Bath-Montgomery County KyArchives Military Records.....Becraft, Mary July 11, 1872
Revwar - Pension 
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Fields Becraft Affidavit Toward Mother Mary Becraft's Widow Pension
State of Kentucky}
County of Bath   }Sct.

Be it remembered that before me 
A J Ewing Presiding Judge of the Bath
County Court and Ex Officio a Justice
of the Peach within and for the county
and state aforesaid personally came
Fields Becraft who being duly sworn
on oath says that he is Sixty One years
of age having been born in the year
1811. as he has always understoof from 
his parents and as he believes. That
he now resides in said county and 
state and has so resided for more
than forty years last part. That he 
is the third child of the family of 
children of the marriage of Benjamin
and Mary Becraft. That they 
had a family of nine children 
seven of them still living. That 
his father died in Bath County
Kentucky in the year 1833 of the 
cholera. That he was living with 
them his father and mother at the time of his death.
That his mother Mary Becraft 
who is an applicant for a pension
under the act of Feby 14th 1871 is
still alive resides with one other
son Robt Becraft in said county 
and state. That her son James 
Becraft is older than the offiant
and resides in Montgomery County
Ky. Her other children including 
the offiant reside in this county 
and are named Sally Becraft, Mollie 
Blevins wife of Danl Blevins, Betsy
Shultz wife of O P Shultz, Polly Shultz
wife of Saml Shultz. That he 
never heard the fact of the marriage
of his said parents questioned. 
That he has no interest in thi
claim farther than that he would like 
for his mother to get her pension
as she needs it in her old age and
is entitled to it under the law.
Attest             Fields Becraft (his mark)
Thos Ficklin
T Y Cooper

Subscribed and sworned before 
me by the said Fields Becraft
who I certify is a credible person
having been acquainted with him
for about thirty years and I 
further certify that his affidavit was 

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Additional Comments:
I am a descendant of Benjamin and Mary Becraft through their daughter Polly
Shultz, wife of Samuel Shultz.

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