Sarah Ann Belcher

GEDCOM Note

!NOTE: Date and place of death are recounted in affidavits from John N. Belcher's pension application for his Indian War service. Sarah Ann is called "Ann Belcher" in these records; one affidavit is from her daughter, Melissa Messersmith, a resident of Frontier County, Nebraska, on 13 May 1893. Ann is said to have been buried at the Simeon Garrett private graveyard in Benton County, Arkansas. The Belchers had moved to that county as refugees from Missouri during the Civil War. Garrett and Thomas Tuck of Benton County, AR, also provided affidavits on 10 April 1894 concerning Ann's death.