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NARA 650

I have not had an opportunity to fully satisfy myself in regard to the matter (as the party claiming to be his former widow resides in Bourbon County & I have seen her but once,) yet I have my doubts as to whether Savilda Bowers is the legal heir of said Peter Bruce and would recommend that you hold the case up until the matter can be investigated. I desire to state further, that I do not believe that Savilda Bowers (or the other claimant) has intentionally made misrepresentations in the case, but that there is a mistake in the service (Co & Reg) of one or the other of the claimants. Savilda Bowers says her father Peter Bruce was living in Madison County Ky when he enlisted, and the other claimant (whose name I can not now