REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION ABSTRACT OF APPLICATION - TIMOTHY CORN

Contributed by: A Mercer County Volunteer


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Name: CORN, TIMOTHY
Pension #: W1147
State: VA
Age: 74
Ap. Date: 01 Sep 1834
CORN, TIMOTHY: In March of 1780, himself his father's family emigrated from near 
Browntown in Penn, then called Redstone and landed at the mouth of Bear Grass 
near the falls of the Ohio, sometime in the same month..we were all told to 
hurry to the Fort take shelter or we would be killed by Indians. We succeeded in 
getting into the fort. At the time at Sims Fort, 12-14 persons were killed by 
Indians, the principal hunter, Phillip Young was killed by Indians near the 
fort. Dec 1780, myself my father's family removed to McGary's Fort on Shawnee 
Run, now in Mercer Co., Ky...he was at several forts in Mercer Co..Denton's 
Fort, McAfee's Fort on the Salt River..by this time his father has succeeded in 
building a small fort.

Spouse: Elizabeth _____
Elizabeth _____: Records: Widow Edlizabeth Yeast m Timothy Corn on 17 Jul 1831, 
the bond was dated 23 Jun 1831 George G. Clark was the bondsman. She states her 
name before her marriage to Timothy Corn was Mrs. Elizabeth Yeast.. Timothy Corn 
died 21 Aug 1848. She remembers the date she married by the Date her oldest son 
was married the next April his oldest child was born 18 months afterwards she 
will be 20 years old sometime about October 1833. She married Timothy Corn in 
Harrodsburg, Ky by Mr. Head, a methodist minister.

Affiant 1: Gen. James Ray
Gen. James Ray: Deposes 1 Sep 1834..that he became aquainted with Timothy Corn 
in 1781 they fought together..guarding the forts