Me too! Dorris Shannon Rhoades of Anchorage, Alaska (laketaho@gci.net) How do we do this? ----- Original Message ----- From: <pansyed@juno.com> To: <SHANNON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [SHANNON-L] Shannon searchers newsletter > > You can add me to the list > > Ed Shannon > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005

I am a Shannon searcher, and would be willing to pay for the newsletter also. Thanks JM Shannon

So would I-Dorris Shannon Rhoades of Anchorage, Alaska (laketaho@gci.net) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Patsy" <mpass99@traceroad.net> To: <SHANNON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 7:32 AM Subject: [SHANNON-L] Shannon searchers newsletter >I am a Shannon searcher, and would be willing to pay for the newsletter >also. > Thanks > JM Shannon > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005

I would also like to know the cost. Signed; Dorris Shannon Rhoades in Anchorage, Ak. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry Sommers" <sommersbreeze@csonline.net> To: <SHANNON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [SHANNON-L] Re: Shannon Searchers newsletter > Dear Joyce, > > I also would be interested in your Shannon Searchers Newsletters. Will > you have enough to go around? Please let me know what the cost would be. > > Thanks, > Sharon > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.1 - Release Date: 1/27/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005

Everyone makes a typo, you also gave everyone a great laugh. You have done so much for the Shannon List that we should give you a medal of honor. Great job, Joyce! Joyce Brennan ----- Original Message ----- From: <JSBRIDG@aol.com> To: <SHANNON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [SHANNON-L] John D. Shannon & Lydia Leach > PLEAssssssssssssssE Mike, > I just got over my blushing at my typo.........now I'm redish again. > hahaha > Joyce > >

I wonder how much of what we "know" about our ancestors is based on earlier typos and transcription errors? Russ Reid -----Original Message----- From: JSBRIDG@aol.com [mailto:JSBRIDG@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 12:49 PM To: SHANNON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SHANNON-L] John D. Shannon & Lydia Leach PLEAssssssssssssssE Mike, I just got over my blushing at my typo.........now I'm redish again. hahaha Joyce

PLEAssssssssssssssE Mike, I just got over my blushing at my typo.........now I'm redish again. hahaha Joyce

Okay. Now I get it! Thought this was the first case of states not acting on the gay marriage issue. ;-)

Maybe some of you Historians can clear up for me the part in Jeff Bridges message about the marriage of John D. and Percy being 'sodomized'? Mike Shannon North Carolina In a message dated 1/27/2005 11:44:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, JSBRIDG@aol.com writes: 2nd document: Know all men by these presents that one John D. Shannon and Jordan ???? are hereto firmly bound unto the court of Ky in the just & full sum of Fifty pounds current money of Kentucky - to the payment whereof were and ???? to be made. We bind ourselves ?????, jointly & severally by these presents - signed this 8th Feby 1842 All conditions of the above is such that whereas a marriage is shortly to be sodomized between the above ??? John D. Shannon and Percy Day of the County of Henry - consent legally given Now if it shall always appear that there is no lawful cause to obstruct said marriage that the above obligation to be void else to remain in full force and nature. Signed J.D. Shannon & J. ???

