Postwar Albert Cashier

cashier s postwar residence, since moved saunemin

after war, cashier returned belvidere, illinois time, worked samuel pepper , maintained wartime identity. settled in saunemin, illinois, in 1869, worked farmhand performing odd jobs around town. albert cashier can found on records of town payroll. employer there, joshua chesebro, built one-room house her. on forty years, lived in saunemin , church janitor, cemetery worker, , street lamplighter. because lived man, able vote in elections , later claimed veteran s pension under name albert cashier. in later years, ate neighboring lannon family. later on, when hodgers fell ill, lannons discovered female when asked nurse examine her, did not make discovery public.

in 1911, cashier hit car broke leg. physician discovered secret in hospital, did not disclose information. on may 5, 1911, because no longer able work, cashier moved soldiers , sailors home in quincy, illinois. during stay, hodgers visited many of fellow soldiers ninety-fifth regiment. lived there until mental state deteriorated , moved watertown state hospital insane in march 1914. attendants @ watertown state hospital discovered female when giving bath, @ point made wear women s clothes again after fifty years.