Monday, July 25, 2011

Amanuensis Monday- A Transcription Challenge For You Dear Reader!

In a previous post for Rachel Luttrell's pension woes, I transcribed a page from her widow's pension file. You can view that post here. In it she gives a description of the declining health of her husband, Hugh L. Luttrell. There are many spelling errors and there was one word I had particular difficulty with. One of my readers suggested I post the page to see if anybody else could figure it out. A great suggestion! So here goes...




  
 Deposition of Claimant, 30 July 1888, Rachel Luttrell, widow’s pension application  
no. 376,452, certificate no. 329,279; service of Hugh L. Luttrell (1st Lieut. Adj., Co. C,  
8 MO S.M. Cav., Civil War); Case Files of Approved1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; 
DepartmGroup 15; National Archives, Washington, D.C.     


 The word in question is on the 8th line, "...and caused Consumption and [?]." What do you think it is? 
Posted by Cinamon Collins at 8:41 AM
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7 comments:

  1. RuthJuly 25, 2011 at 8:50 AM

    Did I miss something? Where is the original image?

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  2. Cinamon CollinsJuly 25, 2011 at 10:10 AM

    Ruth, the image should be showing now. Thanks for letting me know of the difficulty!

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  3. J. Mark LoweJuly 25, 2011 at 10:46 AM

    "... Consumption and those causes [break] wer[e] brough about by Exposure in the [break]Military

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  4. RuthJuly 25, 2011 at 12:07 PM

    "...consumption and HOARSENESS was brought about by..."
    I think the word is hoarseness!

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  5. Cinamon CollinsJuly 25, 2011 at 3:51 PM

    Hhhmmm...if you look at how the other "th" words are formed, it seems to me that the word starts with "th".

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  6. JamaGenieJuly 25, 2011 at 6:48 PM

    Cinamon, you're so right that the word starts with a "th". But the problem word isn't ONE word, but TWO: "thoes [sic] causes".

    I had to see it in the enlarged version by right-clicking the mouse, then clicking again on the + thingy to make it really big and legible.

    For future reference, I love deciphering hand written documents and have gotten rather good at it (she says immodestly while patting herself on the back). ;D

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  7. Cinamon CollinsJuly 26, 2011 at 1:34 PM

    Thank you to Mark, Ruth, and JamaGenie for taking the time to look this over! I believe Mark and JamaGenie are correct. Awesome!!

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