Description
John Brown: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company E. Transferred January or February 1865, discharged June 7, 1865. Died April 1, 1876, at Leavenworth, Kansas (see 04/02/1876 news article about John Brown drowning near Leavenworth, Kansas). Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company E and H.
✦ Widow Pension: #1,124,705, Certificate #886,434
(Researcher's note: John Brown enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas, on August 8, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company D.
On January 7, 1867, James Ellison of Buchanan County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #113 for enlisted slave John Brown and swore an oath of allegiance before and swore an oath of allegiance before Buchanan County Notary Public J. C. Robidoux. Ellison claimed he had acquired title to John by being "...born and raised in the family from a slave woman named Mary."
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
7/25/1918