{"id":796,"date":"2022-01-12T23:55:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T05:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/?p=796"},"modified":"2022-01-13T13:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T19:23:19","slug":"capt-george-walker-revolutionary-war-pension-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/capt-george-walker-revolutionary-war-pension-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Capt. George Walker &#8211; Revolutionary War Pension Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/revwarapps.org\/s3449.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view a transcript of his application in PDF format at Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Applications site.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Captain George Walker applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, in 1832. He enlisted in North Carolina Militia in Burke County, North Carolina, and served in the battle of Ramsour&#8217;s Mills. He moved to Knox County, Tennessee, in 1796, and to Bledsoe County in 1807. He died in Bledsoe County October 12, 1833. His children were: William; Ephriam; Sarah (who married ____ Matlock); Dicey (who married _____ Howard); Jesse; Charlotte (who married _____ Cherry); and Buckner. His wife pre-deceased him.<\/p>\n<p>From <i>Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution<\/i> by Zella Armstrong<\/p>\n<p>Copyright. All rights reserved.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.usgwarchives.net\/copyright.htm<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.usgwarchives.net\/tn\/tnfiles.htm<br \/>\nContributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to view a transcript of his application in PDF format at Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Applications site. Captain George Walker applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, in 1832. He enlisted in North Carolina Militia in Burke County, North Carolina, and served in the battle of Ramsour&#8217;s Mills. He moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,25,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individuals-families","category-military-records","category-revolutionary-war-history"],"modified_by":"TNGenWeb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}