| 2. | Keziah GENTRY  (1.John1)Notes:
Notes for KEZIAH/KISSIAH "KIZZIE" GENTRY:
Pension Deposition: [Keziah GENTRY WRIGHT STOUT, widow of Henry STOUT, submitted her application to receive a Widow's Pension based on Henry's service in the War of 1812. Abstracted:]
"...November, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and Seventy eight... Kizziah Stout...a resident of Stoney Creek, in the State of Tennessee Carter County...declares that she is the widow of Henry Stout deceased...a private in the Company commanded by Captain William Naileys in the Virginia Regiment of Militia...in the war of 1812...she was married to the said Henry Stout...in 7th Civil District, in the county of Johnson, and in the State of Tennessee, on the 8th day of March A.D. 1861 by one H.P. Murphy...; and that her name before
her said marriage was Kizziah Wright; and she further states that said Stout had a former wife by the name of Dolen who died many years ago but don't know when or where and that her said husband Henry Stout, died on Stoney Creek, in the State of Tennessee Carter Co., on the 26th day of October A.D. 1878; and she further declares that the following have been the places of residence of herself and her said husband since the date of his discharge from the Army, viz; in Johnson & Carter County Tennessee since their said marriage before she
cannot state...her said husband was a pensioner...that her residence is...county of Carter State of Tennessee, and that her post office is Carters Furnace Carter County, Tennessee...Kizziah Stout (signed her "x" mark)...[witnessed by] C.C. Collins and Isaac H. Brown."
Court: "Tuesday morning April Term 1883. The death of Kizaziah Stout was proven by M.P. Elliott and Geo. Oliver." (Carter Co. TN Quorum Court Record No. 1, pg. 553)
Tennessee Pensioners - War of 1812
Kessiah Stout, widow Carter's Furnace, Carter Co. TN #25,405...July 1879 $8.00 allowance.
Keziah married Henry T. STOUT on 08 Mar 1861 in Johnson County, Tennessee. Henry (son of Godfrey Daniel STOUT, Sr. and Catherine Magdalen VOLTZEN) was born on 25 May 1780 in Shenandoah County, Virginia; died on 26 Oct 1878 in Carter County, Tennessee; was buried in Johnson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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