Greene County TN Archives Military Records.....Landrum, James 
Revwar - Pension 
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JAMES LANDRUM



   James Landrum applied for revolutionary pension while living in Greene

County, September 4, 1832. He was then seventy years of age and therefore born

in 1762. He entered service in 1780 in Amherst County, Virginia, under his

father, Captain Younger Landrum. Later he enlisted again under his father in

Amherst County and marched against Lord Cornwallis. He was in the battle of

Guilford Court House. He states that he "casually lost his discharge, if ever

his father, Captain Landrum gave him a written discharge." He was a minister of

the Gospel and moved after the war to Greene County, where he filed January 15,

1840, according to declaration of his widow, Mary Landrum, who applied for

pension November 4, 1843. She was then seventy-seven years of age and therefore

born in 1767. She states that she was married to James Landrum. December 22. 1788.



   Note: James Landrum's father and brother, Captain Younger Landrum and Younger

Landrum, Jr., moved also to Greene County. Tennessee, and there died. Younger

Landrum, Jr., married Joanna Goode Sevier, a niece of Governor John Sevier.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. IV



by Zella Armstrong



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