This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: VerlorenSeele Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.mcdonald/2888.1.1.1.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: That's interesting about Walter's brother John being a sheriff. The Nancy I Sanders who appears to have been briefly married to Walter Tennison had a cousin Florence (Flora) Sanders who married William Nelson Dalton. While William Nelson Dalton has no known connection to the Dalton Gang; his father and brother were photographed with Jessie James. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mobarry/photos/photo-3/dalton.family.htm And William Nelson Dawson's uncle Joshua Owen (his mother's brother) was hanged as a bushwacker: Dalton Message Board: Rebecca Owen is the daughter of Presley Owen and Elizabeth Unknown. They moved from Clay County IN to Stone County, MO in the 1850's. Presley died in 1858.Stone County is next door to Barry County on the west and Taney county on the east. Presley's son Joshua Owen married Elizabeth Sondles in IN in 1852. They were in Stone County in the Civil War where Joshua was hung as a bushwacker. The following quote talks about cooprider and Church who were neighbors in 1850 of Presley Owen. "If one is to believe an account in TRAVIS's HISTORY OF CLAY CO., INDIANA, Joshua OWEN was never buried. On pages 538-539 is the following account: "Within the first quarter of a century of the county's history there lived in Harrison township a man named Presley OWEN, who emigrated to southwest Missouri before the Civil War--at some time in the fifties. While in this county OWEN was regarded as a man of considerable prominence, especially so in local politics, having been at various times a candidate for county office. In the family there were six sons, all of whom went to Missouri. As they were on the border line of union and disunion, two of them enlisted in the Federal and two in the Confederate army, while the other two joined the bushwhackers, in whose ranks Joshua OWEN, the eldest son, became a captain. The bushwhackers cared no more nor no less for one side than for the other and committed their depradations alike upon unionists and disunionists. They were sometimes ! routed and pursued by detachments from the Union forces and at other times by detachments from the Rebel army. Once upon a time a large number of them were corraled, including Captain Joshua OWEN and his men, and the leaders dealt with summarily by hanging. When Elias COOPRIDER and Elijah CHURCH made a trip down into that part of the country in 1871, six years after the war closed, when lands in Tawney and other counties in southwest Missouri were being sold hereabout by agents, they came into association with residents on White river who entertained them with detailed accounts of the bushwhacker element, and especially of the fate of Captain Joshua OWEN, who was shown no quarters whatever, of whom a most wretched example was made by his captors. Instead of suspending him in the usual way, an upright limb on a jack-oak tree was cut down to a stub, the end of which was then sharpened to a point and driven into the base of the skull from the back of the neck to a sufficient d! epth to make sure of its holding the body, and there it continued to d angle untouched by anyone. They (COOPRIDER and CHURCH) were told that the skull was still pinioned to the stub of that limb, but that the bones of the body lay strewn about on the ground under the tree, as might be seen by anyone going upon the scene." Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I have the book Mcdonald County Sesquicentennial Family Histories. There is an article in the book about the Tennison Family. If you are interested, I could scan it and send it to you. Raye Dean Charlier ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 10:47 AM Subject: Re: [MOMcDona] hard to read marriage license > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: VerlorenSeele > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.mcdonald/2888.1.1.1.1.1.2/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > That's interesting about Walter's brother John being a sheriff. > The Nancy I Sanders who appears to have been briefly married to Walter > Tennison had a cousin Florence (Flora) Sanders who married William Nelson > Dalton. > While William Nelson Dalton has no known connection to the Dalton Gang; > his father and brother were photographed with Jessie James. > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mobarry/photos/photo-3/dalton.family.htm > And William Nelson Dawson's uncle Joshua Owen (his mother's brother) was > hanged as a bushwacker: > > Dalton Message Board: > Rebecca Owen is the daughter of Presley Owen and Elizabeth Unknown. They > moved from Clay County IN to Stone County, MO in the 1850's. Presley died > in 1858.Stone County is next door to Barry County on the west and Taney > county on the east. Presley's son Joshua Owen married Elizabeth Sondles in > IN in 1852. They were in Stone County in the Civil War where Joshua was > hung as a bushwacker. The following quote talks about cooprider and Church > who were neighbors in 1850 of Presley Owen. > > > "If one is to believe an account in TRAVIS's HISTORY OF CLAY CO., INDIANA, > Joshua OWEN was never buried. On pages 538-539 is the following account: > "Within the first quarter of a century of the county's history there lived > in Harrison township a man named Presley OWEN, who emigrated to southwest > Missouri before the Civil War--at some time in the fifties. While in this > county OWEN was regarded as a man of considerable prominence, especially > so in local politics, having been at various times a candidate for county > office. In the family there were six sons, all of whom went to Missouri. > As they were on the border line of union and disunion, two of them > enlisted in the Federal and two in the Confederate army, while the other > two joined the bushwhackers, in whose ranks Joshua OWEN, the eldest son, > became a captain. The bushwhackers cared no more nor no less for one side > than for the other and committed their depradations alike upon unionists > and disunionists. They were sometimes ! > routed and pursued by detachments from the Union forces and at other times > by detachments from the Rebel army. Once upon a time a large number of > them were corraled, including Captain Joshua OWEN and his men, and the > leaders dealt with summarily by hanging. When Elias COOPRIDER and Elijah > CHURCH made a trip down into that part of the country in 1871, six years > after the war closed, when lands in Tawney and other counties in southwest > Missouri were being sold hereabout by agents, they came into association > with residents on White river who entertained them with detailed accounts > of the bushwhacker element, and especially of the fate of Captain Joshua > OWEN, who was shown no quarters whatever, of whom a most wretched example > was made by his captors. Instead of suspending him in the usual way, an > upright limb on a jack-oak tree was cut down to a stub, the end of which > was then sharpened to a point and driven into the base of the skull from > the back of the neck to a sufficient d! > epth to make sure of its holding the body, and there it continued to d > angle untouched by anyone. They (COOPRIDER and CHURCH) were told that the > skull was still pinioned to the stub of that limb, but that the bones of > the body lay strewn about on the ground under the tree, as might be seen > by anyone going upon the scene." > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. 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