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From: Elizabeth Whitaker <>
Subject: [BRYSON] More on Edmund Bryson (was Re: BRYSON Digest, Vol 1,Issue 5)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:28:48 -0400
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I haven't looked into War of 1812 veterans or pensions much, but I
have noticed, from looking through White's
compilation of Revolutionary War pension applications, that veterans
most often applied for pensions due
to either having suffered a catastrophe, such as a major illness
(soldier or spouse) or a natural disaster, or
due to having survived to such an extreme old age that they were
unable to work. Some veterans just
didn't survive long enough to apply for a pension.

Except for pension applications, deeds, and estate documents, such as
inventories of personal possessions
required when someone (most often a man) died without a will, most
people who died in the 1800s South
left no official trace of their existence. Depending upon their
church membership, there may or may not
be some sort of surviving church record, whether a record from their
church, a mention in their denomination's
newspaper for the area in which they lived, or possibly a mention in
the local newspaper (if there was one)
listing people who participated in some sort of church activity.

Come to think of it, there's yet another possibility for a government
record: in at least some Southern
states, farmers borrowed against their crops and these documents
would be part of their county's records.
(These are more likely to be off-line than most other records, and,
unlike probate records, which are
indexed, would usually require on-the-spot searching.)

Elizabeth Whitaker
Admin -- BRYSON




At 06:06 AM 9/26/2006, wrote:
>I contacted the archives about 20 years ago and they sent me a paper showing
>he was present on a certain date. He was a substitute and he lived 70 miles
>from the Newport, Ky. Barracks. There were no pension papers found. I don't
>know if it would help to write to them again or not.
>Thanks for answering.
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> > 1. Edmund Bryson (FLORENCE BRYSON)
> > 2. Re: Edmund Bryson (Elizabeth Whitaker)
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> > Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:24:01 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: FLORENCE BRYSON <>
> > Subject: [BRYSON] Edmund Bryson
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> > Has anyone during research on Bryson run across an Edmund born according
> > to later census in N.C. in 1791? He was in Ky. by the time of the War of
> > 1812 and was living 70 miles from Newport Barracks. From 1820 on he is
> > listed in Ky. He married there in 1817. He is my stone wall, any help
> > appreciated.
> > Florence Bryson
> >
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:54:46 -0400
> > From: Elizabeth Whitaker <>
> > Subject: Re: [BRYSON] Edmund Bryson
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> > At 11:24 AM 9/25/2006, FLORENCE BRYSON wrote:
> >>Has anyone during research on Bryson run across an Edmund born
> >>according to later census in N.C. in 1791? He was in Ky. by the time
> >>of the War of 1812 and was living 70 miles from Newport Barracks.
> >> From 1820 on he is listed in Ky. He married there in 1817. He is my
> >>stone wall, any help appreciated.
> >> Florence Bryson
> >
> > Florence,
> >
> > Have you checked to see if he applied for a pension for service in
> > the War of 1812? Virgil White has done a compilation of extracts from
> > the War of 1812 pension applications.
> >
> > Elizabeth Whitaker
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