Grainger-Hawkins County TN Archives Military Records.....Grantham, Richard 
Revwar - Pension 
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RICHARD GRANTHAM



    Richard Grantham applied for revolutionary pension while living in Grainger

County, Aug. 21, 1832. He was born March 16, 1754 and was the son of John and

Ann Grantham. He enlisted while living in Dobbs County, N. C. in Col. Charles

Coatsworthy Pinckney's 1st South Carolina Regiment. After the Revolution he

moved to Hawkins County, N. C., now Tennessee and subsequently lived in Grainger

County. He died in Grainger County, June 22, 1846. His widow. Frances Amis

Grantham, applied for pension Oct. 14, 1846. Her brother was Lincoln Amis. She

says they were married in Hawkins County, by Thomas Murrell, a minister, April

14, 1785. Frances Amis, daughter of Thomas and Alice Amis, was born April 16,

1765. Enclosed in her application is the original Bible page with the foregoing

birth dates and the following information. Children: Penelopy, born 1786; Mary,

born 1788, died 1820, married George Saunders, 1805; Ann, born 1789, died 1814,

married Hezekiah Robertson, 1807; Amis (a son), born 1791, married Margaret

Williams, 1815; Tabitha, born 1793, married Hezekiah Robertson (as his second

wife) 1816; Rachel, born 1795, married James Dobson, 1817; Rhoda, born 1797,

married James Moore 1817; Lincoln, born 1798; John Thomas, born 1800, married

Margaret Littleton, 1824; James, born 1804; Alice Gale, born 1803, married

Hughes W. Taylor, 1823.



    Note:-The wife of Thomas Amis was Alice Gale. 



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. I



by Zella Armstrong



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