Richard
Hewitt Jr. b
22 Sep 1794
Birth: 22 Sep 1794 - Of Lees Creek, Mason Co, KYDeath: 25 Sep 1853 - McCoys Prarie, Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
Burial: in Tahlequah, Cherokee Co., OK
Parents
Father: Richard
Hewitt Sr. (1765-1827)
Mother: Phoebe Hall
( -1798)
Spouses and Children
1. Eda
Welch (1800 - 6 Feb 1827)
Marriage: 4 Aug 1817 - , Adams, OH
Children:
1. John? Hewitt (1815-1820
- p; )
2. Phoebe Hewitt (1815-1820
- p; )
3. Sally Ann Hewitt (1820-1825
- p; )
4. Sophia Hewitt (1824
- p; )
5. Eli Buckner Hewitt (27 Jul 1826 - 21 Apr 1860)
2. *Jarusha J.
Parker
(16 Dec 1800 - 8 Feb 1862)
Marriage: 24 Feb 1828 - , Clermont,
Ohio
Children:
1. Mary Jane Hewitt (1 Jan 1830 - 21 Feb 1893)
2. Leah Ann Hewitt (28 Dec 1836
- p; )
3. William Jacob Hewitt (25 Aug 1834 - 10 Jun 1915)
4. Letty Hewitt (Abt 1846 - Abt 1855)
5. Rebecca Mariah Hewitt (22 Nov 1840 - 13 Jun 1915)
6. Richard Hyde Hewitt (7
Jan 1844 - 31 Dec 1921)
General
Notes
TIMELINE FOR RICHARD HEWITT 1794-1853 (SHORT VERSION)
Carol Minson May 2001.
1794 Sep 22, Richard Hewitt born (of) Lees Creek, Mason Co.
KY.
1794-1797 Richard Hewitt Sr. on tax list of Mason County (District #1)Kentucky.
1810 Aug 6, His father, Richard Sr is in census of
Adams Co OH (later Brown Co.)
1814 Sep 1 to Nov, Richard was in Capt Campbells Horse Reg of OH
Volunteers.
1817 Aug 14, mg recds of Adams Co.
OH "Richard Hewitt to Eddie Welch."
1818-1926, five ch born to them: John? Phoebe, Sophia, Sally Ann & Buckner.
1827 Feb 6, Edy/Eda died
age 27 leaving five small ch. Funeral at f-i-laws
home.
1827 Richard Hewitt Senior dies-will-codicils.
1828 Feb 24, Richard Hewitt 2nd mg to Jerusha
Parker in Clermont Co. OH.
1830 Jan 30 dau Mary b Franklin Twp, Brown Co OH; Jun 1 census in Brown Co. OH.
1834 Aug 2, son Wm Jacob Hewitt b Cleveland,
Cuyahoga, OH
1839 Baptism into LDS Church, probably in Fountain Co., IN.
1840 Jun 1, Family in Davis Twp, Fountain Co. IN
census;
1840 Nov 22, dau Rebecca born there.
1842 Richard and fam were in
Chaney Creek, nr Nauvoo, Hancock, IL.
1843 Sep 3, Richard's Nauvoo, IL temple records.
1844 Jan 7, Richard Hyde Hewitt b IL- probably Chaney Creek.
1846 Jan 28, Richard and Jarusha's
Nauvoo, IL, temple records.
1847 July 9, arrived in Tahlequah, I. T. and began building a hotel there.
1847-1848 Apparently Richard also helped build Old Park Hill Female Seminary.
Cornerstone laid June 21, 1847. Opened
for admission May 7, 1850.
1848 abt Sept. Went to Cedar Creek, TX.
1849 Lived 10 mi above Austin, TX.
1850 Moved to Lampasas River 5 mi from Briggs, TX.
1851 Dec 8, At Bell Co, TX, Richard, 57, applied for bounty land.
1851/2 Went back to Cherokee Nation near Tahlequah, I.T.
1853 Spring they moved to McCoy's Prairie 15 mi away from Tahlequah
1853 Sept 15, Richard Hewitt died there.
1854 His wife, Jarusha, & children move to Benton
Co. AR.
