Private, Virginia Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received October 17 1833 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll). William STAPLETON is buried on Copperidge in Cantwell Valley in Hawkins County, Tennessee. He was born about 1755-1760 and died in 1818. He married to Elizabeth Rachel SIZEMORE (2 May, 1786- 3 April, 1873), a daughter of Owen and Elizabeth "Alcey" (Bingham) SIZEMORE. After William STAPLETON'S death in 1818, Elizabeth, his widow, remarried to one Larkin WILLIS on 18 February, 1819, in Hawkins County, Tennessee.