State of Wisconsin

County of Vernon

On this the 5^th day of April, 1871 before me a clerk of the circuit court in and for the county and state above named, personally appeared Mrs. Sarah Connelly aged eighty years on the 16^th day of August, 1871, a resident of the town of Clayton in the county of Crawford and State of Wisconsin who being duly sworn on oath doth depose and say and declare, that she is the widow of Henry Connelly deceased who was a Lieutenant ( whether first or second Lieutenant she is unable to state) in Company commanded by Captain Rhodes Knead or Meed ( this would be Rhodes Meade j.e.c.) in the Regiment commanded Col. Francis Brown the same being a Kentucky Regiment of Volunteers, in the War of 1812 with Great Brittain. Thus her husband entered the service some time in the year of 1814 but the day and month she cannot remember, for the term of over sixty days, and was honorably discharged as I believe. She further states that she is unable to tell the company or the number of the Regiment to which her said husband belonged.

She further states that she was married to the said Henry Connelly in the County of Clay in the State of Kentucky on the 20^th day of August A.D. 1810 by one Spencer Adams, a Baptist preacher, and that she is still the widow of the said Henry Connelly, that there is no public record of said marriage or of her husband’s death. That she cannot now obtain the evidence of any eye witness of her marriage for so long as twenty years ago there was but one living. And further that at no time during the late Rebellion against the Authority of the United States did I adhere to the enemies of the United States government neither give them aid or comfort, and I also solemnly swear to support the Constitution of the United States. She further says she has received a Land Warrant from the United States by reason of the services of her said husband the number of which is unknown but she refers if proper to the evidence of on file in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office on which such warrant or warrants may have issued in support of this claim.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the pension to which she may be entitled on account of the services of her said husband, that she has never applied or received a pension under any act of Congress and she hereby constitutes and appoints William F. Terhume of Veroqua, Vernon County Wisconsin her attorney with full power of substitution and revocation to prosecute her claim for a pension under the act of Congress granting pensions to the Officers and Soldiers and their widows for military service rendered in the War of 1812, for which this declaration is made.

My post office address is Readstown, Vernon County, Wisconsin.

Sarah Connelly