Translation (word for word-as best I can)
State of Indiana
County of Floyd
On this 19th day of November, A.D. eighteen
hundred and seventy nine personally appeared before me, Clerk C of the
Circuit Court, a Court of Record in and for the County and State aforesaid,
Mary or Polly Mayfield, aged ninety two years, a rsident of Edwardsville,
County of Floyd, State of Indiana, who, being duly sworn according to the
law, declares that she is the widow of Levi Mayfield, who served the full
period of sixty days in the (1) military service of the United States in
the War of 1812, and who was the identical Levi Mayfield who (2) volunteered
in Captain Kelly's Company, Col. Callaways Regiment, 8th Ky Military Brigade,
General Harrison's Cov'd Division at Middletown KY, on the 28th day of
August 1813, and was honorably discharged at Maysville KY, on the 1st day
of December 1813; that (3) he was in the battle of the Thawes~
That her said husband was sometimes called Isaac Mayfield as well
as Levi and she does not know whether he was enrolled under the name of
Levi or Isaac~ neither claiment or her husband were ever ?? married~and
she has not again married since his death
that she was married under the name of Polly Rooksberry to said
Levi Mayfield, on the 14th day of July, A.D. 1814, by Rev. Benjamin Allen,
at Boston, Jefferson Co., Ky, there being no legal barrier to such marraige,
that her said husband did at Floyd County Indiana, on the 18th day of January
1839, and that she has not remarried since his death; that at no time during
the late rebellion against the authority of the United States did
she or her husband adhere to the cause of the enemies of the Government,
giving them aid or comfort, or exercised the functions of any office whatever
under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the Untited
States; that she will support the Constitution of the Untited States; that
she is not in reciept of a pension under any previous act; that she
makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the pension rolls
of the United States, inder the provisions of the act approved February
14, 1871, and hereby constitutes and appoints, with full power of substitution
and revocation, M.M. Carr of Louisville Ky her true and lawful attorney
to protect her claim and obtain the pension certificate thta may be issued
?? her post office is at Edwardsville, County f Floyd, State of Indiana;
that her domicile or place of abode is Edwardsville Floyd County Indiana-
Sotherland Mayfield
George W. Snider