On this 31st. day of October 1844, came personally before me John Hensley, one of the acting Magistrates in and for the County aforesaid. Ruth Edwards a resident of the aforesaid County and State an applicant for a Pension, who being first duly qualified according to law, maketh oath, that she is the widow of John Edwards late pensioner deceased of Washington County East Tennessee, and that she was married to the said John Edwards some ten years before he, Edwards, entered into the service of the Untied States in the war of the Revolution, That from the best of her recollection her husband the aforesaid John Edwards entered into the Army in or about the year Seventeen hundrend and Eighty 1780. That he left home Bedford County Virginia in the spring of the year under Captain Arter and remained in the service 'till fall; he then came home to his family and stayed some few days and then left for the army again, under Col Lynch (she thinks) and did not return untill the next fall; that at the time he (Edwards) first entered the army they had a family of four children namely Wm. Sally Monteath, and James, that the eldest was large enoughf to Plow, and that she with the help of their little Children made two Crops during her husbands the aforesaid John Edwards absence in the army which was about eighteen months, that he first left home in the spring and remained in the Army untill the second fall and that during his absence they had planted and made two Crops she well and distinctly recollects