CAMPBELL COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - Calvin Smiddy - Cherokee Disturbance - Indian Wars ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Debra Elam ==================================================================== Calvin Smiddy --- Cherokee Disturbance - Indian Wars State of Tennessee County of CAMPBELL Enlisted May 26, 1838, Honorably Discharged June 28, 1838, In service 34 Days. No 3398 1832-1842 BL No 62318-120-55 No 2380 Indian Wars Calvin Smiddy, Private Agency Knoxville Rate per month $8.00 Commencing July 27, 1892 Certificate issued May 13, 1893 Certificate issued May 19, 1893 Survivors Service Pension Indian Wars Act of July 27, 1892 Calvin Smiddy, Newcomb, CAMPBELL County, Tennessee Captain Dossett East Tenn Vols, Cherokee War-----Private Nov 1, 1892 Rate of $8.00 per month Commencing July 27, 1892 Bounty Land Warrant --------applied for Bounty Land Warrant No 62318 for 120 Acres issued Act of 1855. Declaration filed Nov 1, 1892. Recognized Attorney Name Joel I Pyatt Fee $25.00. Agent to pay P.O. Athans Tenn Articles filed April 10, 1893 Approvals Submitted for Admission May 6, 1893 Malcolum M. Moore Examiner -- Approved for Admission May 10, 1893 -- J.M. Sturges Legal Reviewer General Affidavit I sold my Land Warrant to Wm. Carey, now dead of Jacksboro, TN. His memory is very defective, but he remembers that James Dossett, Isaac Duncan, John C. Chiles, and James Dail were comrades who served with him in Raid Company. Col. Yocumn (Yocuum), May Julian, Capt. Andrew, and J. Dossett. Others that he served with and they received Bounty Land for service under Capt Dossett . Andrew Dossett-Captain, James Dossett, Isaac Duncan, and James J. Dail "It has been suggested to me that formerly my family name was spelled "Smithers" which may be recorded that way; but I am told that it frequently appears both ways, but of late years it is commonly spelled "Smiddy"." May 93 Declaration for Invalid Pension Oct 1, 1897 Calvin Smiddy age 73 of Newcomb. Capt ----- Andrew Dossetts Co. of Calo of Okims(that is what it looks like) Reg. Major Julian Indian Disturbance. Discharged at Ross Landing now Chattanooga. June or July about 1888. William L. Lay of Elk Valley has known 40 years. Zebedee Baird of Elk Valley has known 40 yrs. Oct 1, 1892 Lewis Baird Notary Public. Feb 9, 1901 Act Mar 2/95 expl to Jas Smiddy P.A. & ------ of death March 30, 1901 Dropped Death 3/01 Bills of H.E. Smith & Co.