Description
Perry Thomas alias Thomas Jackson: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company A., Private.
✦ Invalid Pension: #557,641, Certificate #666,554
✦ Widow Pension: 06/16/1904: #808,525, no Certificate indicated
(Researcher's note: Thomas Perry enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas on August 9, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company A.
On December 3, 1866, Clinton Cockrill of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #90 for enlisted slave Thomas Perry and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt. Clinton Cockrill claimed he had acquired title to Thomas by “…purchase from Perry Keith of Platte City, Missouri, on the 5th day of December 1853.”
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
12/28/1885