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ROBERTS, DAVID, aged 89, and a resident of Shelby county; private S. C. Militia;
enrolled on March 12, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to
date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $60; sums received to date of
publication of list, $180. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc.
514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

ROBERTSON, JAMES, aged 71, and a resident of St. Clair county; private S. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on October 29, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7,
1832; payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received
to date of publication of list, $240. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
"The following tribute to 'Horseshoe Robinson' is extracted from a poem,
entitled 'The Day of Freedom' by Alexander B. Meek, and delivered as an oration
at Tuscaloosa on thr 4th of July, 1838:
"Valoriously
He bore himself, and with his youthful arms 
Chivalrous deeds performed, which in a land 
Of legendary lore had placed his name, 
Embalmed in song, beside the hallowed ones 
Of Douglass and of Percy; not unsung 
Entirely his fame. Romance has wreathed 
With flowering fingers, and with wizard art 
That hangs the votive chaplet on the heart, 
His story, mid her fictions, and bath given
His name and deeds to after times. 
When last This trophied anniversary came round 
And called Columbia's patriot children out 
To greet its advent, the old man was here, 
Serenely smiling as the autumn sun 
Just dripping down the golden west to seek 
His evening couch. Few months agone I saw 
Him in his quiet home, with all around 
Its wishes could demand-and by his side 
The loved companion of his youthful years-
This singing maiden of his boyhood's time;
She who had cheered him with her smiles when clouds 
Were o'er his country's prospects; who had trod 
In sun and shade, life's devious path with him,
And whom kind Heaven had still preserved to bless, 
With all the fullness of maternal wealth, 
The mellowing afternoon of his decline. 
Where are they now?-the old man and his wife? 
Alas! the broadening sun sets in the night, 
The ripening shock falls on the reaper's arm; 
The lingering guest must leave the hall at last; 
The music ceases when the feast is done; 
The old man and his wife are gone. From earth,
Have passed in peace to heaven; and summer's flowers,
Beneath the light of this triumphant day, 
Luxurious sweets are shedding o'er
The unsculptured grave of `Horseshoe Robinson."
"The grave of James Robertson is in Tuscaloosa county on the banks of the Black
Warrior river near Sanders' ferry, in the old family burying-ground. He was the
famous `Horseshoe Robertson' of Revolutionary fame in South Carolina, and the
hero of the novel of that name written by John Pendleton Kennedy in 1835. The
name `Horseshoe' was given because of a bend in a creek in his plantation in
South Carolina shaped like a horseshoe.
"The following inscription is taken from his tombstone :
MAJOR JAMES ROBERTSON,
A native of S. C.
died April 26, 1838, aged 79 years,
and was buried here.
Well known as Horseshoe Robinson, he earned a Just fame in the war of
independence, in which he was eminent in courage, patriotism and suffering. He
lived fifty-six years with his worthy partner, useful and respected, and died in
hopes of a blessed immortality. His children erect this monument as a tribute
justly due a good husband, father, neighbor, patriot and soldier.
"James Robertson was born in 1759; and his epitaph states that he was a native
of South Carolina. He was married in 1782 and `lived fifty-six years with his
worthy partner;' she died in January, 1838, and he died April 26, 1838. The name
of his wife was Sarah Morris __________; tradition says her maiden name was
Hayden; they left several children, one daughter was living in Mississippi a few
years ago. James Robertson was a famous scout during the Revolution and a terror
to the Tories. After the war he settled in Pendleton district and was living
there when Kennedy met him in 1818. In the preface to Kennedy's novel of
Horseshoe Robinson he gives an account of the circumstances which led him to
write the story.
"He says that in the winter of 1818-19 he had occasion to visit the western
section of South Carolina. He went from Augusta to Edgefield, then to Abbeville
and thence to Pendleton, in the old district of Ninety-six, just at the foot of
the mountains. His course was still westward until he came to the Seneca river,
a tributary of the Savannah. He describes how he happened to spend the night at
the home of Col. T__________, who lived thirty miles from Pendleton. Horseshoe
Robinson came here that night. `What a man I saw ! Tall, broad, brawny and
erect. His homely dress, his free stride, his face radiant with kindness, the
natural gracefulness of his motions, all afforded a ready index to his
character. It was evident he was a man to confide in.'
"The old soldier was drawn out to relate some stories of the war. He told how he
got away from Charleston after the surrender, and how he took five Scotchmen
prisoners, and these two famous passages are faithfully preserved in the narrative.
"It was first published in 1835. Horseshoe Robinson was then a very old man. He
had removed to Alabama and lived, I am told, near Tuscaloosa. I commissioned a
friend to send him a copy of the book. The report brought me was that the old
man had listened very attentively to the reading of it and took great interest
in it.
" `What do you say to all this?' was the question addressed to him, after the
reading was finished. His reply is a voucher, which I desire to preserve : `It
is all true and right-in its right place-excepting about them women, which I
disremember. That mought be true, too; but my memory is treacherbous--I
disremember.' "
It is a pleasure to know that this fine old hero was a real personage, and
although his exploits may have been colored in a measure by the pen of the
romancer, there still remains a rich stock of adventures, which were undoubtedly
true, and the picture of a nature frank, brave, true and yet full of modesty.

