A number of 1812 pension and bounty land applications for veterans of the War of 1812 are available free of charge at www.fold3.com. The information noted below was abstracted by Randi Richardson from the documents available online for George Armstrong. George Armstrong enlisted in the War of 1812 at Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana, on February 27, 1813, and was discharged April 12, 1813. He had dark hair, blue eyes, a fair complexion and was 5’8” tall. On April 7, 1840, he married Sarah Ann Wells in Oldham County, Kentucky. Sarah was the widow of Francis Ishmael Wells who died in Lagrange, Kentucky, March 21, 1839. George Armstrong died at West Port, Kentucky, on March 11, 1850. After George died, Sarah continued to reside in West Port. About 1854 she applied for and received bounty land. In 1879, age the age of 69, she applied for a widow’s pension.