Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,075, Henry Funk, Va
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SERVICE
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Funk, Henry W. 23.075
Elizabeth
CONTENTS
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Illinois S339
Elizabeth Funk
widow of Henry
who died on the __
of Va in the State of
who was a private in the
by Captain _____ of the
by _______  in the Rev
line for 2 years
-
Inscribed on the Roll of Springfield
at the rate of 80 Dollars --  -- Cents
per annum, to commence on the 11th day of
March,1831 and ending 13th September 1844
--
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of
August 1855, and sent to C. H. Bartley
Louisville KY.
--
__laim, 
Recorded by  G illegible) Clerk
Book   
Vol.
Page 422
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W 7220
Elizabeth Funk
widow of Henry
  Ind
Act 4 July 1836
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7220
Heirs of Henry Frank
No 1
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The State of Indiana
Crawford County ⎬ Set
On this day of May 1848 personally
appeared before the Probate Court of said County.
John Funk, a resident of said County aged sixty
two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration,
in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by acts of Congress for the children and heirs of persons, who served in the army of the United States in the war of the Revolution, and of the widows of those who performed such
service; that he is the son of Henry Funk who was a soldier in the Regiment commanded by Col. George Rogers Clark in his campaign in the west against the Posts of Kaskaskia and Vincennes; That his said Father was married to Elizabeth Miller in the State of Virginia
about the year 1774; That after the marriage of his said Father and Mother they lived near Bardstown Kentucky, whence they moved to Indiana Territory about the year 1804 and settled on Indian Creek; that his said Father died on the first day of
November 1815; That after his Fathers death his mother moved to Crawford County Indiana and thence to Russellville Lawrence County Illinois where she died in the fall of the year 1845, having never married after her said husbands death; that she never drew
or applied for pension to which she was entitled under the acts of Congress: That the said Henry and Elizabeth Funk during the term of their wedlock had eleven children, several of whom died in infancy, and he the said John Funk is the fifth child of said marriage and is the oldest child of said family now living
and as before stated is now about sixty two years
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of age. That besides himself Elizabeth Potter, (widow of William Potter) Joseph Funk, Peter Funk and Isaac Funk, are the only children of said parents who are now living.
This declarant further states that he has no
documentary evidence in his possession of the service of his said Father; that his Father besides other lands was entitled to land in the Illinois Grant, and the evidence of his right was put into the hands of an agent or assigned who never returned the papers to his Father
as the declarant believes.
Sworn to and subscribed before the Judge of
Probate of said County of Crawford, the day and year before written.
John Funk (his mark)
In Testimony whereof I, William Mansfield
Clerk of said Probate Court
have hereunto set my name and affixed
the seal of said Court this 8th day of
May A.D. 1848.
Wm Mansfield Clk
P. C. C.
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John Funk
To
C H Barkley
Louisville
Kentucky
Power of Attorney
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Know all men by these presents
that I John Funk
of Crawford County Indiana
one of the children of Henry Funk and his wife
Elizabeth Funk both dec as heretofore set
forth in former applications do hereby
appoint with full power of substitution
C.H. Barkley of Louisville Kentucky my true
and lawful attorney for me and in my
name to prosecute against of the
the Government United States any claim I have
to assess or allowance of pension money
on account of the service of my father
Henry Funk above named in Clarkes
Regiment Virginia Line in the War
Revolution.
said Attorney is authorized
to do all lawful acts and deeds in this behalf
and to review and examine evidence
heretofore filed in this case.
Witness my hand and seal in
Crawford County Indiana on this 29th day
of May AD 1854
2 Witnesses
James Totten
Daley M Toler
Crawford County Indiana


John Funk (his mark)
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Crawford County Indiana Sct
Be it known that on this 29th day of May 1854 before me a justice of the peace in and
for said County personally appeared
John Funk to me well known
and subscribed and acknowledged the
signing, sealing and delivering the
foregoing Power of attorney own
same to be his own voluntary
act and deed for the uses
and purposes set forth therein.
In Testimony of which I
do hereto Subscribe my name
Words "foregoing power of Attorney"
were interlined before signing
James Totten
Justice of the peace CC
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Crawford County Indiana Sct
I Wm A Jackson
Clerk of the Circuit Court (in) for said
County do certify that James Totten
Esq whose genuine signature appears to
the foregoing certificate was at the date
of Signing the same an acting justice
of the peace in and for said county
duly commissioned and qualified.
Given under my hand
and official seal of said
Court on this 30th day of
May AD 1854
Wm A. Jackson
Clerk Crawford Circuit Court
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Peter Funk
Administrator
of
Elizabeth
Funk dec
Act of July 4th 1836
Case Probated in full
Power of Attorney (__)


Attorney
C. H. Barkley
Louisville
Kentucky
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Shenandoah County, State of Virginia
I Samuel C. Williams Clerk of the County
Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby Certify
that I have carefully examined the record of marriage in my office of clerk. I can find no (illegible) of the marriage  of " Henry Funk to Elizabeth Miller"
In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto signed my name and
affixed the seal of said Court
this 25th day of November 1854
and (illegible)  of the Commonwealth
Sam C Williams Clk
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Harrison County Indiana Sct
George Mawrer of said County
aged past 83 years states that he was well
acquainted with Henry Funk who died
in said County about 40 years since.
I first knew him when I was a boy in
Shanandoah (Shenandoah) County Virginia.
When I was a boy say about 10 to 15
years old I went with my father one
public day to the County seat of said
County of Shenandoah, and I there
Saw some several men gathered round
said Henry Funk and he was talking to
them about his life in the Army from
which he had returned not long before.
I moved here in about 1810 and found
said Henry Funk living here; we renewed
our acquaintance and were intimate the
remainder his life and he told me
that he had served in the service of the
United States in the Revolutionary War
in the Army under General Clarke in the Expedition to the Wabash Country against
Vincennes in "Old Post "
as it is sometimes called. His statements
in regard thereto were always believed to
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be true by those who heard them; or
at least I never heard the truth thereof
disputed or called in question by
any one; and he was generally reputed
and believed to have served in the
Revolutionary War as above described.
I knew Mrs Elizabeth Funk in this
County the wife of said Henry Fink
and during his lifetime and up to the
time of his death they lived together as
husband and wife and were reputed
so to be among their neighbors and
acquaintances, and I never heard of her
marrying again after his death but believe
that she remained his widow until her
death of which I had not heard until
a few months since.
I would not now from my own memory
say that I could state the names of all the
children of said Henry and Elizabeth
remember that Henry and Daniel
two of them died many years ago. 
There were several other boys but I
only remember John and Peter by
their names; and there was a
daughter-Betsy Potter. 
And I further state that I am
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a disinterested witness
Harrison County Indiana this
day of August A D 1855
Witnesses
(illegible)
} Harrison County Indiana
} George his Maurer (his mark)

Sworn
to and subscribed before me, a justice of the peace in and for said County of Harrison
State of Indiana on this day and
year above written and I certify
that said George Maurer has been
well known to me for many years.
He is a man of god (sp) reputation
for truth and veracity. I believe
him to be of the age he calls himself
and to be disinterested and I am
myself so.
(illegible signature )
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Harrison County Indiana St 
I Hugh Neely
Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said county do certify that Dudley Dawson whose genuine signature appears to lie within certificate was at the date of signing the same
an acting justice of the peace in and for said
County duly commissioned and qualified.
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribe
my name and affix my official seal at
my office in Corydon on this 1st day
of September 1854
Hugh Neeley Clerk

Please seal and return to me in the enclosed envelope
C H Barkley
Louisville KY

Mr Neely

(written on the right side)
Affidavit
George Maurer
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Hardin County Kentucky Sct
I John Ament of said County aged 66 years do certify that I was well acquainted with Henry Funk (brother of my mother) who once lived in this county. and who moved from this to what is now called Harrison County Indiana and died about 40 years years since in that County leaving Elizabeth Funk his widow who survived him and remained his widow until her death; or at least if She ever married again I never heard of it. I have always heard and believed that the above named Henry Funk was a Soldier in the Service of the United States in the War of the Revolution in the Wabash County, and my recollection is that while said Henry Funk was in the Service as above named the Army went to Vincerms and Kaskaskia at which last named place said Henry was discharged
I have always heard and believed that said Henry Funk was entitled to Land in what is generally called "Clarke's Grant" opposite Louisville Kentucky on account of his
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above named Services
I further state that I have always heard and believed that the above named Henry Funk was a married man before he entered the above named Service and that his wife was the above named Elizabeth and that her maiden name was Elizabeth Miller.
The above named is the only Henry Funk that I ever heard of as having served as above named; and that he entered the service in Shenandoah County Virginia
The following named persons are from my best information the only present Surviving children of the above named Henry Funk and Elizabeth his wife
1 Mrs Betsy Potter living as I am told in the State of Illinois somewhere
2 John Funk Crawford County Indiana
3 Peter Funk 4 Joseph Funk and 5 Isaac Funk. There were some others but they have been dead many years. And I am disinterested
This 4 day of December 1854
John Ament
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Hardin County Kentucky Sct
Sworn to and Subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said County on this 4 day of December 1854 and I certify that said John Ament is well known to me as a man of good reputation for truth and veracity. I believe him to be of the age he calls himself and to be disinterested and I am myself so
Words "is the only" interlined before signing
John Miller J,P,H,C,

Hardin County Kentucky Sct
I William T. Samuels Clerk of the County Court in and for said County do certify that John Miller whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate, was at the date of signing the same an acting justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name and affix my official Seal at my office in Elizabethtown on the 5 day of December 1854
Wm. T. Samuels Clk
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Harrison County Indiana Sct
I, Rachel Reaugh of said County aged from my best information 71 years past do certify that I was well acquainted with Henry Funk who died in this County about 40 years since
She said Henry Funk was a reputed soldier of the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War. I have always heard and believed that he was entitled to Land in the "Grant" opposite Louisville Kentucky on account of this above named service. I was also well acquainted with Mrs. Elizabeth Funk wife of said Henry and who survived him as his widow and so remained as long as she lived so far as I have ever heard
The said Elizabeth died many years ago in Illinois as I have heard
My recollection is that I have always heard that said Henry and Elizabeth were married before said Henry went into the Service above named and that the name of said Elizabeth before her said marriage was Elizabeth Miller.
My recollection also is that their oldest
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children one named Rebecca and one named Henry died in infancy or childhood: and that Henry was born soon after his father started to the Army as well as I now remember what they told me; and there was another one of the older ones named Catherine but the relative ages of these three I do not now remember
My acquaintance with them commenced about the year 1800, and the said Catherine as I understood was then dead and that she had been married a few years previous to her death to one George Kurtz with whom I also became acquainted -
About the month of January 1803 or 1804 I was married in Hardin County Kentucky to Daniel Funk son of the above named Henry and Elizabeth and my name before my marriage was Rachel Denboe 
She said Daniel was then twenty one years old as he told me and I have always heard and believed that the three above enumerated children of said Henry and Elizabeth Viz Rebecca, Henry, and Catherine were
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all older than he the said Daniel Funk
John Funk, Betsy Potter, Peter Funk, Joseph Funk and Isaac Funk are the present surviving children of said Henry and Elizabeth. And I am disinterested
Harrison County Indiana this 25th day of November 1854
2 Witnesses
Robert Biggs Harrison Rachel x her mark Reaugh
Rachel E Funk County
Indiana