Extract from Flag of the Union, published at Tuscaloosa, January 17, 1838:
Horseshoe Robinson-Who has not read Kennedy's delightful novel of this name, and
who that has read would not give an half day's ride to see the venerable living
Hero of this Tale of "Tory Ascendency," the immortal Horseshoe himself-the
extermination of "Jim Curry" and Hugh Habershaw? The venerable patriot bearing
the familiar sobriquet, and whose name Mr. Kennedy has made as familiar in the
mouths of American youths as household words, was visited by us in company with
several friends one day last week. we found the old Gentleman on his Plantation
about 12 miles from this city, as comfortably situated with respect to this
world's goods as any one could desire to have him. It was gratifying to us to
see him in his old age after having served through the whole war of Independence
thus seated under his own vine and fig tree, with his children around him and
with the Partner of his early toils and trials still continued to him enjoying
in peace and safety the rich rewards of that arduous struggle, in the most
gloomy and <desponding hour of which he was found as ready, as earnest, as
'zealous, for the cause of liberty as when victory perched upon her standard,
and the stars of the "Tory ascendency" was for a while dimmed by defeat and in
which he continued with unshaken Faith and constancy until it sank below the
Horison never again to rise. The old gentleman gave us a partial history of his
Revolutionary adventures, containing many interesting facts respecting the
domination of the Tory party in the South during the times of the Revolution,
which Mr. Kennedy has not recorded in his Book. But it will chiefly interest our
readers, or to that portion of them at least to whom the history of the old
hero's achievements as recorded by Mr. Kennedy is familiar, to be assured that
the principal incidents therein portrayed are strictly true.
That of his escape from Charleston after the capture of that city, his being
entrusted with a letter to Butler, the scene at Vat Adair's, the capture of
Butler at Grindal's Ford, his subsequent escape and recapture, the death of John
Ramsey, and the detection of the party by reason of the salute fired over his
grave, his capturing of the four men under the common of the younger St. Jermyn,
his attack up Ines' camp, and the death of Hugh Habershaw by his own hand and
finally the death of Jim Curry, are all narrated pretty much as they occurred,
in the old veteran's own language: "There is a heap of truth in it, though the
writer has mightily furnished it up." That the names of Butler, Mildred Lindsay,
Mary Musgrove, John Ramsay, Hugh Habershaw, Jim Curry and in fact almost every
other used in the Book, with the exception of his own, are real and not
fictitious. His own name, he informed us, Is James; and that he did not go by
the familior appellation by which he is now so widely known until after the war,
when he acquired it from the form of his Plantation in the Horse-shoe Bend of
the Fair Forest creek, which was bestowed upon him by the Legislature of South
Carolina in consequence of the services he had rendered during the war-this
estate, we understood him to say, he still owned.
He was born, he says, in 1759 in Virginia, and entered the army in his
seventeenth year. Before the close of war, he says, he commanded .a troop of
horse, so that his military title is that of Captain. Horseshoe, although in
infirm health, bears evident marks of having been a man of great personal
strength and activity. He is now afflicted with a troublesome cough, which in
the natural course of events must in a few years wear out his aged frame. Yet,
not-withstanding his infirmities and general debility, his eye still sparkles
with the fire of youth, as he recounts the stirring and thrilling incidents of
the war, and that sly, quiet humor so well described by Kennedy may still be
seen playing around his mouth as one calls to his recollections any of the
pranks he was wont to play upon any of the "tory vagrants," as he very properly
styles them. The old Gentleman received us with warm cordiality and hospitality;
and after partaking of the Bounties of his board and spending a night under his
hospitable roof we took leave of him, sincerely wishing him many years of the
peaceful enjoyment of that liberty which he fought so long and so bravely to
achieve. It will not be uninteresting, we hope, to remark that the old hero
still considers himself a soldier, though the nature of his warfare is changed;
he is now a zealous promoter of the Redeemer's cause as he once was in securing
the independence of his country.
Since the above was in type we have heard of the death of the aged partner of
this venerable patriot. An obituary notice will be found in another column.
"The novel Horseshoe Robinson is interesting reading even in this critical and
blase twentieth century. Judge A. B. Meek, a fine literary critic, says that
"Mr. Kennedy, the author of `Horseshoe Robinson,' has in that inimitable `Tale
of the Tory Ascendency' in South Carolina proved the suitableness of American
subjects for fictitious composition of the most elevated kind. Although in his
incidents and characters he has done little more than presented a faithful
chronicle of facts, using throughout the veritable names of persons and places
as they were stated to him by his hero himself, yet such is the thrilling
interest of the story, the vivid pictures of scenery, manners, customs, and
language, the striking contrasts of characters and the pervading beauty and
power of style and description throughout the work, that we think we do not err
in saying that it is not inferior in any respect to the best of the Waverly
series.'
"The home of James Robertson in South Carolina, where he lived for a third of a
century, is still standing. It is in Oconee county a few miles from Westminster.
It is now owned by a Mr. Cox and travelers frequently visit the place, drawn
thither by the fame of `Horseshoe Robinson.' "-Mrs. P. H. Mell in Transactions
of the Alabama Historical Society, Vol. iv, pp. 560-564.

ROBINSON, JOHN, aged 81, resided in Benton county, June 1, 1840, with J. H.
Morison. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 150.

ROBINSON, WILLIAM, aged 75, and a resident of Montgomery county; private S. C.
State Torops; enrolled on January 4, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received
to date of publication of list, $240. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

ROBINSON, WILLIAM, aged 75, and a resident of Autauga county; private S. C.
Continental Line and Militia; en-rolled on February 11, 1834, under act of
Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance,
$40. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol. xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd
Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

RODGERS, JAMES, aged 80, resided in Pickens county, June 1, 1840. - Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

ROGERS, EDWARD, aged 89, and a resident of Tuscaloosa county; private S. C.
State Troops; enrolled on August 12, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from March 4 ,1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received
to date of publication of list, $240. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

ROPER, JOHN, aged 75, resided in Benton county, June 1, 1840, with Stephen
Roper. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

ROSS, CHARLES, aged 85, and a resident of Morgan county; private Virginia
Continental Line; enrolled on May 27, 1824, under act of Congress of March 18,
1818, payment to date from April 26, 1824; annual allowance, $96; sums received
to date of publication of list, $670.98. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol.
xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

ROSS, WALTER, aged 74, and a resident of Autauga county; private N. C. Militia;
enrolled on October 29, 1833, under the act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment
to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $30; sums received to date of
publication of list, $90. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol. xiii,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Autauga county,
June 1, 1840, aged 81. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

ROWAN, SAMUEL, aged 70, and a resident of Jackson county; private S. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on November 22, 1833, under act of Congress of June
7, 1832; payment to date from. March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $39.44; sums
received to date of publication of list, $118.32. - Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

ROWE, JOSHUA, aged 79, resided in Coosa county, June 1, 1840, with Daniel Rowe.
- Census of pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

ROWSEY, EDMOND, aged 71, and a resident of Fayette county; private Virginia
Militia; enrolled on February 11, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20; sums received to date
of publication of list, $60. Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc.
514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

RUSSELL, THOMAS, aged 74, and a resident of Jackson county; private of Cavalry
N. C. Continental Line; enrolled on April 22, 1834, under act of Congress of
June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $41.66. -
Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess.,
1833-34. He resided in Jackson county, June 1, 1840, aged 79. - Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

SAMPELS, JESSE, aged 79, resided in Jackson county, June 1, 1840. - Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

SAMPLE, JOHN, SR., aged 75, and a resident of Marengo county; private S. C.
Militia; enrolled on July 25, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $30.88. Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

SAUNDERS, JOSEPH, aged 77, and a resident of Lawrence county; lieutenant of
navy, Virginia State Navy; enrolled on February 14, 1833, under act of Congress
of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $365.20.
- Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess.,
1833-34.

SAWYER, STEPHEN, aged 75, and a resident of Greene county; private N. C.
Militia; enrolled on March 21, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $40. - Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.	.

SAXON, JAMES, a resident of Autauga county; private, particular service not
shown; enrolled on February 16, 1820, under act of Congress of March 18, 1818,
payment to date from Septembr 4, 1834; annual allowance, $96; died January 17,
1836. - Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.

SCARBROUGH, ELIAS, aged 94, resided in Clarke county, June 1, 1840. - Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

SEALE, JARVIS, a resident of Greene county; private, particular service not
shown; enrolled on July 8, 1835, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment
to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20. - Pension Book, State Branch
Bank, Mobile.

