Husband Benjamin Franklin Becraft [238]
Born: 1778-1779
Christened:
Died: 27 Jun 1833 - Bath, Kentucky, United States 1
Cause of Death: cholera
Buried:
FamilySearch ID: L7GY-TK1
Find A Grave ID: 75661539
Father: Abraham Becraft [87] (Cir 1750-1811)
Mother: Abigail Rachel Shipley [234] (1757-1793)
Marriage: 18 Nov 1808 - Vincennes, Knox, Indiana, United States 2
Events
• Event: 1791. Benjamin was taken captive on April 1, 1793, at Morgan Station, Montgomery County, Kentucky, where most of his siblings and mother were murdered in the "Last Indian Raid in Ky"
Ben was about 14 years of age and went out with the Indians. They carried him with themselves on a horse and took him almost directly to Detroit, scarcely stopping at their towns. There, they sold him to a Scotchman, who put him in a store, gave him a pretty good slight at writing, and made such an improvement on him as you never saw put on anyone. He had been gone only about 20 months when, at Wayne's Treaty, they had to go get him and dress him up. He came back with no Indian paint, and he was nicely dressed. But he soon got to be a Becraft again.
• He filed a pension application on 25 Jul 1871 in Bath, Kentucky, United States. PENSION APPLICATION FOR WAR OF 1812 SERVICE
BECROFT, BENJAMIN - MARY: WC 6008; BLWt. (?) 95235-160-50.
Private in Captain I. Gray’s Company, Kentucky Militia.
Englisted March 29, 1813; discharged October 29, 1813.
Lenth of Service: 215 days. Residence of widow 1859, 1860 Bath County, Kentucky, 1871 Owingsville, Bath County, Kentucky. Maid name of Mary Fowler. Date of marriage September or November 1808 at Vincennes, Indiana.
Death of soldier: June 27, 1833 Bath County, Kentucky >BR>
David Norris and Albert Norris testified to continued widowhood. Marriage to Benjamin Becroft prior to February 17, 1815, was established by affidavit of Fields Becroft, who testifies that he is sixty-one years of age having been born in the year 1811 as he has always now resides in said county and state (Bath County, Kentucky) and has for more than fifty years last past, that he is the third child of the family of children of the marriage of Benjamin and Mary Becroft. Claimant in her application for Bounty Land alleges marriage in September 1808.
Admitted to pension of $8.00 per month from February 14, 1871 on March 15, 1874.
25 July 1871 Mary Becroft, aged ninety, a resident of Bath County, Kentucky, being duly sworn, declares she is the widow of Benjamin Becroft, who served the full period of six days in the military in Cat. Isaac Gray’s Company, Col. Boswell’s Regiment, drafted at Jones Springs, Bath County, Kentucky on 29 March 1813 and discharged at Fort Winchester about 20 September 1813. That she was married under the name of Mary Foulger in November 1808 near Vincennes, Indiana; said husband died in Bath County 27 June 1833. Her Post Office: Owingsville Kentucky.
State of Kentucky, County of Bath. Fields Becroft being duly sworn, declares that he is sixty-one years of age.... that Benjamin and Mary Becroft had a family of nine children, seven of them still living. That his father died in Bath County, Kentucky, in the year 1833 of the cholera; that he was living with them - his father and mother - at the time of his death, that his mother .... is still living, resides with one of her sons Robert Becroft in the said county and state. That her son James Becroft is older than the affiant and resides in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Her other children including affiant, reside in this county and are named Sally Becroft, Nellie Blevins, wife of Danl. Blevins, Betsey Shuttey, wife of O. P. Shuttey, Polly Shuttey, wife of Saml. Shuttey. That he never heard the fact of the marriage of his parents questioned. That he has no interest in this claim other than he would like for his mother to get her pension.
State of Kentucky, County of Bath. 11 June 1872.
Asa Maxey, being duly sworn, says that he was resided in Bath County, that he is now in his 81st year and has been a minister of the Gospel for fifty years; that he was well acquainted with Benjamin Becroft and his widow Mary Becroft, that he has known each since and during the War of 1812, that they lived together as man and wife and reared a family of children, that they were reputed to have been married in the State of Indiana.
