MACON COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - Julia Ann Rhoads, Mexican War 
			      Pension Application
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MEXICAN WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APPLICATION - JULIA ANN RHOADS

Julia Ann Rhoads --Widows Pension- Mexican War

Transcribed by Susan Hill
(c)2000

February 17th 1887
Claim of Widow for Service Pension

Mexican War.
CLAIM OF WIDOW FOR SERVICE PENSION.
State if Tennessee, County of Sumner, SS:
On this 17th day of February, A.D. one thousand eight hundred eighty seven, 
personally appeared before me Harris Brown Clerk County Court, the same being a 
court of record with in and for the County and State aforesaid, (1) Julia Ann 
Rhoads, aged 56 years, a resident of Coatstown, in the State of Tennessee who, 
being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of (2) Cullan 
Rhoads, deceased, who was the identical person who served under the name of (3) 
Cullen Rhoads as a soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Robert Bennett of 
Tennessee Vols., commanded by Col. Taylor in the War with Mexico; that her said 
husband enlisted at Hartsville, Tennessee on or about the 10th day of May, A.D. 
1846, and continued in actual service in said war for the term of (4) 10 mos and 
whose service terminated, by reason of an honorable discharge, at Tampico Bay, 
on or about the 20 day of June, A.D. 1847. She further states that the following 
is a full description of her said husband at the time of his enlistment, viz: 
(5) about 6 ft 6 in high, Black hair, light complexion. She further states that 
she was married to the said Cullan Rhoads at the city (or town) of Coats Town, 
in the County of Sumner Tennessee, and in the State of Tennessee, on the 23 day 
of January, A.D. 1851 by one (6) Bartlett Turner, who was a (7) Justice of the 
Peace, and that her name before her said marriage was Julia Ann Culwell, and 
that she had not remarried since the death of said Cullan Rhoads; and she 
further states that her said husband died in Sumner County Tenn., in the State 
of Tenn., on the 25 day of Nov, A.D. 1875; and she further declares that the 
following have been the places of residence of herself and her said husband 
since the date of his discharge from the Army, viz: (9) in Sumner County until 
fall of 1855 then in Kentucky 5 years then Wayne county Ill. 5 " years, then 
Sumner County to the present date. Furthermore, she says that she was born in 
the county of Sumner, in the State of Tennessee, on or about the 10th day of 
Nov., 1831, and that she is at this time 56 years of age, (10) [and that, being 
under 62 years of age, she is without other present means of support than her 
own manual labor, or the contributions of others not legally bound to support 
her, and is subject to a dependency equivalent to some cause prescribed or 
recognized by pension law of the United States as sufficient reason for the 
allowance of pension to dependent relatives] She further declares that she is 
not now under the political disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment to 
the Constitution of the United States. She makes this declamation for the 
purpose of obtaining the pension to which she may be entitled, and hereby 
appoints, with full power of substitution and revocation, Staddart of Wash D.C., 
her true and lawful Attorneys to prosecute her claim.

And she further declares that she has theretofore made no application for (11) 
pension and that her residence is of Coatstown, of Sumner, State of Tennessee, 
and that her post office address is Coatstown. Sumner Co. Tennessee.
Julia Ann Rhoads

Two attesting witnesses who can write their names:
W.E. Akins
W.M. Stewart

January 21, 1893
Declaration for Widow Increase of Pension

MEXICAN WAR
Act approved January 5, 1893.
Declaration for Widows Increase of Pension.
State of Tennessee, County of Sumner, SS}
On this 21 day of January, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety 3 
personally came before me, a Notary Public within and for the County and Sate 
aforesaid, Julia Ann Rhoads aged 61 years, a resident of the town of Coatstown, 
County of Sumner, State of Tennessee, who being duly sworn according to law 
declares that she is the widow of the identical Cullan Rhoads who was ENROLLED 
in Co. G~ Capt. Bennett's Tenn. Vols. in the War with Mexico and was honorably 
DISCHARGED. That she is wholly disable for manual labor and is in such destitute 
circumstances that $8 per month are insufficient to provide her the necessaries 
of life. That she is a pensioner of The United States, enrolled at the 
Knoxville, Tenn. Pensions Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, 
Certificate No. 3,692, and that she makes this declaration for the purpose of 
obtaining an Increase of her pension, under the act of January 5, 1893.
She hereby appoints with full power of substitution and revocation,
STODDART & CO., of Washington D.C.,
Her true and lawful attorneys to prosecute her claim.
That her POST OFFICE ADDRESS is Coatstown, County of Sumner, State of Tennessee.
Claimant's signature Julia Ann Rhoads

ATTEST; D.G. Gains
J.B. Maggart


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