Washington Allen, Private in Company "A" 135th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers; foster mother Jane A. Beatty (application # 312,251). On January 10, 1884 Jane A. Beatty, aged 73 and a resident of Indiana County, Pennsylvania files a Mother's Claim for pension. She states that she is foster mother of Washington Allen who enlisted at Indiana, Pa. on August 14, 1862 in Company "A" 135th Pa. Volunteers as a Private in the war of the rebellion and who died "in the patent office in Washington D. C. of Typhoid fever and pneumonia on the 12th day of December A. D. 1862." Jane states that she married the father of her "adopted" son in Ireland at a date and time not remembered and that they never had any children. E. Paige and Joseph Swartz are witnesses to Jane Beatty's signature. >From a deposition by Jane A. Beatty: "My husband James I. Beatty is living, but we having no children, we adopted Washington Allen, who was legally bound to us at the age of one year and ten months as our legal heir. We willed the said Washington Allen our entire possessions prior to the 14 of August 1862, the said will is now on file in the 2d Auditors office in Washington D. C., that in December after the death of our adopted son Washington Allen, we received from the Government the sum of $52.00 for back pay and allowance and $25.00 for funeral expenses making (several words obscured by fold) to enlistment we were partially dependent on deceased; for he knowing he was our selected heir assumed the control of our affairs financially; that in his death we lost, I can freely say, our only stay in our old age, for no one has since or ever can take his place with us. As to my husband's loyalty, it is enough to know that nothing but his age debarred him from enlisting in the cause of his country, he was then, at the time of our adopted sons enlistment over fifty years of age, and was rejected on that account. Our claim is not so much for past or even present dependence but from the fact that he was willed our entire possessions prior to enlistment would make him our sole and entire dependence. We are now aged and infirm and necessarily must come a charge to some one soon if life lasts -Enclosed you will find a tabulated Statement from the Commissioners clerk of our county of our taxable property since 1867. We have no desire to attempt to impress the Department that we are low and groveling but we do think as our case stands unbiased of all prejudices that we are entitled to some consideration from the Department. But Sir Commissioners whatever your decision is, in our case, knowing the facts as herein represented we bow in submission, at the same time there is deep down in our breast the knowledge that, we gave our treasure and our all, to our country's cause, in her hour of peril, and if there is nothing due, we ask nothing." Jane A. Beatty An excerpt from a letter dated January 21, 1884, written by Jane's lawyer, Harvey J. Fulmer: "the old people are quite illiterate and Irish, who bequeathed their entire possessions to this Washington Allen, their legally adopted heir. And they now retain the impression that had he lived he would be their support and Stay in their declining years, as viewed by the County Court Clerks Statement-you will see they possess ample means for their maintenance. But they, as I have said have the impression that their sacrificing their legal heir for their Country, and their unquestioned loyalty to "their Country" entitles them to some consideration from the Government now in their old age. So you see how the matter stands and if in your opinion there is no show of anything for them, please write them a private letter, telling them why their claim cannot be allowed, for as I have said they are ignorant people, and I know a few lines from you, will settle the matter forever, and do more than a weeks talk and reasoning by me. 1860, Indiana County, Armstrong Township, p14A James I. Beaty 58 Ire Jane Beaty 58 Ire Washington Beaty 18 PA 1870 Indiana County, Armstrong Twp, p14A James Beaty 67 Ire Jane Beaty 70 Ire Sarah Beaty 8 PA 1880 West Indian, Indiana County, PA, p 26D James Beaty 70 IRE, IRE, IRE Jane Beaty 80 IRE, IRE, IRE Sarah Beaty, servant PA, PA, PA Laurel Baty, L252