"After the Civil War, [Benjamin Darst] returned to his home in Beaver Creek Twp., where he ... was ... apparently the local agent for Civil War veterans applying for medical pensions.... The [photo]copy of the [handwritten] pension records kept by Capt. Darst was made from the original in the possession of Elizabeth (Shoup) Belden, and this copy was given to the Greene Co. Room in early 1986.... The index [was] compiled by Julie M. Overton and Janet Kendig, November, 1986."

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