Revolutionary Soldiers
by Jay Guy Cisco
1909
In 1840, when the pension list was revised, the following named Sumner countians were on the
pension rolls, all of them being Revolutionary soldiers:
| Names | Age |
| William Bell | 82 |
| William Beard | 86 |
| William Bruce | 87 |
| Elijah Bayless | 81 |
| Samuel Cockran Sr | 84 |
| John Cleburn | 82 |
| John Carney, Sr. | 106 |
| William Fortune | 94 |
| James Gamblin | 90 |
| Albert Hendrix | 80 |
| Benjamin Haynes | 94 |
| Richard Johnson | 80 |
| Joseph Jackson | 84 |
| John McMurtry | 86 |
| John B. Miller | 79 |
| William Morris | 80 |
| William May | 85 |
| Ezekiel Marshall | 82 |
| John McAdams | 79 |
| John McClung | 80 |
| Henry Pitt | 75 |
| James Pond | 75 |
| Reuben Prewett | 80 |
| Thomas Parish | 80 |
| John Sloan | 82 |
| Bathl. Stovall | 80 |
| Hudson Thompson | 77 |
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