This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/1735.3 Message Board Post: Mary J. Sheley applied for a Civil War pension on Aug. 30, 1865 as the widow of Horace Sheley. He was with the 13th Iowa Infantry. Could these be your people? Could Horace have died so long ago?