William E Edwards

"The Declarant states that he was born in Louisa County State of Virginia on the 24 of March 1752" - matching [3216]'s tree birth of 24 Mar 1752, Louisa, Virginia TO THE DAY. ⛔ THE SAME SENTENCE BOUNDS IT: "That he has kept a record of his age from his Fathers record from memory he has no written record of it." So the date is sworn RECOLLECTION of a family register he no longer had. The day-exact agreement is powerful evidence of IDENTITY - the pension and the tree name the same man - and is NOT independent confirmation of the DATE. If the tree's value descends from this widely-transcribed file it is one informant, not two. "he removed from Louisa County - said state in the year 1794 or 1795 as near as he recollects" - the hedge is in the document. Treasury annotation, p. 3: "A Treasury-Department document states that Martin Walton, attorney for Anna Edwards, widow of William Edwards, received the final pension payment up to his death on 13 April 1836." A widow receiving arrears is alive after the death that generated them, which is why [3217]'s death was reduced to the bare year 1836. Martin Walton appears TWICE - as a 1833 affiant ("We Martin Walton aged 71 last october ... we belonged to the same regiment") and as the widow's attorney in 1836 - and he carries [3217]'s maiden surname. READ IN FULL, all 3 pages, personally, 5 Aug 2026, via ancestry/pdf-ocr-vision.swift (the PDF is a scan with no text layer). File: ancestry/sources/revwarapps-S3322.pdf. Register row L11.