Harrison County Indiana Sct
Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said County on this 25 day of November 1854 And I certify that said affiant has been known to me for many years
She is a woman of good reputation for truth and veracity. I believe her to be of the age she calls herself and to be disinterested and I am myself so
Robert Biggs JP
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Harrison County Indiana Sct
I Hugh Neely
Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County do certify that Robert Biggs whose genuine Signature appears to the foregoing certificate was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name and affix my official Seal at my office in Coryden on this 5th day of November 1854
Hugh Neely Clk
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Lawrence County Illinois Sct
I Peter Funk of said County
aged from from my best information about
57 or 58 years do make the following statement (Viz)
That I am one of the sons of
Henry Funk and Elizabeth Frink his
wife both of whom are now dead

by the said Henry Funk died
in Harrison County Indiana on the
22nd day of September 1815 as I will
remember but I have no written me
orandum of it. It might have been
1
1814 but I am clear in my recollection
of day and month, and the records of
said County of Harrison must be referred
to for the
year as letters of administra
tion were granted on his estate soon
after his death
same fall
According to what I have always
heard and believed, my father the
above named Henry Fink was a soldier
in the service of the United States
in the War of the Revolution and
that while in the service as such
he came under General or Colonel
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George Rodgers Clarke in the Expedition to the Wabash County to Vincennes and Kaskaskia
For length of his service, time of it, place of discharge etc I refer to the Rolls of Said Expedition
I have often heard him say that he was entitled to Bounty Land on account of his above named service and that the Land for this service was in the Grant opposite Louisville Kentucky.
I refer to the accompanying annexed affidavits of George Mawser, John Ament and Mrs. Rachel Reaugh and to any others which may accompany this application.
I have always heard and believed that my parents above named were lawfully married near Stovertown in Virginia before my father entered the Army as above named and that the name of my said mother before her marriage was Elizabeth Miller, and that their first child was named Catherine, their second Rebecca and that third was named Henry which last named one was born soon after my
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father started to the Army.
Rebecca and Henry above named died in infancy and Catherine was married to one George Kurtz and died before I was born. Daniel Funk was their fourth child and was the first one born after my father returned from the Army, he was the first husband of Mrs. Rachel Reaugh above named
It appears by the annexed certificate from the Clerk of the County Court of Shenandoah County Virginia that there is no public record of the marriage of my parents. Neither do I know or have any idea of the existence of any church records as neither of them was at that time a member of any church. I do not now remember ever seeing or hearing of any Family Record of their marriage: My father used to make marks in his German Almanacs for the births of their children: but they were destroyed about the time that I was grown.
I do not know of any person living by whom I can prove their marriage and the accompanying affidavits of Mrs. Rachel Reaugh and John Ament bearing
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as a family tradition on the date of their marriage is the best evidence on that point known to me.
My mother the above named Elizabeth Funk never married again after my father died but remained his widow and died at my residence in this County on the 13th day of September AD 1844 (Eighteen Hundred and forty four) I have no written memorandum of the date of her death - I paid for her funeral expenses at the time and I am satisfied that there was never any charge made of any of the items and I took no receipt. The coffin maker has moved away as has also the merchant of whom I bought the shroud
There was no physician called specially to see her and no funeral discourse preached. The accompanying memorandum represented as coming from my brother John shows that she died in 1845 but it is a mistake in the year - the day of the month is right but the year should be 1844 (Eighteen Hundred and forty four) as stated above. It may be that my brother has had this extract correctly made from information which he has heretofore
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received from me - but if so I was mistaken - I remember distinctly some concurrent events Viz Birth of a grandchild - and death of a neighbor and have recently examined records in each case and find 1844 to be the correct date of the year
The following named persons are the present surviving and only present surviving children of the above named Henry Funk and Elizabeth his wife Viz
1 John Funk
Crawford County Indiana
2 Betsy Potter a widow
Crawford County Illinois
3 Peter Funk this declarant
Lawrence County Illinois
4 Joseph Funk
In Iowa
5 Isaac Funk
Crawford County Indiana
I make this declaration as administrator on the estate of Said Elizabeth Funk for the
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purpose of applying for and receiving such arrears of pension as may be due me as administrator aforesaid for the benefit of the above named present surviving children of said Henry Funk and Elizabeth Funk his wife deceased
Witness my hand in Lawrence County Illinois on this 20th day of December 1854
Peter x his mark Funk
2 Witnesses
Jesse K Dubois Lawrence County
Thos. F. Watts Illinois
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Know all men by these presents that I Peter Funk of Lawrence County Illinois administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Funk deceased late of Said County, do hereby, with full power of substitution appoint C H Barkley of Louisville Kentucky my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as administrator aforesaid to prosecute against the Government of the United States any claim I may have to arrears of pension money due me under any Act of Congress and to which I may be entitled as administrator aforesaid for the benefit of the present Surviving children of said Elizabeth Funk as enumerated in my foregoing declaration.
Said Attorney is authorized to do all lawful acts and deeds in this behalf and to receive my pension certificate or warrant when it is issued
And I hereby ratify and confirm all his lawful Acts
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and deeds in the premises
Witness my hand and seal in Lawrence County Illinois on this 20th day of December AD 1854
Peter x his mark Funk Seal
2 Witnesses
Jesse K Dubois Lawrence
Thos. F. Watts County
Illinois
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Lawrence County Illinois Sct
Be it known that on this 20th day of December AD 1854 before me Jesse K Dubois
The County Judge
in and for said County in open Court now sitting personally came Peter Funk of said County well known to me and he did subscribe and swear to the foregoing annexed Declaration ascribed to him of this date. And I certify that said Declaration, supported by the accompanying annexed affidavits of George Mawser, John Ament and Mrs. Rachel Reaugh, all by the certificates accompanying their respective affidavits, satisfactorily represented to me as persons of good reputation for truth and veracity is satisfactory evidence to this Court that Henry Funk a reputed soldier of Clarke's Regiment of Virginia Line of the Service of the United States in the War of the Revolution departed this life in Harrison County Indiana
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on the 22nd day of September about 40 (Forty) years since (the exact year left open to be proved by the record of administration on his estate) leaving Mrs. Elizabeth Funk his widow who Survived him and remained his widow and never married again, and died in this County at the residence of her son Peter Funk on the 13th day of September 1844 (Eighteen Hundred and forty four) and that the following named persons are the present surviving and only present surviving Children of said Henry Funk and Elizabeth Funk his wife Viz
1 John Funk
2 Betsy Potter (a widow)
3 Peter Funk
4 Joseph Funk
5 Isaac Funk
At the same date the above named Peter Funk acknowledged the signing sealing and delivering the foregoing Power of Attorney of the date to be his own Voluntary act and deed for the uses purposes therein set forth. Word father interlined before Signing. Word "act" in the certificate
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erased and word "all" interlined before Signing
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name and I also certify that I am disinterested
Jesse K Dubois
State of Illinois County Judge
Lawrence County Sct
I Thomas F. Watts Clerk of the County Court in and for said County do certify that Jesse K Dubois Esq whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate, was at the date thereof the County Judge in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing was a part of the proceedings of said Court held at the Court House of said County on this day and that an abstract of the same is duly recorded in my office
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name and affix my official Seal at my office in Lawrenceville on this 20th day of December AD 1854
Thos. F. Watts Clk.
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Full name of soldier, Henry Funk
Where did he enter service?
(Town, county, and State.)
Under what officers did he serve? Capt. Joseph Bowman. George Rogers Clark
Place of residence after service, Harrison Co., Indiana at time of his death
(Town, county, and State.)
Approximate date of death, 1816.
Given name of widow, Betsey (Elizabeth) Funk
Did either the soldier or his widow receive a pension? No
Additional information, Henry Funk lived at Strausburg Va. in his boyhood probably entered the service from that Joint, later he came to Kentucky (vicinity of Elizabethtown) and finally to Indiana where he died.
Signature Miss Clara Funk
(Mrs. or Miss to be prefixed if a lady signs.)
Post-office address, including street and number, town, county, and State, 208 Cherry St.
New Albany, Indiana
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Elizabeth Funk Deceased. September the 13th the year 1845
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July 3, 1936
xxxxxxx
BA-J/MCS
Henry Funk, S. 23075
Mr. H. H. Purkhiser
Mitchell [illegible]
Indiana
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Henry Funk who served in the Revolutionary War and died in 1815.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 23075, based upon the military service of Henry Funk.
Henry Funk, the son of Henry, was born in Pennsylvania or Virginia, date not given. His father moved from Pennsylvania to Shenandoah County, Virginia.
While a resident of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Henry Funk (the son) enlisted, date not given, and served about three years as private in Colonel George Rogers Clark's Virginia regiment. He went on the expedition to Kaskaskia and Vincennes.
He married about 1774 near Stovertown, Virginia, Elizabeth Miller of Shenandoah County.
About 1804 they moved from Bardstown, Kentucky, to Harrison County, Indiana.
Henry Funk died September 22 or November 1, 1815, in Harrison County, Indiana.
After his death his widow, Elizabeth, moved to Crawford County, Indiana, and from there to Russellville, Lawrence County, Illinois, where she died September 13 or 14, 1844, at the home of her son, Peter.
On an application executed May 8, 1848, in Crawford County, Indiana, the pension that was due Elizabeth Funk as the widow of Henry was allowed for the benefit of the following surviving children: John, Elizabeth Potter, Joseph, Peter and Isaac.
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Henry and Elizabeth Funk had eleven children, the following names were given:
Catherine, married in 1788 or 1789 in Nelson County, Kentucky, George Kurtz; they had two children, names not given, and she died in Kentucky before 1800.
Rebecca, died in infancy or childhood.
Henry, died in Harrison County, Indiana, prior to 1848.
Daniel, married January 14, 1802, in Hardin County, Kentucky, Miss Rachel Denbo or Denboe and they had son, Henry, aged forty-five years in 1855; said Daniel died prior to 1848 in Harrison County, Indiana, and his widow, Rachel, married --- Reaugh and in 1854 she was living in Harrison County, Indiana, aged about seventy-one years.
John, aged sixty-two years in 1848, resident of Crawford County, Indiana; his son, Reuben, was living in Crawford County, Indiana, in 1855, aged about forty-two years.
Elizabeth, who in 1854 was living in Crawford County, Illinois, and was the widow of William Potter.
Joseph, resident of Iowa in 1854.
Peter, aged fifty-seven or fifty-eight years in 1854, resident of Lawrence County, Illinois; he had son, Anthony D., aged thirty-three years in 1854 and a resident of Lawrence County.
Isaac, resident of Crawford County, Indiana, in 1854.
One Mrs. Nancy Funk was living in 1848 but her relation to soldier's family was not given.
In 1854 one John Purkhiser, a resident of Harrison County, Virginia, aged about seventy-two years, stated that he had frequently heard his father-in-law, Jacob Funk (who was then dead) say that his (Jacob's) brother, Henry Funk, served in the Revolutionary War.
In 1854 one Isaac Funck was the son of Jacob Funck (the latter being an older brother of the Revolutionary War soldier, Henry) was living in Harrison County, Indiana, aged sixty-six years.
In 1854 one John Ament of Hardin County, Kentucky, aged sixty-six years, stated that the Revolutionary War soldier, Henry Funk, was the brother of his mother, her name not given.
In 1854 one Rachel E. Funk was living in Harrison County, Indiana, and in 1855 one Joseph P. Funk was living in that county, relationship to soldier not shown.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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10
The Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner Pensions.
Washington
D.C.

Elizabeth FUnk
Ind sus 56
Cole
El
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Illinois Roll,
Elizabeth Fun, de
who was the widow of
Henry, who was a private
in Clark's Illinois Regiment.
cla' Act July 4, 1836
2 years private
$80 per Ann
Cer March 4, 1831.
End Sept. 13 1844,
when she drew.
Payable to Peter Funk, Ad,
use of John Funk,
Betsey Potter,
Peter Funk
Joseph Funk
&
Isaac Funk, only children.
C. H. Barkley
Louisville, Ky
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State of Indiana
Harrison County SS
I Hugh Neely Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Harrison Aforesaid, do hereby Certify that it appears from the Records in my office that Letters of Administration were granted to Elizabeth Funk and Elisha Potter on the Estate of Henry Funk late of said County deceased on the 27th day of November A.D. 1845.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Haydon the 6th day of January AD 1855
Hugh Neely Clk
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Supplemental
affidavit of
Isaac Funck
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Supplemental,
Harrison County
State of Indiana SS.
Isaac Funck of Said County makes the following Supplement to his affidavit in regard to Henry Funk made before Dudley Dawson a justice of the peace for said County on the 5th day of May AD 1854 Viz
I stated in said affidavit that my uncle Henry Funk died about the year 1810. In this I may be mistaken a few years
The said Henry Funk told me that when Clarke's Army arrived at Vincennes and were about to go on to Kaskaskia there was at that place a French lad of about 14 years old whose father and all the family except himself had been massacred by the Indians. This lad volunteered and joined Clarke's Army and went on with them to Kaskaskia; at which place he recognized among the Indians the main one that had killed his father's family and asked liberty to take vengeance which as I remember was granted him or at least that he did it whether by permission or not. and that he the Said Henry Funk was present when the lad killed him. and my recollection is that he was one of the guard then present
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The above named Henry Funk was the only Henry Funk that lived in Virginia at that day except his father as I believe; and is the only one that I ever heard of that was in Clarke's Expedition to Vincennes and Kaskaskia Viz
I have never known or heard of any people of the name in the United States except our own relatives either close or remote
My grandfather's family were the only ones that lived in Virginia and there were two other branches one in Pennsylvania and one in Maryland. I have now no recollection of ever hearing of a Henry Funk in either Pennsylvania or Maryland branch.
I remember that there was a neighbor of my uncles Henry here [illegible] who used to try to buy his right to Land up in Clarke's Grant which was coming to him for his services in Clarke's Expedition as above described
My uncle Henry moved from Hardin County Kentucky to this County as I always understood and believed - And that he had lived in Hardin County a number of years - Harrison County Indiana this 31st day of May 1854
Isaac Funck
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Harrison County Indiana Sct
Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said County on this 31st day of May 1854. Words "at that place" were interlined before signing as were also the Words "named Dinkhorn"
D. Dawson J.P.H.C.

