This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Owen, Cobb, Pruitt (Prewitt), Richardson, Stevens, Green Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AC.2ACE/1475 Message Board Post: I am a descendent of Harrison G. & Mary Owen of Halifax Co. on my paternal grandmother's side. H.G. & Mary were the parents of Berta S. Owen who married Thomas S. Tombes(Toombs) and had 2 daughters, Rosa Averett (my grandmother) and Mary Lee. I was at the family cemetery week before last and the land it rests on is for sale. I just discovered this connection - my last aunt, Rosa, told me of going to clean this cemetery years (50+) ago. I knew of the Owen line but was not prepared for Granville Owen (22 Feb 1813 - 26 Dec 1875), Thomas Green (7 Apr 1831- 13 Mar 1901), Dona Green (illegible) and the 3 Stevens' brothers - George W., Thomas D. & Robert W. - who were veterans of Co. F 53rd VA Regt. INF. After I left the cemetery, I went to the Courthouse but the Owen family had NUMEROUS legal difficulties after the Civil War. Our (Richardson) Family Bible includes a discription of Mary A. Owen's death but the marriage rscords in Halifax indicate she may have been a Cobb but ! you'll seem to say she was an Owen. I would like more info on this line as there are MANY Owen families in Halifax & Pittsylvania and many of them appear to come from John Owen of Prince Edward County. Sons of John also settled in Pittsylvania. Lucy Owen married Samuel Pruitt 2 but I believe she is the daughter of Samuel Owen who died before 1754 in Frederick Co. MD, where the Pruitts were from, and a Samuel Pruitt is named in the inventory of Samuel Owen & there is no record of their marriage in Chatham. Possibly a brother to John Owen of Prince Edward but I would need to look at the MD records to know for sure. My Families 19th Century burying ground is on land originally surveyed for William Owen around Kentuck and my 3rd Gr grandmother was Lucy Owen. Does this connect w/ anyone? Any info would be appreciated. Thanx, Eric Richardson