His year of death on his gravestone IS an error. This David Allen Apple died 13 Jan 1900, not 1890. His death was reported in the local newspaper in January 1900. The 13 Jan 1900 DOD is further confirmed by more than one piece of documentation found in the National Archive file for his Mexican War pension. His widow provided her own affidavit, as well as affidavits from the minister and a neighbor present at his deathbed. David's initial applications confirm his place and DOB and marriage.
David Allen Apple was born in Guilford County NC and presumably comes as a child with his parents to Orange County, IN about 1839. There was an extended and large Apple family community who had established an Apple Chapel in Guilford Cty NC, and branches of that Apple clan immigrated to settle Paoli, Orange Cty IN about 1839. A second Apple Chapel and cemetery was established in Paoli, Orange County IN, and is still in existence.
If the research is correct, David is the grandson of Revolutionary War patriot Daniel Apple, born abt 1761 in Pennsylvania and died abt 1849 in Guilford County, NC, and wife Barbara Loeffel Spoon. Most researchers show him descended through their son William Apple and 2nd wife Elizabeth Pettigrew.
MEXICAN WAR SERVICE: Enrolled 13 Jun 1846 at New Albany IN, in Co B, 2nd Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. Mustered out 19 Jun 1847 in New Orleans, LA. Honorable discharge. Private. Fought in the battle of Buena Vista, injured during war with deafness in right ear.
He describes his movements during his service as: from New Albany IN to Silver Creek Ohio River. There to [Stonewall] Jackson's battlefield. There to Rio Grande, across the Gulf to Camp Belknap, TX. There to Carango(?) Saltillo. Led into Buena Vista Battlefield.
The war office shows him stationed: Sept 1, 1846 Camp Belknap TX / Oct 31 1846 same/Dec 31, 1846 Rinconnad? Mexico/ Feb 28, 1847 Aqua Nueva Mexico.
After the war David Allen Apple returns to Paoli, Orange County, IN where he marries LUCINDA ALLSTOTT in 1848. They are found in that county on the 1850 census. However David and other offshoots of the Apple Chapel clan there will move on, heading west and south.
David's son John Wesley will later described him as being "of a roving disposition". He and Lucinda would move their family to Illinois where they stay during the Civil War, followed by moves to Cherokee County, Kansas, then Iowa, then Carroll and Benton County Arkansas, and finally Seligman, Barry County, Missouri. [Note: Carroll County borders Benton Cty Ark to the east, and Barry County MO borders it to the north.] Their grown children and at least some other Apple relatives appear to be either leading the way or following them to the same new areas.
David first applied for a Mexican War pension in 1872, then successfully in 1877, receiving $8 a month. In 1893 and 1895 he applies for a pension increase, citing ill health and insufficient means to support himself and his wife. Several pages and multiple witness affidavits found in the 102-page pension file were submitted to convince the government that his gift of a 200 acre tract of land in Benton County AR land, to his son Charles E. Apple, was not a ruse to impoversh himself to get a higher increase. Both he and son Charles were in bad health and could not work the land. He is left with an fruit orchard on his tract outside Seligman, which he bought after selling a separate 160 acre homestead tract in Benton County ARK. He is almost totally blind, suffering "marked emaciation" and the pension board doctor agrees he is too old and disabled to perform manual labor. He is granted the pension increase, to $12 a month. David dies at his home in Seligman, Barry County MO a few years later, age 75.
David Allen Apple was born in Guilford County NC and presumably comes as a child with his parents to Orange County, IN about 1839. There was an extended and large Apple family community who had established an Apple Chapel in Guilford Cty NC, and branches of that Apple clan immigrated to settle Paoli, Orange Cty IN about 1839. A second Apple Chapel and cemetery was established in Paoli, Orange County IN, and is still in existence.
If the research is correct, David is the grandson of Revolutionary War patriot Daniel Apple, born abt 1761 in Pennsylvania and died abt 1849 in Guilford County, NC, and wife Barbara Loeffel Spoon. Most researchers show him descended through their son William Apple and 2nd wife Elizabeth Pettigrew.
MEXICAN WAR SERVICE: Enrolled 13 Jun 1846 at New Albany IN, in Co B, 2nd Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. Mustered out 19 Jun 1847 in New Orleans, LA. Honorable discharge. Private. Fought in the battle of Buena Vista, injured during war with deafness in right ear.
