Robert L. VanBever

     Robert L. VanBever was born on 7 February 1870 at Kentucky. He was the son of William M. VanBever and Emily Jane Howard. Robert L. VanBever married Bertha Bailey circa 1901. Robert L. VanBever died on 20 December 1952 at Bell County, Kentucky, at age 82 years, 10 months and 13 days.
     He and Bertha Bailey appeared on the census of 5 January 1920 at Pineville, Bell County, Kentucky. Robert L. VanBever was the postmaster in 1930 at Pineville, Bell County, Kentucky. He and Bertha Bailey appeared on the census of 16 April 1930 at Pineville, Bell County, Kentucky. From Gary R. Hawpe, ed. and Earl Quintrell, comp., 'Military News,' Van Bibber Pioneers E-Newsletter, Vol. 5 No. 6 (April 2002), pp. 13 - 14.

CERTIFICATE IN LIEU OF LOST OR DESTROYED DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

KNOW YE, That Robert Vanbever, a Sergeant of Company A, Fourth Regiment of Kentucky, Infantry, Volunteers, who was enrolled on the fourteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety eight, at Middlesboro, Kentucky, to serve two years was Honorable Discharged from the service of the United States on the twelfth day of February one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, by reason of muster out of the company.

This Certificate is given under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, 'to authorize the Secretary of War to furnish certificates in lieu of lost or destroyed discharged,' to honorably discharged officer or enlisted man or their widows, upon evidence that the original discharge certificate has been lost or destroyed, and upon the condition imposed by said Act that this certificate 'shall not be accepted as a voucher for the payment of any claim against the United States for pay, bounty, or other allowances, or as evidence in any other case.'

GIVEN at the WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D.C. this twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

Harry Coon
Adjutant General

State of Kentucky;

County of Bell; -ss-

I, Clarence Hill, County Court Clerk for the State and County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Discharge was this day lodged in my office for record, whereupon; the same together with this and the foregoing has been duly recorded in Discharge Book No. 5, at page 401, records of my said office.

GIVEN under my hand this 16th day of January, 1953.

CLARENCE HILL, Clerk
By Frances G. Howard, D.C.