Hi Jimmy: Is the below mentioned Powell Valley in KY or TN? I'm curious because there is also a "Powell Valley" in Anderson Co. (in East TN) very near where my 5th G-Grandfather William Shannon came to in 1795 from Greenbriar County in Virginia. However, the Shannon's of East TN and Middle TN were only distant relatives, having branched off several decades earlier in PA. Thanks, Melinda Shannon Freels http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-shannonfamily P.S. I saw your inquiry about David Wilburn Shannon. Wasn't he being researched by Sheilia Lawson? Whatever happened to her website? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy Kerr" <jimmykerr@the-i.net> To: <SHANNON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:21 PM Subject: [SHANNON-L] Priest Stratton Shannon > While trying out the new MSN search engine found this at : > http://www.deyoungmatson.com/Price/Documents/descendants_of_rees%20prees%20price%209%202004.htm > > With the Priest's in the Powell Valley were men whose name correspond with > allied family surnames: Andrew Hatfield, Christy Martin, Phillip Martin, > William, John, and Hugh Moor, Sam and John Savage, Samuel Vance, Arthur > Blackburn, Dangerfield and John Harmon, and most of all the names of > Shannon's. > > These Shannon names are especially significant because of their > inter-marriage with the Stratton's and, Preece's or Priest's) and because > all three group came from Amherst County, Virginia into Kentucky and > Tennessee. The Powell Valley muster roll of Capt. Daniel Smith also included > the names of Samuel, Thomas and John Shannon. It was Samuel who drove in > cattle to feed the hungry men of Fort Blackmore, although he pled for more > protection, and it was undoubtedly about Samuel when Maj. Arthur Campbell > wrote to Col. William Preston under date of October 16, 1774, Royal Oaks, "I > am obliged to continue Shannon out here sometimes as he is a forward careful > hand, and I am of late much put to it to get provisions carried out to > Blackmore." > > Interesting biographical data is given on the Shannon's by Henry Scalf, who > is a descendant of Solomon Stratton. This Stratton was with the Illinois > Expedition with Gen. George Rogers Clark. (Later on a younger brother, > William Clark, was to have with him a Pvt. George Shannon on the famed Lewis > and Clark Expedition). Mr. Scalf, well known writer on Kentucky history, and > publisher of a genealogical magazine, THE EAST KENTUCKIAN (on the Dallas > Public Library shelves) states that the Shannon's of this area came from > Balcony Falls, Amherst County, Virginia, in 1796. This line was descended > from the marriage of William Laine, a Revolutionary soldier, to Nancy > Shannon in Amherst County. James Shannon Layne founded the family in > Lawrence County and the surrounding area of Kentucky. He further cites from > an old manuscript, of which the author is unknown, that the Bible records of > James Shannon Layne showed that William Layne Shannon of Tazewell County, > Virginia, was born October 13, 1772, and that apparently a Methodist > minister by the name of Billy Shannon from Tazewell County was of this same > family of Laynes. Billy Shannon died at the home of his son, Thomas. > (Amherst County marriage records reveal that in 1780 marriage occurred > between a Thomas Laine, Jr., and Mary Stratton, who was the daughter of > Henry Stratton. - L.P.) The manuscript further showed that William Shannon > had a brother by the name of Layne Shannon. This brother died in Wyoming > County, West Virginia. > > "These Shannon's.," Mr. Scalf related, "had intermarried with the Stratton's > in Amherst, and they continued to intermarry after they came to Kentucky. > There are plenty of Stratton's here today with 'Shannon' as a middle name. > They have been important people in the development of the region....I think > William Laine's (Layne) father was also a William Laine." > > This Shannon line, with branches in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas > and Missouri was perpetuated in Texas when William Martin Preece (Priest) > and Elizabeth Gideon (Giddens) Preece came to Red River County, Texas after > leaving Pike County, Kentucky in 1838. They had a land grant in Hopkins > County, but moved on through Lamar and Hopkins Counties, and-then into > Travis County about 1845. Theirs was a sad mission in the latter county. > They wanted to search for the grave of their son, Reuben R., who went with > the Red River Volunteers from Clarksville (The Northern Standard, June 3, > 1846) "to help