R/RFHA Newsletter, June 1995           P.4

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HAMPTON CEMETERY - Buckhannon District (no lot numbers indicated)

AUSTIN ROLLINS (1847-1906)

HESTER L. ROLLINS (Tenney) (1850-1933)

BEATRICE ROLLINS (1910) of S.C. & P.E. ROLLINS

SC ROLLINS, b. Nov. 25,1884; d. March 23, 1928

PEARL ROLLINS, b. Aug. 3, 1888; d. June 30, 1961

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Further to the submission by subscriber. Felix Earle Luck in the March 1995 issue of the Will of WILLIAM RAWLINS of Tennessee, he adds the following:

"Of WILLIAM RAWLINS' children I have birthdates (approx.) from censuses for:

BETSY (1792), AMY ANN (1800), CLARISSA WINSTON (1806), SARAH L. (1812), and sons-in-law Joseph McGee (1800), Henry A. Raines (1807), Thompson Coleman (1807) and Elisha Sims (1782). JOHN A. T. RAWLINS was b. Apr. 20, 1806; d. Dec. 12, 1884; m. Jane E. Martin Oct. 9, 1844. She was b. Dec. 3, 1812; d. Aug. 27, 1874."

Enclosed with Felix' letter was an abstract of WM. RAWLINS' pension application.

From it we glean that WILLIAM was b. ca 1764; Jemima Light ca 1775, and Rev. Melchizide Brame ca 1773. The uncles mentioned were sons of Melchizideck Brame, WILLIAM's father in-law. The Rev. Brame's father might have been William Brame, oldest brother of Sarah who married WILLIAM RAWLINS in 1788, and was b. ca 1769. The GEORGE RAWLINS mention was WILLIAM's youngest brother, and it was his wife, Frances (Rains) who testified because her husband GEORGE had died, leaving her with five children.

PENSION APPLICATION - Revolutionary War, from Franklin Co., Tennessee.

WILLIAM RAWLINS S1713

West Tennessee #22076 $20.78 per year, issued Oct. 1, 1833

Dec. 14, 1832 - Bedford Co., Tennessee

Mrs. Jamima Light, aged 58 next 28 November, states she was born in Louisa County, VA and raised in Caroline Co., VA. She has heard her uncles Walter and John Brame state that WILLIAM RAWLINS served with them in the Revolutionary War. Rev. Melchizedick Brame, aged 60 next 20 April, states he was born and raised in Caroline County, VA. He has often heard his father and his uncles Walter and John Brame state they served in the same company as RAWLINS. He has also heard Paul Carrington, Jr., a judge of the Virginia District Court, refer to WILLIAM RAWLINS' service.

Jan. 16, 1833 - Franklin Co., Tennessee

WILLIAM RAWLINS states he was born in Caroline County, VA., according to the record his father had kept in a large family Bible. He has no record of his own. He entered the service under Capt. Joseph Richerson of the Caroline County Militia just after turning 16. About March 1, 1781, he was appointed 2nd Sergeant in Capt. Charles Woodfolk's company of militia, and participated in the evacuation of Richmond after the British took Manchester and burned the public warehouses and tobacco.

(Note: further' details of service are provided)

He submits the testimony of Rev. Melchizedeck Brame and his sister, Mrs. Jamima Light. He lived in Caroline County until the age of 39, and about 1803 removed to Halifax Co., VA, where he lived in Meadsville, and at the Court House five years. In 1808 he removed to Pittsylvania Courthouse, VA, for eight years. He then removed to Danville, VA, for two years. After that he resided in RAWLINSBURG, Rockingham Co., Va. From there he moved to Tennessee and has resided in Franklin County for about ten years.

May 29, 1833 -Franklin County, Tennessee

WILLIAM RAWLINS clarifies details of service and mentions returning to his father's home in Caroline County during the war.

FRANCES RAWLINS states she will be 62 years old next 20 Sept. She was born in King

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