He describes his movements during his service as: from New Albany IN to Silver Creek Ohio River. There to [Stonewall] Jackson's battlefield. There to Rio Grande, across the Gulf to Camp Belknap, TX. There to Carango(?) Saltillo. Led into Buena Vista Battlefield.
The war office shows him stationed: Sept 1, 1846 Camp Belknap TX / Oct 31 1846 same/Dec 31, 1846 Rinconnad? Mexico/ Feb 28, 1847 Aqua Nueva Mexico.
After the war David Allen Apple returns to Paoli, Orange County, IN where he marries LUCINDA ALLSTOTT in 1848. They are found in that county on the 1850 census. However David and other offshoots of the Apple Chapel clan there will move on, heading west and south.
David's son John Wesley will later described him as being "of a roving disposition". He and Lucinda would move their family to Illinois where they stay during the Civil War, followed by moves to Cherokee County, Kansas, then Iowa, then Carroll and Benton County Arkansas, and finally Seligman, Barry County, Missouri. [Note: Carroll County borders Benton Cty Ark to the east, and Barry County MO borders it to the north.] Their grown children and at least some other Apple relatives appear to be either leading the way or following them to the same new areas.
David first applied for a Mexican War pension in 1872, then successfully in 1877, receiving $8 a month. In 1893 and 1895 he applies for a pension increase, citing ill health and insufficient means to support himself and his wife. Several pages and multiple witness affidavits found in the 102-page pension file were submitted to convince the government that his gift of a 200 acre tract of land in Benton County AR land, to his son Charles E. Apple, was not a ruse to impoversh himself to get a higher increase. Both he and son Charles were in bad health and could not work the land. He is left with an fruit orchard on his tract outside Seligman, which he bought after selling a separate 160 acre homestead tract in Benton County ARK. He is almost totally blind, suffering "marked emaciation" and the pension board doctor agrees he is too old and disabled to perform manual labor. He is granted the pension increase, to $12 a month. David dies at his home in Seligman, Barry County MO a few years later, age 75.
His year of death on his gravestone IS an error. This David Allen Apple died 13 Jan 1900, not 1890. His death was reported in the local newspaper in January 1900. The 13 Jan 1900 DOD is further confirmed by more than one piece of documentation found in the National Archive file for his Mexican War pension. His widow provided her own affidavit, as well as affidavits from the minister and a neighbor present at his deathbed. David's initial applications confirm his place and DOB and marriage.
David Allen Apple was born in Guilford County NC and presumably comes as a child with his parents to Orange County, IN about 1839. There was an extended and large Apple family community who had established an Apple Chapel in Guilford Cty NC, and branches of that Apple clan immigrated to settle Paoli, Orange Cty IN about 1839. A second Apple Chapel and cemetery was established in Paoli, Orange County IN, and is still in existence.
If the research is correct, David is the grandson of Revolutionary War patriot Daniel Apple, born abt 1761 in Pennsylvania and died abt 1849 in Guilford County, NC, and wife Barbara Loeffel Spoon. Most researchers show him descended through their son William Apple and 2nd wife Elizabeth Pettigrew.
MEXICAN WAR SERVICE: Enrolled 13 Jun 1846 at New Albany IN, in Co B, 2nd Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. Mustered out 19 Jun 1847 in New Orleans, LA. Honorable discharge. Private. Fought in the battle of Buena Vista, injured during war with deafness in right ear.
He describes his movements during his service as: from New Albany IN to Silver Creek Ohio River. There to [Stonewall] Jackson's battlefield. There to Rio Grande, across the Gulf to Camp Belknap, TX. There to Carango(?) Saltillo. Led into Buena Vista Battlefield.
The war office shows him stationed: Sept 1, 1846 Camp Belknap TX / Oct 31 1846 same/Dec 31, 1846 Rinconnad? Mexico/ Feb 28, 1847 Aqua Nueva Mexico.
After the war David Allen Apple returns to Paoli, Orange County, IN where he marries LUCINDA ALLSTOTT in 1848. They are found in that county on the 1850 census. However David and other offshoots of the Apple Chapel clan there will move on, heading west and south.