fight Santa Anna." When the Preeces reached Travis County > they settled in the hills near Austin. Like their ancestory, they did not > want civilization to encroach too much on them. Today the site of their last > homestead includes part of Hickmantown (named Hickman kin) in the Highland > Lakes area. (As a little girl I could climb one of the chinaberry trees in > my grandmother's yard and see the capitol dome-L.P.) The Preeces left behind > in the Red River area other kin, including another Tandy Stratton, grandson > of the Tandy who married Mary Preece, and Elizabeth Gideon Preece's brother, > Absolem, who secured a land grant in 1832. There was also Reuben Gideon > (only the name was later known as Giddens), of Floyd County, Kentucky, who > came in 1839. A Methodist Episcopal minister, he performed the marriage > ceremony of William Martin Preece and his daughter, Elizabeth in Pike > County, Kentucky, in 1825. His wife is believed to have been Nancy Stratton, > since marriage records of Wilkes County, North Carolina for 1797, a trail of > migration for these related individuals, show such a marriage, and a Reuben > Gideon is shown on the 1810 and 1820 Census records along with Stratton's, > etc. > > In time to be listed on the 1860 Census of Travis County, Texas, came > Elizabeth Watkins Shannon, also of Stratton descent, who was born in > Washington County, Arkansas. Lately widowed, her husband, David Wilburn > Shannon, had died in Neosho, Newton County, Missouri, where he had taken his > family. He is shown on the 1850 Census of Newton County, Missouri to have > been born in Tennessee, where Elizabeth Gideon is also said to have been > born. The Shannon's children were born in Arkansas and Missouri and then > again in Arkansas as they returned there. The 1830 Census of Washington > County, Arkansas lists the names of Granville, Hugh, and Joseph Shannon. The > Watkins' came from Wales into Kentucky, and thence into Arkansas. Elizabeth > Shannon is buried in the hill section near Austin, in the Preece cemetery > while William and Elizabeth Preece are buried in Post Oak Bend Cemetery "up > the river." > > The Shannon's first settled at Gilleland's Creek, once a fort. Then followed > the usual family pattern, established among the early pioneers when the > population was smaller and distance was great. Three sons of William Martin > Preece married three daughters of Elizabeth Watkins Shannon: Richard Lincoln > Preece (my grandfather- L.P.) was married to Mary Catherine Shannon; Wayne > Pulaski Preece, whose son, Wayne, is now the patriarch of the-Preece family > in Austin, married Margaret Shannon; Zachary Taylor Preece was married to > Francis (or Fanny) Shannon. Their many descendants today live in Austin and > some remain in what is left of the hill country. > > The sons of Martin and Elizabeth Preece fought no less bravely in our > country's hectic but victorious existence than the sons of Alexander Boone > Preece and Louvenia Stratton, back in Kentucky. Louvenia, who was married to > Alexander Boone Preece, in 1823, was descended from Solomon Stratton, the > Revolutionary soldier who left Amherst County, Virginia, and came to the Big > Sandy Valley in 1796. With him were other Stratton's and allied lines. He > founded Prestonsburg, in Floyd County, and the Stratton Settlement at Mare > Creek, Narrows. Both Forrest Preece and Mrs. Winnie May Preece Allen are > descendants of this couple. Mrs. Allen now lives in Arlington, Virginia, and > handles the research in the Library of Congress. Forrest Preece has a son > busy in the London libraries. > > The early historical background of this entire clan is merely the background > of bitter struggle, of victory, and of the ever-onward push of civilization > by those early pioneers who helped to build a nation. The complex pattern of > migrations and formations are like jigsaw puzzles--they join, break apart, > and join again-but always there is the marvelous continuity that makes the > final superb picture. Research leads not into one trail, but many, until > there is an emergence of lines other than one's own to be recognized by the > intrepid genealogist. History lives, it blossoms and even fades, but it > regenerates itself through tradition, historical records, perhaps in some > tattered book on a shelf or some forgotten tombstone, as in the Preece > Cemetery on Bull Creek near Austin. The shafts of sunlight penetrate the > cedarbrake where lie the graves of Union soldiers, their widows, and some of > their descendants. > > More About WILLIAM PRIEST: > >

