REVOLUTIONARY WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APPLICATION - MARGARET FULKERSON

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Margaret Fulkerson Widow of John Fulkerson who died 15 Jan 1835
Of ________in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the _____comended by 
Captain_________of the _____by ____ in the Revolution line for 11months
Inscribed on the ____Louisville at the rate of 36 Dollars 660---per annum to 
commence on the 15th day of January 1832 Ending Jany 29 1839

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of April 1835 and???????

Recorded by ???????Clerk
Book D. Vol 2 Page 7

State Of Kentucky
Grayson County Sct.

On this the 25th day of March 1852, personally appeared before M AC M Beath an 
acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county and State aforesaid Benjamin 
O. Fulkerson, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the 
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress 
passed (4th July 1836 Towit: that he is the administrator of the estate of 
Margaret Fulkerson deceased who was the wife of John Fulkerson dec'd, who made a 
pension under the act of Congress passed 7th of June 1832 at the rate of Eighty 
Dollars per annum.
That he being the aforesaid Margaret and John Fulkerson were married in the year 
seventeen hundred and seventy four (1774) He must respectfully ask that her 
aforesaid claim may be allowed, and that the certificate evidencing the same may 
be enclosed to his Attorney E. S. Bruni? Of Elizabethtown Ky. That the aforesaid 
Margaret Fulkerson did on the 29th day of January 1839 (eighteen hundred and 
thirty nine) and let seven children whose names are as follows Peter, Phillip, 
James, Polly McGrew, Sophia Richardson, Margaret Richardson & Phebe Harris who 
are her only living
Children.
Sworn and subscribed Benjamin O. Fulkerson
Before me, the day & Att. Of Margaret Fulkerson
Year aforesaid.
A.C. M Beath Justice of the peace

State of Kentucky
Grayson Co. Sct:

J. Edwin Thomas Clerk of the county Court for the county aforesaid, do certify 
that it has on this any satisfactory Append to me that Margaret Fulkerson the 
widow of John Fulkerson (who was pensioner of the United States, at the value of 
Eighty Dollars per anium, and died on 15th day of January 1835) desd on the 29th 
day of January 1839 , and left seven Children towit Peter, Phillip, James, Polly 
McGrew, Sophia Richardson, Margaret Richardson & Phebe Harris, who are her only 
living Children, and that Benjamin O. Fulkerson is the administrator of her 
estate.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto

subscribed my name and affixed

my seal of office this 25th day of

March AD 1852

Edwin Thomas Clerk

Grayson County Court

Where the children's names are there were put in after the document was written 
and the names are very small, but readable
Theodora DeFord