Roger Bagley

BAGLEY

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 4/19/2009 at 09:36:57

Maquoketa Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, January 11, 1855.

REMARKABLE LONGEVITY-

Mr. Roger Bagley, an old Revolutionary soldier, who resides some two miles south of Maquoketa, called into our office on Monday last and gave us his age as one hundred and seven years. Mr. Bagley is quite active, and recounts with a vividness of recollection truly surprising, the many stirring scenes of the ever memorable days of ’76, in which he took an active part, and for which Government has not rewarded him. This is truly a lamentable state of things, when we take into consideration the valuable services thus rendered, and whose only inducement was liberty, equal rights and freedom of speech. It appears that the certificate of Mr. Bagley was lost, and a pension has been paid to an individual who represented himself as Roger Bagley; consequently Mr. Bagley has been defrauded out of what was justly and honestly his own.