Pension application of Joseph Youngblood R11978 Mary, SC

State of South Carolina Barnwell District

On this 24th day of October 1853 personally appeared before me John Belton O'Neall one of the Circuit Judges of the said State Mary Youngblood a resident of the District in State aforesaid aged 69 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, that she is the widow of Joseph Youngblood deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the Act of June 7th 1832 South Carolina Agency at the rate of $60 per annum. She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Youngblood on the 29th day of June 1824 that her said husband died on the 20th day of February 1835, that she was not married to him prior to the 2nd of January 1800; but at the time above stated she further declares that she is now a widow.

Subscribed & sworn to before me the day & year above written in open Court.

Attest: S/ T. W. Youngblood /s/ Mary Youngblood, X her mark S/ John Belton O'Neall, Pres. Judge

Note: December 2, 1853 from the pension office indicating that it has no record of anyone named Joseph Youngblood being a pensioner on its rolls and suggesting that he may have been a state pensioner.]