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No p mge either - wrd - [No previous marriage either - widowed] State of Illinois County of Cook -- SS. On this 23rd day of March 1891 before me Frederick Peake, a Notary Public; within and for the county and state aforesaid, personally appeared James Frake; whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credence, who being by me first duly sworn declares his age is forty-nine [49] years, his post office address is 625 Fulton St. Chicago Ill [Illinois]. That he was well and personally acquainted with Milton C. Springer for 5 years immediately preceding his marriage with Mary E. Ward on the 25 of March 1866 and was also well and personally acquainted with said Mary E. Ward for 5 years immediately preceding said marriage, and knows that neither of said parties had been previously married and there existed at the time no legal barrier to said marriage. That I know very positively that said Mary E. Springer has not married since the death of said Milton C. Springer 26 Dec. [December] 1890. That affiant has no interest whatever in the prosecution of a claim for pension by said Mary E. Springer If Witness signs by X two persons who write must sign here as witnesses of signature, and the officer before whom they are sworn must not be one of these witnesses to signature. Witness Sign James Frake Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of March 1891, and I certify that the contents of the foregoing affidavit was fully made known and explained to witness and each of the blank spaces carefully filled before signing or swearing and that I have no interest whatever in the prosecution of this claim. Frederick Peake Notary Public