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Eutaw Cemetary is located about five miles out of Kosse, Limestone County,
Texas. B.F. FOY and other relatives are also buried there. “Old Lady Sowders”
was a resident of Limestone County.

February 11,1887 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOY filed a “CLAIM OF A
SURVIVOR OF THE MEXICAN WAR FOR PENSION” form in the State of
Texas, County of Limestone.

This form claimed BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOY, aged 61, a resident of Kosse,
Limestone County, State of Texas was duly sworn according to law and declares
that he is the identical BENJAMIN F. FOY who served the full period of “over
ninty” days in the military service of the United States in the war with Mexico
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and who enlisted under the name BENJAMIN F. FOY on the 1 day of April,
1847 as a private in Company C of Captain WALTON ECTOR’s Company, in
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the 13 regiment, US Infantry commanded by Colonel ROBERT ECHOLS and
was honorably discharged as a private at Mobile, Alabama on June 15, 1848.

The form further stated that BENJAMIN had accompanied his command into
Mexico and participated in “the following engagements”. There are notations
in the engagements space but they are illegible.

Further, the form states BENJAMIN since his discharge had resided at
Meriwether County, Georgia; Jackson Parish, Louisiana; and Limestone
County, Texas; that his original Discharge Certificate had been filed in the
pension office with his application for bounty land; a warrant for which had
been issued to him. The form further states that BENJAMIN was married at
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Eldorado, Arkansas on the 12 day of October 1861 to MARY E. JACKS who
was then dead.

The purpose of this form was to place BENJAMIN’s name on the pension rolls
of the United States under the provisions of any act of Congress, providing
pension to surviving soldiers, sailors or marines who served in the war of 1846,
1847, and 1848 with Mexico. He had earlier made a similar application which
had been rejected. He had, however, received a land bounty under the Act of
1847.

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