While trying out the new MSN search engine found this at : http://www.deyoungmatson.com/Price/Documents/descendants_of_rees%20prees%20price%209%202004.htm With the Priest's in the Powell Valley were men whose name correspond with allied family surnames: Andrew Hatfield, Christy Martin, Phillip Martin, William, John, and Hugh Moor, Sam and John Savage, Samuel Vance, Arthur Blackburn, Dangerfield and John Harmon, and most of all the names of Shannon's. These Shannon names are especially significant because of their inter-marriage with the Stratton's and, Preece's or Priest's) and because all three group came from Amherst County, Virginia into Kentucky and Tennessee. The Powell Valley muster roll of Capt. Daniel Smith also included the names of Samuel, Thomas and John Shannon. It was Samuel who drove in cattle to feed the hungry men of Fort Blackmore, although he pled for more protection, and it was undoubtedly about Samuel when Maj. Arthur Campbell wrote to Col. William Preston under date of October 16, 1774, Royal Oaks, "I am obliged to continue Shannon out here sometimes as he is a forward careful hand, and I am of late much put to it to get provisions carried out to Blackmore." Interesting biographical data is given on the Shannon's by Henry Scalf, who is a descendant of Solomon Stratton. This Stratton was with the Illinois Expedition with Gen. George Rogers Clark. (Later on a younger brother, William Clark, was to have with him a Pvt. George Shannon on the famed Lewis and Clark Expedition). Mr. Scalf, well known writer on Kentucky history, and publisher of a genealogical magazine, THE EAST KENTUCKIAN (on the Dallas Public Library shelves) states that the Shannon's of this area came from Balcony Falls, Amherst County, Virginia, in 1796. This line was descended from the marriage of William Laine, a Revolutionary soldier, to Nancy Shannon in Amherst County. James Shannon Layne founded the family in Lawrence County and the surrounding area of Kentucky. He further cites from an old manuscript, of which the author is unknown, that the Bible records of James Shannon Layne showed that William Layne Shannon of Tazewell County, Virginia, was born October 13, 1772, and that apparently a Methodist minister by the name of Billy Shannon from Tazewell County was of this same family of Laynes. Billy Shannon died at the home of his son, Thomas. (Amherst County marriage records reveal that in 1780 marriage occurred between a Thomas Laine, Jr., and Mary Stratton, who was the daughter of Henry Stratton. - L.P.) The manuscript further showed that William Shannon had a brother by the name of Layne Shannon. This brother died in Wyoming County, West Virginia. "These Shannon's.," Mr. Scalf related, "had intermarried with the Stratton's in Amherst, and they continued to intermarry after they came to Kentucky. There are plenty of Stratton's here today with 'Shannon' as a middle name. They have been important people in the development of the region....I think William Laine's (Layne) father was also a William Laine." This Shannon line, with branches in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri was perpetuated in Texas when William Martin Preece (Priest) and Elizabeth Gideon (Giddens) Preece came to Red River County, Texas after leaving Pike County, Kentucky in 1838. They had a land grant in Hopkins County, but moved on through Lamar and Hopkins Counties, and-then into Travis County about 1845. Theirs was a sad mission in the latter county. They wanted to search for the grave of their son, Reuben R., who went with the Red River Volunteers from Clarksville (The Northern Standard, June 3, 1846) "to help fight Santa Anna." When the Preeces reached Travis County they settled in the hills near Austin. Like their ancestory, they did not want civilization to encroach too much on them. Today the site of their last homestead includes part of Hickmantown (named Hickman kin) in the Highland Lakes area. (As a little girl I could climb one of the chinaberry trees in my grandmother's yard and see the capitol dome-L.P.) The Preeces left behind in the Red River area other kin, including another Tandy Stratton, grandson of the Tandy who married Mary Preece, and Elizabeth Gideon Preece's brother, Absolem, who secured a land grant in 1832. There was also Reuben Gideon (only the name was later known as Giddens), of Floyd County, Kentucky, who came in 1839. A Methodist Episcopal minister, he performed the marriage ceremony of William Martin Preece and his daughter, Elizabeth in Pike County, Kentucky, in 1825. His wife is believed to have been Nancy Stratton, since marriage records of Wilkes County, North Carolina for 1797, a trail of migration for these related individuals, show such a marriage, and a Reuben Gideon is shown on the 1810 and 1820 Census records along with Stratton's, etc. In time to be listed on the 1860 Census of Travis County, Texas, came Elizabeth Watkins Shannon, also of Stratton descent, who was born in Washington County, Arkansas. Lately widowed, her husband, David Wilburn Shannon, had died in Neosho, Newton County, Missouri, where he had taken his family. He is shown on the 1850 Census of Newton County, Missouri to have been born in Tennessee, where Elizabeth Gideon is also said to have been born. The Shannon's children were born in Arkansas and Missouri and then again in Arkansas as they returned there. The 1830 Census of Washington County, Arkansas lists the names of Granville, Hugh, and Joseph Shannon. The Watkins' came from Wales into Kentucky, and thence into Arkansas. Elizabeth Shannon is buried in the hill section near Austin, in the Preece cemetery while William and Elizabeth Preece are buried in Post Oak Bend Cemetery "up the river." The Shannon's first settled at Gilleland's Creek, once a fort. Then followed the usual family pattern, established among the early pioneers when the population was smaller and distance was great. Three sons of William Martin Preece married three daughters of Elizabeth Watkins Shannon: Richard Lincoln Preece (my grandfather- L.P.) was married to Mary Catherine Shannon; Wayne Pulaski Preece, whose son, Wayne, is now the patriarch of the-Preece family in Austin, married Margaret Shannon; Zachary Taylor Preece was married to Francis (or Fanny) Shannon. Their many descendants today live in Austin and some remain in what is left of the hill country. The sons of Martin and Elizabeth Preece fought no less bravely in our country's hectic but victorious existence than the sons of Alexander Boone Preece and Louvenia Stratton, back in Kentucky. Louvenia, who was married to Alexander Boone Preece, in 1823, was descended from Solomon Stratton, the Revolutionary soldier who left Amherst County, Virginia, and came to the Big Sandy Valley in 1796. With him were other Stratton's and allied lines. He founded Prestonsburg, in Floyd County, and the Stratton Settlement at Mare Creek, Narrows. Both Forrest Preece and Mrs. Winnie May Preece Allen are descendants of this couple. Mrs. Allen now lives in Arlington, Virginia, and handles the research in the Library of Congress. Forrest Preece has a son busy in the London libraries. The early historical background of this entire clan is merely the background of bitter struggle, of victory, and of the ever-onward push of civilization by those early pioneers who helped to build a nation. The complex pattern of migrations and formations are like jigsaw puzzles--they join, break apart, and join again-but always there is the marvelous continuity that makes the final superb picture. Research leads not into one trail, but many, until there is an emergence of lines other than one's own to be recognized by the intrepid genealogist. History lives, it blossoms and even fades, but it regenerates itself through tradition, historical records, perhaps in some tattered book on a shelf or some forgotten tombstone, as in the Preece Cemetery on Bull Creek near Austin. The shafts of sunlight penetrate the cedarbrake where lie the graves of Union soldiers, their widows, and some of their descendants. More About WILLIAM PRIEST:

David Wilburn Shannon (born 1811 Davidson Co. Tenn ?) (died in Mo. around 1859 ?) married Elizabeth Watkins She born Washington Co. Ark. 1826. 6 children married Unknown Ellis 5 children Does anyone know this David Wilburn Shannon and have any proof of his father ? Jimmy Kerr

HI All, On the www.rootsweb.com web page under message boards Shannon surname I have added my photos of my Shannon's, Please take a look and see if you can see a resemblance to your families. Thanks, Sallie ps I have 2 more photos I need to scan this week. I will add them soon and let you know. Roy Shannon as an adult and Samuel E. Shannon "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less" unknown

Please have a look at my files and see if you can help me with this John who I hope is the father of my robert Shannon. Thanks kindly, Rebecca Shannon Descendants of John Shannon Generation No. 1 1. John2 Shannon (Thomas1) was born Abt. 1778, and died Abt. 1806 in Abbeville SC. He married Elizabeth. Children of John Shannon and Elizabeth are: + 2 i. Robert3 Shannon, born 1805 in VA or NC. 3 ii. James Shannon, died 1822 in Abbeville SC. + 4 iii. Mary Polly Shannon. See notes below of estate. Generation No. 2 2. Robert3 Shannon (John2, Thomas1) was born 1805 in VA or NC. He married Nancy Crawford. She was born in VA or NC. Notes for Robert Shannon: The Robert and Nancy Shannon family are on the SC Census from 1830-50. Then they appear on the Carroll Co GA census in 1860. Living very near is a Richard Shannon. According to SC Edgefield census, Robert was born about 1794 and maybe in SC. He married Nancy Crawford and she was born abt 1794. They were parents of 7 living children. In the 1850 household were two Miner children John 16 Catharine 14 relationship unkn ______________________________________ John Shannon, Box 87, Pack 2142. Estate adminr. March 4, 1806 by Elizabeth Shannon, Robt. Gibson, John Pinkerton, Jas. Richey, Saml. Foster unto Andrew Hamilton Ord. Abbeville. Dist. sum $10,000.00 Expend. 2/16/1813 paid 1.25 for a hat for Robert Shannon, 11/24/1809 paid for boarding Jas., Robt. Shannon 13.12, Sale, 3/24/1806, Byrs. Elizabeth Shannon, Saml. Miller, Benjamin Northcutt, Alexr. McKinney, Wm. Anderson, John Pinkerton, Wm. McIlwain, Robt. Givson, Wm McKain, John Gobson, Dr. John Miller, Jas. Richey Jr., Wm. Norris, John Brown, etc. Abbeville District Wills and Bonds, p. 299 James Shannon, Box 83, Pack 2049: Will dated April 10, 1822. Prov. July 16, 1822. Exrs. WmRichey, Sr., John Donnald. Wit. Jas., Wm. Richey, John Donnald, Bro. Robert Shannon, Sis. Polly Shannon otherwise Polly Fields, John & Elizabeth Fields, chn of Polly Shannon _____________________________________ Children of Robert Shannon and Nancy Crawford are: + 5 i. James Monroe4 Shannon, born 01 Mar 1830; died in Iredell, Texas. + 6 ii. Sarah A. Shannon, born 13 Jul 1833 in SC; died 05 Jun 1897 in Shelby Co. Alabama. 7 iii. Ezra Shannon, born 1835. 8 iv. Richard Shannon, born 1837. 9 v. Ona or Orra Shannon, born 1840. + 10 vi. Samuel Shannon, born 28 Oct 1841 in North Carolina?; died 10 Mar 1915 in Arkansas. + 11 vii. Franklin Pickens Shannon, born 1848 in SC; died 1916. 4. Mary Polly3 Shannon (John2, Thomas1) She married Fields. Children of Mary Shannon and Fields are: 12 i. John4 Fields. 13 ii. Elizabeth Fields. Generation No. 3 5. James Monroe4 Shannon (Robert3, John2, Thomas1) was born 01 Mar 1830, and died in Iredell, Texas. He married (1) Isabella C. Pearce 20 May 1859 in Benton Co. Alabama. She died Abt. 1861. He married (2) Mary Elizabeth Thrasher Tedder Aug 1865 in Alabama. She died Abt. 1894 in Iredell, Texas. Child of James Shannon and Isabella Pearce is: 14 i. Robert5 Shannon, born 1860. Children of James Shannon and Mary Tedder are: 15 i. Eva Green5 Shannon, born 1867. 16 ii. Mary Shannon, born 1868. 17 iii. Sara B (Alabama) Shannon, born 1870. 18 iv. Ann Shannon, born 1872. 19 v. Metha Elizabeth Shannon, born 1876. 20 vi. Clora Shannon, born 1877. 21 vii. Nanny D. Shannon, born 1883. 