I wonder how many men fought for American independence whose ancestors could not prove their active service. In February 2014, I wrote about my husband’s side of the family. John Campbell’s wife, Mary Jackson Campbell, struggled for nearly nine years trying to receive a widow’s pension of an old Revolutionary soldier. (See “Mary Jackson Campbell…
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Mary Jackson Campbell – It Took an Act of Congress – 52 Ancestors #4
Entry #4 If you think that government red tape is something invented in our generation, think again. In fact, it certainly predates the last century. Consider my husband’s fifth great-grandmother, Mary Jackson Campbell. Her husband, John Campbell, fought for with the Colonials in the American Revolution, yet proving his service became an ordeal that lasted…