This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hV.2ADE/2287.1 Message Board Post: You didn't mention if your grandmother might have been married twice. This would be important if: First marriage was to a Confederate soldier who was killed in the war, or was a veteran. He died, and she remarried. The second husband died. At this point, if she was either without income or property, which was very probable, or disabled, she could have gotten a pension on the record of the first huband's service. This was possible under the Arkansas pension laws, at least up in to the early 1920's. My great-grandmother had a pension of this type. In this case, it is recorded under the name of the first husband. If this is a possibility, then there is a published index of CSA pensions granted in Arkansas (they have this at most major genealogy sections in the libraries around the area - Little Rock, Dallas, etc. - check online catalogs). This is useful, because the pension applied based on the residence in Arkansas at the time of the application, not the state from which they originally served. In this case, the applications and following papers are on microfilm at the Arkansas History Commission. There were other pensions, but I am not aware of a published index. Again, checking at the Arkansas History Commission is a very good first step. If something of that nature exists, they will have it. The best source would be a probate record. If she was actively receiving the pension at the time of her death, there would be a requirement to notify the state that she was deceased to close the payments. The County Clerk or Probate Clerk would have done this. You might inquire with the Probate Court Clerk in Johnson County to see if there was any such record.