This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Welty Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/4131.3.2 Message Board Post: I believe the info about John Welty of Greene Co. TN being buried in Jefferson Co. Ohio has him confused with another John Welty. His Rev. War pension records are the best indication of when and where he died. His semi-annual pension payments in East TN stopped in late 1838 probably because he died. A letter in 1856 to the War Dept. from his daughter Barbara Hauff nee Welty says he received a pension up to the time of his death. Also the info about Abraham Welty being the father of John Welty of Greene Co. TN is probably wrong because his pension records say he was born in 1743/1744. In the 1880 census records John Welty's three living children all indicated he was born in Germany. If he was indeed born in German then he could not be a son of Abraham Welty who was living in York Co. PA in the 1740s. Since John is such a common name in early America it is easy to confuse him with other people named John Welty. I am searching the church records in Germany and northern Alsace France which was part of Germany at one time to try and find his birth record to clear up some of the confusion. Thanks for your replies and info on John Welty.