This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Owens, Layfield, Cash, Young, Adams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pVB.2ACI/1832.1876.1.1 Message Board Post: Dorris, My Samuel Owens was born in 1770 in Orange County, North Carolina. He married Tyretia Cash Young. They had a son Samuel Owens, born 1795 in Orange County, North Carolina. They moved to Humphreys County, Tennessee about 1810. I would guess shortly after Only Owens died. Record indicate that Belitha Owens was born in North Carolina in 1810 and Rebecca Owens was born in Humphreys County Tennessee in 1812. That would indicate Samuel moved shortly after his father Only Owens died. In the 1820 census, Samuel did not have an elderly female living with him in this census, however the 1830 census indicates that an elderly female lived with him, that was over 50 years of age. I am speculating that it is Sarah Owens his mother. That was common practice for the eldest son to care for their mother. She is not in the 1840 census which would indicate she died between 1830-40. Samuels wife Tyretia is listed as a widow in the 1850 census. It is possible that this woman was someone other than! Sarah Owens, however, it has been my experience that the widow is taken in by the eldest son. Samuel Owens, son, Samuel born in 1795, married Mary (unknown) and moved to Rockcastle County, Kentucky around 1820. His second eldest son, Job Owens, born 1834, married Hettie Adams. Job and Hetties son, William Owens, born 1854, was my greatgrandfather.