Re: Owens in Pittsylvania County Virginia
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Owens in Pittsylvania County Virginia
Gerry Hill 11/26/04
I would like your input please.On the 1767 Tithables List for Pittsylvania County you will find a Thomas Shannon and David Cazey listed for July 17, 1767 by Peter Copland.
The Shannon/Cazey (Casey) connection, plus a Thomas SR Shannon daughter marriage to Lewis Salmon(s) in Pittsylvania County March 20, 1770, leads us to believe this is the Thomas SR Shannon, of Wilkes County, Georgia, married to Elinor/Elender/Eleanor RINGE +/- 1751, place unknown, but heretofore presumed to have been in PA.
This Shannon couple have a second daughter named Hannah who married a Thomas Owen in late 1771 or early in 1772 (there was an 8 month old child in October, 1773).We would LIKE to believe the marriage took place while the family was still in Pittsylvania County before they left for and claimed land in the "Ceded Lands" of NE Georgia.
We would like to prove that Hannah Shannon married Thomas JR Owen of Pittsylvania County.
This Thomas SR. Shannon named his last son (b. +/- 1762) OWEN Shannon.I am unable to determine if Thomas SR. Shannon lived in Pittsylvania a long time so that all of his children were born there,half born there, and/or there might be a long time friendship with an Owen family, and that to honor this friendship, he named his last child Owen.
There is a very strong connection between this Shannon family and the Casey families in the following years in Georgia and then in Texas.
Owen Shannon leaves NE Georgia, possibly as early as 1806,and is in Lawrence County, Missouri Territory (becomes NE Arkansas) in 1815; in Arkansas County, Missouri Territory (south 1/2 of Arkansas) in 1816, is at Pecan Point on Red River (border area between Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma) 1819-1820, and ends up at Ayish (Irish) Bayou on the Red Sandy in 1821.He leaves east Texas for the Brazos River and Austin's 2nd Colony, perhaps as early as 1827,and dies in pre-Montgomery County, Texas in 1834.
I need help with the Owen connection. . .I suspect it goes deeper than just the marriage of daughter Hannah to Thomas Owen.
Thank you for your time and attention to my request for information.
Maggie Robinson
Houston, Texas
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Re: Owens in Pittsylvania County Virginia
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