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  1. Matilda Bickham: Birth: 1797 in Georgia. Death: BEF 1843 in Copiah County, MS.

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a. Note:   "After living in North and South Carolina, the Bickham's moved to Burke County, GA. Abner saw extensive service during the revolutionary war and participated in such battles and campaigns as Long Lane, Cowpens, and the seige of Augusta. He received a Militia Captain's commission in 1779 and served as a Captain until the end of the war. He remained in Georgia until 1797, when he and his family moved to the Natchez District of Mississippi. He signed the Oath of Allegiance to the United States when that area became an American possession in that year. After a decade in the area of Adams County, MS, he and his family moved to Bogue Chitto River area of Washington Parish and lived there until his death." "Kinsmen All" Decendents of Wettenhall Warner and related Families, by E, Russ Wiiliams, Third Edition, 1991, p.13. Abner pettioned the government for a pension in 1832. He appeared before Judge Thomas Warner and answered questions in regard to when he was born, where and when he served, and where he lived. He states that he was born in 1755. He was in Burke County, GA during the Revoltionary War. He was commissioned Captain in the militia. He stayed in Burke County, GA until 1797. At that time, he moved to Natchez Territory Mississippi and in 1807 he moved to Washignton Parish, LA. Sarah Slocum was called as a witness and stated that as a young girl remembered Abner in combat. Her brother William Young was a lieutenant in Captain Abner Bickham's command. Her family were neighbors to the Bickham's for many years before her family moved to Wasington Parish, LA. On the basis of her statements, Sarah Slocum was likely the sister of Dicy Elizabeth Yourng the wife of Abner. Sarah and Dicy had a broher by the the name of William Young. Sarah states that she was about 12 when peace as declared so she was probably born in 1771 and was about 62 when she tesified Major Thomas Bickham testified he knew Abner and was his neighbor.. He was 13 when the war ended which means that he was born in 1770 and was 63 when he testified. He stated that at the siege of Augusta, Ga, that the American troops were defeated and they fled to the mountains. Some took refuge in his faher's house and that Abner Bickham was among them. Dicy can be spelled Dicey. She appointed her son Thomas to be her attorney-in-fact to recieve the funds of Abner's pention. The last payment was recieved in October, 1834. Revoltionary War Records, case number S30274, can be found in the National Archives in Washington. .D.C.


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