Clark.Samuel.Revwar.1852.Floyd.MILITARY-PensionFrom: KyArchives [Archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:45 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Clark.Samuel.Revwar.1852.Floyd.MILITARY-Pension Pension Application Of Samuel Clark, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll ___, Application #r2000 Revwar Floyd County KyArchives Military Pension Pension Application Of Samuel Clark, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll ___, Application #R2000 Floyd County, Kentucky, August 21, 1852, Margaret Clark, aged 82 years: “That she is the widow of Samuel Clark, deceased, late of the county aforesaid, who, as she verily believes, was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution, in the state of North Carolina and served, as she supposes, in the militia of said state. She cannot state the number of tours he served at the different times. She, however, feels confident that he served 9 months in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Ford under General Joseph McDowell of the North Carolina troops, and that he entered the service at Morgantown, Burke County, NC.” “She is enabled to recollect what her husband said in relation to his said services under Captain Ford from the fact that she was personally acquainted with said Captain Ford, and often heard him and her husband converse together about services. She further states that said Captain Ford drew a pension in his lifetime for the same tour of service that her performed as captain while her husband was serving under him as a private. She further states that she often heard Captain Ford, in his lifetime, advise her husband to make application for a pension, but he neglected to do so, and finally died without making application.” “She further states that she was married to said Samuel Clark, deceased, in Burke County, NC in the month of January, 1792, by one Albert ?Copenny, a magistrate; and her name before marriage was Margaret Hayes…That she is enabled to make the above statement concerning the date of her marriage from the fact that she was about 22 years of age when she married. She further states that her husband died in Floyd County, KY on the 27th day o November, 1845…” “..There is no family record of the dates of birth of their first children, but that she feels confident that their eldest child, Alexander Clark, who resides in Rush County, state of Texas, is at least 58 years of age from the best of her recollection, and from the fact that he is married and has had 10 children, 3 of whom married in this county and have since died, and that the eldest child left one child which is nearly grown and that his youngest child is 21 years of age last January. She further states that she was married about 3 years before the above named Alexander Clark, her eldest child, was born. She further states that there is no record of the death of her husband, save on the headstone of his grave, only as stated by her son, Morgan Clark…” “She further states that for several years after the war, her husband was overseer for General McDowell under whom he served in the company of Captain Ford.” Submitted by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/