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NARA 169

After the certificates were sent as aforesaid, but before the money was paid over to claimant, a claim was filed by one Emily Hughes who disputed the claim as to James Jr., and claimed to be his widow.
On yesterday Gen A.P. Howe U.S. disbursing officer at Louisville Ky., paid to claimant the amount due him on account of the service & death of Jerry, but the claim [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] as to James Jr, is still unsettled and in dispute.
As you are the attorney of record in this case, the claimant desired me to write to you to attend to the case for him; for he says, and can prove, that the said James Jr was never married and that the claim of the pretended widow is a 

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