6. Sarah A.4 Shannon (Robert3, John2, Thomas1) was born 13 Jul 1833 in SC, and died 05 Jun 1897 in Shelby Co. Alabama. She married Martin H. Fowler 22 Mar 1852 in Edgefield Co SC. He was born 01 Nov 1830 in SC, and died 03 Jun 1913 in Shelby Co Alabama. : 1880 census Alabama Sarah A. FOWLER Age: 47 Estimated birth year: <1833> Birthplace: South Carolina Occupation: Keeping House Home in 1880: Oxford, Calhoun, Alabama Head of household: Martin H. FOWLER Father's birthplace: SC Mother's birthplace: SC Martin H. FOWLER Age: 49 Estimated birth year: <1831> Birthplace: South Carolina Occupation: Blacksmith Home in 1880: Oxford, Calhoun, Alabama Father's birthplace: SC Mother's birthplace: SC Children of Sarah Shannon and Martin Fowler are: 22 i. Louisa Jane5 Fowler. 23 ii. Elizabeth H. Fowler. 10. Samuel4 Shannon (Robert3, John2, Thomas1) was born 28 Oct 1841 in North Carolina?, and died 10 Mar 1915 in Arkansas. He married Sallie Sara C. Knight 29 Oct 1868 in Polk co ? Georgia, daughter of unkn and Elisabeth A.. She was born 14 Jun 1848 in GA, and died 19 Apr 1915 in Arkansas. Obituary of Samuel Shannon from the Van Buren County Democrat March 1915. Terminating a residence of more that forty years in this county, "Uncle" Sam Shannon, one of Choctaw township's oldest and best know citizens, died Wednesday night, March 10, 1915, aged 72 years. "Uncle Sam" was born in South Carolina October 28, 1842, moving to Georgia during his boy-hood days. At the age of twenty six years, or on October 29, 1868 he was married to Miss Sallie Knight, and with whom he soon thereafter emigrated to Arkansas, locating in the Choctaw Township. In 1861 when his horizon was darkened by the war cloud, "Uncle Sam", true to his nativity, shouldered his musket and no better demonstration of southern patriotism was ever exhibited. During his four years of service he participated in twenty-seven hard fought battles, the most noteable of which perhaps was Murfreesboro, and the skirmishes incident to the defense of Richmond in the "Two great campaigns against Richmond". During the last campaigns, in the battle of Chancellorsville, he was on picket duty and witnessed the killing of Stonewall Jackson. In August, 1912, he feeling the weight of a man's sins, and desiring to lean upon the strong arm of Jesus, joined the Christian Church and thereafter lived a true Christian life. During his long residence in the township he was known and recognized by all as a good man. Almost three years of intense suffering was endured by him previous to his departure which came in answer to his supplications. Interment took place at the Huie Cemetery, March 11, 1915. Reverend Loftis officiated. Children of Sam and Sallie Knight Shannon were Robert, Tom, John, Ellen, Lizzie, Rose and Nancy Samuel and Sallie are buried together in the Huie Cemetery between Choctaw and Clinton. Samuel Shannon Claimed Residence in Terrell County Enlist Date Enlist Place Enlist Rank Enlist Age 09 September 1862 Priv Promoted to Full 4th Corpl Served Georgia Enlisted E Co. 5th Inf Reg. GA Source: Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865 Abbreviation: GARosterC Published by Longino & Porter on 1955-58 on 1870 Carroll Co Ga census 13 Shannon Robert M653 113 430 Villa Rica PO District 2 52 Shannon Richard M653 113 436 Villa Rica PO District 2 More About Samuel Shannon:Fact 1: moved to Ga as a boy Fact 2: Aug 1912, joined the Christian Church Military service: Bet. 1862 - 1865, joined Confederacy in GA Children of Samuel Shannon and Sallie Knight are: + 24 i. John Ezra5 Shannon, born 18 Aug 1887. + 25 ii. Robert Franklin Shannon, born 06 Aug 1870 in GA; died 02 Sep 1938. + 26 iii. Thomas David Shannon. + 27 iv. Rose Ann Shannon, born 08 Sep 1881; died 01 Jul 1948. 28 v. Mary Elizabeth Shannon, born 1879 in AR. She married Will Rainwater. More About Mary Elizabeth Shannon:Name (Facts Pg): also known as Lizzie + 29 vi. Nancy Shannon. 30 vii. Jo Ellen Shannon, born 1869 in GA. She married John Garron. 31 viii. Phelix S. Shannon, born 1877 in AR. 11. Franklin Pickens4 Shannon (Robert3, John2, Thomas1) was born 1848 in SC, and died 1916. He married Telisa Telicie Hunter. She was born 1847. Children of Franklin Shannon and Telisa Hunter are: + 32 i. Luke5 Shannon. 33 ii. William I Shannon, born 1879. + 34 iii. Ed L. Shannon, born 1884 in Arkansas; died 1964 in Quattlebaum Cemetery. 35 iv. Elonzo Lonnie Shannon, born 1873. 36 v. Ollie Shannon. 37 vi. Daisy Shannon. 38 vii. Nellie Shannon. 39 viii. Ada Shannon.

