NEBRASKA AND MIDWEST GENEALOGICAL RECORD; VOLUME 9; PARTS 3 & 4; JUL. - OCT., 1931 ARTICLE: PENSION RECORDS AND WHAT THEY MAY DISCLOSE PAGES 26 - 27 As transcribed by the submitters from the original publication. Submitted to the USGenWeb Nebraska Archives, February, 1998, by Ted and Carole Miller (susieque@pacbell.net). USGenWeb Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial researchers, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for presentation in any form by any other organization or individual. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. *************** (page 26, cont.) PENSION RECORDS AND WHAT THEY MAY DISCLOSE Interesting Genealogical History Established in the Pension Record of John White of Donegal Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania The following letter from the Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C., is contributed by Miss Rose Carson, Lincoln, Nebraska. Miss Rosanna Carson, 1809 C St., Lincoln, Nebr.; Dear Madam: I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 6480, it appears that John White was born May 20, 1760, in Maryland; place not designated. He enlisted in Maryland or Virginia, as a private in Lieut. Col. Henry Lee's Legion, served three years and nine months and was discharged July 23, 1781. It is also stated that he was elected captain in the militia after his marriage. He received a bayonet wound in the thigh in battle; name of battle not shown. The soldier married May 13, 1788, in Donegal Township, Westmoreland Co., Penn., Eleanor or Eleanear Williams, born June 9, 1768, daughter of Richard Williams of said Donegal Township. They were married by her father who was then Justice of the Peace for said Westmoreland County. The soldier died in August, 1818, in Donegal Township, Westmoreland Co., Penn., and was buried on the farm which he purchased from his father-in-law, in said Donegal Township. His widow Eleanor died Oct. 11, 1851, in the same place. John and Eleanor White had the following children: Margaret or Peggy, born July 25, 1789, married Dr. Wm. Brannon; living in Westmoreland Co., Penn., in 1855 Rosanna born May 2, 1791, married James O. Carson; living in Franklin Co., Penn., in 1855 Sarah born Nov. 27, 1792, unmarried; died Sept. 11, 1851 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENEALOGICAL RECORD 27 Susannah born Aug. 22, 1794, married Henry Brindle, living in Illinois in 1855 Drusylla born May 13, 1796, married John A. Brooks; living in Lawrence Co., Penn., in 1855 Elizabeth born Jan. 3, 179...., married John Patterson, living in Fulton Co., Penn., in 1855 Eleanor born Nov. 20, 1800; married John Brindle; living in Westmoreland Co., Penn., in 1855 John born July 20, 1802 Isaac Stull born June 3, 1804, died in infancy Matilda S. born Oct. 20, 1806, married John Kuhn who was living in Schuyler Co., Ill., in 1855, but wife had died subsequent to her mother's death Isaac S. born Aug. 4, 1808 John Kuhn and his wife Matilda, soldier's daughter, had eight children, named as follows: Isaac, Phillip, Eleanor, Nancy, Margaret, Matilda, John, David. On Apr. 23, 1855, John White, soldier's son, then a resident of the borough of West Newton, Westmoreland Co., Pa., applied for the pension due their mother in behalf of himself and the other children, then surviving. The claim was allowed. One William Duff was living in Westmoreland Co., Pa., in 1885, aged thirty-four years. He married soldier's granddaughter; her name not designated. In regard to photostatic copy of the "brief" in the above named pension claim, it is proper to state that the data therein were assembled from statements made in the original papers filed in the claim, and such briefs are not included in photostatic copies. It is suggested that you apply to the Adjutant General, U. S. A., War Department, this city, for a statement in regard to the military service of John White in Lee's Legion, referred to in said brief. Very truly yours, EARL D. CHURCH, commissioner.