Thursday, April 4, 2013

Cunninghams of Bedford County, Tennessee

1829 William Cunningham moved from Alabama to Bedford County. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1832 William Cunningham applied for his Revolutionary War pension and stated he had been born in County Dongegal, Ireland on 2 Feb. 1748 and that he entered service in July 1776 in Guilford County, North Carolina. In about 1780 he moved to Washington County, Tennessee on the Nolichucky River. in 1817 he moved to Alabama. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1840 Mathew Cunningham died. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1852 Jan. Elizabeth Cunningham applied for pension based on the Revolutionary War service of her deceased husband, Mathew Cunningham (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

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