This seems to be a popular name. My Samuel Shannon had a daughter named Margaret Shannon who married Jesse Hardwick in Nicholas County, Kentucky on November 13, 1839. I've found several Samuel Shannons in the general area; one in Woodford County and one in Nicholas, but the one in Nicholas was a Presbyterian minister with a lot of land, and somehow I don't think that is the correct one. Does anyone know anything about this Samuel Shannon or his daughter, Margaret? Much obliged. Mary