SEVIER, GOVERNOR JOHN. "This hero of the Revolution, whose life was a romance,
was not one of the pioneer settlers of Alabama. He died in this State and his
remains lay buried here for seventy-three years `without a stone to mark the
place of their repose or an enclosure to protect them from unhallowed
intrusion.' In 1888 his body was removed by the State of Tennessee and laid to
rest beneath the sod of the State he had loved and served so faithfully. He is
now buried in Knoxville, and the State has erected a stately monument as a
memorial of her everlasting though tardy gratitude to her honored son.
"Valentine Xavier, the father of John Sevier, was a descendant from an ancient
Huguenot family in Navarre; he was born in London and emigrated to America about
1740; settled on the Shenandoah, Virginia; removed to Watauga, N. C., and
finally settled on the Nola Chucka, at Plum Grove. -See Pioneer Women of the West.
"John Sevier was born in Rockingham Co., Va., 23rd of September, 1745, and was
educated at the academy in Fredericksburg-. He was married at the early age of
seventeen to Sarah Hawkins; soon afterwards he founded Newmarket, in the valley
of the Shenandoah; he became at once celebrated as an Indian fighter, and was
made captain of the Virginia line in 1772. That spring (1772) he removed to
Watauga, now Tennessee, served in Lord Dunmore's war and was in the battle of
Point Pleasant, 1774. `His work began at the dawn of the Revolution and lasted
to the end.' It is said he was in thirty battles. His wife's health was delicate
and she never removed from Virginia, but died in 1779, leaving him ten children.
In 1780, he married Catharine Sherrill, daughter of Samuel Sherrill of North
Carolina, who was one of the pioneers in the valley of the Watauga. She was
beautiful, tall, strong and courageous as became the wife of John Sevier. She
always boasted that the first work she' did after she was married was to spin
and weave and make the suits of clothes which her husband and his three sons
wore in the memorable battle of King's Mountain. She became the mother of eight
children, three sons and five daughters. After the battle of King's Mountain,
John Sevier received a vote of thanks and a present of a sword and pistol from
the North Carolina legislature. A fellow soldier said of his appearance during
the battle : `His eyes were flames of fire, and his words were electric bolts
crashing down the ranks of the enemy.'
"He was elected governor of the State of Franklin in 1784; but, as this State
was not long allowed existence, Sevier was captured and imprisoned because of
alleged disloyalty. However, he was rescued and soon made his escape. That
section of country was then given the name by the United States government of
`Territory south of the river Ohio,' and he was made brigadier-general of this
section in 1789. He was the first delegate sent to represent the Territory in
Congress in 1790. During all this time he was incessantly and successfully
engaged in defending the settlements from the Indians until their spirit was
broken and peace was fully established. No man was ever more feared or respected
by them, and as for the white people of the settlements, they loved him as a
father, friend and protector. When the State of Tennessee was established, he
was elected the first governor in 1796, and served three terms. In 1815, in
spite of his age and infirmities, he was appointed by President Monroe to act as
United States commissioner to settle the boundary line between Georgia and the
Creek territory in Alabama. He died while engaged in this work, September 24th,
1815. He was attended during his illness by only a few soldiers and Indians. He
was buried near Fort Decatur, Alabama, on the east side of the Tallapoosa river,
at an Indian village called Tuckabatchee, with the honors of war by the troops
under command of Capt. Walker, United States army. He was in the active service
of his country from a boy of eighteen until he died at the age of seventy. -Mrs.
P. H. Mell in Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, vol. iv, pp. 565-566.

SHEPHERD, R. S., aged 73, resided in Jefferson county, June 1, 1840, with Sarah
Nabers. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

SIEUMAKER, HARMON, aged 73, and a resident of Fayette county; private Maryland
Militia; enrolled on July 12, 1834, under. act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $40. - Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514 ,23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

SIBLEY, JOHN, sergeant, particular service not shown; annual allowance, $120;
records do not show that any payments were ever made. - Pension Book, State
Branch Bank, Mobile.

SIMPSON, ELISHA, aged 76, and a resident of Washington county; private N. C.
Militia; enrolled on September 24, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $36.66. - Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

SIMPSON, JAMES, aged 79, resided in Randolph county, June 1, 1840, with William
Simpson. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

SKANES, ADAM, aged 85, resided in Butler county, June 1, 1840, with Adam Skanes,
sen. - Census of Pensioners, 1811, p. 149.

SLOAN, SAMUEL, aged 76, and a resident of Limestone county; private N. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on February 29, 1832, under act of Congress of March
18, 1818, payment to date from February 24, 1832; annual allowance, $96; sums
received to date of publication of list, $146.48. - Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

SMITH, ISAAC. "The Rev. Isaac Smith, a native of Virginia, for three years an
orderly sergeant in the army under Washington and Lafayette, the friend and host
of Bishop Asbury, and other of the Bishops of the Church, for more than half a
century a minister of the Gospel, serving the longest term at Asbury Mission of.
any man ever connected with it, and terminating his active ministry at that
place, was a man of noble character, a model Christian, and he made an honorable
record. `Believing every word of God, meek above the reach of provocation, and
thoroughly imbued with the spirit of love and devotion, he was a saint indeed.'
"An incident may be related here which will relate his patriotism, and which
will indicate his fidelity to the ministry and his constant adherence to his
religion. In August,, 1824, Marquis De La Fayette, the friend of Washington and
of American liberty, made a visit to the United States, landing at New York, and
he was tendered a reception worthy of his patriotic services and worthy of the
country whose liberty he had helped to achieve. The Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, at
Cahawba, Alabama, passed, by unanimous vote, a resolution, which was approved
December 24, 1824, as follows: `And be it further resolved, That his excellency
the Governor be re-quested to invite, in such manner as he shall deem most
respectful, Major General La Fayette to honor the State of Alabama with a visit,
and in the event of his acceptance of such invitation, he be received in such
manner as shall best comport with the important services he has rendered
the-American people.' In pursuance of the resolution, Governor Pickens invited
the distinguished guest of the nation to Alabama, and the invitation was
accepted, and the visit was made. On March 31, 1825, the venerable and honored
La Fayette under an escort of Georgians, halted, in the midst of the Creek
National, upon the eastern bank of the Chattahoochee River, whose western side
laves the soil of Alabama. The Georgia escort delivered the hero of American
liberty, and their guest, to fifty nude and painted Creek Indian warriors. The
Indians, vying with the citizens of the United States in the homage paid the
noble Frenchman, conveyed him across the river and put him down on-Alabama soil.
He was then about one mile from the Asbury school. One of the first white men to
greet La Fayette when he set foot on Alabama soil was the man who for three
years attended him as orderly sergeant, and carried messages for him while the
struggle for the independence of the American colonies went on. That man was the
Rev. Isaac Smith, the Missionary in charge of the Asbury School for the Indians.
They greeted, recollected, and recognized each other. There in the howling
wilderness, and in the presence of painted warriors and naked savages, the old
comrades in arms embraced each other, and gave expression to their friendship,
and vent to their emotions, and the once young orderly, now a grave preacher of
the Gospel and a devoted Missionary, prayed with and for the old Commander and
patriot, and with deep emotion, strong faith, and earnest petitions commended
him to the court of Heaven, and besought for him citizenship in the Kingdom of
Christ, and the liberty which pertains to the sons of God. How anomalous and yet
how appropriate all this! No event in all the course of that triumphal tour
through the American continent made a deeper or more lasting impression upon the
old patriot than that reunion of himself and the orderly sergeant of the former
times, on the borders of Alabama. La Fayette tarried for the day, and he and
Smith, the Missionary to the Indians, talked of the past and the present, in
sweet counsel, and in the meantime witnessed one of those special contests and
social pasttimes peculiar to the aborigines, a game of ball. The meeting of his
old Commander at the very spot of his missionary labors was one of the
unexpected pleasures which the Rev. Mr. Smith enjoyed beyond description. That
meeting recollectetd the reminiscences of the past, revived his spirits, renewed
his youth, strengthened his patriotism, and made an epoch in his eventful life.
"The Rev. Isaac Smith died in Monroe County, Georgia, at the age of seventy-six,
and went to his eternal home. His children have honored him by religious
lives."-Rev. Dr. Anson West's, History of Methodism in. Alabama, pp. 380-2.

