SEMINOLE INDIAN WAR PENSION APPLICATION - MARIA PARRISH, ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Beth Learn, (beth.learn@utoronto.ca) USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or publication by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ******************************************************************************* [Reproduced from the National Archives, Washington D.C.] Indian War Pensions - Act of July 27, 1892. DECLARATION OF WIDOW FOR PENSION ____________________________________________________________ Declaration of Widow Maria A. Parrish for Seminole Indian War Application GENERAL AFFIDAVIT 21 day of March, A.D. 1894 State of Florida, County of Alachua: In the matter of Application for Pension Mrs. Maria PARISH Indian War widow on this 21 day of March, A.D. 1894, personally appeared before me, W. H. PALMER a Notary Public in and for the aforesaid County, duly authorized to administer oaths, Mrs. Maria PARISH aged 83 years, a resident of Gainesville in the County of Alachua and State of Florida whose Post Office address is Gainesville Fla........ well known to be to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who being duly sworn, declared in relation to the aforesaid case as follows: I am the widow of Ezekiel PARISH who served in the Seminole Indian War of Florida for three months and that Ezekiel Parish and I were married at Newnansville in this County at the residence of John C. RICHARD who is now dead. His sons now live in Bradford County and were witnesses to our marriage. Our marriage was in either 1831 or 1832 I can't remember which and the record of it was burned? when the county site was at Newnansville. My husband Ezekiel PARISH died in August the 22nd day, 1878, at the City of Gainesville. I have never remarried nor was either Mr. PARISH or myself ever married except to each other. My said husband was in the Indian war under CAPT. CASON and others. Ransom PARISH, Reuben O'STEEN, Wm BROOKS and Alfred O'STEEN were in the same company with him. This evidence I give orally without any written or printed statement and without dictation from anyone to W. H., PALMER, in his office in Gainesville, Florida, this 21 day of March 1894 and he wrote it in my presence and read it over carefully before I signed it. Maria Parish [signature] [Reproduced from the National Archives, Washington D.C.] 1894 Affidavit of J.R. Richard and J.C. Richard in Support of Maria A. Parrish's Seminole Indian War Pension Application __________________________________________________ GENERAL AFFIDAVIT, State of Florida, County of Bradford: In the matter of Pens. Claim of Maria PARISH, Widow of Ezekiel PARISH On this 5th day of March, A.D., 1894, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public in and for the aforesaid County, duly authorized to administer oaths, J.R. RICHARD aged 70 years, a resident of Lake Butler in the County of Bradford and State of Florida whose Post Office address is Lake Butler, Florida and J.C. RICHARD aged 67 years, a resident of Starke in the County of Bradford and state of Florida whose Post Office address is Starke, Florida well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who being duly sworn, declare in relation to the aforesaid case as follows: We have known Mrs. Maria PARISH ever since our infancy - since we can recall anything she lived with our parents as long ago as we can recollect. We were present and saw her married to Ezekiel PARISH in the year 1832 that they were married at our father's house, and we know that neither Claimant nor Soldier were ever previously married and that Mrs. Maria PARISH has not remarried since the death of her said husband Ezekiel PARISH and that the above statements were made by us to A.D. Wainright at Starke, Fla on the 5th day of March A.D. 1894 who reduced the same to writing in our presence and contains our oral statements made from our own personal knowledge. We further declare that we have no interest in said case and are not concerned in its prosecution. Stamp Old War & navy Files March 19 1894 J.R. RICHARD J.C. RICHARD [signatures] The above was sent to me by a Parrish cousin who lives in Washington D.C. and is one of a series of documents which together form the application. Note that the name PARISH was spelled both as PARISH and PARRISH in the pension application. The name Maria was also spelled as Mariah.