Saturday - Session 5C11:00 am - 11:45 am
U.S. Colored Troops Pension Records of 1890
Presented by Denise I. Griggs
Congress passed The Dependent and Disability Pension Act of 1890. This applied to veterans of the Union Army and Naval forces, including the U.S. Colored Troops. All who applied had to prove the requirements - served at least ninety days, honorably discharged, unable to perform manual labor, no matter when the disability happened and their financial circumstances didn't matter. Their spouses were able to collect the pension after the soldier died. This presentation will show how to locate and obtain the pension records filed by a U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) soldier who did or did not receive a pension.
Session Handout: Click here.
About Denise I Griggs:
Denise is the Exhibit Chair on the Board of the Greater Sacramento African American Genealogy Society. She is a volunteer for the Natchez U. S. Colored Troops (USCT) Monument Committee in Natchez, MS, serving on the subcommittees of History and Research, and Marketing and Public Relations. She is also a volunteer researcher for the National Park Service (NPS) Black Homesteaders.
Ms. Griggs is a descendant of several U.S. Colored Troops (USCT), soldiers who served during the Civil War, of Mississippi Black land homesteaders, and several United States soldiers of the American Revolution. She is also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Denise has over 40 years of genealogy experience and has taught African American genealogy at seminars, community events, churches, schools, the Sacramento Legislature, and African American museums in Sacramento, CA, Oakland, CA and Washington, D.C. Ms. Griggs graduated from a Christian University, is an identical twin, retired and lives in No. CA.
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