Pension Files of Jane Blevins Cooper
William Cooper Witness Document of April 1850 in the Pension File of Jane Cooper
State of Alabama }
De Kalb County }
On this the 10th of April AD 1850 Personally appeared before the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace for said County, William Cooper, second Lieutenant of Capt Fulton's Company "D" Georgia Mounted Volunteers in Mexico. Who being duly sworn according to law declares that Isaac Cooper was a private in said company and that the said Isaac Cooper died at Vera Cruz in Mexico on the 23d day of December AD 1847 from disease contracted while in the service of the United States and while in the line of duty
Wm Cooper
2d Lieut Co D
Sworn to and subscribed before me
the day and year above written
George C. White [seal]
Justice of the Peace
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TRANSCRIPTION NOTE:
Document is highly illegible and difficult to decipher due to ink bleed-through and smudges. I deciphered some words by context, which fits the typical legal-clerical language. The marriage date is very "iffy," especially the month, which looks like "J~~~y." Blevins' surname is illegible on the signature. His seal is a circular squiggle. George White's seal looks like a "JP" with the "P" being a big circle.
Transcribed by D.K. Pritchett from a photocopy of the court document. This file is dated 20 June 2001.
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