Servicemen were urged to take out insurance policies, which the Wilson brothers did. After the loss of Dale, Danny, and Junior, and after Leora was widowed, she didn’t have another source of income. At the time she lived with her oldest son Delbert and his family on the acreage near Perry.
I don’t know the circumstances for this deposition, but Leora declared her income and expenses as of April 1, 1947.
STATE OF IOWA
DALLAS COUNTY
I, Leora Frances Wilson, being first duly sworn on oath depose and say that I am 56 years of age, the date of my birth being December 4th, 1890, that the only source of income I have is insurance received as beneficiary on the insurance policies of my three sons, to-wit:
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XC 6 085 514 Wilson, Daniel S. $54.80 per month
XC 4 134 793 Wilson, Clairborne [sic] J. $54.80 per month
XC 6 085 483 Wilson, Dale R. $52.50 per month
and then $90.00 per month pension, $30.00 on each above mentioned boy.
My expenses per month would be approximately $125.00.
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Subscribed and sworn to before me by the said Leora Frances Wilson, this 1st day of April A.D. 1947.
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Deputy Clerk of the District
Court, in and for Dallas County,
Iowa.