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Detailed TIMELINE FOR RICHARD HEWITT 1794-1853
Carol Minson's compilation as of Feb 7, 2001
Birthdate: Cminson using 22 Sept 1794. because it fits with Richard's
deposition of 8 Dec 1851 at Bell Co., Texas . "Richard Hewitt age 57,
a resident of Bell Co. Texas appears before Justice of Peace. . ."
Second evidence of his birthdate must have been given by Richard himself :
"1794 HEWITT, RICHARD, sev(enty?)
22 Sep 1794.
1800 HEWITT, JERUSHA, f 16 Dec 1800.
Source: Birth dates from Nauvoo Temple Register as of Jan 28, 1846."
1794: "RICHARD HEWITT born 22 SEP 1794.
Baptism 1839. Officiator, George
Miller.
Ordained an Elder 1842.
Ordained 70.
source: Membership of Church of Jesus Christ of LDS
1848 compiled by
Susan Easton Black.
1793: "RICHARD HEWITT was born near Knoxville, TN"
source: Wm N. McGoon- g
grandson of Richard Hewitt
1796: BIRTH: Early church Information file:
Richard Hewett, born 22 Sept 1796 in Kentucky.
Father is Richard Hewitt."
Record No GR 70 Seventies. Pg 83 Book B 23rd quorum.
Journal of Rebecca, Richard Hewitt's dau, says he was
born KY.
(see Rebecca’s journal handwritten copy pages 1-6 handwritten copy pages 7-11, typed copy
)
Conflicting birth place info from Connie Isaacks-received
by Carol M.
Feb 1985. Connie says he was born Knoxville, Tennessee.
1794-1797 Richard Hewitt Sr, was on tax list of Mason
County (District #1)Kentucky paying taxes on cattle and horses (no land)
indicating place of residence and likely birthplace of Richard jr.
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The following two 1972 letters are from William N. McGoon,
b 1899- grandson of Rebecca and a great grandson of Richard Hewitt Jr.: (see Mar 1972 and Feb 1972 letters)
1880's-1890's: "RICHARD HEWITT kept a Journal of his activities and
vital statistics of his family. This journal was burned when his
daughter, Rebecca's, house burned down at Webb City, MO in the 1880's or
1890's and all his notes were lost to his progeny.
REBECCA M. HEWITT-BRADLEY had the journal.
What we have now is what people remembered from that journal.
Richard Hewitt was born near Knoxville TN in the year 1793 of an English
father and a Cherokee mother. Richard's only memories of his
mother
was that she had beautiful clothes. Probably they were the high colors
so loved by the Cherokee women. No account is known if Richard had
brothers or sisters. He was only 5 years old when his mother died.
Richard's father owned a grist mill (he was a miller) and a distillery. He
taught Richard his trade also. The senior Hewitt set up a mill and
distillery on the south side of the Great Smoky Mountains at, or near the
present town of Hewitt in NC and about 50 miles from Knoxville, TN and
near the present Cherokee reservation in NC. Here Richard grew up and
married a Cherokee maiden. To them were born six children (according
to Rebecca Bradley). When Richard's wife died he escorted wagon or
freight trains from Knoxville to Cincinatti, OH and
return." . . .
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"When Richard Hewitt and his family left the Brigham Young caravan they
went to Texas and joined the Lyman Wight faction of the Latter Day
Saints; then after a year or so the family moved to Tahlequah, I.T. where
some of Richard's children had gone 'over the Trail of Tears' some years
before, (1838?) that is, the children had gone to Indian Territory from TN
and Richard wanted to see them again."
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1810: of Richard SR, census of Adams Co OH, p. 27 (later Brown Co.)
1814-SEPT 1 TO NOV 1814 : Richard Hewitt, IN CAPT
CAMPBELLS HORSE REG OF OHIO VOLUNTEERS .
(Richard applied for bounty land on 8 Dec 1851:)"
Richard Hewitt age 57, a resident of Bell Co. Texas appears before Justice of
Peace John W. Coleman, to swear he was a Private in Captain Campbell's Horse
Regiment of Volunteers commanded by General McCarthy in War of 1812. He
volunteered about SEPT 1, 1814 at Sinclairville, OH
(now Decatur, Brown Co. OH) for term of 60 days and was discharged at Detroit
Michigan on Nov. (day not recollected) 1814 on account of service being ended. Has lost his discharge."
