ROANE COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - Delila Johnson, Revolutionary War Widow's Pension Application --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- Application of Delila Johnson for her widow's pension with statement from her son, James Johnson: Taken from the American Revolutionary War pension application State of Tennessee Roan (Roane) County On this the 24th day of October 1838 Personally appeared before me Sterling T. Turner a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid Delia Johnson a resident citizen of county of Roan in the State of Tennessee aged seventy years on the twenty first day of July last agree able to her undoubted calculation and agree able to her second which she has had and is now distroyed being born in Bute County, North Carolina on the twenty first day of July one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benifit of the provision of the act of congress passed July 7, 1838 enabled an act granting half and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of James Johnson who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and was in the receipt of a pension in his lifetime in manner setforth in his original certificate of pension now in her possession which in words and figures following to wit, War Department Revolutionary Claim I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th of June 1832, James Johnson of the State of Tennessee who was a private of infantry in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive thirty-six dollars and sixty six cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March and the 4th of September in every year. Given at the War Office of the United States this Second day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. John Robb Acting Secretary of War Examined and countersigned J L Edwards, Commssioner of Pensions This further declares that she married to the said James Johnson in Granville County, North Carolina in the month of January and about the middle of January to the best of her recollection not having any record of the same nor documentary evidence there of that said marriage with her deceased husband was solomized by James Langston, a Justice of the Peace, and at her father's house to wit William Bennett's house that her said father went to the Clerk for the license that their said marriage took place the second January that was after her said husband's last period of service expired, and she now believes to have been in January 1783. (NOTE: County records indicate a marriage date of January 29, 1781) that she lived within two miles of her said husband six years before their said marriage near the edge of the counties of Granville and Casswell and well recollects his going and returning from service and his being stationed at Moons Creek and being there a short time and returning, his staying at home a few months and his going away to the south and being gone nine months and returning home that she was married to him as aforesaid on the second January that was after his said return from service. That husband the said James Johnson died on the thirtieth day of March last past 1838 in Roane County State of Tennessee at the house where she now resides that she lived and remained with him as husband and wife until death that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the last day of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four to wit as above stated Sterling T Turner Justice of the Peace ------------------------------------------------------------ AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES JOHNSON, Son of James and Delila Johnson State of Tennessee Roan (Roane) County On this the 24th day of October 1838 Personally appeared before me, Sterling T. Turner, a Justice of the peace for the county aforesaid, James Johnson whose statements are entered to certify and after being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following affidavit that he is twenty nine years old the 4th day of April last, agreeable to his ........ wrote in his own bible in his own hand write that he has had in his bible ever since shortly after he was married that he has been married for nine years ever since the 23rd day of April last, that he is the youngest child born of his mother & father James Johnson & Delila Johnson that he has often heard his said father James Johnson talk of the Revolutionary Services in his life time and of being intimately acquainted with her before and after serving in the said war and of contemplating marrying her before he went to the service and of marry ing her sometime about one year and over after the last of his said service, that he ......... is the ninth child born of his said parents, that it agrees with his best account and .......... from his deceased father and from corroborating circumstances that his said parents were married but little more than one year after the last of his said fathers service in the Revolutionary War that his said father died at his house in Roane County, Tennessee on the 30th day of March last past, that is on the thirtieth day of March Eighteen hundred and thirty eight and that he left a widow to wit Delila Johnson and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband. sworn and subscribed this 24th day of October James Johnson 1838 before me, Sterling T. Turner Justice of the peace, Roane County ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jerry Wopschall lwopschall@ucsd.edu ___________________________________________________________________