John Ford applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bledsoe County in February, 1833. He was born in Albemarle County, Va., Nov., 13, 1764. He enlisted in Fluvanna County, Va., in Capt. Thomas Thurman’s Company. After the Revolution he moved to Roane County, Tenn., where he lived eight years. About 1817 he moved to Bledsoe County, where he died. He received a Bounty land warrant. He died in Bledsoe County, August 5, 1844. He married April 12, 1785, in Fluvanna County, Va., Elizabeth England, who survived him. She applied for pension August 21, 1844, when she was 80 years of age, naming six children: Jane, born 1786, married ______ Mathis; Sarah, born 1789, married ____ Bristoe; John Ford, Jr., born 1796; Nancy, born 1798, married _____ Loden; Mary, born, 1803, married _____ Renfroe; and Reuben, born 1806. She died September 30, 1845.
From Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution by Zella Armstrong
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