OWENS Family Notes
Submitted by Jim (MacRorieJA@aol.com), April 2003
John Owens (one of my ggggg-grandfathers) was born in 1766 in Ireland, parents and location unknown to me. His wife Nancy Barr Owens was born in 1770 in Pennsylvania to Andrew Barr and Jane Hamilton Barr. Andrew Barr had come to the US from Ireland with his father William Barr with 4 brothers and 2 sisters. He was a Revolutionary War veteran in the Pennsylvania Militia.
John & Nancy were married
somewhere in Virginia in the 1790's and moved to Fairfield County, Ohio in 1804
to join Nancy's father and 4 brothers. They purchased land and moved to Richland
County, Ohio in 1814.
All of the Owens in the older
section of Mount Olivet Cemetery are their children, except for several
grandchildren.
Children:
Andrew
Margaret
Archibald (and wife Christina
Bear)
Mary (wife of Richard Barr)
Sarah (wife of Robert Houston
Sr)
Hester Dunlap Barr is the wife
of Richard Barr. He's not a brother of Nancy Barr Owens but may be related.
Their son Robert married Mary Owens (daughter of Nancy Barr Owens), and another
son married Mary Neal, a granddaughter of Nancy Barr Owens.