Harrison County
State of Indiana SS
I Hugh Neely Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County do certify that Dudley Dawson Esqr whose genuine Signature appears to the above certificate was at the date of Signing the same an acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified
Given under my hand and seal of said Circuit Court at my office in Corydon on this first day of June A.D. 1854
Hugh Neely Clk
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Louisville Ky
May 31st 1855
Sir
After repeatedly writing to the Auditor at Richmond Va, I have at length received a letter from him, a copy of which I herewith enclose to you.
Please send him a letter showing that I am the attorney of the children of Henry Funk dec if in proper form you may just sign the accompanying letters in the case of Funk and Zimmerman both
Respectfully
C H Barkley

Hon. L, P, Waldo
Commissioner
Washington
D.C.
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(Copy)
Pension Office
11th Jany 1855
Sir
The additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Funk decd widow of Henry of Indiana has been received.
No evidence of Henry's service as a revolutionary soldier has been filed in this office. His name does not appear on the Master Rolls.
The date of the marriage of Henry and Elizabeth and of their deaths has not been Satisfactorily established.
The amount of the administration bond has not been certified.
I am Respectfully
your obt servt
L P Waldo
Commissioner

C H Barkley Esq
Louisville
Ky
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Louisville Ky
January 15th 1855
Sir
I have your letter of which the above is a copy and find the objections in the case to be
"1st No proof of the service of Henry Funk"
In answer I have to say that in the report heretofore sent to me from your office and which report I returned to you, you Say "The certificate of Commissioner Smith shows that Henry Funk is entitled to land for three years" and I could reasonably infer from that that you had received such proof of Service I shall however write to Richmond for the proof again
2nd Date of Marriage
On this point all that I can do at present (or so far as I know ever hereafter) is to call your attention again to proof already furnished. Viz
John Ament (a nephew of Henry Funk) states
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positively the tradition that said Henry and Elizabeth were married before said Henry went into the service. Peter Funk states in his declaration that their first children were Catherine, Rebecca and Henry, and that Henry was born soon after his father started to the Army and that their first child born after his return was Daniel Funk who was consequently their fourth child and Mrs. Rachel Reaugh corroborates this statement fully and unequivocally and that said Daniel Funk was her first husband and that she and said Daniel were married in 1803 in Hardin Co. Ky and that her name before said marriage was Rachel Deuboe 
I filed the certificate of their marriage of date of January or February 1803, thus showing by the best evidence that their fourth child was old enough to marry in 1803, I submit respectfully that this point of the case is sufficiently established but in addition thereto I send herewith some affidavits from John Purkhizer & Isaac Funck 
These I had not expected that it would be necessary to give as the points on which they mostly bear is the identity of Henry Funk but they corroborate one of the points objected in your foregoing letter. Purkhizer states his own age to be 72 and that Daniel Funk
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was as old or older than he and that Catherine was older than said Daniel
Isaac Funck states the tradition that Said Henry and Elizabeth were married before the said Henry entered the service. I have not been able to get record evidence of the marriage of Geo. Kuntz & Catherine Funk but this would be merely corroborative and probably would not show the age of said Catherine as girls generally marry during minority. I will however send to Nelson & Hardin Counties (in one of which they were married) and get Official Certificates showing that there is no record of it and then I suppose you will admit the proof of the age of the next child (Daniel Funk) as proven by record of his marriage
3rd. Date of Henry Funk's Death.
All the witnesses state that he died in Harrison Co. Ind. about 40 years ago
Peter Funk states in his declaration that he died on the 22nd day of September 1815 or 1814 Cares the date of the year to be established by the record of the Administration on the estate which
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was granted Same fall and that he has no memorandum of it and the County Judge before whom he made his statement Certifies that he is satisfied that it was on 22nd September; bares the year to be established by the above named record 
This record I send herewith showing that letters of administration were granted in November 1815 so that I submit that it is sufficiently established that he died Sept 22nd 1815
4th Date of Elizabeth Funks Death
On this point I can only call your attention to the proof already filed and respectfully request a re-examination thereof and submit that the proof its date is ample viz a written memorandum dating it in the wrong year it is true but sufficiently corrected and explained by the statements of Peter Funk and the affidavit of Anthony D Funk in the other package
5th "The amount of the Administration has not been certified"
I see how you have overlooked this. - The certificate of Administration
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does not show the amount it is true, and this I did not myself discover until I came back from Illinois, so I wrote to the Clerk and he sent me another certificate showing the amount of the bond to be $2000- and by a re-examination you will find it filed in the same package under the other certificate.
Thus you have my answers to your report and I trust that in a careful re-examination of the case you will be satisfied of its correctness.
All of which is respectfully submitted
Yours Respectfully
C. H. Barkley

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner
Washington
D.C.
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Elizabeth Funk de
Widow of
Henry Funk
Act. July 4th. 1836
Revolutionary claim

Attorney
C H Barkley
Louisville
Kentucky
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Crawford County Indiana Sct.
I Reuben Funk of said County aged past 42 years do make the following (Viz From childhood I have always and believed that my grandfather Henry Funk who died in this State in Harrison County when I was an infant had been a soldier of Clarke's Regiment in the service of the United States of the War of the Revolution, and that he had received or, was entitled to receive a lot of land in the "Grant" opposite Louisville Kentucky on account of his above named Revolutionary service; and that he sold this land or his right to it, to a man by the name of Lucas. This statement I have heard from my grandmother Elizabeth Funk (widow of said Henry now deceased) from my father John Funk now living in this County from my uncles Peter, Joseph and Issac-
In fact it is and has always (since my recollection) been a family tradition, frequently spoken of as a fact which as I have always believed and received as true
Witness my name as a disinterested witness on this 22nd June 1855 Reuben Funk
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Sworn to and Subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said County on the 22nd June 1855, And I certify that said Reuben Funk is a man of good reputation for truth and veracity I believe him to be of the age that he calls himself and to be disinterested and I am myself so. Words "state in Harrison" were interlined before signing
Witness my name hereto Subscribed
James Totten Seal
Justice of the peace

State of Indiana
Crawford County SS
I, Wm. A. Jackson Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County do certify that James Totten whose genuine Signature appears to the above certificate was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace in and for Said County duly commissioned and qualified.
Witness my name and official Seal at my office in Leavenworth on this 28th day of June 1855.
Wm A. Jackson Clk
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Bullitt County Kentucky Sct
I Elizabeth Shoptaw of Said County aged past 83 years do make the following statement (Viz) I was present in Nelson County Kentucky in the year 1788 or 1789 at the marriage of my brother George Kuntz to Catherine Funk daughter of Henry Funk and his wife Elizabeth Funk - I was married in said County of Nelson in the fall of the year 1793 to Andrew Shoptaw, by one (Carman?) a preacher and my name before said marriage was Elizabeth Kuntz - I remember distinctly that the above named Catherine was present at my marriage and she then had two children, and the oldest one was then about two years old - I have no memorandum of my own marriage, but remember distinctly that it took place at the time above named -
The above named Catherine died in a year or so after I was married - If now living the said Catherine would be at least 80 years old perhaps older - Although I have never learned to read and write in English, yet I was learned to read in German when I was young; and have always known the correct year by its date ever since I was 12 to 15 years
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old. The above named Henry Funk moved from here to Hardin County, not long after I was married, and from there to Indiana where he died a great many years Since.
And I state further that I am a disinterested witness-
Bullitt County Kentucky June 26th 1855
Attest
J T Harris Bullitt County Elizabeth x her mark Shoptaw
Kentucky
Mary E. Parrish

Bullitt County Kentucky Sct
Sworn to and Subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said County on the day and year set forth therein - And I certify that said Elizbeth Shoptaw is a woman of good reputation for truth and veracity. I believe her to be of the age that she calls herself and to be disinterested and I am myself so.
I further certify that the above affidavit was carefully and correctly read over to her. 
Witness my name hereto
Subscribed J T Harris JPBC
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Bullitt County Kentucky Sct
I R. F. Samuels Clerk of the County Court in and for said County do certify that John T Harris whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified.
Witness my name and Official Seal at my office in Shepardsville on this 27th day of June 1855
R. F. Samuels Clk

Andrew Shoptaw & Elizabeth Kuntz. Married Novr 26th 1793 by Joshua Carman.

State of Kentucky
Nelson County Sct.
I J. Darwin Elliott Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid certify that the above is a true copy from the Marriage Register in my office.
Witness my hand and the seal of my office at Bardstown this 28th day of June 1855
J Darwin Elliott Clk
By B. L. Blakey DC
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Louisville Ky
July 3rd 1855
Sir
I send you some additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Funk decd widow of Henry of Indiana under the Act July 4th 1836.
The two points heretofore lacking in the case are - 1st The identity of our H. F. with the Bounty Land soldier of Illinois Regiment - I submit the accompanying with the proof filed heretofore to be conclusive on that point - 2nd. Date of marriage I have proved the tradition by the affidavits of John Ament, Isaac Funck Rachel Reaugh - I now add the accompanying affidavit of Mrs. Shoptaw who states that the oldest daughter was married in Nelson Co. Ky, 1788 or 89. - I have heretofore Shown that there is no record of said marriage - We can therefore prove it by parol which we abundantly do in the accompanying affidavit - She states, too, that Catherine if now living would be at least 80 years of age or older - She remembers and states distinctly
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that when she herself was married in fall of 1793 that said Catherine then had two children and that one of them was about 2 years old - thus showing that the oldest child of Henry and Elizabeth was a mother in 1790 or 1791 -
I prove by the accompanying record that our witness was married 1793
Upon receiving the whole case I submit it to you for examination.-
George Kuntz who married Catherine Funk above named has been dead some 12 or 15 years but I forgot to have it mentioned in the affidavit
Yours Respectfully
C H Barkley

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner
Washington
D.C.
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May 30th 1854
Sir
Enclosed herewith I send you a power of attorney from John Funk one of the children of Henry & Elizabeth FUnk
This is a suspended case as I understand
Please report to me what evidence is still wanted in the case-
I understand from them that they have heretofore fully proved date of marriage death of Soldier and widow and names of Surviving children
The same children still survive
Viz John Funk, Isaac Funk, Peter Funk Joseph Funk and Betsy Potter-
Address me as heretofore
Respy
C H Barkley
Louisville
Kentucky

Hon L P Waldo
Commissioner Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Louisville Ky
Jany 5th 1855
Sir
Enclosed herewith I send you papers in case of Elizabeth Funk dec widow of Henry under Act of July 4th 1836. 
I find the substance of the former objections to the case to be
First. Identity of the parties.
On this point I have, I believe made the case as strong as it could be made unless I had the positive testimony of fellow soldiers
Second. Date of marriage
On this point for a case depending on parole testimony and tradition I have also made as strong a case in proof as could be
Family Tradition See evidence of John Ament and Rachel Reaugh especially Mrs. Reaugh who establishes that Daniel Funk was their fourth child and I show by the annexed certificate that Said Daniel was old enough to marry in January 1803, making him then 20 or 21 years old. Mrs R says that he
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told her that he was 21 but as there was no record and they were somewhat ignorant it may be that he was only about 20, but be this as it may the substantial point is that there were three children older than he which carries the date of the marriage far back - in fact far enough and some years to spare - Mrs. Reaugh also states the received tradition that one of their sons (Henry) was born soon after the father stated to the Army -
Third Date of death and widowhood of said Elizabeth
The proof on this point I presume will be entirely satisfactory to you although it may be that the year of her death has heretofore been given to you as 1845, but as this proof shortens the time it would not be so difficult to establish as it makes the pension one year less.
The mem. about her death I got from one of the children in Ind and the mistake is one they would be apt to have made for they are ignorant and their memory would have taken it back only to about 1846 some of
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them not so far
I tried to get evidence of the marriage of the eldest daughter Catherine but the clerks in Nelson and Hardin Counties of this state (where they think the marriage took place) inform me that they can find no record of it. This I wished to get in order to show you that she was old enough to marry at a given date: but as I cannot get that I call your attention to Mrs. R's statement that she had died leaving two children sometime before 1800
The whole case is now submitted to you for consideration. and hoping that the proof will be satisfactory
I am yours Respy
C H Barkley

Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner
Washington
D.C.
As a matter of convenience the administrator wishes the certificate made payable to him: and has accordingly given bond with approved surety
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in the sum of $3000, which we suppose will be about or nearly double the amount of the sum to be received
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Elizabeth Funk, dec'd who Crawford County,
was widow of Henry Indiana. - July 4, 1836.
He died November 1815.
She died September, 13. 1844.

