Elizabeth Gilmore's Pension, Fayette Co., TN
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Tennessee Jackson (I believe)
Elizabeth Gilmore
widow of Joseph Gilmore
who was a private S. Ca.
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars no
Cents per annum to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
30th day of Jany 1844
and sent to P. T. Scruggs
Somerville
Tenn
[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1 Page 218
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State of Tennessee SS
Fayette County
On this the fifth day of July in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and forty two personally appeared before
the worshipful county court of the county of Fayette in
state of Tennessee the same being a court of record
Elizabeth Gilmore a resident of the county of Fayette
and state aforesaid aged about seventy nine years who
being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefits of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed
July seventh in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and thirty eight entitled "an act granting half pay and
pensions to certain widows."
That she is the widow of Joseph Gilmore who was in
service in therevolutionary war and was to the best of
her recollection a private in the militia of the state of
(North Carolina, I believe, was marked through) South
Carolina and served about five years. She cannot state the
year when the said Joseph entered the service but recollects
that he was in service at the time of the battle of Savannah
(SC scratched through) in his state. Joseph was wounded in
that engagement and that he was in the service at the time
of the capture of Lord Conwallis. He served generally in
the division of the army under the command of General Sumpter
but whether all the time she cannot recollect. That the
(symbol) Joseph at the time he entered the army resided in
that part of the State of South Carolina which afterwards
and at this time bears the name of Spartanburg District.
He was a volunteer in every instance except the trip which
he took when at the battle of Savannah on which occasion he
was drafted. He was in the following engagements which she
can now call to recollection. To wit at Savannah as before
stated in which he was wounded in the right hand, at the
defeat of General Gates, at the battle at Blackstocks (may
be two words) Mill, at the battle at Hill's Iron Works in
the State of South Carolina, at the battle at King's Mountain,
and also at the battle at the Cow Pens. She does not recollect
any county through which he marched. She further states that
the said Joseph during a few(?) of the later years of his
life was a Pensioner. She cannot state when he became such
but that he died on the 23rd day of February in the year 1825
a pensioner and had been such for a period of some seven (I
believe) or ten years previous to his death and (---) his
pension in Nashville in the State of Tennessee. He died in
Blunt (Blount, of course) County in the State of Alabama.
She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph
Gilmore on the ninth day of March in the year seventeen
hundred eighty two or eighty three but (the day of the month
or--lined through) which of the above named years she is
unable to state. That (she remained the wife of--lined through)
she remained the wife of the said Joseph Gilmore up to the
period of his death which took place on the 23rd day of
February eighteen hundred and twenty five as before stated;
that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the
service; but the marriage took place previous to the first
of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the
time above stated.
her
Elizabeth Gilmore
mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open court on the day and year
above written and has affixed the seal of said court at
Jarmon Kor--- Clk office in Somerville
By H? Waddell D.C.
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State of Tennessee
Henry County
Personally appeared before me Isaac Hendricks and (an)
acting justice of the peace in and for said county and
State of Tennessee Elender Alexander of said county and
state and made oath in due f--- of ---- that whe is a full
sister to Elizabeth Gilmore who is now residing in (a
scratch through with writing above) Fayette County and
State of Tennesse and further states that she was personnally
present at the actual marriage of said Elizabeth to Joseph
Gilmore ------ (can't read this word) all then of South
Carolina and to the best of her recollection said marriage
took place some time in March 1782 and added that she has been
personally acquainted with said Elizabeth from that time down
to the present and knows to her own knowledge that said Elizabeth
has not married any person since the death of said Joseph Gilmore
and further states that said Elizabeth Gilmore is about 79 years
of age this July 18 1842.
her
Sworn to and subscribed Elender Alexander
before me. mark
Isaac Hendricks (signature and possibly seal)
I do hereby certify that Elender Alexander is a lady of high
standing and respectability. Isaac Hendricks (signature)
State of Tennessee
Henry County
I William Porter Clerk of the County Court of the said county
do certify that Isaac Hendricks whose signature appears to the
above certificate is now and was at the time of signing the
same an acting justice of peace for said county duly elected
and qualified according to law that full faith and credit is
and ought to be given to his official acts as such.
County In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and
Seal affixed the seal of said County at office in the town
of Paris July the 19th A D 1842 and sixty seventh year
of American independence.
William Porter Clerk
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Appended letter
Rev & 1812 Wars Sectio
October 22, 1925
Mrs. J. R. McDowell
603 W. Hill St.
Knoxville, Tenn.
Madam,
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim W. 355, it appears that JOSEPH GILMORE, while a
resident of Spartanburg District South Carolina, enlisted, date
not stated, and served five years as private in Captain Parsons'
company, Colonel John Thomas' South Carolina Regiment; he
received a wound in the hand at the battle of Savannah and was
also in the battles of Camden, Black Stocks, Hill's Iron Works,
King's Mountain, and Cowpens.
He was pensioned from October 9, 1810, on account of the
disabilty resulting from the above mentioned wound. He resided
in Davidson County, Tennessee, in 1824, and died in Blount
County, Alabama, on February 23, 1825.
He married in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, March 9, 1782
or 1783, Elizabeth, whose maiden name is not given. She was
allowed pension on account of his sevice, on her application
executed July 5, 1842, at which time whe was about seventy-nine
years of age and a resident of Fayette County, Tennessee.
There is no data on file relative to children of Joseph and
Elizabeth Gilmore.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott,
Commissioner