John Ferguson 1755-1842 and his descendants
John Ferguson was born January 15, 1755, in York County, Virginia.
He lived there and enlisted in the Army during the Revolutionary War. He
later moved to Guilford County, North Carolina. In 1811, he moved to
Greene County, Ohio, and in 1813 to Wayne County, the part that became
Union County, in Indiana Territory. In 1831 he moved to Boone County,
Indiana. He applied for a soldiers pension on the 21st of April 1834,
when he was a resident of Sugar Creek Township. He died there on
February 14, 1842.
He was married to Bethany deacons on May 26, 1828, in Union County,
Indiana. As a widow, on April 10th, 1856 she applied for a Widow's
Pension, in Putnam County, Indiana. She was aged 62.
John's children from this marriage were: Jonathon, born the 7th of
December 1829, and Bethany, born March 20th, 1831. In 1855 and Anderson
G. Dinkins of Putnam County Indiana, stated he was at te wedding of the
soldier and Bethany Dinkins. No relationship was stated. The Widow
Pension # was W10777.
Aaron Jasper Ferguson's wife Rebecca (Plunkett) Ferguson, died when
the children were young, and they were farmed out to relatives. Aaron
Ferguson was a cooper by trade. His sons Jesse and Frank, and a cousin
Peter Ferguson, moved from Boone County, Indiana, after the Civil War, to
the government homestead land in Otoe County, Nebraska. Peter and Jesse
married sisters Eliza Ann Beasley and Susan C. Beasley. Jesse and Susan
C (Beasley) Ferguson had three children. Jesse divorced Susan, and got
custody of the children. He married Mary Ann Whited, when she was 16
years old. Frank Ferguson married Eliza Ann Davis.

1. Moses FERGUSON b: 23 Dec 1793 in Guilford County, North Carolina
2. Mary FERGUSON
3. Martha FERGUSON
4. Rebecca FERGUSON
5. Nathan FERGUSON
6. William FERGUSON
7. John FERGUSON
8. David Barrow FERGUSON
9. Elizabeth FERGUSON
10. Joseph FERGUSON
11. Benjamin FERGUSON
12. Hannah FERGUSON
13. Sarah FERGUSON