Description
Jack Brown: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company H, Sergeant. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company H.
✦ Invalid Pension: #1,038,606, Certificate #737,802
✦ Widow Pension: #663,599, Certificate #569,687
(Researcher's note: Jack Brown enlisted at the Sac & Fox Agency on April 20, 1863, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company J.
On January 19, 1867, Reuben Browning of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #264 for enlisted slave Jack Brown and swore an oath of allegiance before Weston, Missouri, Court of Common Pleas Clerk William F. Yocum. Browning claimed he had acquired title to Jack by “…that he owned him from infancy and raised him; that he was born the slave of affiant.”
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
7/11/1890