WAR OF 1812: Hall, Rodin; Pension File; Floyd County, KY
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Resubmitted by: Kathy Hamilton
email: midnight@starband.net
Date resubmitted: 18, May 2001
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State of Kentucky
County of Floyd
On this 26th day of June 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned a 
Justice of the Peace withinthe county aforesaid, Rodin Hall a resident of 
Floyd County aged 67 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on 
his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 
provisions made by the laws of the United States passed on the 3rd day of 
February 1853. That he is the identical man who was a Private in a Company of 
Virginia Militia commanded by Captain John Hammons from the County of Russell 
in the State of Virginia in the 6th Regiment of Virginia Militia commanded by 
Colonel Henry E. Coleman in the War known as the War of 1812 declared by the 
United States against Great Britain. He was marched to Norfolk in the State 
of Virginia and mustered into actual service and from exposure while in actual 
service and in the line of duty he contracted a disease called "camp fever" 
which from exposure while in actual service and in the line of his duty the 
said fever settled in his limbs and so effected the spinal marrow of his back 
that he was found unfit for the service and received a sick discharge which is 
now on file in the City of Washington he having received his bounty land for 
the same and he has been disabled from getting his subsistence from manual labor 
ever since he contracted the disease above named. And he further states on his 
oath that the Captain he marched under is now dead and he hath just cause to 
believe the the Colonel in command is also dead as he was a tolesable old man 
when in the service with him. As to the other officers that I was under I do not 
know any thing of their whereabouts as I live some five hundred miles from where 
I last heard from them, the Physicians that examined me in the time of my 
affliction in the service and while in the army their names I cannot recollect 
nor can I tell where they reside, the only witnesses that I can procure or that 
I know and that resides in any reasonable distance of me is the two whose 
affidavits accompany my application which I pray the Commissioner of Pensions 
to read in my behalf his Rodin X Hall mark Sworn to and subscribed before me 
this 26th day of June 1853 and I certify that I have no interest in this case 
and am not concerned in its prosecutions David Cooley Justice of the Peace Floyd 
County.

Note: Rodden Hall  was born in Grayson County, Virginia in 1785. He married Mary 
around 1804, based on the birth of their first child. The family moved to Russell 
County, Virginia in 1812 and then to Floyd County, Kentucky in the early 1830. 
Mary died in 1863 and Rodden in 1871. They are buried in the Nimrod Hall Cemetery 
on Branham Creek in Floyd County.
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