The pension office asked the Navy to review her case and the Navy certified that Ann Stokes had actually served 18 months as a "boy" in their service on the Red Rover and that she had a pensionable disability. In 1890, she was granted a pension of $12 a month, which was the amount usually awarded those who had served as nurses at the time.
She continued to live in Belknap, Illinois, with her husband, one child, two step children until her death in 1903.
Ann Stokes is a remarkable woman for several reasons. She is one of the first women to ever be enlisted in the Navy at the time and is the only known one to have applied for a pension. She received that pension based on her own service, not her husbands'.
Quite a Woman. --Old B-Runner
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