SMITH, JAMES, aged 81, resided in Jackson county, June 1, 1840, with James P.
Smith. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

SMITH, JOHN, aged 69, and a resident of Madison county; private N. C. Militia;
enrolled on September 26, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment
to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80. - Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in
Jackson county, June 1, 1840, with Larkin Smith, aged 77. - Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

SMITH, JOHN, aged 73. and a resident of Bibb county; private S. C. Militia and
Continental Line; enrolled on May 29, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received
to date of publication of list, $240. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3,
Vol. xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

SMITH, REBECCA, AGED 39, resided in Jackson county, June 1, 1840. Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

SPLANN, CORNELIUS, age not given, a resident of Morgan county; sergeant 8th
Regular U. S. Infantry; enrolled on October 15, 1818, payment to date from July
23, 1818; annual allowance, $48; sums received to date of publication of list,
557.69; Acts Military establishment. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess.; 1833-34.

STAFFORD, DAVID, aged 74, and a resident of Morgan county; private Virginia
Continental Line; enrolled on May 16, 1826, under act of Congress of March 18,
1818, payment to date from April 22, 1826; annual allowance, $96; sums received
to date of publication of list, $707.46. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol.
xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

STANFORD, THOMAS, age not given; resided in Marion county, June 1, 1840. -
Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

STARNES, NICHOLAS, aged 78, and a resident of Jefferson county; private Virginia
Militia; enrolled on July 18, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20. – Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen .Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

STEPHEN S. REUBEN, aged 77, resided in Chambers county, June 1, 1840. - Census
of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

STEWART, THOMAS, aged 76, and a resident of Autauga county; private N. C. State
Troops; enrolled on August 1.2, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $51.45; sums received to
date of publication of list, $154.35. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3,
Vol. xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

STONE, REUBEN, aged 79, and a resident of Madison county; private S. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on January 4, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80. - Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

STILLWAGON, _______. "Mrs. Elizabeth Stillwagon was accidentally burnt to death
at Connellsville on the 6th. She was 115 years old, and her husband was a
Revolutionary soldier."-The Southern Advocate. Huntsville, Feb. 22, 1854.

STOCKMON, CHRISTOPHER, a resident of Mobile county; private, particular service
not shown; enrolled on May 20, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20; transferred from
North Carolina. Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.

STOKES, SYLVESTER, aged 35, and a resident of Lawrence county; private Virginia
Continental Line; enrolled on March 11, 1827, under act of Congress of March 18,
1818, payment to date from February 2, 1827; annual allowance, $96; sums
received to date of publication of list, $536.51. - Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

STORY, HENRY, aged 77, and a resident of Greene county; sergeant S. C. Militia;
enrolled on July 2, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832; payment to date
from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $120; sums received to date of publication
of list, $360. - -Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd
Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

STRANGE, ABNER A., aged 73, and a resident of Lime-stone county; private and
sergeant Virginia Continental Militia; enrolled on February 23, 1833, under act
of Congress of June 7, 1832; payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual
allowance, 40; sums received to date of publication of list, $100. -
Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess.,
1833-34.

STRONG, JOHNSON, aged 75, and a resident of Fayette county; private Virginia
Militia; enrolled on January 9, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $33; sums received to date
of publication of list, $99. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen.
Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Fayette county, June 1,
1840, aged 82. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

STROUEL, MATHEW, aged 87, and a resident of Shelby county; private N. C. State
Troops; enrolled on June 17, 1834, under act of Congress of Tune 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20. - Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. Also
resided in Bibb county. Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.

STUDROE, READY, enrolled under act of Congress of March 18, 1818; no further
details given. Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.

STURDEVANT, JOHN. "At his residence, in Summer-field, Dallas county, of
apoplexy, on Saturday morning, the 21st December, 1856, ROBERT STURDEVANT, ESQ.,
one of the oldest citizens of this county.
"Mr. Sturdevant was born in Dinwiddie county, Virginia,. on the 28th July, 1789,
and was the son of Mr. John Sturdevant, a soldier of the Revolution. Mr. S. was
brought to Hancock, Georgia, when quite young by his father, and remained there
until 1818, when he removed to Alabama.
"We knew Mr. Sturdivant, by report and personally, for the greater portion of
our life, and when we came to Selma to reside, in 1845, he gave us the warmest
and heartiest welcome. He was kind, liberal and hospitable-a sincere christian-a
charitable man-a good friend of ours, and it is with profound sorrow we record
his death."-The Dallas Gazete, Jan. 9, 1857.

SUTTON, GEORGE, age not given, a resident of Mobile county; private 7th Reg. U.
S. Infantry; enrolled on April 18, 1825, payment to date from January 28, 1825;
annual allowance, $96; sums received to date of publication of list, $826.10;
Acts Military establishment. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen.
Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

SUTTON, ROBERT, aged 76, and a resident of Lawrence county; private S. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on January 24 ,1824, under act of Congress of March
18, 1818, payment to date from November 10, 1823; annual allowance, $96; sums
received to date of publication of list, $950.66. - Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

TABOR, WILLIAM, aged 73, and a resident of Bibb county; ensign and lieutenant N.
C. Militia; enrolled on January 2, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $100; sums received to
date of publication of list, $300. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol_
xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

TALIAFERRO, RICHARD. Mildred, wife of Richard Taliaferro, who was a resident of
Pickens county, captain of infantry; enrolled on August 4, 1838, under act of
Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance,
$480. Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile. Mildred Taliaferro resided in
Pickens county, June 1, 1840, aged 78. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

TARRANT, JAMES, sen., aged 86, resided in Jefferson county, June 1, 1840, with
James Tarrant, Jr. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

