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Sunday, November 8, 2009

DAR application -- 1901 and letter from husband to Pension Office

Below are the DAR application papers for my gg grandmother, Sophia Davis Bishop, dated Oct. 2, 1901. After working with the two sets of application papers yesterday, I realized I had received these copies from the DAR, and just recently looked at them again. However, Sophia's membership certificate was held in our family until 15 years ago, when I donated the very large certificate to the DAR.

Sophia was born January 11, 1831 and died May 03, 1928.