Description
Horace Ringo alias Horace Smith: 67th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company C. Additional service: 3rd Missouri Colored Infantry, Company C.
✦ Widow Pension: #102,452, Certificate #147,157
(Researcher's note: Horace Ringo enlisted at Liberty, Missouri, on January 1, 1864, and was mustered in as a Private in the 67th USCT Infantry, Company C.
On January 21, 1867, Elizabeth A. Ringo of Clay County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation ##2536 for enlisted slave Horace Ringo and swore an oath of allegiance before Clay County notary public James E. Lincoln. Elizabeth A. Ringo claimed she had acquired title to Horace by “…said slave was given to her by her deceased husband Samuel Ringo in his lifetime.” Numerous Platte County Ringos were enslavers.
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
7/18/1865