TATOM, THOMAS. "Mr. Clay, yielding to his feelings excited in behalf of the son
of a Revolutionary Patriot, who was captured at Mier, a citizen of Alabama,
addressed a letter to President Santa Anna, renuesting his liberation. We
understand that he has just received a polite letter from Santa Anna, informing
him of the prompt discharge of the captive according to his request."-Lexington
Observer.
[The person alluded to above was Mr. Thomas Tatom, son of Capt. Tatom of Morgan
county, Ala.]-Ed. Adv. Southern Advocate, Huntsville, Oct. 25, 1844, p. 2.
A TOUCHING INCSDENT.
"While Capt. Nicholas Davis was making a tour through the county of Lauderdale
filling some political appointments, and while at Rogersville awaiting the
assembling of the people whom he was to address, the western mail-stage came in,
and in a few moments, a strange young man rushing into the room where Capt.
Davis was, and almost without salutation, throwing his arms around Capt. Davis'
neck and submerged in tears, hailed him as his deliverer. The company
astonished, withdrew for a moment, supposing the young man to he some near
relative. Capt. Davis also wept when he was embracing Thomas Tatom, one of the
Texas prisoners, who was released by the friendly interposition of himself
through Mr. Clay of Kentucky. The whole company partook of the general joy. The
young man was on his way home, to his father's house at least, where he would
meet the full-heart, and the affectionate embraces of a time-worn father, and a
large circle of relatives and friends."-Athens Whig. - Southern Advocate,
Huntsville, Oct. 25, 1844, p. 3.

TAYLOR, ELIJAH, aged 81, and a resident of Limestone county; private and
sergeant N. C. Militia; enrolled on July 29, 1834, under act of Congress of June
7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $33.33. -
Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess.,
1833-34.

TAYLOR, GEORGE. "This Revolutionary soldier is mentioned in Northern Alabama.
Illustrated, p. 261. He is buried ten miles east of Huntsville, near the bank of
the Flint river; there is no tombstone over his grave. Family records give the
facts of his history. George Taylor was born in Virginia, exact date not known
but about 1762, and died in Madison county, Alabama, 1826. He entered the
Revolutionary army - in his seventeenth year, was first under fire at the battle
of Monmouth, 1778, then came to South Carolina with `Light Horse Harry' Lee's
command and engaged in many battles and skirmishes with Lee, and at the close of
the war he was a lieutenant. `He was in the disasterous charge at King's Bridge,
where, owing to misdirection of orders, the advance was not supported and out of
twenty, only five made good their retreat.' Soon after the Revolution he married
Miss Jennings, of Lexington, Oglethorpe county, Georgia, and she was probably
born in Lexington. Miles Jennings, a famous Indian fighter, who is described in
White's Historical Collections of Georgia, and who lived in Oglethorpe county,
is perhaps of the same family as the wife of George Taylor. It is stated that
George Taylor commanded a scouting party for defense against the Indians, for
more than ten years after the close of the Revolutionary war; this party being
organized at Lexington, Georgia. He was also captain in the militia. He moved
from Georgia to Winchester, Tenn., in 1805, and came to Madison county, Ala., in
1810, and settled on the banks of the Flint river, where he is buried. His wife
died in Alabama several years before his death. He died in 1826. A grandson of
this couple was the late judge Thomas J. Taylor, of Huntsville, probate judge of
Madison county. The inherited courageous and patriotic spirit of the family is
shown by the fact that Judge Taylor and six brothers were gallant soldiers and
officers in the Confederate States army. A great-grandson, Douglass Taylor, is
now living in Huntsville, and other descendents are living in Louisiana."-Mrs.
P. H. Mell in Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Vol. iv, pp. 566-567.

TAYLOR, MEREDITH, a resident of Pickens county; private, particular service not
shown; enrolled on November 11, 1837, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832;
annual allowance, $46.66; transferred from South Carolina. Pension Book, State
Branch Bank, Mobile. He resided in Pickens county, June 1, 1840, with James
Bonner, aged 78. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

TAYLOR, THOMAS, aged 56, resided in Chambers county, June 1, 1840, with Jonathan
Music. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

TEMPLE, JOHN, aged 76, and a resident of Montgomery county; private Virginia
Continental Line; enrolled on December 14, 1819, under act of Congress of March
18, 1818; payment to date from July 23, 1818; annual allowance, $96; sums
received to date of publication of list, $1,451.38; transferred from Edgefield
district, S. C., from March 4, 1830. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

THIGPEN, JOSEPH, aged 76, and a resident of Perry county; private N. C. Militia;
enrolled on September 24, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment
to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20; sums received to date of
publication of list, $50. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc.
514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

THOMAS, JOHN, sen., aged 81, resided in Autauga county, June 1, 1840, with Mary
Johnson. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

THOMPSON, BENJAMIN, aged 72, and a resident of Montgomery county; private S. C.
Militia; enrolled on January 4, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received to date
of publication of list, $200. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen.
Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

THOMPSON, ELECTROUS, aged 78, and a resident of Morgan county; private Maryland
Continental Line; enrolled on September 17, 1833, under act of Congress of June
7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allownace, $50; sums
received to date of publication of list, $125. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in
Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st less.. 1833-34. He resided in Morgan
county, June 1, 1840, aged 91. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

THOMPSON, NICHOLAS, aged 75, and a resident of Morgan county; private N. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on April 3, 1824, tender act of Congress of March 18,
1818, payment to date from January 12, 1824; annual allowance, $96; sums
received to date of publication of list, $962.22. - Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Morgan
county, June 1, 1840, aged 81. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

THOMPSON, ROBERT, aged 74, and a resident of Franklin county; private Virginia
Continental Line; enrolled on April 21, 1824, under act of Congress of March 18,
1818, payment to date from February 2, 1824; annual allowance, $96, sums
received to date of publication of list, $632.53. - Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

TIDMORE, JOHN, aged 84, resided in Greene county, June 1, 1840. - Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

TINEY, ROBERT, aged 81, and a resident of Lawrence county; private S. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on April 26, 1828, under act of Congress of March 18,
1818, payment to date from February 6, 1828; annual allowance, $96; sums
received to date of publication of list, $439. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in
Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

TOLBERT, SAMUEL, aged 87, resided in Benton county, June 1, 1840. - Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

TOWNSFL, JOSHUA, aged 80, resided in Jackson county, June 1, 1840. - Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

TOWNSEND, ANDREW, aged 71, and a resident of St. Clair county; private S. C.
Militia; enrolled on September 28, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7. 1832;
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20; sums received to date
of publication of list, $50. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen.
Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

TRENCH, BENJAMIN, aged 69, and a resident of Limestone county; private Virginia
Continental Line; enrolled on June 6, 1820, under act of Congress of March 18,
1818, payment to date from October 17, 1818; annual allowance, $96, sums
received to date of publication of list, $486.99. Dropped under act May 1, 1820.
Restored, commencing January 5, 1830. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

TRIBBLE, ELIJAH, aged 80, and a resident of Jackson county; private N. C.
Militia; enrolled on January 4, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20; sums received to date
of publication of list, $60. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen.
Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

TRIBBLE, JAMES, aged 78, and a resident of Madison county; private Virginia
Militia; enrolled on January 24, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $40; sums received to date
of publication of list, $100. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen.
Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

TRUITT, WILLIAMS. Williams Truitt lies buried at Teller's ferry on Lynch's
creek. His daughter married William Chancellor, son of Jerry Chancellor. The
Chancellors of Coosa county are descendants. These facts were furnished by D. B.
Oden, Childersburg, Ala. See Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society,
Vol. iv, p. 567.

