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Marriage 1 Mary Kelly b: 1796 in Pennsylvania Married: 15 MAR 1815 in Harlenton, Union County Pennsylvania At a house of Henry Kelly, have no idea if this would have been her father. Burial: 12 Mar 1857 in Hoffman Cemetery, Mendon, South Huntingdon Twp. estmoreland County Pennsylvania
David Zimmerman was a private under Captain John Donaldson in the 39th Pennsylvania Militia. He fought in the fall months in 1812,1813, and 1814 in the War of 1812.Hartleton, Pennsylvania was named for a Colonel Hartley who owned the land when Hartleton was stablished in 1793. There was a St. Peter's reformed Lutheran church on the highway between Hartleton and Mifflinburg. This church was established in 1801. In the cemetery was a Colonel John Kelly.
WAR OF 1812
DECLARATION OF A WIDOW FOR PENSION to be executed before judge or clerk of court STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF WESTMORELAND, ON THIS EIGHTEENTH DAY OF JUNE A.D. ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE ME ___ ________ OF A NOTARY PUBLIC WITHIN AND FOR THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID, MARY ZIMMERMAN AGED 89 YEARS, A RESIDENT OF SOUTH HUNTINGTON TOWNSHIP, COUNTY OF WESTMORELAND, STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA WHO, BEING DULY SWORN ACCORDING TO LAW, DECLARES THAT SHE IS THE WIDOW OF DAVID ZIMMERMAN, WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE WAR OF 1812 AND WHO WAS THE IDENTICAL DAVID ZIMMERMAN WHO ENLISTED IN CAPTAIN DONALSON COMPANY 39TH REGIMENT, Pennsylvania.
VOLUNTEERS AT UNION COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA THE SOLDIER RECEIVED TWO BOUNTY LAND WARRANTS OF 80 ACRES EACH UNDER THE ACTS OF 1850 & 1855 BUT THAT HIS DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE AND OTHER PAPERS RELATED TO HIS SERVICE WERE BURNED SEVEN YEARS AGO, THAT SHE WAS MARRIED UNDER THE NAME MARY KELLY TO SAID DAVID ZIMMERMAN ON THE ELEVENTH DAY OF MAY AT THE HOUSE OF HENRY KELLY AD 1815 BY ADAM WITT(?) JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AT HARTLETON, UNION CO, PENNSYLVANIA THERE BEING NO LEGAL BARRIER TO SUCH MARRIAGE THAT HER SAID HUSBAND DIED AT WESTMORELAND COUNTY ON THE TENTH AND FUNERAL THE 12TH DAY OF MARCH 1857, AND THAT SHE HAS NOT REMARRIED SINCE HIS DEATH. THAT SHE WILL SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES THAT SHE IS NOT IN RECEIPT OF A PENSION UNDER ANY PREVIOUS ACT THAT SHE MAKES THIS DECLARATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING PLACED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE UNITED STATES, UNDER THE PROVISION OF THE ACT APPROVED MARCH 9, 1878 AND SHE HEREBY CONSTITUTES AND APPOINTS WITH FULL POWER OF SUBSTITUTION AND REVOCATION, GILMORE AND CO. OF WASHINGTON DC. HER TRUE AND LAWFUL ATTORNEYS TO PROSECUTE HER CLAIM AND OBTAIN THE PENSION CERTIFICATE THAT MAY BE ISSUED THAT HER POST OFFICE IS AT MENDON, COUNTY OF WESTMORELAND, STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, THAT HER DOMICILE OR PLACE OF ABODE IS SOUTH HUNTINGTON TOWNSHIP
MARY ZIMMERMAN applicant Bounty Land Claims Declaration State of Pennsylvania County Of Westmoreland On this twentieth day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me William Turner Justice of the peace duly authorized to administer oaths written and for the county and state aforesaid David Zimmerman aged sixty four years a resident of Westmoreland County in the state of Pennsylvania who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the identical David Zimmerman who was a volunteer in the company commanded by Captain Donaldson in the thirty ninth regiment of militia commanded by Major Scott in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen volunteered(?) that he entered the service at Mifflinburg, Union County on or about the last of September A.d. 1813 for the term of three months and continued in actual service in said unit the for the term of three months and was honorably discharged at Selinsgrove Pennsylvania A.D. 1814 as will(?0 appear by expiration of term of service and never had a certificate. Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certif ???
NOTICE OF PROBATE AFTER DAVID ZIMMERMAN DIED May Term A.D. 1857 To the honorable Judge of the Orphans Court of Westmoreland County. The Petition of Robert Zimmerman, eldest son of David Zimmerman dec'd respectfully represents, That said David Zimmerman, lately died intestate leaving a Widow named Mary and issue 10 children to wit (1) Maria: married to Abraham Hixon, (2) Robert, (3) Jane: deaf and dumb, (4) Levi, (5) Noah, (6) Susanna: married to Thompson Mclean, (7) John, (8) Amy: married to Samuel Shupe, (9) Matthias, and (10) David Zimmerman all of whom reside in Westmoreland County except Matthias who resides in the State Of Iowa. Your petitioner further represents that said Intestate died Seized in his demesne as of fee of and in a tract of Land situated in South Huntington Township of said County adjoining Lands of John Love, land of your petitioner Abraham Hixon, Jacob Billheimer containing One hundred Sixty Acres More or less about one hundred and twenty acres cleared having a brick dwelling house, hewed log house and other buildings thereon erected. Your petitioner therefore prays your honors to award and Inquest to make partition or valuation of the same according to law and he will pray. Robert Zimmerman 11 May 1857 inquest awarded personal notice to all the heirs residing in Penn and by publication in Westmoreland Republican. I do hereby certify that by virtue of the within writ to me directed (having first duly warned the parties) I took with me twelve free honest and lawful men of my bailiwick and went to the lands & premises therein and there by their Oaths and Affirmations finding the same could be parted and divided to and among the parties in said writ named without prejudice to and spoiling of the whole have valued and appraised he same as by the within writ I am commanded as by the Schedule thereunto appears. So answers V. Elliot Shff Inquisition indented and taken at the dwelling house late of David Zimmerman deceased in the Township of South Huntington in the County of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania on the Eighteenth Day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven before Valentine Elliot High Sheriff of the County of Westmoreland aforesaid by virtue of a wr
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