Sarah Jenno and Eliza Jenno Attest to Frances' Claim

State of Indiana, County of Floyd

On this 21st day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine personally appeared before me John B Mitchell, Clerk of the Floyd Circuit Court a Court of record in and for the County and State aforesaid. Frances Buxton, aged 78 years who, being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of John O. Buxton, who served in the war of 1812 from the State of Virginia, she thinks, but she cannot say from what county or in what company, that he drew a pension on account of said service but she does not know the number of his certificate.
That she was married under the name of Frances Jenno to said John O Buxton at Sparta, White County, Tennessee by Lane a Justice of the Peace on or about March 1823, as near as she can now remember, but that she has no record of said marriage and the records of said White County have been burned up. Consequently she will be compelled to prove or exercise the functions of any office whatever under any authority or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States, that she is not in receipt of a pension under any previous act, that she makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the pension roll of the United States under the provisions of the act approved March 9, 1878, and hereby constitutes and appoints John H. Stotsenburg of New Albany, Indiana, her true and lawful attorney to prosecute her claim and procure the issuance of a pension certificate to her, that her residence and post office address is New Albany, Indiana
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Sarah Jenno
Eliza Jenno
                                             her
                                Frances X  Buxton
                                            mark

Also personally appeared Eliza Jenno and Sarah Jenno residing on Bark Street near Spring, New Albany, Indiana persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being by me duly sworn, say they were present and saw Frances Buxton, the claimant, make her mark to the foregoing declaration, that they have every reason to believe from the  appearance of said claimant and their acquaintance with her that she is  the identical person she represents herself to be adn at no time during the last rebellion against the authority of the United States did she adhere to the cause of the enemies of the government, or give them aid or comfort, that they know of their own personal knowledge that said Frances Buxton has not remarried since the death of her said husband, that their acquaintance with her is such that if she had they must have known it. The said Eliza Jenno for herself says that she has know Frances Buxton the claimant and her husband John O Buxton for more than fifty years and knows that they lived together as man and wife and raised a large family of children. Officiants have no interest in this claim
Sarah Jenno
Eliza Jenno
Sworn and Subscrived before me this 21st day of January 1879 and hereby certify that the contents of the above declaration were fully made known and explained to the applicant and witnesses before ____ that I have no interest in this claim

John B Mitchell
Clerk Floyd Circuit Court