This claim was first asserted on the 8th of May, 1848, by John Funk one of the children of Henry and Elizabeth deceased. He declared that his parents were married in the State of Virginia in 1774, and that his father, the said Henry, was a soldier in the Regiment Commanded by Col. George Rogers Clark in his campaigns against the posts of Kaskaskia and Vincennes. No evidence to establish the date of the marriage or the service claimed accompanied the declaration; but I find a paper, apparently filed with it, and dated Decr. 2, 1847, from the Executive Department of Virginia, stating that the name of Henry Funk appears upon the list which accompanied Mr. Commissioner Smith's Report, as a private entitled to land for three years service in the Illinois Regiment, and which fact is confirmed by the printed report in our possession. The claim was examined on the
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2d. of December, 1848, and, as neither the date of the marriage nor the service was established, in the mode required by the Regulations, - disallowed.
In 1855, testimony was filed showing that there was no record Evidence of the date of the Marriage extant, and parole proof introduced to show that it took place prior to the expiration of the last term of service.
Among the testimony of this character is an affidavit of Rebecca Reaugh, "past 71 years", who deposes that her first husband was Daniel Funk, who was the fourth child of said Elizabeth and Henry Funk, and that she was married to him in 1803 or 1804, at which time he was 20 or 21 years old. There is also, an affidavit from Thomas Williams, now of Harden County, Ky., a credible witness, and evidently a man of intelligence, who states that he was well acquainted with the Funk family, having taught school in their neighborhood in Harden County, Ky., and that Daniel Funk, the fourth child of Henry and Elizabeth aforesaid, would be if then living (May 22, 1855,) about his own age, and that he was then 73 years old. These affidavits, in connexion with other strong collateral testimony
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are deemed sufficient to bring the claim under the provisions of the Act of July 4, 1836, - for, if the fourth child of the parties was 20 or 21 years old in 1803 or 1804, he must have been born in 1782 or 1783; and hence, the marriage have taken place prior to the last term of service in Clark's Regiment, which was not organized even as a volunteer regiment until sometime in 1779.
There is, as stated, a soldier named Henry Funk returned by Mr. Commissioner Smith as entitled to 100 Acres of Land, for a service of three years in the Illinois Regiment, - but as neither he nor his heirs applied for it, the latter are now precluded from any claim to it, for the reason that the power to adjudicate such claims has been withdrawn from the Executive of Virginia. There is, also, a soldier named Henry Funk, and, evidently, the same party, on the roll which accompanied Smith's report, returned as entitled to 100 of the 150,000 acres granted to the officers and soldiers of Clark's Illinois Regiment by the Resolve of the Legislature of Virginia, of Jany. 2, 1781; and which grant was separate and distinct from the grant made upon the principles of the report of Smith. Henry Funk's interest in the said 100
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acres of land, and which was awarded to him by the Commissioners who sat at Louisville, Ky. was assigned by him to Abram Lucas of Harden County, Ky., on the 10th of June, 1797, and a deed therefore issued to said Lucas on the 15th of November, 1797. Lucas subsequently viz., on the 30th of April, 1806, conveyed said land to Edward Johnson of Clark County, Ind., - all of which facts are shown by copies of the original papers filed in the case - On these showing the parties rest their case, and contend that the Henry Funk represented by them was the soldier of Clark's Regiment; that he served therein three years; that their mother was married to him prior to the expiration of his service, and that hence they are entitled to the arrears of pension due to her under the Act of July 4, 1836, from March 4, 1831 to the date of her death Sept. 14, 1844. They rely upon the following among other testimony-
John Funk, a son of Henry and Elizabeth Funk, and a resident of Crawford County, Indiana, aged 70, recollects that when he was young he heard his father say that he was entitled to land in Clark's grant but he never went to see about it nor lived upon it. That his father had some kind of transaction, or
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bargain with one Lucas about said land, and had complained of the manner in which he had been treated by said Lucas. That when they moved from Harden County, Ky. to Harrison Co. Inda. Lucas came to see his father about the said land, and that he had heard his father say he had given L. the papers.
Rachel Reaugh, the witness above referred to, who married the fourth son of Elizabeth and Henry Funk, in 1803 or 1804, was well acquainted with Abram Lucas, and his brothers Cornelius and John, the latter the witnesses to the assignment of Funk in June, 1797; recollects that Henry Funk had some kind of transaction with said Abram Lucas in relation to land to which the former was entitled in Clark's grant.
George Moner, of Harrison County, Inda. aged 83, when he was about 10 or 15 years old, went with his father on a public day to the County seat of Shenandoah, Va., and there "saw several men gathered around Henry Funk, who was talking to them about his trip tot he Army, from which he had returned not long before." In 1810, he found the same Henry Funk residing in Harrison County, Ind., when he told him, Moner, that he
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had served under Clark, in the expedition to the Wabash Country.
Thomas Williams of Harden Co., Ky, the witness who deposed to the age of the fourth child of Henry and Elizabeth Funk, states that in the year 1796 or 1797, one Abram Lucas came into the neighborhood, and settled within four miles of Henry Funk aforesaid, and that he has a distinct recollection of having heard the said Henry say that he had served in the Army of the Revolution, and that he was reported as having thus served in his neighborhood.
Edward Lucas, also of Harden Co. Ky. aged 51, states that his father Abram Lucas, came to that County several years before he was born, and that he knows by tradition that his father bought land in Inda. and afterwards sold it. That he is certain that the Abram Lucas, to whom Henry Funk assigned the land which was awarded to him for his services in Clark's Regiment, was his father, - and that the witness to the assignment viz. John Lucas and Cornelius Lucas were his uncles, for the reason "that they are the only Lucases of those given names in the County.
The above witnesses are alleged to
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be credible, and their testimony in my opinion, directly identifies the husbands of Elizabeth Funk, as the soldier of Clark's Regiment.
Peter Funk has been appointed administrator on the estate of the said Elizabeth, and the number and names of her children are certified as required by the Regulations.
65dh July. Examine

C. H. Barkley
Louisville, Ky
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Funk case
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I Joseph Bower Recorder in and for the County of Clark in the State of Indiana, do hereby Certify that the name of Henry Funk a private soldier appears on the original Military Roll of the Officers and Soldiers of General George Roger Clark's Regiment under a respection of Jan. 2d. 1781, agreeable to act of Assembly passed October Session 1783. by the Legislative of Virginia, and that said Henry Funk was allowed (by the Board of Commissioners to Adjust the Claims for Said Officers and Soldiers) one hundred acres of land designated by the latter. no. 73 of the Illinois or Clark's Grant.
I Joseph Bower Recorder in and for the County of Clark in the State of Indiana do hereby Certify that the above is true & Correct & statement agreeable to the Records in my office for grants to the officers & Soldiers of General George Rogers Clark's Regiment above stated
In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of my office as such Recorder at Charlestown this 22nd. day of January AD 1855.
Joseph Bower - R.C.C.
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Nelson County
State of Kentucky SS
I J. Darwin Elliot Clerk of the County Court in and for said County do certify that I can find no record in my office of the marriage of George Kurtz and Catherine Funk
Witness my name and official Seal hereto at my office in Bardstown on this 17th day of January 1855
J. Darwin Elliott
Clk Nelson Co Ct
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Hardin County
State of Kentucky Sct
I Wm T. Samuels Clerk of the County Court in and for said county do certify that I can find no record of the marriage of George Kurtz and Catherine Funk in my office
Witness my name and official Seal at my office in Elizabethtown on this 16 day of January 1855
Wm. T. Samuels Clk
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(Copy)
Pension Office
Feby 15 1855
Sir
I have carefully examined all the papers in the case of Elizabeth Funk decd widow of Henry of Ind. and am not satisfied that the service of her husband has been shown.
The original application was based upon a certificate of the Virginia Register that it was the opinion of Commissioner Smith that one Henry Funk of Clarke's Regiment was entitled to land for three years service, But it was not known upon what testimony Smith had based his opinion, nor has it shown that her husband was the Soldier referred to in Commissioner Smith's report - It is now shown that a Henry Funk of Clarke's Regiment did receive land, But various witnesses swear they have often heard the husband of Elizabeth Funk declare that he was entitled to land but had not received it. Now unless he received his land after these witnesses heard his repeated declaration that he was entitled, but had not received it, the Soldier who did receive it, and Elizabeth Funk's husband must be different men, If he received his land after these conversations, the records will show it and his children can easily trace it. The case will remain on our Suspended files until further proof id adduced 
I am Respectfully
Your obt Servt
L P Waldo Commissioner
C H Barkley, Esq
Louisville, Ky
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Louisville Ky
Feby 22nd 1855
Sir
In answer to the foregoing I would say that I have been at Clarkstown Indiana and have gotten some record [illegible] must and assignee of Henry Funk's land of the extent of which was [illegible] except some vague information [illegible] that he had once given [illegible] instrument of writing receiving it but which I find, as an assignment recognized by the Board of Commissioners
I had written to the Recorder to know whether his records showed the extent of the service of Henry Funk - He referred me to Virginia, where I have written and am now awaiting an answer - I hope if I will next week to get such evidence as will satisfy you beyond a doubt of the identity of our Henry Funk with the soldier of Clarke's regiment who received Bounty Land for 100 acres this I believe according to our above copied letter will meet every objection which you therein urge to the admission of the claim except one point and that is the "But various witnesses swear that they have often heard the husband of Elizabeth Funk decd
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that he was entitled to land but had not received it." - And in answer to this point all that I have to say is that I have copies or abstracts of the evidence which I have filed in the case, except some from [illegible] Reaugh. - They all show that they have heard him declare that he was "entitled" to land and there they stop except John Purkhizer who says in addition (in the abstract that I have of his first statement) that he had heard his father in law Jacob Funk tell him or say that Henry could get that land if he would attend to it. Mrs. Reaugh recording to my present recollection, stops it saying that he was "entitled to land as she had heard him say."
My recollection is that Isaac Funck says in addition that he had heard his father Jacob Funk say that his uncle Henry was "neglecting" his land and perhaps he also says something about another neighbor speaking of it, or offering to buy it.
In that if various witnesses state that hey have heard our Henry Funk say that he had not received his Land they must be some who have given affidavits in the case before
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I ever had any thing to do with it.
But as stated after I hope to be after next week to get the evidence which will fully meet all existing objections. In the meantime I would like for you to [illegible] are satisfied in regard to the date of the marriage of our Henry and Elizabeth and on the points of death children etc, etc.
Hoping soon to be able to satisfy you fully
I am yours Respy
C H Barkley

Hon L P Waldo
Commissioner
Washington
D,C,
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Feb. 1855
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A.
"No. 73. D
H. Funk 100, acres"
B.
"For value received I do hereby assign make over and convey to Abram Lucas all my right title and Interest to land in the Illinois grant and desire the Commissioners to grant deeds to him for the Same. Witness my hand and seal this June the 10th day of June 1797
Witness henry funk seal"
Test
Cornelius Lucas
John Lucas"
C
"Deed issued to Abraham Lucas
assignee 15th Nov 1797"
The State of Indiana
Clark County SS
I Joseph Bower Recorder in and for said County do certify that the three copies above marked respectively A, B, C, are correctly taken from the back of the Surveyor's Certificate of Survey in the name of Henry Funk for 100 acres, now on file in my office. And I further certify that I can
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find no memorandum by which the residence of Henry Funk above named can be established
In Testimony of which I do hereto Subscribe my name and affix my official Seal at my office in Charlestown on this 21st day of February A.D 1855
Joseph Bower R.C.C.

