Massachusetts U.S. Colored Troops, 1865. She needs the information to obtain a Civil War widow's pension. The reply to her ad is also attached.
The St. Albans Daily Messenger, December 10, 1898: Calvin H. Clark, Overseer of the Poor in Medford, Massachusetts, replied to the ad, stating that a man named Robert Byard died in that town on October 28, 1898.
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November 26, 1898
Jesse Nasta
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Venus Safford searching for her son Hiram
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Hiram left Montpelier, Vermont, nearly 20 years ago [ca 1823]. He was in New Orleans when last heard of. His mother placed this antebellum ad in 1843.
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May 17, 1843
Jesse Nasta
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