This data = 1794 birth year.)
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1817 Aug 4: Mg recds of Adams Co OH "Richard
Hewitt to Eddie Welch."
1820 Aug 7: census of Richard Hewitt --Eagle Twp p
361. (Probably Richard Hewitt Sr.)
1818-1826-abt:. Richard Hewitt Jr. and Eda had five
children:
________?, Phoebe, Sophia, Sally Ann and Buckner. Possibly
all born
Brown Co. Ohio. (Source: 1830 & 1840 census numbers. EDA's name from
mg record & 1843 Nauvoo Temple records.)
3 Apr 1823 Richard Hewitt Jr. & wife, Edy (Edia) of Brown County OH sold 50
acres of the inheritance in fee simple of land in Brown County to Andrew
Donaldson and James Woods for $122.50.
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1827: Obit for Edy Hewitt from "The
Castigator"--20 Feb 1827.
"Departed this life on the 6th instant at 6 o'clock a.m.,
Eda Hewitt, consort of Richard Hewitt, Jr. on Red Oak
in the
27th year of her age after a painful illness of only 14 hours, supposed to
have been a congestive inflammation of the brain.
She has left a husband and FIVE small children to feel and
mourn in this bereavement...A funeral sermon will be
delivered on the occasion by Elder Matthew Gardner on the
first Friday in March at the house of Richard Hewitt, Sr.
on Straight Creek at 12 o'clock."
Note: Eda died 6th of Feb? And they are having a
funeral sermon for her
on 2nd of March? At her father in laws home? And he
makes another
codicil on the 9th of March--what/who did that codicil include-exclude?
And how soon did he die after that?
Alice Dion's family records named four children from Richard Hewitt's first
marriage to Eda:
PHOEBE, SOPHIA, SALLY ANN and BUCKNER.
1827: WILL OF RICHARD HEWITT (Senior-b 1765) (p. 22-25 of Marilyn S.
"A")
& CODICIL OF 9 MAR 1827 LISTS:
"JACOB HEWITT
RICHARD HEWITT JR. (b SEP 1794)
WILLIAM HEWITT
JOHN HEWITT
ELI HEWITT
OLDEST DAU, ELIZABETH HEWITT
LETTY ANN HEWITT, NOT OF AGE IN MAR 1827"
"Executors: Philip J. Buckner & Eli Hewitt. Son Richard (b 1794) is
farming part of
his land at this time." (So, did son Richard get any inheritance???)
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1827: Hist Coll of Brown Co
Ohio, 1969, pg 104: "Rich Hewitt (Sr.) will
--son Eli to see to it that dau LETTY gets a new silk
dress & all articles
to make an outfit of clothes befitting a lady, each year."
1827: "And Richard Jr.,the 2nd son,
"...with the exception of that part
of the farm which is cultivated by my son Richard Jr
...
which he is to have rent free."
1827: Richard Hewitt Sr. had 139 acres of land in Brown Co. Ohio which
went to Eli Hewitt.
1828 Feb 24: Richard Hewitt's 2nd marriage to Jerusha
Parker.
md in Clermont Co. OH
._____________FAMILY STORIES & TRADITIONS:_______________
"Jarusha Parker was a seamstress, half Indian,
Cherokee- born Trenton,
N. J. moved with parents to Ohio when 6 years old," said Rebecca Aurilla
Cohen. Rebecca Cohen, a gr dau of Jerusha's,
wrote in 1927: "Her
(Jarusha's) father was Richard Nelson Parker who was
born KY."
(We now know this is incorrect. Land and probate documents prove that
Jarusha's parents were LEAH and JAMES PARKER from
Clermont Co. OH.
and N.J. before that. It's possible that Richard
Hewitt was 1/2 Indian.
Nothing proven as yet.)
"Jerusha J. Parker married when 28 years
old, born in New Jersey"
according to Alice Dion family record.
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1830 Jan 1: dau Mary Jane Hewitt born Franklin Twp.,
Brown Co. OHIO.
1830 Jun 1, CENSUS of Brown Co. Ohio for RICHARD HEWITT JR.
1 male under 5 (Eli Buckner? age 4-from 1st mg.)
l male 10-15 (?Eda's first
child from lst mg. John??)