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Wife Mary Polly Fowler [369]
Born: Cir 1781 - Virginia, United States
Christened:
Died: Cir 1890 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
Buried:
FamilySearch ID: L6YM-ZP4
Find A Grave ID: 285916661
Marriage Events
• Marriage: 25 Jul 1871, Indiana, United States. 25 Jul 1871 Mary BECROFT, aged 90, resident of Bath Co., KY; she was married under the name of Mary FOULGER in Nov 1808, near Vincennes, IN
Asa MAXEY, minister, attests that he was well acquainted with Benjamin and Mary BECROFT, and that they lived together as man and wife and are reputed to have been married in Indiana.
Children
1 F Harriet "Hetty" Becraft [3810] 3
Born: 1809 3
Christened:
Died:
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FamilySearch ID: 21RP-MSY
Spouse: Harrison Boyd 3 [3811] ( - )
Marr: 21 Apr 1830 - Bath, Kentucky, United States 3
2 M John James Becraft [371]
Born: Cir 1810 - Montgomery, Kentucky, United States
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
FamilySearch ID: LZKN-41N
Spouse: Dulcena Gore [1272] ( -Bef 1852)
Marr: 8 Oct 1837 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
Spouse: Elizabeth Treadway [495] (Cir 1833- )
Marr: 5 Jul 1852 - Montgomery, Kentucky, United States
3 M Abram Fields Becraft [372]
Born: Cir 1811 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
Christened:
Died: 1880 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
Buried:
FamilySearch ID: 21RP-9FM
Find A Grave ID: 285873816
Spouse: Mary Jane Goodpaster 4 [505] (1825-1875)
Marr: 5 Aug 1841 - Aberdeen, Brown, Ohio, United States
Spouse: Jane Blevins [509] ( -Bef 1863)
Marr: 14 Apr 1850 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
Spouse: Abbey Anne Reeves [511] (Cir 1838- )
Marr: 20 Aug 1863 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
4 F Sarah\Sally Becraft [373]
Born: Cir 1814 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
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Died: Cir 1902 - Kentucky, United States
Buried:
FamilySearch ID: LH7L-7X4
Spouse: George Becraft [2644] ( -1860)
5 M Benjamin Franklin Becraft Jr [374]
Born: Cir 1815 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
Christened:
Died: 1 Sep 1864 - Jonesboro, Clayton Co, GA
Cause of Death: civil war fighting, , killed near Jonesborro, GA
Buried:
FamilySearch ID: 21RP-S7T
Find A Grave ID: 230753226
Spouse: Dulcenia Gore [514] (Cir 1812- )
Marr: 7 Oct 1837 - Bourbon, Kentucky, United States
6 F Mary Polly Becraft [375]
Born: Cir 1818 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
Christened:
Died: - Kentucky, United States
Buried:
FamilySearch ID: 21RP-SL9
Spouse: Samuel "Sam" Perry Shultz [1059] (Cir 1815-1888)
Marr: 15 May 1835 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
7 M Thomas Becraft [376]
Born: Cir 1825 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
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Died: 8 Oct 1864 - Charleston, South Carolina, United States 5
Cause of Death: was scorbutus while encarcerated in a confederate prison camp
Buried: 1864 - Charleston, South Carolina, United States 5
FamilySearch ID: LZNH-PTB
Find A Grave ID: 75567495
Spouse: Ellen Sanders [522] (1835-1900)
Marr: 4 Jan 1853 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
8 F Elleanor "Millie" Becraft [377]
Born: Cir 1827 - Owingsville, Bath, Kentucky, United States
Christened:
Died:
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FamilySearch ID: 21RP-QTK
Spouse: Daniel Blevins [1057] (Cir 1830-After 1870)
Marr: 16 Dec 1853 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
9 F Sarah Elizabeth Becraft [370]
Born: Cir 1828 - Owingsville, Bath, Kentucky, United States 6
Christened:
Died:
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FamilySearch ID: 21RP-78K
Spouse: Oliver Perry Shultz [1058] (1819-1899)
10 M Robert Becraft [378]
Born: Cir 1828 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
Christened:
Died: Cir 1892 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
Buried: - Crouch Family Cemetery, Salt Lick, Bath, Kentucky, United States
FamilySearch ID: 21RP-3TC
Spouse: Mary Ann Steele [525] (1844-1932)
Marr: 13 Mar 1873 - Bath, Kentucky, United States
Notes: Marriage (Mary Polly Fowler):
by justice of peace