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Données personnelles Sarah Elizabeth Robertson 

• Elle est née le 24 février 1753 dans Ashe, North Carolina, United States.Les sources 2, 3
• Alternative: Elle est née le 15 mai 1753 dans Ashe, North Carolina, United States.Source 4
• Résidant: Nash co., NC.Source 2
• Elle est décédée le 1 novembre 1814 dans Ashe, North Carolina, United States, elle avait 61 ans.Source 3
• Elle est enterrée dans Grayson County, Virginia, United States of America.Source 3
• Un enfant de Robert Robertson et Elizabeth Ross

Famille de Sarah Elizabeth Robertson

(1) Elle est mariée à Timothy Terrill.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1770 à North Carolina, United States, elle avait 16 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Hezekiah Terrell  1770-1858 

(2) Elle est mariée à James Cox.

Ils se sont mariés le 16 octobre 1788 à Jefferson, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten, elle avait 35 ans.

Notes par Sarah Elizabeth Robertson

James Cox, son of Capt. John Cox, was born in Fort Chiswell, Virginia, in 1763. Fort Chiswell was located in what was originally the southern part of Botetourt County, VA. This area became Montgomery County in 1777, Wythe County in 1790, and Grayson County in 1793. James Cox served his father as an "Indian spy" during the Revolutionary War. He applied for a pension in 1832 (NARA Pension File No. R2412, see below), but his application was rejected because he could not show that he had served six months in a regularly organized military corps as required by the Pension Act. The Act did not contemplate the sort of guerilla warfare that James had engaged in. In a letter dated August 22, 1833, the Pension Office explained, "The alleged service of the applicant cannot be considered a military service in the meaning of the Act of June 7, 1832."

James' widow, Sarah Cox, applied for a widow's pension in 1855. She testified that her maiden name was Sarah FIELDER, she married James Cox on January 4, 1815, and James Cox died on April 17, 1842, in Grayson County, VA. Mrs. Cox spent several fruitless years trying to convince the Pension Office to grant her application. James Cox's file in the National Archives contains over 100 pages of documents, including numerous supporting declarations and letters submitted over the years on behalf of both James Cox and Sarah Cox. A number of individuals from Grayson and Ashe counties testified that James Cox was a soldier in the Revolution, including his brother Joshua COX, Benjamin PHIPPS, Charles COLE, Jonathan THOMAS, Jesse RAY, John TOLIVER, Henry GAMBILL, and Henry HARDIN. However, the evidence the Pension Office never reversed its decision that James Cox's service was not of a "military character."

In the book Footprints in the Sands of Time (1900), the Grayson County historian Dr. A.B. Cox wrote that James Cox married "the Widow TERRELL." She was probably the widow of Timothy TERRILL of Ashe County, NC, who was killed by Indians while exploring Tennesse in 1781. (His death is described in The Annals of Tennessee (1853), p.455.) Her first name (Elizabeth) and birth date (Feb. 24, 1753) are reportedly from a Bible that at one time was in the possession of Mrs. W.H. Welch of Lansing, Michigan. According to the Terrill family, Timothy's wife remarried and lived in Grayson County, VA. Some of the family later moved to Kentucky. (Source Terrill Website by John Terrill Wayland Jr.) James Cox's Revolutionary War pension file in the National Archives contains an interesting letter from Mrs. W.H. Welch, dated July 18, 1932:

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