The State of Indiana
Clark County SS
I Joseph Bower Recorder in and for Said County do certify that it appears from the records of my office that Abraham Lucas of Hardin County Kentucky did by deed dated July 30th 1806 sell and convey to Edward Johnston of Clark County Indiana Territory a certain tract of land lying and being in the Illinois Grant in Clark County Indiana Territory containing 100 acres being granted to the said Abraham Lucas as Asee of Henry Funck, etc, etc, (Over)
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Word "land" was interlined before signing
Witness my name and official seal at my office in Charlestown on this 21st February AD 1855
Joseph Bower R.C.C.
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Crawford County Indiana Sct
I John Funk of Said County aged from my best information about 70 years one of the children of Henry and Elizabeth Funk deceased do make the following Statement
I remember very well that when I was young I always heard my father say that he was entitled to land in "Clarke's Grant" for his services in "Clarke's Expedition" but he never went to see about it and never lived on it.
I remember also that he had some kind of transaction or bargain with one Lucas concerning said land: I remember also that he complained of the way in which said Lucas had treated him about it. -
And that after we moved to Harrison County Indiana from Hardin County Kentucky this Lucas came to his house to see him on business connected with this land: but I do not now remember what contract existed between them - I heard my father say that he had given Lucas the papers.
I do not now remember where this Lucas lived at; my impression is that he was a lawyer but in this I may be mistaken - he may have been merely
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Crawford County Indiana Sct
I John Funk of Said County aged from my best information about 70 years one of the children of Henry and Elizabeth Funk deceased do make the following Statement
I remember very well that when I was young I always heard my father say that he was entitled to land in "Clarke's Grant" for his services in "Clarke's Expedition" but he never went to see about it and never lived on it.
I remember also that he had some kind of transaction or bargain with one Lucas concerning said land: I remember also that he complained of the way in which said Lucas had treated him about it. -
And that after we moved to Harrison County Indiana from Hardin County Kentucky this Lucas came to his house to see him on business connected with this land: but I do not now remember what contract existed between them - I heard my father say that he had given Lucas the papers.
I do not now remember where this Lucas lived at; my impression is that he was a lawyer but in this I may be mistaken - he may have been merely
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a land agent or a private person -
I know nothing either of any of his heirs and never have known. The said Lucas if living must be several years older than myself - perhaps 20 or more 
I make this Declaration for the purpose of having some further evidence filed in the application for arrears of Pension now pending through Peter Funk as Administrator of said Elizabeth from Lawrence County Illinois
Crawford County Indiana this 28 day of February AD 1855
2 witnesses
James Totten Crawford
Peter Funk County John x his mark Funk
Indiana

Crawford County Indiana Sct.
Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said County on this 28th day of February 1855 and I certify that I am fully satisfied of the truth of his foregoing Declaration
I believe him to be of the age that he calls himself, and I certify that I am disinterested
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name
James Totten J.P. Seal
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Crawford County Indiana Sct
I Wm A. Jackson
Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County do certify that James Totten Esqr. whose genuine Signature appears to the foregoing certificate was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified
Witness my name and the Seal of Said Court at my office in Leavenworth on this 2nd day of March AD 1855
Wm A. Jackson Clerk
Crawford Circuit Court.
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Hardin County Indiana sct
I Rachel Reaugh of Said County aged from my best information past 79 or 71 years do make the following statement as a Supplement to my affidavit which I made in November last concerning the case of Henry and Elizabeth Funk deceased.
(Viz) When I lived in Hardin County Kentucky about fifty years Since I was well acquainted with Abraham Lucas, Cornelius Lucas and John Lucas three brothers; According to my recollection Abraham Lucas and Henry Funk above named had some kind of a transaction concerning the Land or Land Claim of said Henry in "Clarke's Grant" which he was entitled to on account of his service in "Clarke's Expedition"; It having been a long time since I knew these parties or heard those interested talk about it and my own memory failing somewhat I cannot now remember what kind of transaction or contract was between them concerning this Land. When we moved from Kentucky we left these Lucases there since when I do not now remember hearing any thing about them. Abraham Lucas was several years older than myself. John the youngest one was older than I was, The reason why I did not mention this in my former statement
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was only because I was not asked about it
In my former statement I said that Daniel Funk my first husband was past 21 years old when we were married; such is my recollection of what he told me - but it may be that he was mistaken a year - he was not much of a scholar but he was as I am quite certain older than I was about a year and I am still disinterested
I Henry Funk of said County aged 45 years past son of Daniel Funk afore named, and his wife above named do certify that according to what I have always heard and believed as a tradition in the family, that my grandfather Henry Funk above named was entitled to a lot of Land in "Clarke's Grant" on account of his service in "Clarke's Expedition", and that one Lucas had gotten said land from him in some way - never heard the nature of the transaction between them so much spoken of as the Complaint about the way in which said Luas had treated him about it
I have derived this information from my uncles (my father's brothers) and also from my mother above named from the time of many years past. Being informed that the arrears of pension now claimed is due only to the surviving children I am therefore disinterested. Witness our hands in Harrison
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was only because I was not asked about it
In my former statement I said that Daniel Funk my first husband was past 21 years old when we were married; such is my recollection of what he told me - but it may be that he was mistaken a year - he was not much of a scholar but he was as I am quite certain older than I was about a year and I am still disinterested
I Henry Funk of said County aged 45 years past son of Daniel Funk afore named, and his wife above named do certify that according to what I have always heard and believed as a tradition in the family, that my grandfather Henry Funk above named was entitled to a lot of Land in "Clarke's Grant" on account of his service in "Clarke's Expedition", and that one Lucas had gotten said land from him in some way - never heard the nature of the transaction between them so much spoken of as the Complaint about the way in which said Luas had treated him about it
I have derived this information from my uncles (my father's brothers) and also from my mother above named from the time of many years past. Being informed that the arrears of pension now claimed is due only to the surviving children I am therefore disinterested. Witness our hands in Harrison
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County Indiana on this 3rd day of March AD 1855
2 Witnesses Rachel x her mark Reaugh
Robert Biggs Harrison
Joseph P Funk County
Indiana Henry Funk

Harrison County Indiana Sct
Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said County on this 3rd day of March 1855 and I certify that said affiants are persons of good reputation for truth and veracity. I believe them to be of the respective ages that they call themselves and to be disinterested and I am myself so 
Words "and I am still disinterested" were interlined before signing
In Testimony of which I do hereto Subscribe my name
Robert Biggs JPHCB

Harrison County Indiana sct
I Hugh Neely Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County do certify that Robert Biggs Esquire whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified
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Witness my name and official Seal at my office in Corydon on this 6th day of March 1855
Hugh Neely
Clerk.

Please seal and return in enclosed Envelope
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Louisville Ky
Nov 9th 1855
Sir
Enclosed herewith I send you some additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Funk deceased widow of Henry of Indiana
Viz
Proof that Henry of Clarke's Regiment sold to Abraham Lucas - Recorder's Certificate and that said Lucas assignee of Mr. Funk lived in Hardin Co, Ky a few years after.
Declaration of John Funk setting forth that one Lucas got his father's land
Affidavit of Mrs. Rachel Reaugh and young Henry Funk making the case as complete as tradition and partial knowledge can make it
I submit that I have identified Mr. H. F. with the claim of Clarke's regiment which record in evidence of [illegible] in the Grant"
[illegible]
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To this I can give no [illegible] the Certificate of the Register of the Land [illegible] filed [illegible] 
and pension of Commissioner Smith [illegible] in years are all [illegible] inquire on pension I have [illegible] case to you described with a [illegible] that I [illegible] I cannot [illegible]
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The County [illegible] of [illegible] Viz Joseph open question to be decided by the account of administration which I have sent to you.
In regard to date of their marriage I can only ask you specify [illegible] 
I have prepared cases which have been answered on similar proof through others - Viz. - Case of Sally Gregory the widow of Joshua of Kentucky last year. - All that I ask is that you will be as liberal and just in the consideration of this claim as in others
I am Respectfully
C. H. Barkley

Hon L, P, Waldo
Commissioner
Washington
D.C.
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Elizabeth Funk dec
Widow of
Henry Funk d
Act 1836
Brief of the case
as heretofore
& herein
presented
1855
Attorney
C. H. Barkley
Louisville
Kentucky
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Memorandum
Henry Funk in 1797 assigned to Abram Lucas his certificate of bounty Land in "Clarke's grant" Witnesses John Lucas and Cornelius Lucas
Abram Lucas in 1800 decided that same tract of Land Record showing that said Abram Lucas then lived in Hardin County Kentucky
I Edward C Lucas of Hardin County Kentucky aged 51 years being called on to state whether I can in my own information on the above memorandum state as follows (Viz
My father Abram Lucas and his uncle then John and Cornelius came to this County Several years before I was born
I remember in tradition that my father and uncle bought land in Indiana and afterwards sold it although I can at present recollection of service the same of the man, from whom he bought it - I am sure that my father and his uncles are the persons named in the above memorandum because they are the only Lucases of those given names that ever lived in this County
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the dates named above
My father and uncle Cornelius and John Lucas are all dead - My uncle John when we moved from the last named has been about 11 years past [illegible] in Missouri - and from [illegible] naming heard from him he presume him to be dead - [illegible] transaction in 177 - the oldest child of my father was [illegible] in [illegible] County Missouri and although she is [illegible] any information on the above memorandum it would be from tradition and she lived in this vicinity until a few years ago and I have no recollection of her [illegible]
And I am a disinterested witness
In testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name on this 30 May 1855 E C Lucas
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Hardin County Kentucky sct
Sworn and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said County on the day and year herein set forth - And I certify that said Wm and C Lucas is well known to me as a person of truth and veracity I believe him to be the age that he [illegible] and he is disinterested and I am myself os
In testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name
J,, J,, Jeffries J Peace

Hardin County
State of Kentucky SS
I Wm. T. Samuels clerk of the County court in and for said County do certify that J J Jeffries whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate was at the time thereby an acting justice of the peace in and for the County duly commissioned and qualified.
Witness my hand and official seal at my office in Elizabethtown this 30 day of May 1855
Wm. T. Samuels Clk
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Missouri Illinois
Funk Case
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[illegible] Larue County Kentucky Sct
I Thomas Williams of Hardin County Kentucky aged past 73 years do make the following Statement Viz My father came in this county (then [illegible]) in the Spring of the year 1790 (Seventeen hundred and ninety) I was then eight years old -- Within about two or not more than three years afterwards one Henry Funk came and settled within a few miles of my father and lived there some 12 or 15 years and then moved to Harrison County Indiana where he died as I heard not many years afterwards. I have a [illegible] of hearing [illegible] say that he had served in the War of the revolution in the United States service - Such was his reputation that I came to [illegible]
In the year 1776 or 1777 one Abram Lucas came into the neighborhood and settled within three or 4 miles of said Funk.  I have often seen [illegible] Lucas and Funk together as neighbors of [illegible]
When I was 21 years old (1803) the two older children of said Lucas came to school to me and I well remember from the size and ages of these [illegible] and [illegible] that Mr. Lucas came to this county [illegible] (Seventeen Hundred and ninety six) or the year
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after and [illegible] .  The father of said Lucas came to this county a few months before he died and John Lucas [illegible] brother (just a year older than himself) came with him. Cornelius Lucas another brother came a few months after Abram and these were the only men of [illegible] given names that he had heard of [illegible] by the name of Lucas.
Cornelius Lucas remained in this vicinity until he died [illegible] I heard [illegible]
Abram Lucas above named was [illegible]
The wives of both Abram and Cornelius are dead.
The [illegible] of Abram [illegible].
[illegible] was of age [illegible] something under [marked out: [illegible]] then an immediate [illegible] -- from 1795 to 1800 -- [illegible] who was in the [illegible] time.
Daniel Fund one of the [illegible] Henry Funk was as old or older than [illegible] according to my recollection -- and I was 73 on then 11th of May 1855. And I am a disinterested [illegible] 
[illegible] this 22 day of May [illegible] 1855
Thomas Williams
attest [illegible]   Larue County
A. J. Dorsey     Kentucky
[illegible]
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Larue County Kentucky Sct
Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said county and on the day and year above written And I certify that said Thomas Williams has been well known [illegible] for many years as [illegible] reputation for truth and veracity and I believe him to be of the age that he [illegible] himself and if he [illegible] himself.
In testimony of [illegible] my name
A. J. Dorsey J. P L. C.

