Claiborne-Rutherford-Washington County TN Archives Military Records.....Lanham, Abel 
Revwar - Pension 
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ABEL LANHAM



    Abel Lanham applied for revolutionary pension while living in Claiborne

County, Tenn., Feb. 6, 1837. He was then 75 years old, therefore born 1762. He

says he would not apply for pension while affluent but is now forced to do so as

he has lost his property. He enlisted March 1, 1778 in Rutherford County, N. C.

He moved during the War, Feb. 1, 1782, to Washington County, N. C., now

Tennessee, and enlisted again under Col. John Sevier and Capt. Samuel Williams

in the Indian Campaign of that year. "We were marched against the Cherokee

Nation of Indians. We started from Big Island on the French Broad River and

marched on the Tennessee River and crossed the same at an Indian town called

Echota. From there we went to Hiwassee River, passed Bullstown and crossed

Coosee River to an Indian town, called Estanolee; from there we went to Little

Shoemaker Plains and from there to Hiwassee Town. In this campaign we destroyed

the Indian crops and fourteen towns and returned home, Dec. 1, 1782." Abel

Lanham died in Claiborne County, Aug. 25, 1837. The widow, Sarah Lanham, applied

for widow's pension while a resident of Laurel County, Ky., March 17, 1853, aged

66 years, therefore born 1787. She says that she was married to Abel Lanham,

about 1814.



Note:-Sarah Lanham was possibly a second wife. 



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. I



by Zella Armstrong



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