Re: The Owen Boys - A hypothesis
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In reply to:
The Owen Boys - A Tennessee/Missouri Mystery
Kent McMath 12/18/04
One step toward solving the mystery would be clearing up the awkward double marriage for Samantha, where she's married to Silas Owen in the 1850 census and to Marcellus Owen in the 1860 census.
Suppose they are the same man?The names, Silas and Marcellus, don't sound exactly alike, but maybe Samantha called him "Cellus" in 1850 and the census taker heard the name as "Silas."Stranger things have happened.
If this hypothesis is true, there were only two Tennessee brothers, Marcellus Owen and Marcus Aurelius Owen, whose origins I am looking for.