WIDOW’S DECLARATION FOR PENSION
OR INCREASE OF PENSION
State of Texas, County of Bastrop,
            On this 14th day of February, A.D., one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, personally appeared before me, J. S. Kelton, a Notary Public in and for Bastrop Co. for the County and State aforesaid, Mrs. Cora Hodge, aged 37 years, who being duly sworn according to law, makes the following declaration in order to obtain the Pension provided by Acts of Congress granting pension to widows:  That she is the widow of Elmo Hodge who was under the name of Frank Stanford at Denver Colorado on the (blank) day of (blank), A.D. (blank) in U.S. Navy in the war of (blank), who died a natural death on the 8th day of March, A.D., 1909, who bore at the time of his death the rank of private in Navy, that she was married under the name of Cora Mobley to said Elmo hodge on the 26th day of Nov, A.D. 1905, by Rev. H. G. Taylor, at McDade, Texas, there being no legal barrier to such marriage; that neither she nor her husband had been previously married, neither was ever married before; that she has to present date remained his widow; that the following are the names and dates of birth of all his legitimate children yet surviving who were under sixteen years of age at father’s death, viz:
            Fay Hodge, born Oct. 23rd 1906
            Horace Hodge, born Feb. 13th 1909
that she has not abandoned the support of any one of her children, but that they are still under her care or maintenance; that she has not in any manner engaged in, or aided or abetted, the rebellion in the United States; that prior application has been filed, never applied before; that she hereby appoints, with full power of substitution and revocation, James H. Spalding of Wash. D.C., her attorney, to prosecute the above claim; that her Post Office address is McDade, Bastrop Co., Texas.
            Signed Mrs. Cora Hodge
            Witness D. R. LeMaster
            Witness L. A. Kunkel
            Also personally appeared D. R. LeMaster, residing at McDade, Texas, and L. A. Kunkel, residing at McDade, Texas, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who, being by me duly worn, say that they were present and saw Mrs. Cora Hodge, the claimant, sign her name to the foregoing declaration; that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of said claimant and their acquaintance with her, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be; and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.
            Signature – D. R. LeMaster
            Signature – L. A. Kunkel