Ephraim Pool fought for South Carolina in the Revolutionary War; his pension application, W1475, was made through the Montgomery County Circuit Court on 23 August 1832. He lived in the area of Half Pone Creek in Montgomery County and served as minister/elder for the Half Pone Baptist Church, a member of the Red River Baptist Church Association, from 1818 until his death in 1834.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION (W1475)
EPHRAIM POOL

State of Tennessee, Montgomery County

On this 23rd day of August 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Circuit Court now sitting in the Town of Clarksville, Ephraim Pool aged 76 years a resident of said county and state, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States, and served as herein stated:

1st. As a volunteer under Col. Mat Singleton for the term of three months which time he served. His Captain was Jno Singleton, son of the Colonel (.) Joseph Singleton was 1st Lieutenant - other Company officers not recollected. He was in no engagement during this period, but his company took Col. Fletcher and Captains Cunningham and Soover, three tory officers, whom he assisted in taking under guard to Charlestown. When he entered the service he resided in Cambden district, South Carolina, 20 miles below Cambden, on the high hills of Santee, and marched into the country above Cambden, the principal object being to keep the tories in subjection.

2nd. He enlisted in the army of the United States with Capt. Rizbo and served in the 2nd Regiment of Rifleman. Thomas Sumpter was Colonel; Henry Rizbo, Captain; William Rizbo, 1st Lieutenant; and John Rizbo, 2nd Lieutenant. He enlisted for eighteen months, which time he served - still resided at the same place as aforesaid. He was at Sullivan's Island when the British fleet attacked that place; and was also in a battle with the Indians in the Cherokee nation on a creek then called Crooked Creek. Gen'l Williamson was one principal commander. He was acquainted with Col. Wade Hampton, then in service; also with his three brothers Richard, John, and William, one of whom was a captain, and the other two Lieutenants. He had a discharge from Col. Sumpter, but lost it, as he supposes, in the burning of his house in Georgia, or in moving to this country.

3rd. He was drafted soon after his term of enlistment in the regular army expired, and served as called upon in his regular order, until near the close of the war - was stationed at Augusta - Gen'l Williamson principal commander and Mat. Singleton, Colonel. He was in a battle of Spirit Creek with the tories under Col. Hal Sharp, and Major Spurgin, both of whom were killed. He does not remember who commanded in this battle, but he had in the morning been detached from Col. Twiggs, who again joined them in the evening after the battle. Still resided at the same place. He is altogether illiterate and cannot recollect dates so far back as the period of the Revolution; consequently cannot even state with any degree of accuracy, what time of year he at any time joined or quit the army. He can neither state accurately the whole length of time he served, but he can say with confidence, that he served upwards of two years, for he left the service but a few days before the defeat of Gen. Gates, and had entered into it at least three years before that period. He has no papers or documentary evidence of any kind whatever by which he can establish his service; neither does he know of any living witness by whom he could do it. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
P.N.Morris, Clk.

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We Washington Lowe and Thomas Bell, residing in the county and state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ephraim Pool, who was subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age in March next - that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

August 20, 1832
P.N. Morris, Clk.

Washington Lowe
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And the said court is of the opinion after our information of the matter upon the application of Ephraim Pool for a pension and after propounded the questions to the applicant as requested by the secretary of war - that the said Ephraim Pool was a Revolutionary soldier, that he served as stated in said declaration - and that said Washington Lowe and Thomas Bell are citizens as charged in sd county - there being no clergyman resident in sd neighborhood except said Pool - that the sd Lowe and Bell are credible persons and that their testimony is entitled to full credit.

Parry M. Humphreys, Judge

I Peter N. Morris Clerk of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ephraim Pool for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & private seal having no other seal of office at office in Clarksville this 23 day of August 1832.
P.N. Morris, Clk.
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By his deputy Cleo T. Bailey

State of Tennessee, Montgomery County

Luretia Pool, the widow of Ephraim Pool dec'd a soldier of the Revolution personally appeared before me Robert T. Gupton an acting Justice of the Peace for said County & being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that she is seventy three years old and was married to Ephraim Pool a soldier of the Revolution in the month of March 1781 or 1782, she believes the former, in South Carolina about 20 miles below Camden & they moved to Georgia and remained there a short time & then moved to Tennessee near forty years ago & now resides in Montgomery County, Tennessee - that she continued to live with sd Ephraim Pool as man & wife from the time of their marriage to the time of his death, which took place the 11th of September 1834 -- that she has since that time remained single and unmarried & is so now -- that she has now no record of her marriage or of the ages of her children -- her eldest son William Pool she informed us is somewhere in Mississippi & if living is now in his fifty seventh year according to my recollection - as to the services of sd Ephraim Pool she has no knowledge further than the information she rec'd from him. She has often heard him talk on the subject but refers to his declaration on file in the Pension office as more satisfactory than her frail recollection.

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Sworn to before me this
2nd of October 1839
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STATEMENT OF EPHRAIM POOL,JR.
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LUCRETIA POOL

State of Tennessee, Montgomery County

Ephraim Pool,Jr. personally appeared before me R. T. Gupton an acting Justice of the Peace for said County & makes oath that he is the fourth child of Ephraim & Lucretia Pool and that he is now fifty two years old. That he knew his father and mother to live together as man and wife from his earliest recollection to the time of the death of the sd Ephraim Pool which took place about five years ago.

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sworn to & subscribed
Before me this
day of October 1839
R.T.Gupton seal State of Tennessee, Montgomery County

I Saml.------Clerk of the County Court of Montgomery County do hereby certify that Robert T. Gupton whose name appears to the foregoing Certificates is and was at the time he subscribed the same an acting Justice of the Peace for said County duly Elected and qualified agreeably to Law and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of same.

Copied from the original (W1475) found at the National Archives.
Transcribed by Larry D. Poole.