Submitted by
Scott Taylor

Here is some info I gleaned from a trip to the National Archives in 2002.  I was researching my Eston McClintock, and found that he served in Co. I with two relatives who gave Depositions on his behalf when he was applying for a Pension.  Feel free to update your site (Eston McClintock, Jackson McClintock, and Archibald McClintock) with the info below. Notice that Jackson says he is Eston's 2nd cousin, but his brother Archibald says he is Eston's 3rd cousin.  And Eston identifies them both as his 2nd cousins. 

Archibald McClintock, in a Deposition on 1-20-1887, says he is a 49 yr. old farmer living in Rossville, Allamakee Co. Iowa.   He testifies: 

"During five years immediately preceeding clts. (claimant's) enlistment I was intimately acquainted with him: can't say that I was a neighbor for I was a young man and had no particular home of my own; we lived (unreadable) to five miles apart.  I worked land in harvest with him.

I considered him a hearty man done a good days work.  I never knew that he was afflicted with any disability; he never complained of any.  I never heard him complain of rheumatism or heart disease, nor had I any other knowledge of his suffering from either of those disabilities.  I never heard him complain of lameness, swelled or stiff joints, impared muscular motion or palpitation of the heart, pain in breast or smothering spells, and never observed either of those symptoms.  I was a comrade of clts. at enlistment.  I considered him a stout healthy man.  About four or five months after enlistment he claimed to be taken sick there with heart disease.  Between those dates his health appeared good; was with us in all marches up to that time.  Am 3rd cousin to clmt but claim no relationship." 

He signs his name as Archible McClintock

1900 Census
Jefferson, Allamakee County, Iowa

McClintocke, Archibald, head, white, male, born Apr. 1838, age 62, married 30 years, born Pennsylvania, father born Pennsylvania, mother born Pennsylvania, farmer, read write, speak English, Own Farm Free

McClintocke, Rachel, wife, white, female, born Sept. 1838, age 61, married 30 years, 4 children, 4 living, born Indiana, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, can read, write, speak English

McClintocke, Augustus, son, white, male, born Nov. 1870, age 29, widowed, born Iowa, father born Pennsylvania, mother born Indiana, farmer, can read, write, speak English, own, farm, mortgage

McClintocke, Edmond G., son, white, male, born Oct. 1876, age 23, single, born Iowa, father born Pennsylvania, mother born Indiana, farmer laborer, can read, write, speak English.

McClintocke, Nellie J., daughter, white, female, born Sept. 1878, age 20, single, born Iowa, father born Pennsylvania, mother born Indiana, can read, write, speak English.

McClintocke, Beryl B., g daughter, white, female, born Dec. 1893, age 6, single, born Iowa, father born  Iowa,  mother Iowa, at school, can read, write, speak English.