This list is really getting active so I will add my Shannon inquiry again.Last year after looking for my ggrandmother for about four years I found that she married one Gideon Shannon in Delaware Co Indiana in 1858.Her husband disappeared from their log cabin on Godfrey Indian Reserve a year or so before that.It has always been told that he either was taken by the Indians who still passed through there or he ran off.I have not found a divorce or death notice for him.Her name was Susannah Garrison and she had one on(my grandad) who was born in 1852.I do have this marriage but will have to dig through that file as I had given up finding them.I beleive it gave her name as Garretson.I found them in the 1860 census of Jay Co? Then in 1870 Blackford and I think in 1879 he remarried so I am presuming that Susannah died.I haven't found her death or burial place.She and Gideon had four more children and this new wife in the last census I found them in had two more.I also found a small article in Blackford Co saying Gideon was a cripled school teacher in Blackford Co..If anyone is interested in this family I will go over that file and give more exact dates and names for these children.As I remember I didn't find anyone looking for any of them at the time I was doing that research.There is also more of this Shannon family in Blackford Co.In fact I grew up there coming fron a family of 12.My sisters best friend was Martha Shannon and we had know idea at the time that she was part of our ggrandmother's family.She was killed right after the graduated high school in a car wreck.I found her parents graves and they have a stone but she is buried there with know stone. Let me know if anyone wants to correspond about this family. Jeany Garrison Roark

