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Show WIDOWS OF HEROES WIVES OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS SOL-DIERS DRAW PENSIONS. y Seven Women Allowed Monthly Sum in Recognition of the Services of Their Husbands to the Cause of Liberty in the Army of Washington. Nearly 12u years have elapsed since the revolutionary war came to an end The last survivor of the thousands of men who took part in that great struggle for liberty died more than thirty years ago. Yet, there are on Uncle Sam's pension rolls the names of seven persons each of whom has been granted a small sum of money monthly on account of it. Three of the seven are the only surviving widows of revolutionary soldiers. The other four are daughters daugh-ters and are pensioned by a special act of Congress. The widows are: Rebecca Mayo, aged eighty-nine years, of Newburn, Va. ; Nancy Jones, aged eighty-eight years, of Jonesboro, Tenn., and Esther S. Damon, aged eighty-eight years of Plymouth Union, Vermont. Rebecca Mayo, whose maiden name was Rebecca Dawson, is the widow of Stephen Mayo, whom she married in Virginia on Nov. 24, 1834, when she was twenty-six and he seventy-seven years of age. Her husband enlisted as a private in a Virginia regiment in 1776, and served three or four months. He enlisted again in February, 1777, and served for one year. He participated partici-pated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. In 1832, at the age of seventy-five years, he made application applica-tion for a pension, which was allowed. He died in 1847, and the same year application was made by his widow and her claim was allowed. Nancy Jones is the widow of Darling Dar-ling Jones, who served nine months as a private iu a North Carolina regiment, regi-ment, and was in the battle of Monk's Corner and also in some skirmishes with the Cherokee Indians. Her maiden name was Nancy Huff. She married in Carter county, Tenn., at the age of twenty-five years, her husband hus-band being sixty-nine years of age. Mr. Jones was drawing a pension at the time of his death in 1848. Her claim was allowed In 1853. Esther S. Damon, who was formerly for-merly Esther Sumner, married Noah Damon at Bridgewater, Vt., in 1835, when she- was twenty-two years of age and he seventy-five. Mr. Damon enlisted at Milton, Mass., in 1775, as a private, and served nearly two years. He was wounded at the battle bat-tle of Long island, and was granted a pension in 1848. He died in 1853, and she was pensioned as his widow. |