Family Group Sheet
NameBenjamin Becraft
Birthabt 1778
Death1833, Bath Co., Kentucky
SpouseMary
Children
Birthabt 1816, Bath Co., Kentucky
SpouseSamuel Shultz
Birthabt 1827, Kentucky
SpouseOliver Perry Shultz
Notes for Benjamin & Mary (Family)
From an attachment to the application of Mary Becraft for a widow’s pension:
State of Kentucky, County of Bath--
Be it remembered that before me, A. J. Ewing, Presiding Judge of the Bath County Court and ex officio a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally came Fields Becraft, who being duly sworn on oath says that he is sixty-one years of age having been born in the year 1811, as he has always understood from his parents and as he believes. That he now resides in said County and State and has so resided for more than forty years last past. That he is the third child of the family of children of the marriage of Benjamin and Mary Becraft, that they had a family of nine children, seven of them still living, that his father died in Bath County, Kentucky in the year 1833 of the cholera, that he was living with them, his father and mother, at the time of his death, that his mother, Mary Becraft, who is an applicant for a pension under the act of Feby 14, 1871, is still alive, resides with one of her sons, Robert Becraft, in said county and state, that her son James Becraft is older than the affiant and resides in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Her other children including the affiant reside in this county and are named Sally Becraft, Nellie Blevins wife of Danl Blevins, Betsey Shultz wife of O. P. Shultz, Polly Shultz wife of Saml Shultz. That he never heard the fact of the marriage of his said parents questioned, that he has no interest in this claim farther than that he would like for his mother to get her pension as she needs it in her old age and is entitled to it under the law. Fields [his X mark] Becraft. Thos Ficklin, T. Y. Cooper.
Subscribed and sworn to before me by the said Fields Becraft who I certify is a credible person having been acquainted with him for about thirty years, and I further certify that his affidavit was read over to him and fully understood before making his signature thereon being sworn to the same in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.
Given under my hand as aforesaid this the 21st day of June 1871.
A. J. Ewing, Judge of the Bath County [Kentucky] Court.
State of Kentucky, County of Bath--
Be it remembered that before me, A. J. Ewing, Presiding Judge of the Bath County Court and ex officio a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally came Fields Becraft, who being duly sworn on oath says that he is sixty-one years of age having been born in the year 1811, as he has always understood from his parents and as he believes. That he now resides in said County and State and has so resided for more than forty years last past. That he is the third child of the family of children of the marriage of Benjamin and Mary Becraft, that they had a family of nine children, seven of them still living, that his father died in Bath County, Kentucky in the year 1833 of the cholera, that he was living with them, his father and mother, at the time of his death, that his mother, Mary Becraft, who is an applicant for a pension under the act of Feby 14, 1871, is still alive, resides with one of her sons, Robert Becraft, in said county and state, that her son James Becraft is older than the affiant and resides in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Her other children including the affiant reside in this county and are named Sally Becraft, Nellie Blevins wife of Danl Blevins, Betsey Shultz wife of O. P. Shultz, Polly Shultz wife of Saml Shultz. That he never heard the fact of the marriage of his said parents questioned, that he has no interest in this claim farther than that he would like for his mother to get her pension as she needs it in her old age and is entitled to it under the law. Fields [his X mark] Becraft. Thos Ficklin, T. Y. Cooper.
Subscribed and sworn to before me by the said Fields Becraft who I certify is a credible person having been acquainted with him for about thirty years, and I further certify that his affidavit was read over to him and fully understood before making his signature thereon being sworn to the same in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.
Given under my hand as aforesaid this the 21st day of June 1871.
A. J. Ewing, Judge of the Bath County [Kentucky] Court.
