[email protected] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am still looking for a Gordon who married Isaac Dickie. She may have been > born in PEI. Isaac was born about 1830. Their last child was born about 1860 > and then Isaac moved from NS to Mass and joined the union army. But there is > no record of his wife in his pension files. Any info? > > Thanks, > Gloria Gloria --- HIS pension was not based on his marital status, only his service, so no mention should have been made of his wife in HIS pension file. Have you checked for HER widow's pension file? It will be linked to his in the index. If he moved to MA and joined the Union Army, either his service record, his pension record or both will indicate the town he enlisted from. Even tho you say HE moved to MA, I assume his family went with him. In that case, they'll probably be reflected in the 1860 census in the town he enlisted from. You don't indicate whether he returned to NS after the War, nor where he died. His death certificate would give the next of kin. His obit would give names and locations of relatives, possibly including in-laws. When you find out where he died (or already know), you can do a search at www.newspapers.com to see if there's a paper still being published in that town. If so, you can see if they have a web page or e-mail address and ask if they were in existence at the time of his death, and that if they weren't do they know what paper(s) were, etc, etc.. -- Cheers, Jim Gordon, Laurel, MD USA