This leads to another point of contention which I have been discussing with members of the MOH society, namely, government pensions being paid to MOH recipients. I was under the impression that recipients got a separate government payment, and thus were not eligible for the pension itself. However, if this were the case, then all data on MOH recipients, including final resting place, etc., would be well documented. Yet, there are many whose gravesites are not known (as in the case of the Peter Williams I mentioned previously). I only have the pension papers of one Naval MOH recipient, namely, Charles James Bibber, and this shows that no pension was ever paid to Bibber himself, but to his wife, after his death. Then again, if I remember correctly, Bibber died while still in the Naval service, as an officer, so he would not have needed a pension, anyway.
According to my MOH volume, Ditzenback was born in New York, but his naval service was credited to Indiana. I don't know if that will help somewhat.