REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - RALPH COWGILL

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State of Kentucky, County of Anderson
On the 12th day of April 1853 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 benefit of the provision made by 
the Act of Congress passed on February 3, 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, sergeant, or private. She does not know when he 
entered or left the service. She does not recollect the names of any of his 
commissioned officers in said war. 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, Ky. She further declares that he was 
pensioned under the act of the 7th June 1832, and that he was paid at the 
agency at Lexington, Ky., 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 Daniel Layton, my atty, (or her Atty.). 
She further declares that she was married to the said Ralph Cowgill on January 
30, 1821. That her said husband died on the ___ day of October 1836; that she 
was not married to him prior the the 2nd day of January 1800, but at the time 
above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow.

State of Kentucky, County of Anderson
Stephen Brown, a Justice of the Peace for the County and State above written, 
do hereby certify that Mary Cowgill, above named on the opposite side, who made 
the written declaration is personally known to me to be the identical Mary 
Cowgill, widow of Ralph Cowgill deceased. And I further certify that owing to 
distance and bodily infirmity that the above named, Mary Cowgill, is unable to 
attend court being both sickly and weakly. Given under my hand the day and year 
above written. S/Stephen Brown, JPAC.

State of Kentucky, County of Anderson
On the 12th 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, Ky., who being 
first duly sworn according to law who delcare that Ralph Cowgill (the husband 
of Mary Cowgill) is dead, that e departed this life on or about ___ day of ___, 
1826, and they further declare that the aforesaid Mary Cowgill is at this time 
a widow and that they are _____.
John R. Love, Katherine Love

Remarks:
Married: Polly (Mary) Poindexter of Franklin Co., Ky.
Ralph Cowgill died November 9, 1835 in Anderson Co., Ky.

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