HI All, Since the list is so active I am giving it another shot...those of you have seen this before please be patient with me...Thanks, Sallie George Shannon b: 11 January 1829 OHIO, unknown county --6'1" blue eyes married Melinda HEDGES b: Kentucky to Peter Hedges with ties to Davies and Ohio COUNTY KY. Her father Peter moved the family to Logan county ILL. He married a ROGERS>(2nd wife and not Melinda's mom) Peter's parents were Polly Ann Davis and Caleb Hedges. George shows up again in Cass County IOWA in 1852 as a first settler. Meets up with Pete Hedges, and several others, a Morris and Timothy HOBLIT (various spellings here) Timothy b: Clinton Co OHIO. Seems my George may have been taken in by this family as a lad. I am not sure of this. The Hoblit family is found in GREENE co OHIO. I have found only 2 Shannon's in the census at this time frame. 1820-1830 that could have fathered my George. Georges parents are listed as born OHIO. I have requested his death certificate from CA and it has no information on his parents. He died There is an Elinore Elmira Shannon someone sent me born 1823 OHIO died Logan Co Illinois. 1880 if this helps. All families back then depended on each other when they went on to new towns. I am hoping this jogs some one's memory. I have a photo of him at age 60 and one of his son Charles about age 25-30 I will be happy to send to anyone who asks even if just curious to see them. I also have one of Melinda abt age 55-58 and one of Charles wife Clara Alice Miller abt age 18-23 Thanks for all your help. Sallie Rosa searching these names: Shannon, Galligan,Hedges,Hining,Rouch,Barrett,Miller,Mueller "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less" unknown

At present I am researching our family in Bucks County PA during the 1700. Sooner or later I must try to track down Samuel Shannon who was apparently born in Cavan county January 29, 1718. Are you doing research in Ireland at present?

You are definitely further back in the Shannon family history than I. I have been able to get to about 1825--Patrick Shannon born in Ned Co. Cavan--married Rose Fitzpatrick approx. 1845-50. We do not know any of Patrick's family. The immediate family did not arrive in the US until the 1920's. If there is anyway to tie into the Shannon's prior to 1825 I would appreciate you help. Thank you Kevin

In a message dated 01/29/2005 10:33:14 pm Central Standard Time, laketaho@gci.net writes: If you will give me a few days to rifle through a box of paperwork, we may have the civil war history. Dorris Shannon Rhoades of Anchorage, Alaska Are you related to the Shannon (S. James Shannon) that served with the 16th Michigan Infantry, in Brady's Sharpshooters, from 1861-1865? --or otherwise have information about him? If so, I'd love to have it--I know which battles he engaged in, etc., and that he lost an eye in 1863, but not a whole lot else.... Clay Shannon, author of the upcoming book "STILL CASTING SHADOWS: Two American Families 1620-2006"

Hi Welthy, This is all I know about her prior to her marriage: Nancy (my gr-gr-grandmother) was born near Lexington Ky October 30, 1820 and died February 25, 1902 in Bellefontaine, Ohio. She married John Foreman in 1838 in Ohio and had 12 children. She had lived in Auglaize and Logan counties(Ohio). I have only a picture of one her sons but he has an oval face. After her parents died, it says she was raised by a neighbor. I don't know if it was common to take a new family's name when that happened at that time. With no info on parents or siblings, I have no clue where to go next. I was hoping if I could locate her obit that it would have some info. Thanks. Trudy W Nachtigal <wnachtigal@twlakes.net> wrote:Hi Trudy, If I can help you I will be more than pleased to. I have been collecting Shannon information for about 30 years trying to get back further than my second great-grandparents Joseph Shannon and Rebecca Binns who were married in 1836 in Fayette county, Ohio. That Shannon who went on the Lewis & Clark Expedition was a George Shannon, son of George Shannon Sr. and wife Jane Milligan. As far as I have been able to discover (in about 30 years) he is not related to the other Shannons who were in the Lexington, Kentucky area way back. BUT- I have also seen suggestions that his father George, Sr. had brothers who also came to the U.S. If anybody ever tracks that one down for sure, he or she deserves a medal. There's tons of information floating around about that family as George, Jr. went on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, his brother James was secretary to Andrew Jackson, one of his brothers, either Thomas or John was elected to Congress and his brother Wilson was Governor of Ohio twice. What interested me in that family is- a picture I have of my grandfather James Henry Shannon resembles very much a picture I found of the aforementioned Wilson Shannon, especially the "long face" of each of them. I will be happy to send you the 2 pictures if you are interested. Otherwise I have no reason at all to assume they might be related. So, tell me exactly what you are looking for and where they were that you know of. I have made what I call a Locality/Chronology Index of Shannon information and who knows what might shake out of that. Welthy