This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLARK, KINCHELOE, DYE Classification: Pension Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2322 Message Board Post: Deposition Case of Ellen M. (Dye) Clark, W.O. 606, 181 On this 4th day of Sept. 1908 at Sand Plains, County of Wood, State of West Va., before me George M. Beckett a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Florence Kincheloe, who being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to her during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says: I am 57 years of age. Wife of J. Taylor Kincheloe. P. O. Parkersburg, WV, R. F. D. # 8. I lived about ½ mile from Abisha Clark at the time of his death and had lived neighbor from my childhood. I was quite often in his home during the last months of his life and at his home the day before he died. Well no, I did not think he was dying the last time I saw him but I thought he would not live until morning. Well, Mrs. Clark said that day that he was getting worse each spell and she was quite uneasy about him that day. I don’t recall as to his health in particular until about the last 20 years of his life. I do not recall in what way he began ailing, that is to the exacting cause, but it was his lungs that troubled him at first. It was then said that he had several hemorrhages from the lungs, but I had heard of him having hemorrhages now and then until his death but never saw him in one, nor noticed that the phlegm was streaked with blood. He always spit up in a pan of ashes by his side. Oh yes, he spit up a good deal. Coughed and spit up for years or until death & became very thin in flesh and was very stooped; and he lived years longer than he was expected to live, but he had good care from his family & he was scarcely out of his house for years. Walk out into the yard & that almost exhausted him. I don’t know about hectic flush or night sweats or running off at the bowels, not even at the last. I think Mrs. Clark told me once that he had no bowel trouble. No I don’t recall that he or Mrs. Clark or anyone else say that he had heart disease, stomach, liver, kidney or bladder troubles. I recollect saying on several occasions to Mrs. Clark and the other members of the family that it was a wonder that some other disease did not develop in as much as he sat so long and got no exercise, but they always claimed that he did not seemed to be bothered with anything other than lung troubles, shortness of breath & smothering spells. I know nothing about his heartbeat, whether fast or slow or as to his temperature or whether his heart fluttered or palpitated. I never heard him complain at all about any pain in any part. I know I saw him have smothering spells especially after walking in the yard. The last day that I saw him alive, his head was way back & he was gasping for breath and was in misery on that account. Did not complain – just choked up and gasping for breath. No I don’t recall that he had a fever or pneumonia, Lagrippe nor (unreadable handwriting) with his old ailment. He had worse spells when he took cold & of course he took cold easily. (Rest of deposition is unreadable due to poor handwriting). Not related or interested. Questions fully understood and was correctly recorded and read to me. Florence Kincheloe - Deponent Subscribed and sworn to me before the 4th day of Sept. 1908, and certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing. George M. Beckett, Special Examiner