General Affidavit
State of Alabama
County of Pickens
In the matter of Mary Bailey, widow of Kennedy Bailey, died Soldier of the War 1812 - 15, whom we are informed is an applicant for a pension.

Pe rsonally came before me W H Platt a Justice of the Peace in and for said County & State. David Ballard aged 86 years and Martha A Ballard his wife Age 70 years, Citizens of the County of Pickens State of Alabama, Reputable, and entitled to credit who being duly sworn declare in relation to aforesaid base as follows, The said David Ballard, resides near Gordo in said County and has so resided since 1831 and has known personally the claimant Mary Bailey since that time and for many years before in Kershaw District, South Carolina, that he is a brother-in-law of said Mary Bailey having married her sister the before named Martha Ann, that he knew Kennedy Bailey in his lifetime in South Carolina until 1831, and afterwards in Pickens County, Alabama. Affiant states that he was a Soldier of the War of 1812 - 15, and is now a Pensioner and that Kennedy Bailey was a soldier in the same Regiment, but in a different Company to wit Capt Douglas Company. That the said Mary Bailey claimant was married to said Kennedy Bailey with a few months after the War closed, but affiant was not present at the marriage, but swears that he knew Mary Bailey and Kennedy Bailey to cohabit and live together as husband and wife from the time of their marriage until the death of the said Kennedy Bailey who died in 1857 0r 1858 affiant believes, and raised a large family of children, and that they were during said times, reputed to be and were husband & wife, and that she is the person she represents herself to be. And Martha A Ballard states in oath that she is a sister of claimant, and was present in Kershaw District South Carolina, at the marriage of her said sister Mary Bailey and Kennedy Bailey. She was younger than her sister Bailey, but recollects when they were married and was an eye witness to the marriage that she has known them ever since until the death of the said Kennedy Bailey to cohabit and live together as husband & wife and they had a large family of children the result of said marriage and cohabitation. In 1831 as will as affiant recollects, she removed to Alabama Pickens County and her sister Mary Bailey husband migrated to the same County and State in 1832 or 1833, as will as she now recollects, and affiant has resided within ten miles of her said sister since she came to Alabama, and she knows she is the widow of the said Bailey a Soldier of the War of 1812 - 15, and the very person she represents herself to be, and we further declare that we have no interest in said case and not concerned in to prosecution, but are the sister and brother-in-law of claimant.

{Signed} David Ballard
{Signed} Martha Ballard {her mark}

Attes t S E Wier

Sw orn to & Subscribed before me this day, by the above named affiants and I certify that I read said affidavit to said affiants, and acquainted them with its contents before they executed the same, I further certify that I am in no wise interested in said case, nor am I concerned in its prosecution, and that said affiants are personally know to me, that they are credible persons and so reputed in the community, in which they reside.
Witness my hand and seal, this August 9, AD, 1879

{Signed} W H Platt
Justice of the Peace

Kennedy William Bailey