Description
Benjamin Jeffers / Jefferson: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company B, Private.
✦ Widow Pension #143,338, no Certificate indicated
(Researcher's note: Benjamin Jefferson enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas on January 13, 1864, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company B.
On December 29, 1866, Malinda Risk of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #267 for enlisted slave Benjamin Jefferson and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County notary public James J. Hitt. Malinda Risk claimed she had acquired title to Benjamin by “…purchase through the heirs of Abram Risk in Platte County, Missouri, in the year 1855.”
As of July 1, 2026, Civil War U. S. C. T. Pension Record case files are not currently available on the Internet and would need to be ordered from the National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/pre-ww-1-records.)Date(s) of Creation
6/17/1879