From Revolutionary War Pension Application of John Campbell:
On 15 April 1856 Sarah Campbell, 74, applied for a pension stating that as the widow of John Crewey she married John Campbell in Mason County VA in Aug 1805, and he died 6 Nov 1839. On an application for bounty land dated 4 Nov 1857 she was said to be 76 and a resident of Fulton (later Cincinnati), and she was said to have married John Campbell in 1803. On 12 March 1862, aged about 86, while visiting her son Henry Campbell at Twenty Mile Stand in Warren County OH, she applied again, stating that her marriage to John Campbell occurred about 4 miles from Point Pleasant about the year 1802, and he died about 26 Nov 1839. She stated that her family record had been burned with her house in Piketon OH many years before. She listed her children by John Campbell as follows: Bethany, who died young; Hiram, who died about 12 years before; Sarah, wife of John Walls of Terre Haute IN; James, about 49, of Hamilton County; Daniel, who died in 1834; Henry, 44. She stated that before her marriage to John Campbell she had been married to John Cruey, who died near Point Pleasant about 1798 or 1799, by whom she had the following four children: Polly Stevens (Mary Stephens), a widow living in Hamilton County; Martha Cranmore, also a widow of Hamilton County; John Cruey, living 6 miles from Maysville KY; and Abraham Cruey, who died young. On 24 Aug 1855 Sarah Campbell was said to have turned 72 on 11 Sep 1854 and to be a resident of Cincinnati, where John Campbell died on 6 Nov 1839. On an application for bounty land dated 10 May 1860 Sarah Campbell stated that as Sarah Cruey or Crewey she married John Campbell in 1806 or 1807. Martha Cranmore, about 58, made a supporting statement.
Note: there are several pieces of conflicing information contained in the statement of Sarah, wife of 1st, John Cruey and 2nd, John Campbell. She lists several dates that do not appear to agree with other sources, including: 1) she states John Cruey died abt. 1798/1799, but census records of at least two of their [supposed] children show birthdates after that date, 2) she stated varying marriage dates to her second husband, John Campbell from 1802-1805, but based upon the approximate birthdates of her children in her first marriage, the latter date is more probable. Additional research is needed on this family.
