GEORGIA MILITARY INDIAN WARS 1838 Thomas K. Forrester

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Thomas K. (King) Forrester Rabun County GA
Samuel Beck's Company in the 1st Regiment, first Brigade of Georgia
Mounted Volunteers
1837-1838
Honorably discharged on May 7, 1838. Camp Call, Hall Co. GA.
Mustered into service in Hall County on October 5, 1837



Others on Capt. Beck's roll:  Henry Hopper, John
D. Dickerson, William F. Dickerson, Nace Walls
and William D. Langston

These records are from the National Archives in
Washington D.C.

Matilda his wife listed in her letter the following names listed just as she spelled them.

Jeff Hopper, Tera Dickerson, Thomas Dotson,
Nathern Walls, William Langston, William Shiers,
James  Roach, William Davis, Tilliam Gooch, David
Deener, Volintine Cook and Henry Hopper.
(Not all of these were found on the rosters, however)


Their correspondence said that he received bounty
land but she did not know the number or the
lawyer who procurred it.  Their house had burned
some years before.

In later years:
Thomas K. Forrester enlisted in Cleveland TN
November 13, 1861 and was discharged May 27, 1862
.  He was 52 years old.  He was in the 5th
Cavlary, McKenzie's Company.  He was a corporal..

The pension was filed in Cullman County Al.  Took
her several years to get it. Commencing July 27,
1892, certificate issued May 18, 1894.  She
received $8. per month.  Her claim was dropped
November 4, 1897, failure to claim.  I guess she
died.