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    1. [TNBlount] Pension file of Lynch D. Webb, part 3, re: Thomas Yearout
    2. GENERAL AFFIDAVIT State of Tennessee, County of Blount, ss: In the matter of Pension Claim of SARAH WEBB widow of LINCH WEBB of Co B 2d Regt Tenn Cavalry Vols. ON THIS 28th day of May, A. D. 1894, personally appeared before me a Clerk of a Court of record in and for the aforesaid County, duly authorized to administer oaths THOMAS YEAROUT aged 72 years, a resident in the County of Blount, and State of Tenn, whose Post-Office is Ellijoy Tennessee well known to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declared in relation to aforesaid case as follows: "I am well acquainted with the Claimant SARAH WEBB and known her and her husband the soldier for about fifty years, lived near neighbor to them, and I know they were recognized in the community all the time as husband and wife, that fact was well known & never questioned, and they raised a family of children there. This affidavit was all written in my presence and only from my oral statements here made in the Court House in Maryville Tenn on this the 8th day of May, 1894, made to W. C. CHUMLEA & reduced to writing by him, and in making the same I did not use and was not aided or prompted thereto by any written or printed statement or recital prepared or dictated by any other person and not attached as an exhibit to my testimony. I further declare that have no interest in said case and am not concerned in its prosecution. Witness W. H. HENRY THOMAS (X his mark) YEAROUT A.(?) R. MYERS (If affiants sign by mark, two witnesses who can write sign here.) STATE OF TENNESSEE, COUNTY OF Blount, ss: Sworn to and subscribed before me this day by the above named affiant, and I certify that I read said affidavit to said affiant, and acquainted him with its contents before he executed the same. I further certify that I am in nowise interested in said case, nor am I concerned in its prosecution; and that said affiant is personally known to me anad that he is a credible person. BEN CUNNINGHAM, Clerk County Court

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