Coming down into my Grandma Mary Agnew’s family, there is another line of the last name OWEN. I spent some time w/ them today, you know, sitting at their kitchen table drinking coffee and talking. Anyway………..
In one obituary, John Leatherwood Owen, our ancestor, is said to be of WELSH descent. He is said to be buried in Leatherwood cemetary, near Bedford Indiana, but no photo yet. He and his wife Polly have a daughter named Sarah Sallie. In those days, anyone named Sarah is called Sallie, & many times both names go together.
Sarah Sallie marries Thomas Reid, which is the line my Grm. Mary comes from.
The Owen family starts in Virginia with Walter O. Owen, in our tree, in 1708. They go to Wilkes County, North Carolina at some point. Then some of them head to Kentucky, & from there, southern Indiana. A few of them also end up in Tennessee.
John Leatherwood’s father was Barnett Owen. I have a copy of his will. He left his son John $20.00. 🙂 Bartlett doesn’t mention his wife, Frances (*note: my middle name*), so I think she died before him in the same year of 1829.
Bartlett & Frances have 11 children. His will gave me last names of all his daughters (their married names). I have not yet found back to the Welsh ancestor.
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