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/oMB.2ACI/486.2.1 Message Board Post: Cheryl, In John Ralston's pension papers is an affadavit dated Feb. 19,1894, from a Lanora Luke, aged 37 and resident of Grundy Co., Mo. She states that she is a daughter of John Ralston and his first wife, Rebecca ( no maiden name given for Rebecca). Lanora further states that Rebecca died in Feb. 1877 in Grundy Co. An affadavit dated Feb. 20, 1894, by E. D. Luke (presumably Lanora's husband) aged 42 , states that John Ralston died Jan. 13, 1894, in Grundy Co., in "my own house." John Ralston's Certificate of Disability for Discharge states that he enlisted on Aug. 8, 1862, into the 87th Regiment on Indiana Volunteers at Rochester, Indiana. He was 33 years of age at the time of enlistment and was born in Henry Co., Indiana. He is described as 5' 8" tall with fair complexion, gray eyes ,and brown hair. He was discharged May 15, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn., due to typhoid pneumonia. Nothing in the pension papers names his parents. Hope this helps, Bob