RACHEL WASSON'S WIDOW'S PENSION

WASSON

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 1/5/2002 at 14:36:56

Leon Reporter
November 8, l894

Just before MRS. RACHEL WASSON departed for
California last June, she
received notice that she had been granted a
widow's pension of $8 per
month with arrearages amounting to $52l, but
started on her trip before
her voucher arrived. It came to her address
at this office in due time
and was forwarded to her at Cayucuas, Cal.,
where she was visiting. It
never reached her and after several weeks'
delay and much correspondence
with the Pension Department by her attorney,
G. Tayler Wright, of this
place, it was finally concluded that the
missing voucher had been
destroyed in the wreck and burning of a mail
car on the Sante Fe in
Colorado, and a new voucher was issued and
dispatched by mail to her
California address.

But weeks passed again, the long looked for
voucher did not arrive and
MRS. WASSON began to believe that she was
fated never to receive it.
Finally, she received a letter from a
ranchman up in the mountains of
Tulare County, asking if she was still at her
former address, if so, to
let him know, as he had mail matter belonging
to her. She replied and
in due time received the long lost voucher,
with a letter from the
ranchman stating that the mail carrier who
conveyed the mail over the
mountain route had got drunk and lay in his
barn over one night, and
that weeks after he had found it in the
litter of the barn. How it got
out of the mail sack was not explained, but
it was alright and after
four months of delay proved good as gold.

--LINEVILLE
TRIBUNE.

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