© Copyright 2000 James David Pearce
FIRST AND ONLY WIFE
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Jan. 2, 1915
Sir: Please answer at your earliest convenience the questions enumerated below. The information is requested for future use, and it may be of great value to your widow or children. Use the inclosed envelope, which requires no stamp.
Signed
Commissioner of Pensions
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ISAAC PIERCE
506209
1. Date and place of birth? Hertford County, North Carolina.
2. What was your post office at enlistment? Newbern NC.
3. State your wife's full name and her maiden name:
Annie Maria Pierce – Salter.
4. When, where, and by whom were you married? May 24, 1864,
James Warde, Justice of Peace at Beaufort, N.C.
5. Is there any official or church record of your marriage? No.
6. Were you previously married? No.
If so, state the name of your former wife, the date of the marriage, and the date and place of her death or divorce. If there was more than one previous marriage, let your answer include all former wives.
Answer: None. I never married but one time.
Got the first and only wife now.
7. If your present wife was married before her marriage to you, state etc:
Was never married before.
8. Are you now living with your wife, or has there been a separation?
Living with her now.
9. State the names and dates of birth of all your children, living or dead.
C. W. Pierce (dead), born March 20 1865
Walter J. Pierce, born Nov. 14 1866
J. J. Pierce, born Oct. 7 1869
James F. Pierce, born Jan. 13 1872
Isaac T. Pierce, born March 4 1875
Rosa H. Pierce, born June 13 1878
Arthur D. Pierce, born April 13 1881
Ernest M. Pierce, born June 9 1884
Signed
Isaac Pierce
March 29, 1915
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Ann Maria Salter Pierce/Pearce
Phoebus Va., c. 1900
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