1 male 30-40 (RICHARD 34)
1 f under 5 (Mary Jane b 1 Jan 1830)
2 f 5-10 (Sally Ann abt 8 & Sophia abt 6 from 1st mg)
1 f 10-15 (Phoebe abt 10 from 1st mg)
1 f 30-40 (JERUSHA 30)
__________
1830: census Eli Hewitt just 3 doors away from his brother, Richard.
1831: Eli Hewitt, town sup, 1831. Hist Coll of Brown Co Ohio, 1969.
After his father died in 1828, it sounds like Eli stepped into his father's
land and shoes.
1834 Aug 2: son Wm Jacob Hewitt b Cleveland,
Cuyahoga, OH. (source?)
1837 abt: dau, Leah Ann
Hewitt born. (recheck source.)
1839: Baptism of Richard Hewitt. Officiator, George Miller.
(Source: see
-1794 above)
"1833-1838: "Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833-1838
Missouri Conflict" has some 400 names listed including-
RICHARD HEWITT page 586, JARUSHA HEWITTpage 587, EB
Hewitt 587
and SOPHIA HEWITT 587.
Source: 1998 InfoBase for Mac OS.
(CM'S Comment: This document is confusing because 3 of Richard
Hewitt's children were born 1830, 1834 and1840 in Ohio and Indiana.
And Richard and Jarusha were supposedly baptized in
1839 in Indiana. IF
Hewitts were not baptized until 1839, it seems
unlikely they were in the
Missouri Conflict. It will be interesting to find the answer to this.
Early Church Records may show baptism place and full date? NEED
baptism dates for JARUSHA, SOPHIA & EB.) (It's likely the E.B. Hewitt
was Eli Buckner Hewitt.)
1839: Document in another similar list of Petitions has WILLIAM
HEWITT who lists "$906 worth of damage in Consequence of the
Governors Exterminating order" sworn before C. M. Woods, Adams Co.,
Illinois 7 May 1839.
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1840 May 24: Journal History. "Under this date, Richard Hewitt wrote
from Shawnee Prairie, Fountain Co. IN as follows: 'I and my family and
the brothers and sisters in this section are all well and we thank our
Heavenly Father for the same, none of us have heard from Commerce for
nearly 12 months and we are very anxious to hear from you all there.
The branch of the Church here is in a cold state at this time. It reminds
me of Peter and the rest when they went fishing. We want, if it is
possible, for some Elder to come and set the Branch of Christ's Church in
order. Elder Joseph Rose, did a good work here, and if he could come back
here again, I think he might do a great deal of good; he was universally
liked, and if he can't come, we want some strong one, both in faith and
doctrine, to come here as soon as possible.'" (Original
on file.)
1840 Jun 1, CENSUS of Davis Twp., Fountain Co., Indiana
for RICHARD HEWITT FAMILY
1 male 5-10 (William Jacob-5)
l male 10-15 (Buckner abt 14 -from 1st mg.)
1 male 20-30 (?Eda's first
child from lst mg. John??)
1 male 40-50 (RICHARD 44)
1 f under 5 (Leah Ann -abt 4)
1 f 10-15 (Mary Jane 10, b 1 Jan 1830)
2 f 15-20 (Sally Ann abt 18 & Sophia 16- from 1st
mg)
1 f 30-40 (JERUSHA 40)
(dau Phoebe, age abt
20-missing--so she prob md.
Did she marry in
Brown Co and stay there--or did she go to Fountain Co. IN?)
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1840 Nov 22: dau Rebecca Mariah Hewitt b. Davis Twp.,
Fountain Co IN.
1842: (Richard appears to be in Chaney Creek, here.) Tax
assessors
Record of Personal Property, Hancock Co, IL, pg 197.
Richard Hewitt total
personal property $480. $130 more than any other of 12 people listed on
that page. John Hall next house neighbor.
(Sophia Smith 4 houses away. Richard's daughter, Sophia?)
