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Images of actual application and approval with witness signatures
In 1899, the Texas legislature passed a pension act for veterans of the Civil
War and their widows. Lavica Ann Dyches Bingham applied that year and was approved. Witnesses
were her niece E.J. Kile and her husband J.W. Kile (a cousin).The following documents are
actual images of the handwritten documents used to for this claim.
