Anderson County, KY - REV WAR:  Cowgill, Mary, widow of Ralph, 
Application for Widows Pension, 1853

Submitted by:  franks104@aol.com   (Beulah Franks)

State of Kentucky
County of Anderson.
Revolutionary Application.

On the 12th day of April 1853, personally appeared before me, a Justice of
the Peace, for the county and state aforesaid, Mary Cowgill, a resident
of _________ in the County of Anderson and State aforesaid, aged 55 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
made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3rd of February 1853, granting
pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War;
that she is the widow of Ralph Cowgill who was a Lieutenant or a Sergeant
or a Private.  She does not know when he entered or left the service. She
does not recollect the name of any of his commissioned officers in said
war, but at the time he entered the service he resided in the State of
Virginia.  That the said Ralph Cowgill resided at the time of his death in
Anderson County, Kentucky.  She further declares that he was pensioned
under the Act of the 7th of June 1832, and that he was paid at the agency
at Lexington, Kentucky, but she does not recollect at this time the amount
of his monthly pay.  She further declares that his original Pension
Certificate was surrendered to the Kentucky agency at Lexington at the
last payment after the death of the said Ralph Cowgill by one David Layton,
my Atty (or her Atty).  She further declares that she was married to the
said Ralph Cowgill on the 30 of January, AD 1821; that her said husband
died on the __ day of October 1836; that she was not married to him prior
to the second day of January 1800, but at the time above stated.  She
further declares that she is now a widow, Mary Cowgill.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me a
Justice of the Peace.
                                        Stephen Brown, JP

State of Kentucky
County of Anderson

On the 12 day of April 1853 personally appeared before me, a Justice of
the Peace, for the county and state aforesaid, John K. Love and Katherine
Love, two credible disinterested witnesses, residents of Anderson County,
Kentucky, who being first duly sworn according to law who declare that
Ralph Cowgill (the husband of Mary Cowgill) is dead, that he departed
this life on or about the __ day of _____ 1826, and they further declare
that the aforesaid Mary Cowgill is at this time a widow and that they
are dis_______. Given from under our hands and seals.

                                          John R. Love
                                          Katherine Love

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written and that
I am not _____and that I am _______ interested in the above claim.

                                           Stephen Brown, JPAC
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