TUBBS, JOHN, SR., aged 76, and a resident of Perry county; private S. C. State
Troops; enrolled on June 17, 1834, under act of June 7, 1832, payment to date
from March 4, 1831; annual allowance. $26.21. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in
Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

TUCKER, GEORGE, aged 89, and a resident of Fayette county; private N .C.
Continental Line; enrolled on February 10, 1834, under act of Congress of June
7, 1832; payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $46.66; sums
received to date of publication of list, $139.98. – Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. Also resided in
Marion county. - Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile. 

TURNER, LEWIS, aged 72, and a resident of Shelby county; private S. C. Militia;
enrolled on January 4, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to
date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $40. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in
Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

TURNER, NOEL, a resident of Mobile county; private, particular service not
shown; enrolled on March 21, 1836, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20; died January 21,
1837. -Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.

UPTON, GEORGE, a resident of DeKalb county; private, particular service not
shown; enrolled on July 31, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832; annual
allowance, $30. - Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile. He resided in DeKalb
county, June 1, 1840, aged 80. Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

VARNER, JOSEPH, a resident of Clarke county; private, particular service not
shown; enrolled on May 8, 1832, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment
to date from September 4, 1835; annual allowance, $72. Pension Book, State
Branch Bank, Mobile.

VAUGHAN, INGRAHAM, aged 77, and a resident of Lauderdale county, private captain
and sergeant Virginia Continental Line and Militia; enrolled on May 14, 1834,
under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831;
annual allowance, $57.11. Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc.
514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

VAUGHAN, JOEL, aged 95, and a resident of Pickens county; private N. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on February 27, 1834 under act of Congress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $18.32; sums
received to date of publication of list, $144.96. - Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WAGSTER, WILLIAM, age not given, and a resident of Butler county; private S. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on July 16, 1819, under act of Congress of March 18,
1818; payment to date from July 5, 1819; annual allowance, $96; suspended under
act May 1, 1820. Continued and transferred from Edgefield District, S. C., from
January 22, 1829. - Revolutionary Pension. Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514,
23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WAID (sic), CALVIN, aged 73, and a resident of Blount county; private New Jersey
Militia; enrolled on July 10, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $53.33. - R evolutionary
Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol .xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WALDEN, DAVID, aged '76, and a resident of Blount county; private N. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on January 27, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831 annual allowance, $80. - R evolutionary
Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol. xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong,. 1st sess., 1833-34.

WALDRON, CHARLES, aged 75, and a resident of Lowndes county; private Maryland
Militia; enrolled on May 19, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20. - Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WALKER, TANDY, private, particular service not shown; enrolled on September 20,
1838, payment to date from January 1, 1828; annual allowance, $96. - Pension
Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.

WALKER, WILLIAM, aged 78, resided in DeKalb county, June 1, 1840, with G.
Walker. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

WALLACE, JOHN, aged 75, and a resident of Bibb county; private N. C. Militia;
enrolled on June 17, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to
date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in
Part 3, Vol. xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in
Bibb county, June 1, 1840, aged 80 to 90. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

WALLING, DAVID, aged 76, resided in Walker county, June 1, 1840. - Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 150.

WALLING, WILLIAM, aged 73, and a resident of Madison county; private and
sergeant S. C. Militia; enrolled on November 4, 1833, under act of Congress of
June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $35; sums
received to date or publication of list, $105. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in
Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WALTON, WILLIAM, aged 68, and a resident of Greene county; private N. C.
Militia; enrolled on January 16, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $33.33; sums received to
date of publication of list, $99.99. Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WARD, CALVIN, private, particular service not shown; annual allowance, $53.33;
records do not show that any payment was ever made. Pension Book, State Branch
Bank, Mobile.

WARD, JOHN ,aged 77, and a resident of Bibb county; private N. C. Militia;
enrolled January 4, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date
from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $30. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part
3, Vol. xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WARDEN, SAMUEL, aged 84, resided in Benton county, June 1, 1840, with David
Barnwell. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

WARSHAM, JOHN, aged 72, and a resident of Washington county; private Virginia
Continental Line; enrolled on February 10, 1834, under act of Congress of June
7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $30; sums
received to date of publication of list, $90. - R evolutionary Pension. Roll, in
Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in
Washington county, June 1, 1840, aged 78. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 150.

WATFORD, JOSEPH, aged 92, resided in Dale county, June 1, 1840, with Barnabas
Whatford. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

WATKINS, JAMES, aged 92, resided in Benton county, June 1, 1840. - Census of
Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

WATTS, GARRETT, aged 78, and a resident of Perry county; private N. C. Militia;
enrolled on July 16, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to
date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $23.33. - Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in. Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WEBSTER, JOHN, "John Webster was born in Caroline county, Va., in 1743. Early in
the struggle for independence he enlisted in the Continental army and served
under General Washington. He was with the American army at Yorktown, and
witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis. In 1817 he came to Alabama and during the
last ten years of his life he lived in Tuscaloosa with his son, John J. Webster.
He died in Tuscaloosa, September 6, 1839, in the 97th year of his age. - See
Tuscaloosa Flag of the Union, September 14, 1839.
"It is shown by the records in Washington, D. C., that one John Webster served
as a private in Captain Alexander S. Dandridge's troop, 1st regiment of Light
Dragoons, commanded by Colonel Bland, Continental troops, Revolutionary War. He
was `appointed' July 20, 1777, to serve until December 1, 1778, and his name
last appears on a pay roll for the month of November, 1778. It is also shown by
the records that one John Webster served as a private in Captain Thomas Pry's
company in a regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Moses Hazen, Continental
troops, Revolutionary War. He enlisted April 16, 1777, to serve during the war;
joined the company June 17, 1777, and his name last appears on an ac-count
covering the period from June 1 to July 31, 1779.
"It is further shown by the records that one John Webster served as a. carpenter
in Captain Low's company, Corps of Artificers, Continental troops, Revolutionary
War. He en-listed April 3, 1777, to serve to January 1, 1778, and his name last
appears as that of a clerk on the roll for the period from August 3, to
-November 27, 1778, with remark `appointed September 1, 1778.'
"It is hardly probable that these are one and the same individual."-Mrs. P. H.
Mell in Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Vol. iv, p. 568.