David's son John Wesley will later described him as being "of a roving disposition". He and Lucinda would move their family to Illinois where they stay during the Civil War, followed by moves to Cherokee County, Kansas, then Iowa, then Carroll and Benton County Arkansas, and finally Seligman, Barry County, Missouri. [Note: Carroll County borders Benton Cty Ark to the east, and Barry County MO borders it to the north.] Their grown children and at least some other Apple relatives appear to be either leading the way or following them to the same new areas.
David first applied for a Mexican War pension in 1872, then successfully in 1877, receiving $8 a month. In 1893 and 1895 he applies for a pension increase, citing ill health and insufficient means to support himself and his wife. Several pages and multiple witness affidavits found in the 102-page pension file were submitted to convince the government that his gift of a 200 acre tract of land in Benton County AR land, to his son Charles E. Apple, was not a ruse to impoversh himself to get a higher increase. Both he and son Charles were in bad health and could not work the land. He is left with an fruit orchard on his tract outside Seligman, which he bought after selling a separate 160 acre homestead tract in Benton County ARK. He is almost totally blind, suffering "marked emaciation" and the pension board doctor agrees he is too old and disabled to perform manual labor. He is granted the pension increase, to $12 a month. David dies at his home in Seligman, Barry County MO a few years later, age 75.
David Allen Apple was born in Guilford County NC and presumably comes as a child with his parents to Orange County, IN about 1839. There was an extended and large Apple family community who had established an Apple Chapel in Guilford Cty NC, and branches of that Apple clan immigrated to settle Paoli, Orange Cty IN about 1839. A second Apple Chapel and cemetery was established in Paoli, Orange County IN, and is still in existence.
If the research is correct, David is the grandson of Revolutionary War patriot Daniel Apple, born abt 1761 in Pennsylvania and died abt 1849 in Guilford County, NC, and wife Barbara Loeffel Spoon. Most researchers show him descended through their son William Apple and 2nd wife Elizabeth Pettigrew.
MEXICAN WAR SERVICE: Enrolled 13 Jun 1846 at New Albany IN, in Co B, 2nd Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. Mustered out 19 Jun 1847 in New Orleans, LA. Honorable discharge. Private. Fought in the battle of Buena Vista, injured during war with deafness in right ear.
He describes his movements during his service as: from New Albany IN to Silver Creek Ohio River. There to [Stonewall] Jackson's battlefield. There to Rio Grande, across the Gulf to Camp Belknap, TX. There to Carango(?) Saltillo. Led into Buena Vista Battlefield.
The war office shows him stationed: Sept 1, 1846 Camp Belknap TX / Oct 31 1846 same/Dec 31, 1846 Rinconnad? Mexico/ Feb 28, 1847 Aqua Nueva Mexico.
After the war David Allen Apple returns to Paoli, Orange County, IN where he marries LUCINDA ALLSTOTT in 1848. They are found in that county on the 1850 census. However David and other offshoots of the Apple Chapel clan there will move on, heading west and south.
David's son John Wesley will later described him as being "of a roving disposition". He and Lucinda would move their family to Illinois where they stay during the Civil War, followed by moves to Cherokee County, Kansas, then Iowa, then Carroll and Benton County Arkansas, and finally Seligman, Barry County, Missouri. [Note: Carroll County borders Benton Cty Ark to the east, and Barry County MO borders it to the north.] Their grown children and at least some other Apple relatives appear to be either leading the way or following them to the same new areas.
David first applied for a Mexican War pension in 1872, then successfully in 1877, receiving $8 a month. In 1893 and 1895 he applies for a pension increase, citing ill health and insufficient means to support himself and his wife. Several pages and multiple witness affidavits found in the 102-page pension file were submitted to convince the government that his gift of a 200 acre tract of land in Benton County AR land, to his son Charles E. Apple, was not a ruse to impoversh himself to get a higher increase. Both he and son Charles were in bad health and could not work the land. He is left with an fruit orchard on his tract outside Seligman, which he bought after selling a separate 160 acre homestead tract in Benton County ARK. He is almost totally blind, suffering "marked emaciation" and the pension board doctor agrees he is too old and disabled to perform manual labor. He is granted the pension increase, to $12 a month. David dies at his home in Seligman, Barry County MO a few years later, age 75.
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