Notes for William Blacketer: The descendants of William spell their name BLACKETER.
INDEX TO THE WAR OF 1812 PENSION APPLICATION FILES Roll 9 Soldier: William Blackketter Service: Pvt, Capt Wm Phillips Co, Kentucky Militia Enlisted: 11/10/1814 Discharged: 05/10/1815 Residence: 1850 Hendricks Co., Indiana 1871 Ravanna, Mercer Co., Missouri 1887 Hendricks Co., Indiana, Coatesville
Wife: Elizabeth Chunch Date of Marriage: 1/27/1820 Date of Death: 01/17/1887 Bounty Land: 21081-80-50 - Reg. No. 170348-55 Rejected File Numbers: S.O. 20890, S.C. 13393
PENSION APPLICATION FILE OF WILLIAM BLACKETER Declaration of Soldier for Pension issued in Mercer County, Missouri, in 1871 at the age of 77. He states he was discharged at Lackimore, Kentucky. He was a private in said company and was at the battle of New Orleans under General Jackson...(illegible) statment about land warrants. He could not write his own name, his x was witnessed by two persons; one witness was Lewis Blacketter.
File contains a newspaper Clipping from the Greencastle Star Press published in Greencastle, Indiana, January 29, 1887
OBITUARY Died of old age, on his farm near New Winchester, Indiana, Mr. William Blacketer. The deceased was born in Mecklingburg County, Virginia February 19, 1795. When he was 12 years old he came to Kentucky; he remained there until 1814, when he enlisted in the army as a private in the War of 1812. After the war closed, on January 27, 1820, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Clanch. In the year 1824, they moved Putnam Cty, Indiana, and settled near the Public Spring in Greencastle; borrowed a few boards of a man by the name of Kindle, and made a shelter by the side of a big log, this being their shelter until he built a house, which was the fourth on built in Greencastle. He and his family moved in and lived lived there until he moved three miles east of Greencastle and took a lease and remained there until the year 1830, when he sold his lease for two-thirds what his 240 acre farm cost him in Hendricks Cty. He lived on this farm until the year 1865 when he sold it for $10,000 and moved to Missouri where he bought a farm of 500 acres; he lived on this farm until 1870, when he became dissatisfied, sold the farm and returned to Hendricks Cty., Indiana. He purchased 160 acres of his old farm and remained on it, a good neighbor, until he died. He was followed by many relatives and kind friends to the New Winchester Cemetery where he was peacefully laid away. He leaves 4 children to mourn. He became a member of the New Winchester Christian Church in the year 1838 under the preaching of a man by the name of George Piercy. We have reason to believe he lived and died a christian, a loving husband, kind father and a generous neighbor. If he had lived until the 19th day of next month he would have been 92 years old. He never had a quarrel, never sued anyone, and never was sued, never paid a $10 doctor bill in his life, drank coffee and chewed tobacco for 70 years and teeth sufficient to masticate his food well. His wife died on April 20 last, in her 86th year. Mr Blacketer cleared 160 acres of land; he was the oldest man in this part of the country. A FRIEND
More About William Blacketer: Burial: Unknown, New Winchester Cemetery, Hendricks County, Indiana. Military service: Bet. November 10, 1814 - May 10, 1915, Enlisted in the War of 1812 as a Private - Slaughter's 15th Regiment, Captain Phillips' Company - Kentucky Militia. Pay $8.00/per month (Original filed under William BLACKETTER).
More About William Blacketer and Elizabeth Claunch: Marriage: January 27, 1820, Mercer County, Kentucky.56 Minister: 1820, Rev. Durham.
William Blacketer (b. February 19, 1795, d. Abt. 1887)
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