John C Henson: America Henson applies for a headstone from the Federal Government in 1919

Since I have never been able to find Sarah Hellen McClannahan-MacKenzie-Black Henson's gravestone, I am assuming that she is buried beside her husband and just doesn't have a headstone.  I must have dreamed that I have seen her headstone somewhere, sometime.  When I was a child we used to go to the graveyards in Alabama for picnics and I would come home at night with terrible chiggers.  I remember that distinctly!  But, I must have dreamed Sarah's headstone!

I cannot see that America Henson ever married.  I saw on one census that she was 56 years old and living with Ida Belle and her husband.  It was good of her to apply for her father's headstone.  I'm a bit surprised that the Federal Government would supply a headstone to a Confederate. POW.

Also, I recently learned that John C Henson was captured at Vicksburg in 1863.  I never knew this information about my gg-grandfather!