State of Kentucky
County of Larue} sct
I E. R. Burba Clerk of the County Court in and for said county do certify that I know J. Haney [illegible] justice of the peace in and for county duly commissioned and qualified. Witness my name and official seal of my office in Hodgenville on the 26th day of May AD 1855
E, R, Burba clk
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(Copy)

Pension Office
May 24th 1855

Sir
The testimony which accompanied your letter of the 12th instant is deemed sufficient to shew that Elizabeth Funk who was the widow of Henry, died on the 14th of September 1844;  but your review of the objections of this office to the admission of the claim has not satisfied me that they should in any degree be relaxed.  A further effort should be made to obtain the evidence from Richmond indicated in my letter of the 9th instant;  for without it or some direct evidence of identity, no practical benefit can result from a further prosecution of the case.
I am Respectfully
Your obt. sevt.
L.P. Waldo
Commissioner


C H Barkley Esqr
Louisville
Ky
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Louisville Ky
June 4th 1855

Sir
Herewith I send you some additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Funk decd. widow of Henry Funk [illegible] Act 1836  From your above copied letter these appears to be two points in the case yet on which you are not satisfied, Viz Identity and marriage.
Upon the first point I offer you the enclosed affidavits of Thomas Williams and E.C. Lucas.  I can get no positive proof to shew that our Henry Funk is the man who sold the certificate to Abram Lucas, but the evidence heretofore filed shews that John Lucas and Cornelius Lucas attested the assignment to Abram Lucas.  The recorder certifies that no memorandum appears by which the residence of the parties at the time (1797) can be ascertained, - but that in 1806 when Lucas sold the land he lived in Hardin Co. Ky.  I then file the declaration of John Funk and joint affidavit of Mrs. Reaugh and her son, which were strong presumptive ( tho not conclusive) evidence of identity  of one [illegible] man who sold to Lucas
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prove by the accompanying affidavits who Abram Lucas was
Mr. Williams states that said Henry Funk moved to what is now (and probably) then Hardin Co. Ky. about 1792 or 93 and there remained until about 1807 and that he was a reputed Revolutionary soldier.  Upon this point however that our Henry Funk was a soldier of Clarke Regiment I presume you are entirely satisfied or at least as fully as you can be of any thing that depends on human testimony, but whether he is the H.F. who sold the certificate to Abram Lucas We prove by Mr. Williams that Abram Lucas came to Hardin Co. Ky. in 1796 or 1797 that his brother John came a few months before and Cornelius a few months after - so that at the time of the assignment we have Abram Lucas the assignee and John Lucas and Cornelius Lucas the attesting witnesses living within a few miles and neighbors of Henry Funk whom we claim to have been the assignor   Mr. Lucas was a quiet farmer and therefore not probably engaged in hunting up land claims out of his usual range of neighborhood, and therefore we may safely conclude that he bought it from his neighbor our Henry Funk.
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We prove by him also that there are no persons living now convenient who were old enough to notice generally passing events at the time 1795 to 1800
We prove by him and E.C. Lucas that Abram, John & Cornelius Lucas and their wives are dead so that there can be no positive proof obtained in the case
E.C. Lucas has heard of his father buying land in Indiana & selling it again but he is only 51 years and therefore knows nothing even traditional of the name of the man of whom he bought it
That his sister Mrs. Bacon altho several years older than himself and living near him until within a few years past never spoke of the name to him that he now remembers of - That from her age if she has any knowledge of the transaction in 1797 it is traditional - 
Upon a review I submit that accompanying evidence on the point of identity - What evidence you may receive from Virginia may or may not shew residence of Henry Funk
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I have the promise of some parole corroborative proof of marriage very soon
Respectfully
CH Barkley

Hon L P Waldo
Commissioner 
Washington D.C.
Page 110

Elizabeth Funk de
widow of
Henry Funk ded.

Probate of her death and Brief of the case heretofore & herein presented

April 1855

Attorney
CH Barkley
Louisville
Kentucky
Page 111

Lawrence County Illinois Sct
I Anmon D Funk of said county aged nearly 33 years do certify that Elizabeth Funk the reputed widow of Henry Fund deceased departed this life in this County in the month of September 1844 viz I remember very well and she died the same fall after the birth of one of my children the record of which I have recently examined and find to be in July 1844 (eighteen hundred and forty four).
The particular date of the death is fixed by those on whose memory and veracity I rely as being on the fourteenth day of September and I believe it to be correct.
And I [illegible] certify that I have no interest in the [illegible] or pending by [illegible] administration of said Elizabeth for arrears of Pension. Lawrence Corning
Witness this Ninth day of April A.D. 1855
A. D. Funk

attest

W. J.  Haney}
W. H. Boreing}  Lawrence County Illinois}
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Lawrence County Illinois sct
Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said county on this ninth day of April 1855 and I certify that said affiant is a man of good reputation for truth and veracity, I believe him to be of [illegible] himself and to be of [illegible].
In Testimony of [illegible] subscribe my name.
M. R. Trimble J. P. {S.S.}

State of Illinois
Lawrence County, sct
Be it known that on this Eighth day of May 1855 [illegible] Jesse K. Dubois the judge [illegible] County Court in and [illegible] in open court now sitting [illegible] affidavit was submitted to and approved by me.  And I certify that his affidavit together with evidence [illegible] made upon this Court an [illegible]
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I am fully satisfied that Elizabeth Funk widow of Henry Funk a [illegible] revolutionary Soldier of Clarke's to have died in this county in the month of September 1844 (Eighteen hundred and forty four) In regard to [illegible] I am entirely [illegible]
In regard to the [illegible] on either the 13th or 14th day of the month and I am [illegible] In testimony [illegible] I do hereto subscribe my name -
Jesse K Dubois
County Judge

State of Illinois
Lawrence County) sct
I Thomas F. Watts [illegible] Esq [illegible] certificate  [illegible] acting justice of the peace in and of said county duly commissioned and qualified.
I further testify that Jesse K. Dubois Esq whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate was at the date [illegible]
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Judge of the County Court in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that the [illegible] for said County held [illegible]
Given under my hand and official seal in my office in Lawrence [illegible] this Eighth day of May A. D. 1855
Tho's F. Watts
Clk

Elizabeth Fund
Probate of
Decease
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Louisville Ky
May 12th 1855

Sir
In the case of Elizabeth Funk deceasd widow of Henry of Indiana under the Act of July 4th 1836 I desire to call your attention to the following brief of the case:
First, in regard to proof of service
The certificate of Register of Va. Land Office shews the opinion of Commissioner Smith that Henry Funk of Clarke's Regiment was entitled to land for 3 years service - I have written to Va. for the proof on which this opinion was based but I can get no answer - I find that Commissioner Smith in his preface to his report says that he will report such names as he can find whose claims are supported by documentary evidence so that fact that he reported the name of Henry Funk is prima facie evidence of the service for the three years - 
I find also in the preface to the proceedings of the board of of Commissioners who allowed and allotted land to the soldiers
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Louisville Ky
May 12th 1855

Sir
In the case of Elizabeth Funk deceasd widow of Henry of Indiana under the Act of July 4th 1836 I desire to call your attention to the following brief of the case:
First, in regard to proof of service
The certificate of Register of Va. Land Office shews the opinion of Commissioner Smith that Henry Funk of Clarke's Regiment was entitled to land for 3 years service - I have written to Va. for the proof on which this opinion was based but I can get no answer - I find that Commissioner Smith in his preface to his report says that he will report such names as he can find whose claims are supported by documentary evidence so that fact that he reported the name of Henry Funk is prima facie evidence of the service for the three years -
I find also in the preface to the proceedings of the board of of Commissioners who allowed and allotted land to the soldiers
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of Clarke's Regiment that one of their resolutions (in substance) was that a man in order to be entitled to Land had to be of this class (Viz) Enlisted to serve until the reduction of the posts of St Vincent & Kaskaskia and then re-enlisted - These statements and the fact that he received 100 acres land and the uniform tradition that he was gone three years I submit as conclusive on that point - 
But two years service is as much as we need prove which I submit we have done.
Then the
Second point  Is our Henry Funk the man - Allow me to call your attention to the fact that Henry Funk assigned his right to Abram Lucas - That there is in that assignment no clue to the residence of either Funk or Lucas - That no many years after said Lucas lived in Hardin County, Kentucky - That Cornelius and John Lucas were witnesses to the assignment - We have also proved that our Henry Funk lived
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in Hardin County Kentucky for several years covering all that time
John Funk states that one Lucas got some instrument of writing from his father concerning the land - does not know what it was but remembers that his father thought hard of L's treatment    Mrs. Reough states that she knew all these Lucases - purchases and attesting witnesses that Abram Lucas got her father in law's land or had something to do with it
Isaac Funk states as a tradition that one Lucas had gotten the Land some way - From all which we submit that we have identified our Henry Funk with the 100 acres land especially when taken in connection with affidavit of John Ament, Isaac Funck, Purkhiser and Mrs. Reough heretofore filed - Allow me also to call your particular attention to the affidavit of George Mawrer which is almost positive
Then there remains the next
Third point  Date of marriage
You will remember that Ament
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Isaac Funck and Mrs. Reough all testify that the tradition is that they were married and had children before the War - John Purkhiser states that his own age is 72 and that Daniel (whom we have proven was the fourth child) was as old or older than he
Mrs. Keough states that Daniel (her first husband) was the fourth child and that he was at least 20 or 21 years old when they were married which I have proved by the record, was in January or February 1803  I prove by the record from Virginia that there is no public record of it and therefore rely on this proof because it is of the same character of the proof of other cases to which I have heretofore alluded which have been allowed
Then the
Fourth point is the date and fact of the death of Henry Funk  I have proven that it was about 40 years ago  Record proof of the administration on his estate
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shews that it was in 1815 but this is very unimportant in the case so far as it relates to exactness because several years mistake even would make no difference whatever in regard to the amount of the pension
Then the only remaining is 
Fifth point - date of the death of Elizabeth Funk
I refer to the proof heretofore filed to establish that it took place in September 1844 - You have the proof (if any on this point) filed before I undertook the case - You have the proof filed by me in January last - The County Court of the County where she died certifies that the proof is that she died Sept. 13th 1844 founded on general reputation and the statements made in open Court
You answer that you are not satisfied  I reply by calling your attention to the statement of A.D. Funk, which it is true is not annexed to the certificate but is dated same time and certified
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to have been sworn to in open Court
In order to make [illegible] more sure I submit another affidavit of Mr. Funk in which he states that her death was on the 14th Sept 1844
You will notice that in his former statement and in this he places the month and year from positive recollection because it was the same fall after the birth of one of his children   the record of which he finds to be in July 1844 - In first statement he dates her death 13th and in this on 14th Sept - You will notice that these exact dates are stated in both cases on the recollection of others which he relies on as being correct.  I believe that 13th is the correct date because when I saw Mrs. Funk his mother she stated the day of the week and we counted it up and made it the 13th - but this is an immaterial point in this case whether it were 13th or 14th
You will notice that the order of Court accompanying states that the court is entirely satisfied that Mrs. Funk died in September 1844
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and that he is also well satisfied that her death took place either on the 13th or 14th day of the month
All which I therefore respectfully and confidently submit to you having as I conceive come full up to the substantial points in the case
Yours Respectfully
CH Barkley


Hon L.P. Waldo
Commissioner
Washington
D.C.
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Elizabeth Funk De
Widow of
Henry Funk dec
Let of July 4th 1836
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Pension Office
December 2nd 1848

Sir,
The papers which you sent the Pens Office in the case of Elizabeth Funk dec. widow of Henry Funk have been examined and filed under the act of 4 July 1836.
In order to authorize the admission of the claim the regulations which require the date of the commencement and duration of each term of service with the names of the Company and field Officers under which they were rendered.  It is specially set forth should be complete with and the amount of the service rendered should be shown by the records at Richmond, or by the testimony of two or more witnesses who were themselves in service with Funk
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And the date of their marriage should be established in a certified copy of the marriage bond or some other record proof if attainable, or it must be shown that evidence of this [illegible] not exist before the testimony of [illegible] can be considered.  The [illegible] of the Executive Council of Virginia [illegible] that Henry Funk was in the Opinion of Commissioner Smith entitled to time for 3 years service in Clarks Regiment
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RE Claim for Pension War Dept.
_________
[illegible]                                  } Nancy Funk
__________
Elizabeth Funk 13 Sept 1844    }  AD Funk --
___________
Porter Funk [illegible]
___________
Mitch Barkley
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1854

