Gallia County Indigent Soldiers' Burial Record

              Gallipolis Ohio, July 21 1895 
To the Hon. Board of County Commissioners, 
Of    Gallia    County, Ohio. 
The undersigned appointed by you to have charge of the burial of indigent Soldiers, Sailors and 
Marines, in    Huntington     Township of said County; in compliance with an 
act of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, entitled, "An act authorizing the burial of the body of 
any honorably discharged Ex-Union Soldier, Sailor or Marine of this State, who shall hereafter die without 
leaving means sufficient to defray funeral expenses," passed and took effect April 11th, 1884, report that 
Allen Vies	, late a resident of said Township _____________ 
died on the 	20	day of 	July	1894, that we have satisfied ourselves by 
careful inquiry into, and examination of, all the circumstances in the case, that the family of said 
Allen Vies	are in indegent circumstances and unable to pay 
the expenses of his burial.  That the said 		Allen Vies 
was an honorably discharged Ex-Union Soldier, 	he	having served as a private 
_______________________________________________in Company	K	, 60th	Regiment, 
O. V. I. 
That the occupation of said 	Allen Vies	while living was 
farming		; and that in compliance with the above recited act, 
we took charge of the burial of the said	Allen Vies		and have 
caused his body to be interred in 	Mt. Olive 	Cemetery 
Morgan Township			at an expense not exceeding thirty-five 
dollars, of which the following is an accurately itemized statement: 
July 21		To Daniel Glassburn 
Casket								25 00 
Robe								 5 00 
Hearse and Attendance						 5 00 
35 00 
Eli G. Shaver 
W. H. Louks 
We the undersigned, residents of 	Huntington Twp. where the above named 
deceased Soldier	Allen Vies		lived, are acquainted with 
the facts relating to the indigency and inability of his family to defray said funeral expenses, and attest 
their truth as above set forth. 
Filed and recorded this	26th day of 		Gilbert Glenn 
July	A.D. 1894			T. J. Glenn 
J.W. Jones			R. J. McCarley 
County Auditor