Cemetery marker transcriptions from LOONEY Cemetery at the Michael (3) Looney homeplace. [ Abasalom (2), Robert (1) ] Abt 9 miles north of Rogersville, Hawkins Co TN Off Hwy 11W on Stanley Valley Rd. Looney, John Oct 02, 1799 Aug 08, 1880 Looney, Elizabeth Aug 03, 1798 Nov 02, 1882 w/o John Looney Regards, ///Steve Looney/// > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [LOONEY-L] Help with John Looney (b. abt 1800) and wife Elizabeth (b. about 1801) > Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 18:32:21 EDT > From: JimmyDCain@aol.com > To: LOONEY-L@rootsweb.com > > Can any of you help me reconcile date differences I have come up with on John > Looney (b. 1780/1800) and wife Elizabeth Johnson? > > Previously I had from the S WALLS geneaology database that this John Looney 4 > (Michael 3, Absolum 2, Robert 1) was born on 2 Oct 1779 in Hawkins Co, TN, d. > 8 Aug 1880) and that he married Elizabeth Johnson "abt 1800." [<A HREF="http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:a13499&id=I1795"> > http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:a13499&id=I1795</A> ] > > I have just come across the following Hawkins County Census record (<A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnhawkin/1870dis9.htm"> > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnhawkin/1870dis9.htm</A> ) that gives the following: > > 38     LOONEY, JOHN – FARMER  70     M      W      TN >        ELIZABETH      71     F      W      TN >        ORVILL B.      31     M      W      TN >        ELIZABETH      21     F      W      TN >        JOHNSON, JACKSON       12     M      W      TN > > 39     LOONEY, MICHAEL – FARMER       43     M      W      TN >        SUSAN  40     F      W      TN >        VIRGINIA       19     F      W      TN >        ELIZABETH      14     F      W      TN >        JULIA  11     F      W      TN >        CORNELIUS      8      M      W      TN >        JOHN   3      M      W      TN >        MATILDA 1      F      W      TN > > I doubth that the transcription is wrong for both John and Elizabeth. By > deduction, this census record must be for the right John and Elizabeth. (Son > named Orville B., dau named Elizabeth, and boy Jackson Johnson present in the > household; house next door is their son Michael [w/~2 yr date discrepancy from > SWALLS]. Michael's household matches with wife Susan, daus Virginia, Elizabeth > and Julia (all at correct ages)+more younger children not carried there. > > I suspect that the SWalls database has assigned birth (and maybe death) date > to the WRONG John Looney. Lord knows there are enough of them <grin>. Since > census is demonstrably 20 years off John's attributed age, can anyone tell me > which John Looney WAS actually born in Oct 1779 (and his death info if also > available)? > > Thanks, > Jim Cain, a VERY distant but curious cousin. I come from the Robert (2) line.