Letters of Administration
To
Peter Funk Adm.
of Elizabeth Funk
decd.
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Letters of Administration
State of Illinois,
Lawrence County.
The people of the State of Illinois.
To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting:
Know Ye, That whereas Elizabeth Funk of the aforesaid County and State, died Intestate, on or about the thirteenth (13th) day of September A.D. 1844 having at the time of her decease, Personal Property in this State, which may be lost, destroyed, or diminished in value, if speedy care be not taken of the same.
To the end, therefore, that said Property and Debts may be collected and preserved for those who shall appear to have a legal right or interest therein, We do hereby appoint Peter Funk of the aforesaid County and State, Administrator of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, Rights, Credits and Effects which were of the said Elizabeth Funk at the time of her decease, with full power and authority to secure and collect the said Property and Debts, wheresoever the same may be found in this State, and in general to do and perform all other acts which now are, or hereafter may be required of him by Law.
Done by order of the County Court of Lawrence County, Illinois, at the December Term, A.D. 1854.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court, at Lawrenceville the twentieth day December A.D. 1854
Thos. F. Watts Clerk.
[SEAL]
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CH Barkley Esq
Sir:
I have made diligent examination in this office for the record of the certf of marriage of Geo Kurtz & C Funk but I cannot find it or any bond or record whatever in reference to it.
Yours Respectfully
J.D. Elliott
Clk HCC

State of Kentucky
Hardin County Sct
I William T. Samuels Clerk of the Hardin County Court aforesaid certify that David Funk & Miss Rachael Denbo was married on the 14 day of January 1803 as appears from the record of my office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my said County at Elizabethtown this 27 day of December 1854
Wm. T. Samuels Clk
Hardin County Court
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Eliztown Dec 27

CH Barkley Esq

I enclose only evidence of the marriage record asked for.
Geo Kurtz I presume was married in Nelson .  No such C attd as [illegible] Cooks Widow Leftwich decd.
W. T. Samuels
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Lawrence County Illinois Sct
I Anthony D. Funk of said County aged 33 years do certify that Mrs. Elizabeth Funk widow of Henry Funk decd. died at the residence of my father Peter Funk in this county on the 13th day of September 1844 (eighteen Hundred and forty four) Viz
The day and month is my general recollection:  the year I state from my recollection that it was same fall after the birth of one of my children;  and I have recently examined the record of that and find it dated in July 1844 (Eighteen Hundred and forty four)
Lawrence County Illinois  this 20th day of December 1854 and I further state that I am a disinterested witness
A.D. Funk

2 Witnesses
Jesse K Dubois
Thos. F. Watts  Lawrence County Illinois
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Lawrence Count Illinois Sct
Sworn to and subscribed before me Jesse K Dubois the County Judge in and for said County in open County Court no sitting.  And I certify that I believe him to be of the age that he calls himself and to be a credible and disinterested witness.
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name Decr 20th 1854
Jesse K Dubois
County Judge

Lawrence County Illinois Sct
I Thomas F. Watts Clerk of the County Court in and for said County do certify that Jesse K Dubois whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate was at the date thereof the County Judge in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified.
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name and affix my official seal at my office in Lawrenceville on this 20th day of December 1854
Thos. F. Watts Clk
[SEAL]
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State of Illinois
Lawrence County Sct
I Thomas F. Watts Clerk of the County Court in and for said County do certify that Letters of Administration on the estate of Elizabeth Funk deceased late of said county were duly granted to Peter Funk at the December Term of said Court in the Year AD 1854 and that the said Peter gave bond as such with approved surety according to Law in the sum of $2,000 (Two Thousand Dollars)
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name and affix my official seal at my office in Lawrenceville on this 27th day of December AD 1854
Thos. F. Watts Clk.
[SEAL]
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State of Illinois
Lawrence County Sct
I Thomas F. Watts Clerk of the county Court in and for said County do certify that Letters of Administration on the estate of Elizabeth Funk deceased late of said County were duly granted to Peter Funk at the December Term of said Court in the Year A.D. 1854 and that the said Peter gave bond as such with approved surety according to Law in the sum of $2,000 (Two Thousand Dollars)
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name and affix my official seal at my office in Lawrenceville on this 27th day of December AD 1854
Thos. F. Watts Clk.

[SEAL]
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Jefferson ville July 20 1848
Sir
Herewith I enclose you the declaration of John Funk one of the children and heirs of Henry Funk who was a soldier under George Rogers Clark in his campaign for the reduction of Kaskaskia and Vincennes - The said John Funk is also the son and one of the heirs of Elizabeth Funk who was the wife of said Henry Funk.  The certificate No2 is sent as evidence of her death.  No3 is from the Secy. of the Commonwealth of Virginia showing that Commissioner Smith considered Henry Funk entitled to bounty land for 3 years service.
The children of these parents named in the declaration, claim the unpaid pension due to their mother at the time of her death viz the 13th Sept. 1845 as shown by the certificate of the probate Court of Lawrence co. Ill  No. 2
Said heirs also claim the bounty land warrant due for the services of the said Henry Funk decd.
Very Respectfully
Your obt. Servant
Wm. G. Armstrong

Hon J.L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
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Clks fee Cts 30



No 2
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State of Illinois
County of Lawrence  Sct

I Wm Hennessy, Clerk of the County Court in and for said County, do hereby certify, that satisfactory proof has been exhibited to said Court by the testimony of Mrs. Nancy Funk and Mrs. Elizabeth J. Johnston under oath duly administered according to law, That Elizabeth Funk widow of Henry Funk deceased died at Russelville in the County of Lawrence in the State of Illinois on the 13th day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty five.
In Testimony whereof I Wm Hennessy Clerk of said Court have hereto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 6th day of June A.D. 1848.
Wm. Hennessy  Clk.  C.C.C.
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Executive Department
Richmond Va Dec 2 1847

Sir
The name of Henry Funk appears on one of Commissioner  Franks printed report, as a private in Clarks Reg & in the opinion of the Commissioner, is entitled to land bounty for three years.  [illegible] is no evidence here of his service.
Very respy 
Wm. H. Richardson SC
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(Copy)

Pension Office
11th Jany 1855

Sir
The additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Funk deceased widow of Henry of Indiana has been receeived.
No evidence of Henry's service as a revolutionary soldier has been filed in this office.  His name does not appear on the Muster rolls.  The date of the marriage of Henry and Elizabeth and of their deaths has not been satisfactorily established.  The amount of the administration bond has not been certified
I am respectfully
Your obt Sevt
L P Waldo
Commissioner

CH Barkley Esq
Louisville
Ky
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Louisville Ky
Jany 24th 1855
Sir
Enclosed herewith I send you the certificate of the Records of Clarke Co. Ind. shewing that Henry Funk was allowed Bounty Land - the length of service not shown but can be established by the Resolutions referred to - Must have been more than two years>  This I suppose will be sufficient proof of service with the evidence which you are already possessed of in the case.
In my recent answer to the above copied letter I called your attention to the evidence already filed which I supposed you had not critically examined in regard to minor points of the case.  I submit now that I have furnished satisfactory evidence on every point except date of marriage.  I sent herein two certificates shewing that I can get no public records to shew when the oldest child was married -
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so as to establish her age at a given period and can only call your attention to a critical ( and I care not how rigid) examination of the evidence already filed
Hoping to hear from you soon
I am
Yours Respectfully
C.H Barkley

Hon L.P Waldo
Commissioner
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7.220

Elizabeth Funk decd.
Indiana

W.G. Armstrong Dec 2d 1848
C.H. Barklay June 6 1854/Niles
"  "      "        11 Jany 1855/[illegible]
"  "      "         Feby 15 1855/[illegible]
C.H. Barkley  28 Feby 1855.
  To the same May 9/55
  To the same  May 24/55
"  C.H. Barkley June 11/55
T.H. Parker, July 14/55
Let same Aug 3/55
i\[illegible] a portion of the papers to
the [illegible] to be copied  Jany 30/55

July 4 1836
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State of Missouri
County of Dekalb Sct
I Betsy Bacon of the County aforesaid formerly of Hardin County Kentucky now last 51 years of age do make the following statement Viz
I am the oldest child now living of Abraham Lucas Deced late of said County of Hardin aforesaid and being called on to state whether I have any recollection of my Father, said Abraham Lucas ever owning or buying any Land from one Henry Funk and what Henry Funk it was I answer that according to what I have always heard I beleived that one Henry Funk was once our neighbour in Hardin County Kentucky when I was a child and that he moved to (County not Recolected) Indianna nearly 50 years ago and died there not many year afterwards and I have always understood and beleived and never heard  disputed that my Father said Abraham Lucas bought a military or soldiers claim of said Funk to a tract of Land in Indianna in Clarks grant, which the said Funk received on account of his having been a Soldier.  And I am a disinterested witness
Elizabeth bacon
Attest
John gilmore
same [illegible]
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State of Missouri
County of Dekalb SS
Sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of the peace in and for said county and I certify that said Betsy Bacon is a woman of good reputation for truth and veracity  I am fully satisfied of her ideenty as she describes herself  I beleive her to be of the age that she calls herself and to be disinterested and I am myself so
In testimony of which O do hereto subscribe my name on this 18th Day of July AD 1844
John Whitchurch  J.P.

State of Missouri
County of Dekalb Ss.
I Robert A Hewitt Clerk of the County Court within and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Whitchurch before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and whose name is signed thereto was on the day of the Date of said affidavit to with on the 18" Day of July AD 1855 an acting Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that his official acts of such Justice are entitled to full faith and credit and that his signature to said affidavit is genuine
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court Done at office in Maysville this the 18th day of July AD. 1855
Robert A. Hewitt  Clerk
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Louisville Ky
Aug 6th 1855

Sir
Enclosed herewith I send you the affidavit of Mrs Elizabeth Bacon of DeKalb Co. Mo. daughter of Abm Lucas, in case of Elizabeth Funk dec widow of Henry of Indiana under Act July 4th 1836

Respectfully
CH Barkley

Commissioner Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Pension Office
June the   1855

I hereby certify to those whom it may concern that CH Barkley of Louisville Kentucky is duly authorized as attorney to prosecute the pension claims before this Department of persons representing themselves as children of Henry Funk dcd. a soldier reputed of Clarke's Regiment of Virginia State Troops in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution, as appears by the power of Attorney now on file in my office
Respectfully

GW Clutter Esq
Auditor
Richmond
Va
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Va. L Office, Richmond, Augst 4. 1855

J. Minot Esq;
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Yours of yesterday was recd. today.
A warrant never issued from this office to Henry Funk. although he was justly entitled to it.  As he did not apply for a warrant, nor his Heirs, after his death, the claim cannot now be set up, because by an act of the Legislature, the power to adjudicate such claims has been withdrawn from the Executive.
The copies which accompanied your letter shew conclusively that his assee recd. the portion allowed him out of the Grant of 149,000 acres made to the Board of Commissioners, & that they executed a deed for the portion due him, as required by the act.  Commissioner Smith reported Henry Funk as a private under Gl. Roger Clark and of course, he was entitled to the quantity, which it appears, the Commissioners deeded to his assee.
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Had he or his representatives prosecuted the claim in due time, for 100 acres more, it would have been allowed, and in that event, a warrant would have been issued from this office.
I am Sir:
Yours most respectfully,
S.H. Parker
Reg. Va. L. Office
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Va. L. Office, Richmond, July 18th 1855

L.P. Waldo Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions 

Sir:
Yours of the 14th Inst. was recd. today and contents noted.
It does not appear that a warrant ever issued on account of the services of Henry Funk, as a soldier in the Illinois Regiment.
I am Sir:
Yr ob st.
S.H. Parker
Register Va. L. Office.
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Harrison County Indiana Sct
John Purkhiser of said County aged 72 years past being sworn says he was well acquainted with one Henry Funk who died in this county about 40 years since as well as I now remember.
The said Henry Funk was a reputed soldier in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War (viz)
I have frequently heard him say that he served in said war but I cannot remember the names of his officers.
I have frequently heard him say that he was entitled to Land for his service in said War and that the Land set apart for the service he performed was in the "Grant" in this state opposite Louisville Kentucky.
My impression is that when he was in the Army he came out west.  
I knew the father of said Henry Funk in Shanandoah County Virginia where he raised his family as I understood.
My impression is that said Henry Funk entered the Army in the county.
I have frequently heard my father in law Jacob Funk now decd. say that his brother Henry above named served in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution and from the fact that the family lived then in Shanandoah County Virginia I have the belief that said Henry entered the service there:
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I do not now remember whether or not Jacob Funk said that he saw his brother Henry enter the service
I also heard said Jacob and Henry talk of the claim of said Henry to Land up in the "Grant" as above named
And said Jacob told him he could get that Land if he would attend to it
It having been a long time since the death of said Henry Funk and not having been in the habit of talking much about it and his children not being in my immediate neighborhood I have probably forgotten some of the particulars he told me.
The above is about all I can now call to mind in regard to the case with any certainty;  and this I am clear in the recollection of
I do not now remember whether they told me that said Henry was a married man when in the Army or not.
The said Henry as stated above was generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier as above set forth and his statements in regard thereto were believed by those who knew him to be true at least I never heard their truth called in question by any one
The above named Henry Funk and his wife Elizabeth Funk during his lifetime and up to his death lived together as husband and wife and were reputed so to be among their neighbors and acquaintances
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The name of said Elizabeth before her marriage with said Henry was Elizabeth Miller as I always heard and believed;  and I knew her people by reputation in Shanandoah County Virginia.
The following named persons are all the children of the above named Henry and Elizabeth his wife that I now remember ever hearing of (Viz)
1  Catherine who married one Kurtz and she has been dead many years.  She died in Kentucky as I heard and I never saw her.
2  Daniel Funk with whom I became acquainted in the spring of the year 1807 (Eighteen Hundred and seven)  He was then a married man with one or two children   Our ages as well as I now remember were about the same or he was older if any difference he has been dead more than 30 years.
3  John Funk  Crawford County Indiana
4  Henry Funk  died more than 30 years ag0
5  Betsy who married William Potter who I have heard is dead and she I believe now lives in Illinois
6  Peter Funk   somewhere in Illinois
7  Joseph Funger  somewhere in Iowa
8  Isaac Funk  Crawford County Indiana

