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    1. [TNBlount] Pension file of Lynch Webb, part 8, re: Sarah Couch Webb
    2. WIDOW'S CLAIM FOR PENSION State of Tennessee County of Blount On this 19th day of March, 1894, personally appeared before me, a Clerk of a Court of Record in and for the County and State aforesaid SARAH WEBB a resident of Uceba in the County of Blount and State of Tennessee aged 70 years, who being duly sworn, makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the Pension provided by the Act of Congress approved July 14, 1862. That she is the widow of LINCH WEBB who was a private in Company B commanded by Thomas Jones in the 2" Regiment of Tenn. Cav. in the War of 1861; that her maiden name was SARAH COUCH and that she was married to said LINCH WEBB on or about the ? day of July, 1842, in the County of Blount and State of Tennessee by ESQ. JACKSON, and that she knows of no record evidence of said marriage. SHE FURTHER DECLARES that said LINCH WEBB her husband, died at Uceba, Blount County, in the State of Tennessee, on or about the 18" day of December, 1893 of Chronic Diarrhea, Liver Affliction & Kidneys & Bladder disease. She also declares that she has remained a widow ever since the death of said LINCH WEBB and that she has not in any manner been engaged in, or aided or abetted, the rebellion of the United States; and she hereby appoints W. C. CHUMLEA of Maryvill Tenn as her lawful attorney, with power of substitution, and authorizes him to present and prosecute this claim. That she has never applied for a pension but that the soldier her husband was a pensioner by Cert. No. 465031 and to which claim she here refers for any proof that may be applicable in her claim. My Post Office address is Uceba, Blount County, State of Tennessee. If mark is made, two witnesses who write sign here. A. GODDARD A. M. RULE SARAH (X her mark) WEBB (Signature of Claimant.) ALSO PERSONALLY APPEARED before me J. A. GODDARD and A. M. RULE residents of Maryville, Blount County, and State of Tennessee to me well known as credible persons, who being duly sworn, declare, that they were present and saw said SARAH WEBB, make her mark - sign her name to the foregoing declaration, and that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of said applicant, and their acquaintance with her, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and know that said deceased recognized said applicant as his lawful wife, and that she was so recognized by the community in which they resided; and that they have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim. J. A. GODDARD A. M. RULE Signature of Witnesses Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 19" day of March 1894, and I hereby certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim. And that the contents of the above were made known and explained to applicant and witnesses before signing. BEN CUNNINGHAM Clerk County Court

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