After posting my first message, I found the URL's posted for the records I needed. THANKS! Don't over look this valuable resource. I ordered the documents for my great-grandmother's request for a pension based on her third husband's service - not in my direct line. From this document, I was able to ascertain that he was receiving a pension for service in the Creek Indian wars and that she was now receiving this pension (a princely $8 per month) so the confederate one was denied. Then it was off to the National Archives which yielded me a bonanza of information. From those documents I found the dates of her first two marriages, the death dates of both husbands (one my great grandfather), notarized statements from men of the community who had known her and the other husbands and attested to their uprightness in the community and their birth and death dates. Also, because her last pension check was received at Shiloh post office after her death and the postmaster sent it back with request for instructions I was able to find her death date which I had not found so far. Yes, most interesting reading. I also think I can pinpoint some of the witnesses into some of my collateral ancestors lines, too from these documents. Ruth Stout