Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,120, Bennet Goodrum, Va.
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Va
Goodrum, Bennet
Sarah
or 
Sally
R 4,120
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State of Kentucky
County of [not legible]
Personally affected before the undersigned acting Justice of the Peace and for said County, Sally Goodrum aged 86 years and resident of the house of her son James Goodrum in Warren County Kentucky who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her Oath [not legible] the following Statement, in order to obtain the benefit of Act of Congress of the 4th of July, 1836 granting pensions to certain widows of Revolutionarry Soldiers:  That she is the widow of Bennet Goodrum who was a private in the war of the Revolution from Brunswick County Virginia in the years one thousand seven hundred  and eighty and eighty one to the best of her recollection though she can not say what day of the month in the year 1780 that he first entered said service as a Volunteer under Captain James Mason of Brunswick for three months and continued in said service untill  the first of July 1781 that during said period he returned home several times but did not remain but a few day at a time and would go again.  She state that he liven in her neighborhood before the war with a bother of his named William Goodrum who was also a militia Soldier in said service and this Declarant's father William Garnen, was also in
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Said Service, all under Capt Mason
the States that said Bennet Goodrum received several discharges fro his said services which he has [illegible] but they were destroyed several years ago.  Said Bennet Goodrum died in Warren County Kentucky on the 18th day of September 1929, and some ten years after his death, two of his old fellow soldiers and who were in the same Company with him from Brunswick County Virginia, to wit Wilson Moore and Garret Wright of Allin [difficult to read] County Kentucky received pensions for their services.  She states that she has been anxious for several years to obtain a pension as other old widows, but that his sons being uneducated and not knowing what to do have kept putting it off from time to time. She states that she was married to said Bennet Goodrum by the name of Sally of Sarah Garner on the 3th day of June one thousand and seven hundred and eighty one in Brunswick County Virginia by Larson Goeddy by Banns  She states that since the death of said Goodrum she has not inter married but is not his widow, and that she was married while said Bennet Goodrum was at home after he had been discharged and it was thought he wound not go into said service again but that very soon after our marriage there was another call for men and said Goodrum had to go again and was gone into said service about a month
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and then he returned home and never was in the service any more & further [illegible word] not. Document signed by Sally Goodrum [by her X mark] on the 9th day April 1869 [date difficult to read].
John Smithy.  [a symbol next to his name that looks like legal scales]

State of Kentucky
County of Warner

Personally offered before the undersigned as acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County James Goodrum, and who being firs duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his path defuse & say that he is the son of Bennet & Sally Goodrum that he is now in his 53th year of his age but that there are six of the children older than himself, that he has always considered his father as a Soldier in the war of the Revolution  and that before his death he frequently heard his father talking about his said service in company with the old soldiers and that his father is was considered by his old acquaintances as an soldier and that the above declarant is the this applicants mother and the identical widow of said Bennet Goodrum & further (unreadable word) and sworn to & signed by making his mark before me this 9th April 1849 John Smith Jr.  [Legal Scale symbol]

James Goodrum
his X mark
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I certify that I am well acquainted with the above applicant Sally & James Goodrum and they are persons of truth and trustworthy and the above statements are attributed to full justification (illegible word) and that Sally Goodrum is the  affected widow of Bennet Goodrum deceased given under my hand 
this 9th April 1849

State of Kentucky.   [A wiggly vertical line] Set 
County of Warren

At a Court held in Bowling Green in and for the County of Warren on this 23 day of April 1849 the following proceeding was had to wit
"This day was exhibited in open Court the Declaration of Sally Goodrum for a pension sworn to and substantiated before John Smith Esqr. who is known to this Court  to be was at the time  of subscribing the same, as acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified according the law, that all his official acts,  as such are entitled to full faith & credit and that said proceeding before is nearby approved by this Court and the foregoing Signature, purporting to be his, are genuine.

J Atwood G Stobson Clerk of Said Court Certify that the forgoing is truly copied from the records in my office.

In testimony where of I as Clerk after said  hath hereinto set my [illegible word] and affixed the Seal of Said Court this 23rd day of April 1849
A GStobson
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Sally Goodrum
Ky
1836



V. Ellis
April 9 1832
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Know all Men by these Presents That I, John J Goodrum a party interested in the claim herein mentioned, do hereby constitute and appoint Vespasian Ellis, of Washington City, my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Sally Goodrum deceased for any amount of Revolutionary Pension of increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my agent and Attorney to examine all the papers  and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or atgiuments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to do all things I might or could do, were I personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.

WITNESS my hand and Seal, this 1st day of April A.D. 1852
          his
John J X Goodrum
        mark
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7547.
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Ramsey, Muhlenburg Co., Kentucky
May 2d 1849

L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office

Dear Sir,

Herewith I inclose you the Declaration of Sally Goodrum, widow of Tenet Goodrum for a pension, under the act of July 4th 1886.

I ho;e to be able, before this application is examined to send you the proof of the marriage and of the Service of Goodrum in the Revolution from Brunswick County Virginia you will please file the enclosed and as soon as I receive the evidence above alluded to I will forward it.

Respectfully
M.D. Hendrick
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Asts of July 14, 1862 and March 8, 1873

4120
PO 
Sally Goodman
Service: widow of Bennet
Enlisted:
Discharged: Rejected
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
PO
Recognized Contract
Certificate of Dis. Search for
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No. 7547
Sally Goodrum
Bennett
Ky
act 4 July 1836

J.L. Edwards Esq. Govmn. Pensions
(Pnesions Office)
Washington City
DC

Official Business
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No. 7547
Sally Goodrum
Ky

4120
Act 4 July 1936
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Sally Goodrum
wed. of Bennet

Discharged: REJECTED