This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLARK, KINCHELOE, HOY Classification: Pension Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2244 Message Board Post: Deposition by Sarah E. Kincheloe Hoy Regarding Pension of Joseph T. Clark's Widow Deposition C. Case of Iva E. Clark, W.O. No. 1,005,683 On this 23rd day of March, 1914 at Council Bluffs, County of Pottawatomie, State of Iowa, before me, George M. Beckett, a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Sarah E. Hoy, 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 was 65 years old last April. P. O. Address: Roca, Lancaster Co., Neb. I am the wife of Daniel Hoy, a farmer. This claimant is my own sister, a younger sister. We have always lived pretty close to each other. I have no pecuniary interest in her pension claim. I knew her husband the soldier, Thomas Clark, John Thomas Clark, before he married this claimant. I first met him about three years after the war. The first I knew of him he worked for my father. I think he boarded at my father's until he was married to this claimant. I never knew any of his relations. I do not know anyone else who would know anything about him before I met with him. This claimant was married but the one time, that was to John Thomas Clark. I don't know how they were married whether in ceremony or not. They had a certificate. I cannot say I saw it. I have heard her say she had one and that it was lost one time while they were moving. I do not know by whom they were married or in what place. My brother Taylor Kincheloe was married at the same time and place. He married a Lois Hultz. It was an elopement on my brothers part, but not on claimant's. A man named Zach Lyons went with them also. He was not dead the last I heard of him and that was in 1900. Mr. Hoy was then back in Parkersburg, and saw him. I could not say why they went to a place other than Parkersburg to get married. I think they were under age. I think they went away on my brother's account, because his wife's parents objected to their marriage. That was I cannot tell whether it was in 1868 or 1869, and I think in October or November. I remember distinctly their going away, and it was our knowledge and understanding that they were going away to get married. I am pretty sure it was one of the two months named, tho not positive. I am sure it was in the Fall of the year. I was not at home at the time, but lived right close, probably a quarter of a mile away. I never doubted their being married. Yes, I think they did go to Ohio. I won't say positive that they were married in Ohio, but I think they were. I think they told me where they had been married but I could not tell now. My parents accepted the fact of their marriage. Yes sir, they lived together, that is claimant and soldier, continuously from their marriage to his death. It was last March he died, but I do not remember exactly what date. She has not remarried since then. My brother Taylor was living the last I heard, tho he was pretty sick. He is living in Parkersburg, W. Va. We have heard from him within a year. The soldier had never been married before he married the claimant, to my knowledge or hearing. Well, yes, he was a pretty young man when I first met him, probably 25 years old. I never heard him say that he had been or that he had not been married before he married this claimant. She had 10 children by the soldier, counting the one that died. Yes sir, one of the children, the oldest one was born before the time, probably after seven months, after they claimed to have been married. There was not much said, in fact nothing was said about this premature birth, tho there was the suspicion that there had been prior intimacy between them. We never at any time, for that reason or any other, doubted the fact of their having been ceremonially married. We had a supper for them, a wedding supper at home when they returned. They were not gone more than two or three days. I did not see them off when they went. No sir, they, soldier and claimant were never separated or divorced. They always seemed to get along first rate together. I am correctly recorded in this deposition which I have read. Your questions were fully understood. I cannot say for sure, whether soldier's name was John Thomas or Joseph Thomas, I know he signed himself J. T. Clark. This is correct also and was read by me. Sarah E. Hoy - Deponent Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of March 1914, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing. George M. Beckett - Special Examiner http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/bios/dep-sekhoy.htm