1842: Richard ordained an Elder. (Source: see 1794 birth above)
1843 Sep 3: Richard Hewitt's Nauvoo Temple Records
HEWETT SISTER ELIZABETH MASTERSON
HEWETT GD F HALL
GD F JACOB HEWITT
GDM RUTH HEWITT
RICHARD HEWITT FATHER RICHARD HEWITT
RICHARD HEWITT MOTHER PHEBE HEWITT
RICHARD HEWETT WIFE EDA HEWITT
RICHARD HEWETT BROTHER EPHRAIM HEWITT
RICHARD HEWETT FATHER JOHN HEWITT
(It is thought that Richard and Eda's first son was
named "John".
See also1830 and 1840 census.)
1844 Jan 7: CM's ggrandfather, RICHARD HYDE HEWITT b
Illinois. (obit).
probably at Chaney Creek.>>(map spelling.)
1844: Richard Hewitt's lived on China Creek about 10 miles from Nauvoo
Thence to Iowa--to Texas. LDS Church Hist Vol 2 p. 731-733.
Map shows Chaney Creek to be south of Nauvoo about 10 miles, almost
directly across the Mississippi River from Keokuk, Lee Co, IA.
1846 Jan 28: Richard Hewitt still in Nauvoo area. Autobiography of
Warren Foote -BYU Spec Coll:
"5 Feb. some of 12 and others are starting for the west. Pres. B. Young
leads the company."
"28 Feb -Pleasant Ewel and Richard Hewitt came
in as we were about to
baptize (Warren Foote's mother)." (Nauvoo?--China
Creek?)
(So Richard Hewitt was still in Nauvoo area 28th February
1846.)
1846/7: dau Letty Hewitt
born. Letty is probably the14 yr
old born
"Illinois" in JARUSHA'S 1860 Pottawatomie, Kansas census.
(Alice Dion record said:"Letty died at 18."
Rebecca's journal mentions
Letty helping her in 1865. So Letty was alive then.)
1847 Apr 1: About 150 people left Winter Quarters. (source?)
1847: "Thence to Iowa--to Texas." (Church Hist. Vol
2 pg 731-733)
1847: source: 1998 InfoBase for Mac OS.
"In 1847 Bishop George Miller, being unwilling to obey counsel, did not
gather with the body of the Church to the Rocky Mountains, but soon
after the departure of the pioneers from Winter Quarters in the spring of
1847, he decided to go to Texas, where his son resided, having connected
himself with Lyman Wight. Leaving Winter Quarters with his family,
George Miller, accompanied by Joseph Kilting and RICHARD HEWITT (WHO
HAD COME TO WINTER QUARTERS TO WORK ON A BUILDING CONTRACT)
started for Texas. While en route they heard that mechanics were
needed in Indian Territory and so they decided to stay there for awhile."
1847 July 9: "Arriving at Tahlequah (Okla.) July 9, 1847, they found work
immediately. Bishop Miller stopped in Indian Territory about five
months, during which time he held meetings in his home and later in the
court house at Tahlequah. This caused jealousy among the sectarian
missionaries, and in December 1847, Bishop Miller left Tahlequah,
putting his contracts into the hands of his two companions, Kilting and
HEWITT, and went to Texas. It is said that houses built at that time by
Bishop Miller in Tahlequah are still standing." Ibid.
1847: UCLA- CHRONICLES OF OKLAHOMA v 9, p 50-51 said they went with a
Bishop Miller and they stopped off at Tahlequah to build a hotel which
Richard Hewitt finished. Miller went on to Texas.
1847: UCLA - The American Guide WPA Project 1941 on
OKLAHOMA, p. 258-9: "A present day hotel, across the street (N) from
the courthouse square in Tahlequah is on the site of the National Hotel,
erected in 1848 as an inn for the convenience of the representatives
attending council session. The hotel was built by a Mormon bishop and
two of his followers, who arrived here on their way to Texas in 1847.
The Mormons were being driven out of the East at that time, but these
three men had chosen not to accompany the main body headed for Utah.
In Tahlequah, the bishop attempted to carry on his church work but was
so deeply resented that he soon left. In another building immediately
across from the north end of the west side of the square erected in the
same year by Mormons, one of the first telephone lines in OK from
Tahlequah to Fort Gibson, was installed in 1886 by Ed Hicks, a Cherokee
who still (1941) lives in Tahlequah."
