Elisha Baer lived in Greenville Township of Somerset County, Pennsylvania and served in Company K of the 171st Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War. The affidavits have signatures of various individuals, including Dr. A.F. Speicher, B.J. Yoder, Ishmael J. Baer, Augustus Sass, S.M. Housel, and Noah Lint.
Click here to access all of the pages of the pension file of Elisha Baer and his wife Polly in a single pdf document (2,483 KB).
Individual pages of the pension file:
File cover sheet (1,419 KB JPG)
March 21, 1889 declaration for original invalid pension of Elisha Baer (1,759 KB JPG)
June 11, 1889 Adjutant General's Office service record summary for Elisha Baer (1,070 KB JPG)
August 25, 1891 affidavit of Elisha Baer (1,155 KB JPG)
March 25, 1896 declaration for widow's pension of Polly Baer (1,740 KB JPG)
March 27, 1896 affidavit of A.F. Speicher, M.D. (1,428 KB JPG)
March 27, 1896 nearly identical affidavit of A.F. Speicher, M.D. (1,317 KB JPG)
March 28, 1896 affidavit of B.J. Yoder (1,389 KB JPG)
March 28, 1896 nearly identical affidavit of B.J. Yoder (1,400 KB JPG)
July 30, 1896 affidavit of Augustus Sass (1,366 KB JPG)
April 30, 1898 affidavit of Polly Baer (1,288 KB JPG)
January 12, 1899 affidavit of I.J. Baer (1,339 KB JPG)
January 12, 1899 affidavit of S.M. Housel (1,290 KB JPG)
January 12, 1899 affidavit of James Murray (1,389 KB JPG)
January 13, 1899 affidavit of Augustus Sass (1,305 KB JPG)
January 13, 1899 affidavit of Noah Lint (1,357 KB JPG)
November 12, 1927 Drop Pension Report for Polly Baer (544 KB JPG)
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