State of Tennessee )
Overton County ) SS

On this 24th day of February AD One thousand eight Hundred and fifty one personally
appeared before me a Justus of the Peace within and for this County and State
aforesaid Amelia Poston aged fifty nine years a resident of Overton County in the
State
of Tennessee who being duly Sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of
Richard Poston deceased who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain David
Williams --- in the 3rd Regiment of Tennessee Militia commanded by Colonel Stephen
Copeland in the war against The hostile Creek Indians that her said husband was
drafted in Overton County, State of Tennessee on or about the 20th day of January AD
1814 for the term of three months and continued in actual service in said war for
the term of three months and continued in actual service in said war for the term
of three months and was honerable discharged at Fayete Ville Tennessee which facts
will appear upon the records of said Regiment and Muster Rolls of said Company. She
states that her said husband received a certificate of discharge which is lost or
misplaced so that she cannot command it. She further states that she was married to
the said Richard Poston in Overton County, State of Tennessee on or about the 15th
day of December AD 1809 by one Stephen Copeland a Justus of Peace for said County of
Overton and that her name before her said marriage was Amelia Copeland that her said
husband died in Pulaski County in the State of Missouri on the 30th day of January
AD 1843 And that she is still a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of
obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled.

She states that there is no public or private record of her said marriage as she
knows of and there fore relies upon the testimony of disinterested persons who knew
her in the life time of her husband.
her
Amelia X Poston
Mark



Legend has it that Richard Poston went west possibly to Missouri. He never came back to Overton County.