See Oklahoma:
A Guide to the Sooner State by Federal Writer’s Project
1848: THE CHEROKEES, by Woodward, U of OK Press; p 245:
"1848 Mrs. Susan Taylor hired Mormon artisans, who tarried at
Tahlequah on their way west, to build a two-storied brick hotel
for the accommodation of her paying guests."
p. 72 has a picture of The Cherokee Female Seminary near Tahlequah in
1851.
1887 HISTORY of the CHEROKEE INDIANS by Emmet Starr,
1921, has picture of
"Ruins of old female seminary, burned in 1887" p.302.
Family tradition (Alice Dion- Naomi Ferguson -maybe more) said Richard
Hewitt started a school for Indian girls in Tahlequah. .
1848 abt Sept: (Rebecca's Journal page 3) "We
went to Texas and lived
one year on Cedar Creek not far from Bastrop."
1849: "The next year we lived 10 mi above Austin, (Travis Co.)
Texas."
1850: "The following year we located on the Lampasas River 5 mi from
Briggs. Texas was very dry and Father did not like the climate." (Briggs
is close to present day Oakalla, Texas, near the
Colorado River.)
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1850 Census in Travis Co., TX p 137-138.
House #64: Richard Heuit 56 m Farmer Ohio (OHIO??)
Gerusia Heuit 50 f NJ
Mary J 20 OH
William 16 Labourer OH
Leah Ann 15 Indiana
Rebecca 10 ?Indiana?
Richard 7 Ilenoy
Letty Ann 4 Ilenoy
Samuel Calburt 17 Laboure
Miss
#65: James Welch 48 Blacksmith NC (He b. 1802. This must be brother to Eda (Welch) Hewitt, she b 1800.)
#66: Eli Huit 24 Labourer
Ohio (This is Eli Buckner Hewitt b 1826 s/o Richard and Eda
(Welch) Hewitt)
Elizabeth Huit 25 (23?) KY
#67; Enoc Hacksaw 28 Cooper England
Sophia Hacksaw 26 Ohio (This must be Richard and Eda's
daughter--born-abt 1824)
William Hacksaw 1 Mo.
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1851 Dec 8: at Bell Co., Texas, Application for BOUNTY LAND RECORDS:
Richard Hewitt, age 57 IN CAPT CAMPBELLS HORSE REG OF OHIO
VOLUNTEERS SEPT 1 TO NOV 1814.
1852 Jan 12: Letter from Washington to Pension Office sending in
the application of Rich Hewitt for Land Bounty.
1852: "We went from Texas back to Cherokee Nation where we lived a
year near Tahlequah and Father put up hay. . .cut timbers for a sawmill
with Father in the winter of 1851-52."
1853?: "In the spring of 1852 we moved to McCoy's Prairie about 15 mi
away, rented a place and kept a transit hotel and a corral for cattle.
Father was doing some freighting for there was always plenty of work for
him to do as all the natives liked him."
1853: "About August Father was teaming he got in a pond of cold spring
water while he was very warm. . .we lived 15 mi from
Tahlequah.. . .In all
he was sick about four weeks. While he was sick he had many dreams."
1853: Before he died, Richard Hewitt had a dream about hords
of people
coming into Oklahoma. He told his wife to get out of OK. He also said he
had never left the church. He was an Elder. (More of this
story in
Rebecca's Journal.) 1889 April 22: OK LAND RUN-Opening of Territory,
50,000 settlers!
1853 Sep 25:. Richard Hewitt died. McCoys
Prairie, Cherokee Nation,
OK. Buried at Tahlequah.
1855 Apr: DECLARATION by Jerusha at Benton Co.,
Arkansas. gives.her
maiden name, mg date & place, death date & place for husb, Richard.
SHE SAID HER "HUSBAND DIED AT McCOYS PRAIRIE IN
THE CHEROKEE
NATION ON 25 SEPTEMBER 1853." (Written a year and 1/2
later.)
1855 Apr: DECLARATION by Jerusha ...
She said her husband had applied and obtained a land warrant for 40 acres
#58431, which is "enclosed and returned." She makes the Declaration
to
obtain bounty land to which she may be entitled under act approved Mar
3, 1853-1855. signed Jarusha
Hewitt. (She signed! Another person
attested to her signing.)