WELBORN, ISAAC, aged 76, and a resident of Madison county; private N. C.
Continental Line and Militia; enrolled on January 24, 1833, under act of
Congress of June 7, 1833, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance,
$53.33. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong.,
1st sess., 1833-34.

WEST, SAMUEL, aged 103, resided in Marshall county, June 1, 1840, with Butcher
West. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

WESTON, ROBERT. "Robert Weston, a soldier from North Carolina, is buried at
`Shady Grove,' Sumter county, Ala. His tomb records simply his birth and death
and `A Revolutionary Soldier.' A few brief facts of his history have been
furnished by Mrs. M. C. Carpenter, his granddaughter, of Eutaw, Ala. Robert
Weston was born in England, August 29, 1763, and died in Sumter county, Alabama,
July 21, 1845, aged 81 years, 5 months and 8 days.
"He came to America when a mere lad, with his two brothers, Isaac and Frank
Weston. Although very young, he fought in the Revolution in North Carolina; was
brave and quick-witted; was captured three times and sentenced to death, but
made his escape each time through shrewd ability in disguising himself. He
married Marv Ogilvie of South Carolina, who was born June 26, 1769, and died
January 11, 1845, aged 75 years, 5 months and 15 days. The young couple settled
in Fairfield district, S. C., where they resided until their children were
grown. They had a large family and many descendants are still living in South
Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. One son, I. M. Weston, settled in
Columbia, S. C., but the other children all removed to Alabama. Naturally the
old couple followed their children and came to Sumter county, Ala., in 1833,
where they purchased a home near their children and spent their old age in peace
and contentment surrounded by children and grandchildren. Robert Weston was a
man of intelligence and excellent education and his grand-children remember him
with the deepest affection and respect. His thrilling stories of Revolutionary
times are yet remembered and told in the family."-Mrs. P. H. Mell in
Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Vol. iv, pp. 568-569.

WHITE, ANDREW, aged. 72, and a resident of Lawrence county; private N. C.
Militia; enrolled on April 23, 1833, under act of Congress of Tune 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20. - Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv. Sen .Doc. 514, 23rd Conga, 1st sess., 1833-34. He
resided in Lawrence county, June 1, 1840, aged 78. - Census of Pensioners, 1841,
p. 148.

WHITE, ELITAH, aged 78, resided in Franklin county, June 1, 1840, with Samuel B.
White. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

WHITE, JAMES, aged 73, and a resident of Jackson county; private Virginia
Continental Line; enrolled on January 2, 1834, under act of Ccngress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $10; sums received
to date of publication of list, $120. - -Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol.
xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WHITEFIELD, WILLIAM, aged 84, and a resident of St. Clair county; private
Virginia Continental Line; enrolled on January 18, 1830, under act of Congress
of March 18, 1818, payment to date from January 18, 1830; annum allowance, $96;
sums received to date of publication of list, $396.64. -Revolutionary Pension
Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WICKER, WILLIAM. "Died in Pike county, Ala., on Sunday, the 20th December last,
Mr. William Wicker. The deceased was aged 106 years. He served as a soldier in
the Revolutionary war. He was in the battle of Eutaw Springs, and was engaged in
several skirmishes with the British and Tories under General Marion of South
Carolina."-Spirit of the South. - The Southern Advocate, Huntsville, March 9,
1853. As a private, particular service not being shown, he was enrolled for
pension under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4,
1831; annual allowance, $20; records do not show that any payment was ever made.
- Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.

WIGINGTON, GEORGE, aged 72, and a resident of Pickens county; private N. C.
State troops; enrolled on January 9, 1834. under act of Congress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $30; sums received
to date of publication of list, $90. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WILDER, GEORGE, aged 73, and a resident of Shelby county; private Virginia
Militia; enrolled on March 5, 1833, under act of Congress of Tune 7. 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20. - Revolutionary
Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
Resided also in Talladega county. Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.

WILKINSON, JOHN, aged 82, and a resident of Wilcox-county; private Virginia
Militia; enrolled on September 28, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received to date
of publication of list, $200. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen.
Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WILLIAM, ISAAC, age not given, a resident of Greene county; captain in Cannon's
regiment; enrolled on April 20, 1818, payment to date from December 26, 1813;
annual allowance, $120; sums received, $800.19; and "on account of increased
ratio of disability," rate increased to annual allowance of $180, under which
$2,137.89 received to date of publication of list. - Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WILLIAMS, JOHN, aged 77, and a resident of Mobile county; private Virginia State
Troops; enrolled on Nov. 22, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received to date
of publication of list, $240:-Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen .Doc.
514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Mobile county, June 1, 1840,
aged 86. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149. In the Census List, however, he
is given a middle name, the entry being John Bailey Williams.

WILLIAMS, PETER, aged 78, and a resident of Pickens county; private S. C.
Militia; enrolled on January 17, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $50; sums received to date
of publication of list, $150. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen.
Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Pickens county, June 1,
1840, aged 86. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

WILLIAMS, SAMUEL, a resident of Covington county; private, particular service
not shown; enrolled on January 15, 1836, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831, annual allowance, $80. Pension Book,. State
Branch Bank, Mobile. He resided in Covington county,. June 1, 1840, aged 86. -
-Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.

WILLIAMSON, HAWLEY. "DIED-On the 18th inst. [May], at his residence in this
county, in the 78th year of his. age, Hawley Williamson, a soldier of the
Revolution, and for many years a citizen of Alabama."--The Democrat, Huntsville,
May 28, 1830.

WILSON, JOHN, aged 74, and a resident of Bibb county; private Virginia Militia;
enrolled on April 15, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to
date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $43.33; sums received to date of
publication of list, $129.99. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol.
xiii, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. A, resident of Bibb county.

WILSON, JOSHUA, aged 74, and a resident of Dallas county; private N. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on March 1, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7,
1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $78.33; sums
received to date of publication of list, $234.99. Revolutionary Pension Roll, in
Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Clarke
county, June 1, 1840, aged 80. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149. Also
resided in Clarke county. - Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.

WILSON, ROBERT, aged 76, and a resident of Morgan county; private N. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on February 1, 1827, under act of Congress of March
18, 1818, payment to date from December 6, 1826 annual allowance, $96; sums
received to date of publication of list, $657.73. - Revolutionary Pension Roll,
in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WINN, ELISHA, age not given, a resident of Madison county; private Virginia
Continental Line; enrolled on July 21, 1819, under act of Congress of March 18,
1818, payment to date from April 30, 1818; annual allowance, $96; died. -
Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess.,
1833-34.