The above named Elizabeth Funk never married again after the death of her husband the above named Henry Funk (or if she did I never heard of it.) but remained his widow.  She has been dead as I have heard and believed for several years.
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but I do now remember ever having heard whether she died in this state or in Illinois
And I am a disinterested witness
Witness my hand in Harrison County Indiana on the 6th day of May AD. 1854
John Purkhiser  x his mark

Witnesses
Stephen M. Adams
D. Dawson

Harrison County Indiana Sct
On this 6th day of May 1854 before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said county personally appeared John Purkhiser of said county, to me well know for many years past as a man of good reputation for truth and veracity, and subscribed and swore to the foregoing affidavit.
And I certify that the same was first carefully and correctly read over to him
I believe him to be of the age he calls himself and to be disinterested and I am myself so
Word "heard" twice and "forgotten" once interlined before signing as were also the works "with one Henry Funk"
D Dawson  J.P  [handwritten seal]
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Harrison County Indiana Sct
Isaac Funck of said County aged 66 years past being sworn says he was well acquainted with his  uncle Henry Funk who died in this county about the year 1810.  I lived neighbor to him for a few years previous to his death and was very intimate with him.  I often heard said Henry Funk say that he served three years (as well as I now remember) under Colonel Clarke (I think he also mentioned one Lewis as a commander) in the expedition against Vincennes and Kaskaskia and that he was at the taking of both those places.  I do not remember the name of his Captain.  I heard him speak oftener of Captain Isaac Bowman than any other.  He told me of many hardships and trials they had on the expedition.
He also told me of the treachery of one of the guides who had undertaken to conduct the Army from Vincennes to Kaskaskia and for which (if I remember right) he was shot down by another guide who came to meet them and who conducted them safely to the town of Kaskaskia where they arrived just before daylight.
He always said that he was entitled to a land in Clarke's Grant opposite Louisville Kentucky on account of the above named services.
The statements of the above named Henry Funk in relation to these matters were always believed by me to be true and by those generally who heard them, at least I never heard their truth called in question by any one.
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He had a neighbor here named Jesse Juloe now decd who had been his neighbor over in Kentucky:  I heard said Juloe say that my uncle Henry was entitled to a lot of land in the above named grant which he was neglecting
My father Jacob Funck now decd. who was older than my uncle Henry above named spoke frequently of the said Henry enlisting in the Army under Colonel Clarke and that he was a married man at the time.
My grandfather Funck moved from Pennsylvania to Shanandoah County Virginia as I believe from what I have always heard, and my father and uncle Henry were raised there;  though they might have been born in Pennsylvania.
They were living in Shanandoah County Virginia when uncle Henry enlisted and his wife's name was Elizabeth Funk but her maiden name I have forgotten if I ever heard it.
The above named Henry funk and the above named Elizabeth Funk during the lifetime and up to the death of said Henry lived together as husband and wife and were reputed so to be among their neighbors and acquaintances:  and after the death of said Henry she never married again (at least if she did I never heard of it) but remained the widow of my uncle the above named Henry Funk dec.
I have heard and believed for several years past that she is dead:  but whether she died
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in Illinois where she moved once as I heard or in this state I do not now remember hearing.
The following named persons are the only ones of the children of the above named Henry Funk and Elizabeth his wife that I ever knew Viz
1  Daniel Funk died in this county some years after his father as well as I now remember
2  John Funk lives now as I believe in Crawford County of this state
3  Henry Funk who died in this county as well I now remember more than thirty years ago
4  Betsy who married William Potter but I do not know where she now lives
5  Peter Funk  the last I heard of him he had moved to Illinois
6  Joseph Funk the last I heard of him he moved to Illinois I think
7  Isaac Funk  Crawford County Indiana

I have heard there was a sister married to a man named Kurtz but cannot now say where I ever heard that she was dead or alive as I never saw her.
Daniel Funk above named was an older man than myself
And I am disinterested
Witness my hand in Harrison County Indiana on this Fifth (5) day of May A.D. 1854
Isaac Funck
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Harrison County Indiana Sct
On this 5th day of May in the year 1854 before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Isaac Funck to me well known for many years as a man of good reputation for truth and veracity and subscribed and swore to the foregoing declaration and I certify that I believe him to be of the age he calls himself and to be disinterested and I am myself so.
D Dawson J.P. [handwritten seal]


Ellia & Spano, print, Indianapolis
The State of Indiana, Harrison County SS:
I, Hugh Neely, Clerk of the Circuit Ccourt of the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that Dudley Dawson Esqr. before whom the annexed affidavit of John Purkiser & Isaac Funck to which this certificate is attached, was acknowledged, and whose certificates of such acknowledgement, signed by him in his own proper hand-writing, are annexed thereto, was at the time of taking and certifying said acknowledgements an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Harrison, and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts.  Name of Isaac Funk interlined before signing
In Testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the seal of said Court, and subscribe my name in Corydon this 7th day of May A.D. 1854.
Hugh Neely Clerk.
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Harrison County Indiana Sct
I Nancy Crawford of said county aged from my best information above 80 probably 82 years do make the following statement (Viz) "Some 60 or more years ago I became acquainted with Henry funk, first in Nelson County Kentucky - afterwards I lived neighbor to him on Noryn Creek in Hardin County Kentucky - We also had some neighbors, Abram Lucas, Cornelius and John Lucas in said County of Hardin
The above named Henry Funk was a reputed soldier of the service of the United States of the Revolutionary War - According to what I heard when we lived in Hardin County above named, the above named Abram Lucas bought the land of said Henry Funk which he received or was entitled to receive on account of his above named Revolutionary service.
I cannot now at this lapse of time say who it was that I heard talk of it;  but such was the neighborhood talk, generally received and believed.
The above named Henry Funk moved to this County and died here
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a great many years ago and left Elizabeth Funk his widow.
And I am a disinterested witness
June the 25th 1855
Nancy Crawford x her mark
Attest
Solomon Wiseman
William Gray

Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for Harrison County Indiana on the day and year therein set forth;  and I certify that said affiant is a woman of good reputation for truth and veracity;  I believe her to be of the age that she calls herself and to be disinterested and I am myself so.
Witness my name here subscribed
Solomon Wiseman Justice P.

State of Indiana
Harrison County SS
I Hugh Neely Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County do certify that        whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate, was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified.  Witness my name and official seal at my office in Corydon on this 29th day of June 1855
Hugh Neely  Clerk
[SEAL]
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Since writing the accompanying I have received the above affidavit which I suppose will be conclusive on the point to which it relates
CH Barkley

Hon. LP. Waldo
Commr
Washington
D.C.
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M.C.O.
Made no mention of soldiers receiving bounty land as he assigned his right to Abram Lucas.  M.C.O.

Rev. & 1812 War Section
August 29, 1929

Honorable Francis E. Warren
United States Senate
Washington, D.C.

My dear Senator Warren:
I have the honor to advise you that the Revolutionary War data requested in your letter of August 26, 1929, is herewith furnished.
From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.23075, it appears that Henry Funk, the son of Henry, was born in Pennsylvania or Virginia, date not given.  His father moved from Pennsylvania to Shenandoah County, Virginia.
While a resident of Shenandoah County, Virginia, he (the son) enlisted, date not given, and served about three years as a private in Colonel George Rogers Clark's Virginia Regiment;  he went on the expedition to Kaskaskia and Vincennes.
He married about 1774 near Stovertown, Virginia, Elizabeth Miller of Shenandoah County.
About 1804 they moved from Bardstown, Kentucky, to Harrison County, Indiana.
Henry Funk died September 22 or November 1, 1815, in Harrison County, Indiana.
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After his death his widow, Elizabeth, moved to Crawford County, Indiana, and from there to Russellville, Lawrence County, Illinois, where she died September 13 or 14, 1844, at the home of her son, Peter.
Henry and Elizabeth Funk had eleven children, the following names were given:
Catherine, married in 1788 or 1789 in Nelson County, Kentucky, George Kurtz;  they had two children, names not given, she died before 1800.
Rebecca, died in infancy or childhood.
Henry, died in Harrison County, Indiana prior to 1848.
Daniel, married January 14, 1803, in Hardin County, Kentucky, Miss Rachel Denboe or Denbo, and they had sone, Henry aged forty-five years in 1855;  Daniel died prior to 1848, in Harrison County, Indiana & wid then was [illegible] she aged about 71 in 1854 res Harrison Co Ind
John, aged sixty-two years in 1848, resident of Crawford County, Indiana;  his son, Reuben, was living in Crawford County, Indiana, in 1855, aged about forty-two years.
Elizabeth, who in 1854 was living in Crawford County, Illinois, and was the widow of William Potter.
Joseph, resident of Iowa in 1854.
Peter, aged fifty-seven or fifty-eight years in 1854, resident of Lawrence County, Illinois;  he had son, Anthony D., aged thirty-three years in 1854and resident of Lawrence County.
Isaac, resident of Crawford County, Indiana, in 1854.
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On an application executed May 8, 1848, in Crawford County, Indiana, the pension that was due Elizabeth Funk as the widow of Henry was allowed for the benefit of the following surviving children:  John, Elizabeth Potter, Joseph, Peter and Isaac.
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23075[?]
Henry Funk
May 8 1848
Crawford Co Ind
By Jno funck [illegible]

Col. Geo. Rogers Clark
no definite statement of service
Pension for 2 yrs

She died Sept. 13 1843

Elizabeth Miller
1774 in Va
Died Nov 1, 1815
She died Sept 13 1845
at [illegible], Ill
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Incorporated 1897
Lehigh Portland Cement Company
Mitchell, Indiana

[STAMP
Received 
June 3, 1936

May 28th, 1936

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
Will you please send me a copy of the pension papers of my ancestors Henry and Elizabeth Funk of the Rev. War.
They were living in Harrison county, Ind. at his death, which was in 1815.  She moved to Russellville, Ill. whee she died Sept 14, 1844.
He was a soldier in Col. Geo. Rogers Clarke's regt. in campaign in the west against the post of Kaskaskia and Vincennes.
I think these papers are listed under your file No. W 23075.  Thanking for you this assistance, I am,
Yours truly,
H.H. Purkhiser

HHP B
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Francis E. Warren 
Chairman

United States Senate
Committee on Appropriations
Washington, D.C.

August 26, 1929.

Honorable Earl D. Church,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Colonel Church:
Please tell me whether your Revolutionary War records disclose information about Martin Funk, who in 1776 served as private in Captain Williams' Company, and in 1777 served a private in Captain John Hopkins' Company (possibly from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania),  It is stated that he was a pensioner in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1834.

I would also like to know about Henry Funk, who served with George Rogers Clark in Captain Joseph Bournan's Company in 1778;  died in 1815 in Harrison County, Ohio.  It is not certain that he was a pensioner, although it is alleged that he received bounty land for his service.

If these records can be found, and pension declarations are complete, I should like to know something about the date and place of birth of the soldiers, organizations in which they served, length of service, etc.
Yours very sincerely,
F.E. Warren

L/f
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Rev Widow, &c
File No. 23,075
Elizabeth Funk
Widow of
Henry Funk
Priv. Ill Vols.

Act July 4th 1836
Index: Vol. A, Page 259

Arrangement of 1870

Apl;. 8. 1902
Mrs Clara Funk
New Albany Ind

1929 Aug 29 Hist to Hon. Francis E Warren.  See Martin Funk S8533 MCS
1936 July 3 hist. to Mr. H.H. Purkhiser  N.C.S.