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246:"), and received nothing. The pension monies due her at the time of her death were to have been paid to an Indian agent to benefit her children. A warrant for $ 20 to pay for the medal was issued in March 1848; Milly died in May without ever seeing it. While a scholar says it was "a treasured artifact to her descendants," he provides no documentation of this. The medal has never been photographed and its location, if it survives, is unknown.
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