James A. Edins helps Mathias Walker and me

Mathias Walker applied for a pension from the War of 1812 in Wilcox County, AL, on May 17, 1834. The file is here at Fold3.com, but you have to have a membership to see it:


http://www.fold3.com/image/#19759561


In the application Mathias mentions three people who live in his "immediate neighborhood in this county": James A. Edins/Edens, Martin Pruitt, and Robert C. Dunnam, a minister of the gospel. 

A little more identification:

• James A. Eddins, son of Zilpha and John Eddins of Lexington, SC

• Martin Pruitt, probably the father of Josiah M. Pruitt, who married Rebecca Eddins

• Robert C. Dunnam, probably related to--brother of??--Harriet Dunnam, who married Simeon Hendrix.

This document places James A. Edins, Martin Pruitt, and Robert Dunnam in Wilcox County in 1834. Their names are important because they provide evidence for several other revelations from my recent trip to AL. More to follow on those. 


Are you sitting on the edge of your proverbial seat with bated breath, waiting for the new revelations??? Good!! Keep reading!!!!