Person:Ann Lockridge (1)

Records of Ann Lockridge

[fn p. 10: on Made 3rd, 1842 in Maury County Tennessee, Ann Lockridge, 70, filed for a widow's pension stating that she is the widow of James Lockridge, a revolutionary pensioner; that they married August 21st 1788; that her husband died July 28th 1840; and she remains his widow. She referred the Department to her husband's application but she notes the following: "he was a private Soldier in Captain Pickens Company from South Carolina a part of the time and under other officers, and that he was in actual service more than two years, and received a gunshot wound which he suffered with until the day of his death, carrying a ball in his body that never was extracted."]

[Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $56.66 per annum; widow was originally pensioned at the rate of $34.44 per annum, later increased to $56.66 per annum.]

[fn p. 57: on July 7, 1845, John Lockridge, 70, testified in Maury County Tennessee that he was present at the marriage of the veteran to his wife on the 21st day of August 1788 in Rockbridge County Virginia; he testifies that the family record is in the hand writing of James Lockridge; that he was present when James Lockridge wrote down the record; that he is advised and believes that Ann Lockridge was born on the 23rd day of April 1772.]

Source: http://www.southerncampaign.org/pen/w472.pdf