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1. Death of William Columbus RickersonGeneral AffidavitState of Missouri ))County of Barton )In the matter of Pension Claim of Catherine E Tydings widow of John W Tydings of Co. "H" 28th Regt KY ---Vols.On this 31st day of March, A. D. 1897, personally appeared before a Notary Public in and for the aforesaid County, duly authorized to administer oaths Talitha A Travis aged 48 years, a resident of Central Township in the County of Barton and State of Missouri well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declared in relation to aforesaid case as follows: the affiance said she is the Daughter of Mrs Catherine E Tydings the claimant and she said her Father William C Rickerson the first Husband of Catjerine E Tydings was killed by Bushwhackers five miles from Vanburen Arkansas on the Nineteenth day of April 1864 The defiance said her Father and Mother had been living in Lamar Co Texas and were moving out of Texas trying to get inside of union lines. The defiance said she was with Her Father and Mother all this time until her father was killed. The bushwhackers had taken their Horses and Father went to town of Vanburen to see about getting to Springfield, Mo with emigrant Train. As Father was coming from Vanburen he was shot within about one mile of our stopping place.The defiance said she is the only child of parents and everyone there was strangers to them. Her Father was shot through the head and was dead when we found him-------This affidavit was dictated by me to A H Scofield on March 20th, 1897 at Lamar, Mo and was written down as I dictated and I was not dictated to by any person or persons or prompted by any writing or printed statement proposed by others in writing this affidavit.Her post office address is Iantha-Barton CO---Missouri.She further declared she has no interest in said case and is not concernedinits prosecution.Tallitha A Travis(Signature of Affiant).