Amanda Benton m. Thomas H. Owen (Obion Co, TN?)
I am looking for any information concerning Amanda Benton who married Thomas H. Owen ca. 1859/1860 possibly in Obion Co, TN.Thomas H. Owen (the son of Jonathan Owen and Margory Ivey) was born 22 Jan 1831 in Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co, TN before moving to Obion Co, TN with his parents and siblings in 1844.
Thomas Owen and Amanda Benton had two daughters, Sadie and Marjorie Isabella (Bell) Owen.Marjorie Isabella (Bell) Owen was born 14 Mar 1861 in Little Rock, Pulaski Co, Arkansas and married Hugh Alexander Blair Jan 1879 in Union City, Obion Co, TN.Amanda Benton died sometime in 1861, leaving her two infant daughters, and Thomas Owen remarried shortly thereafter before he too died in the Civil War in 1862.Thomas's second wife (only just maried before being widowed) left the two daughters, Sadie and Bell, to be raised by their Benton relatives in the area around Obion Co, TN.
Family history indicates that Amanda Benton was a relative of Thomas Hart Benton and that her daughter Bell Owen (raised by her Benton relatives) was bitter about being cheated out of Benton lands around Memphis, TN.
I've reached a bit of a brick wall trying to establish the identity of Amanda Benton's parents.The only potential link I have found is an Amanda Benton listed in the 1850 Dyer Co, TN census born about 1844/1845 to Doctor Abner Benton (nephew of Senator Thomas Hart Benton) and Mary Ann Wardlow.This Amanda is no longer listed in the 1860 census with the rest of the family and was either already dead or married (by age 15/16).Abner Benton and Mary Ann Wardlow had multiple children that later lived in Memphis, TN.Since the Amanda Benton that married Thomas Owen was wed around 1859, I haven't yet been able to rule out the possibility (however circumstantial) that she could be the daughter of Abner Benton.
At this point, I'm still drawing at straws.I'd appreciate any information or theoriesabout the ancestry of the Amanda Benton who married Thomas H. Owen.
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Thanks!
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Re: Amanda Benton m. Thomas H. Owen (Obion Co, TN?)
Patricia Landwehr 11/30/03
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Re: Amanda Benton m. Thomas H. Owen (Obion Co, TN?)
John Cliburn 12/02/03
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Re: Amanda Benton m. Thomas H. Owen (Obion Co, TN?)