This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KITE LARKIN WELLS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mYSBAEB/285 Message Board Post: Yes, Pat, it has been confirmed that Benjamin F. Treadway's unit was in the Union service. My understanding is that these Provisional Enrolled MO Militia units were not paid by the Federal Government, but by the local government. So, Eliza probably did not recieve a pension for him. She may have received a pension for her second husband Jeptha KITE.