McMinn County Tennessee Revolutionary War Pensioner's List      

Sources:  Senate documents, pension rolls,  Report of the Secretary of War, Volume 3 (1835). Transcribed by: Ed McQueen and W.L. Bigham Resident soldiers in McMinn Co. TN, who were pensioned under the act of 1832 were:

   

BENJAMIN BROWN	ANDREW BIGHAM	DANIEL BROYLES
WILLIAM BARNETT	SAMUEL BLAIR	CHARLES CARTER, Sr
WILLIAM CRYE	JAMES CUNNINGHAM	WILLIAM DODD
ROBERT DOUGLAS	ROBERT FORESTER	WILLIAM HALE
JAMES HANKINS	WILLIAM HAMPTON	JOHN HUGHES
WILLIAM KELLY	THOMAS LESLEY	HUGH LARRIMORE
JOSEPH LUSK	ISAAC LANE	WILLIAM LONGLEY
CHRISTOPHER LINER	ROBERT McCORMICK	WILLIAM McALLESTER
EDWARD MURPHY	JOHN McMAHON	WILLIAM MAY
JOHN MAY	WILLIAM NORMAN	WILLIAM PETERS
REESE PRICE	JOHN QUEENER	MOSES RUSSELL
DAVID REID	JAMES RIGGINS	EDMOND ROBERTS
HENRY SMITH	THOMAS STEED	JAMES STANFIELD
THOMAS THOMPSON	JOHN WALLING	BURGESS WITT
SAMUEL YOUNG

   

Under the act of 1818 Maximillian Rector and Burgess Witt drew pensions in McMinn CO.  The sixth census of 1840 shows that there were eighteen pensioners in the county. Many of these men moved into the county as soon as the territory was acquired from the  Cherokees and are buried there.  They were:

   

ISAAC LANE aged 81 years

JOHN HONEY/ Probably JOHN HANEY, 79

WILLIAM PETERS, aged 79, residing with George Monroe

WILLIAM NORMAN, aged 76

SPENCER BENSON, aged 76, residing with John Benson

EDMOND ROBERTS, aged 83, residing with Ed Roberts

ELIZABETH McNABB, widow of Rev. soldier-?- ,residing with William McNabb

JAMES CUNNINGHAM, aged 80, residing with J.B. Cunningham

JOHN RAINEY, aged 84

JAMES RIGGINS,   AGED 88

MAXIMILLIAN RECTOR, AGED 82

HENERY MATLOCK, AGED 54

CHARLES CARTER, AGED 73

WILLIAM BARNETT, AGED 79, residing with James M. Barnett

SIMEON ELDRIDGE, AGED 78

JOHN KURTUS, AGED 85

BENJAMIN BROWN, AGED 87

E. COOPER, AGED 45, residing with Ebenezer Cooper

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