BUNCOMBE COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - Charles McClain, Pension Application - 1812
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RUTHERFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

Federal Military Pension Applications on file at Washington D.C.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. INVALID PENSION. I certify, That in conformity
with the Law of the United States, relating to their existing military
establishments, CHARLES McCLAIN late a private in Captain Love's Company
of the 43rd Regt. U.S. Infantry is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll
of the North Carolina, Fayetteville Agency, at the rate of Two 66 2/3 /100
dollars per month, to commence on the first day of November one thousand
eight hundred and fourteen---(sic) Issued in lieu of one illegally with-held
-- Given at the Department of the Interior, this thirteenth day of April
one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.

Letter of September 18, 1908, Commissioner (no name) to Miss LOLA McCLAIN
of Union Mills, North Carolina: In reply....you are advised that from the
papers in the pension claim, Invalid File 14,477, War of 1812, it appears
that CHARLES McCLAIN (or McLAIN), then aged 37 years, enlisted at Ashville,
Buncombe Co., N.C., March 31, 1814 and served as a Private in Capt. ROBERT
LOVE's company, Col. NICHOLAS LONG's 43" regiment of United States
Infantry; that on June 28, 1814, while engaged in erecting a fort, he was
injured by a falling timber and discharged Oct. 31, 1814, at Camp Federal
Point, N.C. on account of disability, for which he was pensioned. He was
a resident of Rutherford Co., N.C. in 1853.

Letter of February 1, 1933 from A. D. HILLER to EWING McLEAN of Greencastle,
Indiana: Reference is made to your letter of January 6..... The papers
in his claim for pension Old War Invalid File 14477, are very brittle and
frail and several pages very much faded, and too, they are so arranged
under the seals that they cannot be opened or flattened out in any way
to include all the pages, or even a sequence of sentences in a photostatic
copy, therefore such copies would be necessarily very incomplete and unsatisfactory.
In order to aid you, all the papers have been examined very thoroughly
and his record prepared carefully to include his service, residence, family,
etc. as found in them. It is enclosed herewith, and it is hoped will prove
to be satisfactory.

Letter of February 1, 1933 (yes, same date) from A. D. HILLER to EWING
McLEAN of Greencastle, Indiana: The data furnished herein are obtained
from the papers on file in Old War Invalid claim for pension, File Number
14477, based upon the military service of CHARLES McCLAIN in the War of
1812. CHARLES McCLAIN was born in Rutherford County, North Carolina, date
not given. He enlisted at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, March
31, 1814, served as a private in Captain ROBERT LOVE's Company, Colonel
NICHOLAS LONG's 43" Regiment, United State Infantry: on June 28, 1814,
while assisting in the erection of a fort at Camp Federal Point, at the
mouth of Cape Fear River, CHARLES McCLAIN was severely injured by a falling
timber, which caused hernia, and was discharged on October 31, 1814, on
account of disability. At the time of his discharge he was described as
follows: age, thirty-seven years: hair, dark: eyes, blue: complexion, fair:
height, five feet, eight and one-half inches..... In 1853, he was still
residing in Rutherford County, North Carolina, where, he stated he had
lived ever since his discharge from the army. In 1834, MARTHA HUGHES made
affidavit in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and stated that she was
the mother-in-law of CHARLES McCLAIN and that he and his family had lived
in her house for thirty years but she gave no names and there are no further
data as to family.