Signature of Edward B. Walker Genealogy of Edward B. Walker
1756-1838, Duplin County, North Carolina - Sullivan, Claiborne, Hancock Counties, Tennessee

 

Jane Tries Again After the Change in the Law


18 May 1843

With the change in the pension law, Jane Walker decided to apply again. In her deposition, she states that Edward died 27 August 1838, which is the only time this date appears in any records and is incorrect. Oddly John Richie signs himself as a justice of the peace for Grainger County, but all other indications, including the certification by the clerk, indicate Claiborne County; he may have been a justice of the peace for both counties, but, in any case, Wiley Huffaker certified his position in Claiborne County as normal.

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State of Tennessee
Claiborne County

On the eighteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before me John Richie a magistrate in and for said county and State aforesaid Jane Walker a resident of the same County Claiborne aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Decleration [sic] in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd day of March 1843 granting pensions to windows of persons who served during the revolutionary way; States that she is the widow of Edward Walker who was a private in the army and war of the revolution and that the annual amount of the pension he received under the act of June 7th 1832 was forty dollars per annum; that he said husband died the 27th of August 1838, that she was married in the month of May about the first of the month in the year 1790 to her said husband now dead and deceased pensioner by one Richard Murrell a Baptist preacher by being published in the church three different Sundays which was the law of North carolina in that day and of this New Territory which is now the state of Tennessee Sullivan County[.] we resided near the place called the Island Flatts about three miles above what is now Kingsport on North fork of Holstein on Reed Creek. She would state that her first son was born June 1791. her name was Jane Horne before her marriage and for the particulars of proof of marriage and in a 25 April 1833 deposition, death of her husband and every thing connected with her husband['s] services she would refer the Commissioner of pensions to the proofs on the files with this department on which her said husband Edward Walker was pensioned; and also to a Declaration which she herself filed in the month of April 1841 under the act of the 7th of July 1838 and the accompanying documents hereto affixed her case being then rejected on account that she was not a widow on the 7th of July 1838 nor for a month and twenty days after[.] she is instructed to believe that by reference to the papers and documents referd [sic] to that the legality of her claim will be admitted beyond a doubt under the present act of Congress. She further declares that she was married to the said Edward Walker the deceasd [sic] pensioner on or about the first of May seventeen hundred and ninety that her said husband the aforesaid Edward Walker died on the 27th of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January eighteen hundred at the time and place above stated, She also most positively states that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband Edward Walker and untill [sic] the present day

Sworn to and subscribed to this day and year first written above

John Ritchie
Justice of the peace for Grainger [sic] county
Mary Walker [her mark, an obvious error in name]

And I do further certify that Jane Walker widow and Relick of Edward Walker deceasd [sic] pensioner of the United States is known to be a lady of first respectability and the legality of her marriage never doubted[.] I am of the opinion she is the age she states and that she is entitled to full faith and credit on any statement she would make on oath having always supported a good moral character in every respect[.] given under my hand and seal this eighteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty three

John Richie
Justice of the peace for Grainger County

State of Tennessee
I Wiley Huffaker Clerk of the County court of Claiborne County in said State do hereby certify that John Ritchie Esqr whose name appears to the foregoing declaration of Jane Walker is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified as such and that due faith and credit be given to all his official acts as such and that the signature thereto attached purporting to be his is genuine[.] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and affixed the seal of my office at office in the Town of Tazewell the 20th day of May 1843 & of the Independence of the US the 67

Wiley Huffaker Clerk

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