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Nine widows of Revolutionary Soldiers are on the Government Pension list. They are Mary Brown, age eighty-nine, Knoxville, Tenn.; Nancy Cloud, age eighty-one, Chum, Va.; Esther S. Damon, age eighty, Plymouth Union, Vt.; Nancy Jones, age eighty, Jonesboro, Tenn.; Rebecca Mayo, age eighty-one, Newbern, Va.; Patty Richardson, age ninety-three, East Bethel, Vt.; Mary Snead, age seventy-eight, Parksley, Va.; Asenath Turner, age eighty-nine, Manchester, N. Y.; Nancy Weatherman, age eighty-four, Lineback, Tenn. Of these, six live in the South, three each in Tennessee and Virginia. Two of the others are in Vermont, and one in New York.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, January, 1895.
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