Her son served in Company B, 5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry, Civil War. He settled in Kansas in 1866. Riker needs information to prove her claim for a dependent mother's Civil War pension.
The National Tribune (Washington, DC), February 5, 1885, page 6, <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016187/1885-02-05/ed-1/seq-6/#date1=1789&index=17&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Mary+Riker&proxdistance=5&date2=1963&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=mary+a+riker&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1>
"WANTED-By Mary A. Riker, Hastings, Westchester Co., N.Y.-The year of the death of Jos. A. Riker, 5th Mass. (colored) Cav., who settled in Kansas, 1866."
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