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This roll of heroes is a government record and is the highest form of evidence. It is the pension roll of the revolutionary soldiers alive in Arkansas in the counties named in 1833 and 1834, and will serve as an index to all descendants, who may desire to take membership in any of the patriotic orders. The publication of this list must not be taken as an exhaustive presentation of all soldiers in the revolution in Arkansas. There were others, as will be shown from time to time, but they were not on this roll.
Revolutionary pension roll for the State of Arkansas with ages of the pensioners:
Crawford County: Isaiah Mobley, aged seventy-nine years; Clement Mobley, sixty-seven, both of the South Carolina militia.
Hempstead County: Benjamin Clark, Sr., seventy-six, North Carolina militia; William Conway, seventy-six, South Carolina militia; Morgan Cryer, Sr., seventy-eight, South Carolina militia; Morgan Cryer died in Clark County in November, 1833; John Holman, ninety-seven, Virginia Continental Line.
Independence County: Lawrence Angel, seventy-one, North Carolina Continental Line; John Carothers, eighty-eight, South Carolina militia; Benjamin Hardin, sixty-nine, North Carolina militia; David Vance, seventy-five, Virginia Continental Line; John Weldon, seventy-five, South Carolina Continental Line; John Welden died in April, 1835.
Lawrence County: James Ferguson, eighty-two, State not given; James Van Zant, seventy-eight, Pennsylvania Continental Line.
Jackson County: John Robinson, seventy-seven, Pennsylvania militia.
Pulaski County: Jacob Gray, seventy-one, South Carolina Militia; Jared Gray, seventy-seven, North Carolina militia; Asher Bagley and Benjamin Bagley, ages not given, both of the First regiment of the New Jersey Continental Line.
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