Bounty Land Div }

Evans }

Department of the Interior

Pension Office

Washington, D.C. Oct 2d, 1877

Dear Madam

Herewith transmitted to your

Address the Bible which was sent to this

Office by Mrs. Agnes Ashley Widow of

William Ashley to be filed in evidence

in her case when she made application

for pension.

Please acknowledge the receipt of the

Book on the back of this letter and return

it (the letter) to this office in the en-

closed envelope.

Mrs. Sarah Ashley } Very Respectfully

Antreville P.O. }

Abbeville Co } J. A. Bentley

S.C. } Commissioner

*Notes: This letter is handwritten on Department of the Interior letterhead paper.

A Sarah A. Ashley appears on the 1880 census of Abbeville Co., SC, Diamond Hill Township (the area of Antreville)

Dwelling # 338 Family # 346. She, aged 60 and widowed, and her daughter Rebecca Ashley, aged 35 and single, are living in the household of Levi Gilmore aged 30. Gilmore has a wife and 5 children. Sarah's relationship to William Ashley is unknown to me at this time.

A pension abstract states that Mrs. Ashley noted on the back of the commissioner's letter that she received the Bible "all right".

Transcribed by: Dennis Smith

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