Anna Karel declared that she had been widowed in order to collect her husband's pension in 1920 at the age of 77. In the middle to late nineteenth century, the U.S. Pension Bureau had grown large compared to its pre-Civil War size. It created…
Václav Karel asked for invalid pension on September 13, 1897 at the age of 58 due to rheumatism and disease of the digestive organs, lungs, liver, and kidneys.
After the Civil War the Pension Bureau grew quickly and created bureaucratic…
An obituary describing sudden and unexpected death of James Karel, Václav Karel's son. James Karel died at this home on January 1, 1918 at the age of 33.