Patrick County, VA - Revolutionary Pension Affidavit, Lydia Ayers, Widow of Elihu Ayers

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  LYDIA AYERS, AFFADAVIT, PENSION APPLICATION

                             Patrick County, Virginia, June 17, 1844

             Transcribed by William E. Harrold (gggg-grandson of Lydia [Owen]
Ayers)


On June 17, 1844 LYDIA [OWEN] AYERS appeared at the Patrick County, Virginia,
Court to apply for a Pension Application. She states that she is LYDIA AYERS,
widow of ELIHU AYERS, and that they were married in the Spring of 1786 in
Halifax County, Virginia, and that her husband died on March 19, 1844.

Further, on March 19, 1845 Lydia Ayers made a declaration in Patrick Conty
Court in which she stated that she was 81 years old, the widow of Elihu
Ayers, a Soldier in The Revolutionary War. Elihu was inscribed on the Pension
Rolls to commence his pension in March 1831, and was paid $312.60 back pay.

April 2, 1846,  in a letter from George W. Hopkins, Washington, D. C.,
written from Halifax County, Virginia, states that Lydia Ayers had died.

July 7, 1846 a Carroll County Virginia paper lists all the heirs of Lydia
Ayers, who died August 13, 1845 in Patrick County,Virginia.

Lydia Ayers was the daughter of John Owen and Eliabeth Nichols, and the
granddaughter of RIchard Owen, of Halifax County, Virginia. Her sister
Leannah Owen married Elihu Ayer's brother Joseph Murphy Ayers.
Elihu's parents were Thomas Ayers, Sr. and Barbara [Murphy?], and his
grandparents were Nathaniel Ayers and Rhoda [Baker?], of Pittsylvania County,
Virginia. His siblngs were Joseph Murphy Ayers, who married Leannah
Owen,sister of Lydia Owen Ayers, Thomas Ayer,.Jr., Jane Ayers, Elizabeth
Ayers, and Phebe Ayers.

The children of Lydia [Owen] Ayers and Elihu Ayers are:

1. Elkannah Ayers m. Joannah_________

2. Nancy Ayers m. (1) Jacob Johnson, Jr. and (2) Hiram Harrison Dean, son of
Henry Harrison Dean, Sr. amd Charity Beamer

3. Keturah Ayers, m. Henry Harrison Dean, Jr., son of Henry Harrison Dean,
Sr.,and Charity Beamer

4. Affirah Ayers m. John Scott, son of Thomas and Catherine Scott, of Wythe
County, Virginia

5. Cassamara Ayers

6. Martha Ayers,. (1) Samiel Richardson and (2) Vincent Surratt

7. Elckum Ayers

8. Lucinda Ayers m. William Allen, III, son of William Allen, Jr. and Ann
Stuart

9. Lydia Ayers m. Archibald Burnett.


                          Transcribed by William E. Harrold