WINN, GALANUS, aged 74, and a resident of Madison county; private Virginia
Militia; enrolled on December 18, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832,
payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $43.89; sums received to
date of publication of list, $131.67. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv,
Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WINSTON, ANTHONY. "Captain Anthony Winston, of Hanover county, Virginia, a
member of the Virginia convention of 1775, and a gallant captain in the
Revolutionary army, lies buried in the old Winston family burying ground just
out of Sheffield, Alabama. Vol. xiii, Daughters of the American Revolution
Lineage Book, states that Anthony Winston was born in Hanover county, Virginia,
in 1750, married Keziah Jones and died in Alabama in 1828. He was a delegate
from Buckingham county to the convention of 1775; he afterwards served in the
militia and rose to the rank of captain. Brewer's Alabama says that `he was a
colonial officer of 1776 and the owner of the celebrated Portuguese giant, Peter
Francisco. Capt. Winston removed first to Tennessee and subsequently settled in
Madison county, Alabama, about the year 1810. He was a man of marked and
elevated character.' He. died in 1828. He left seven sons, Anthony, John J.,
William, Joel W., Isaac ,Edmund and Thomas J., and two daughters, Mrs. John
Pettus (Alice T. ) and Mrs. Jesse Jones. Capt. Winston was nearly related to
Patrick Henry (a first cousin) and distinction is hereditary, in the Winston
family. He has many honored descendants; one of his grandsons was Governor John
Anthony Winston of Sumter, the `first native born governor of Alabama.' Another
grandson is General Edmund Winston Pettus, now senator in the United States
Congress. Another distinguished grandson was the brother of Gen. Pettus,
Governor John J. Pettus, the war governor of Mississippi. Other descendants of
Capt. Anthony Winston are scattered all over the Southwest, filling honorable
positions with credit.
"The ancestry of Capt. Winston is thus given : Slaughter's St. Mark's Parish
states that Isaac Winston, the most remote ancestor, was born in Yorkshire,
England, in 1620. A grandson of his pursued his fortunes in Wales, where he had
a large family. Three of his sons emigrated to America, and settled near
Richmond, Va., in 1704. Their names were William, Isaac and James. Anthony
Winston was descended from Isaac.
"(1) Isaac Winston, the emigrant, married Mary Dabney and died in Hanover county
in 1760, leaving six children, William, Isaac, Anthony, Lucy, Mary Ann and
Sarah. Sarah was the mother of Patrick Henry.
"(2) Anthony Winston (son of Isaac) married Alice, daughter of Col. James Taylor
of Caroline; issue: Sarah, died single; Capt. Anthony Winston; Alice, married
Judge Edmund Winston; Mary.
"We are 'indebted to Gen. Edmund Pettus, of the United States Senate, for the
following facts, and a copy of the inscription upon the tombstone :
Sacred to the memory
of
Anthony Winston and Keziah his wife,
He
Was born on the 15th of Nov. 1750
She
On the 10th of Feb. 1760.
They
Were married on the 11th day of Mar. 1776
She
Died October 1826 and he in 1828

This tribute of respect
Is
Paid to the memory of the best of parents By
Their grateful
and
Affectionate sons.
"They were buried at the family burying-ground on the plantation of their son,
Anthony Winston, about one mile from Tuscumbia, in Colbert county, in the
direction of Sheffield. Anthony Winston, here mentioned on this tombstone, was
the son of Anthony Winston of Hanover county, Virginia, who was born September
29th, 1723, and married February 29th, 1747, Alice Taylor, daughter of James
Taylor and Alice Thornton. He was born in Hanover county, but moved in his young
days to Buckingham county, Virginia. He was a captain in the Revolutionary War.
He was married in 1776, and went into the army a few months afterwards.
"The family has now in their possession a counterpane made of cotton which Mrs.
Keziah Winston raised. She picked the cotton, spun the thread and wove the
cloth, and then ornamented it by needle work like a Marseilles counter-pane,
whilst her husband was in the army. This old heirloom is perfectly preserved,
and looks as well as it ever did but, of course, it is not used.
"Anthony Winston told his grandchildren many things about the Revolutionary War,
and particularly about General Washington. Some of these stories would not do to
print, especially about. the freedom with which `The Father of his Country' used
the English language. But in his estimation no mortal man ever approximated
General Washington as a great military chieftain. Sarah Winston, of Hanover, was
the sister of Anthony Winston, of Hanover. She married John Henry and was the
mother of Patrick Henry. Capt. Anthony Winston was sheriff of Buckingham county,
Virginia, which office at that time was given to the oldest justice of the peace
of the county for one term, under the law of Virginia. At that time a justice of
the peace in Virginia received no pay,-the principal business of that officer
being to settle disputes among his neighbors without any lawsuit.
"Alice Winston, the mother of Gen. Pettus, was born in Buckingham county,
Virginia, but her father moved with his family about the beginning of the last
century to Davidson county, Tennessee, and owned a plantation there, about one
mile from the Hermitage. John Pettus was born in Fluvanna county, Virginia, near
where Anthony Winston lived. He also moved to Davidson county, Tennessee, about
the first of the last century. Alice Winston and John Pettus were married in
Davidson county in 1807, and General Jackson danced at the wedding. And in the
early days of Senator Pettus he was frequently at the `Hermitage' and heard
General Jackson tell of the early life of his mother and father, and of his
father's serving in the Creek War under him."-Mrs. P. H. Mell. in Transactions
of the Alabama Historical Society, Vol. iv, pp. 569-572.

WOOD, JOHN, aged 89, resided in Jackson county, June 1, 1840, with Thomas
Campbell. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

WOODS, THOMAS, sen., aged 76, and a resident of Dallas county; private of
Cavalry S. C. Militia; enrolled on January 30, 1834, under act of Congress of
June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $100; sums
received to date of publication of list, $300. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in
Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WRIGHT, DANIEL, aged 75, and a resident of Madison county; captain N. C.
Continental Line and Militia; enrolled on June 12, 1833, under act of Congress
of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $480;
sums received to date of publication of list, $1,200. - Revolutionary Pension
Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

WRIGHT, JOHN, age not. given, a resident of Madison county; private Hamilton's
Mounted Gunners; enrolled on December 22, 1831, payment to date from December
15, 1831; annual allowance, $24; April 24, 1816: Revolutionary Pension Roll, in
Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He resided in Madison
county, June 1, 1840. -Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.

WRIGHT, ROBERT. "ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT GONE. Departed this life on the
24th inst., ROBERT WRIGHT, SR., a Patriot of the Revolution, aged 85 years and
17 days. He was a native of Amherst county, Virginia-was at the siege of York,
and assisted in the capture of Cornwallis. He emigrated to Madison county, Ala.,
in 1808, where he continued until the day of his death, greatly esteemed and
beloved by a large circle of friends and acquaintances..
"The Southern Advocate and Richmond Enquirer are requested to copy."-The
Democrat (Huntsville), March 21, 1847.

YOUNG, JOHN, aged 90, resided in Wilcox county, June 1, 1840, with Samuel Young.
- Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.


Additional Comments:
Title of Publication: Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama
Compiler: Thomas M. Owen
Publisher: State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives and History, Bulletin No. 5
Date of Publication: 1911
Pages: 100 - 131


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