Filed for an Invalid Pension:
(1) Gunshot wound of the ring finger of the left hand, in the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, May 9, 1864. Also, for rheumatism and other hardships of military life.
Sarah Williams Dewees filed for a Widows Pension:
(1) After the death of Alfred E. S. Dewees, Sarah his widow filed for widow's benefits.
One of the affadavits was from Henry Spencer Dewees, Alfred's brother.
Military Service can be seen in Benjamin Casto's Pension, Alfred's brother. His service included the New River Campaign (Battle of Cloyd's Mountain), Lynchburg Campaign, action in the Shenandoah, Petersburg, and Appomattox Campaign.
Geneological:
(1) Born March 17, 1825 parents: Samuel & Edith Dewees
place: Parchment Valley, Jackson County, (West) Virginia
(2) married twice:
(a) Elizabeth Casto, daughter of William Casto
and Susanna Rollins, on May 9, 1844 in Jackson County (records and affadavit)
by D.G. Morrill <signed G.B. Crow, Clerk
of Courts on May 19, 1900.
(b) Sarah Williams Dewees, September 5, 1872, in Athens County, Ohio. Sarah was the widow of Hamilton Taylor Dewees, the nephew of Alfred. Hamilton was killed, September 28, 1868, on the Marietta-Chilicothe-Cincinnati RR working in a tunnel on a track crew.
children:
(1) Elizabeth J. Dewees b. ca. 1844 (mother:
Elizabeth Casto)
Died: March 25, 1900 Marshfield, Athens County,
Ohio
Buried: Old Marshfield Cemetery
Sources:
(1) Pension Records
(2) Will (secondary to Pension information)
(3) Birth (included in Pension)
(4) Death (included in Pension)