Descendants of Samuel Tine Owen and Sarah Ward Knight

Samuel Tine Owen and Sarah Ward Knight


Samuel Tine Owen, born 2 August 1795 in S.C., married.on the 6 June 1816,
probably in Chester County, S.C., Sarah Ward  Knight, born 21 July 1800,
York County, S.C.  as that is where her father, Allen Knight, was at that
time.   Samuel Tine Owen was the son of David Owen, born ca. 1765-70 and
Mary Owen, the first record of whom is the 1830  Pike County, Alabama
census.  Family legend states that an Owen- Knight caravan left South
Carolina ca. 1817 to go to Alabama. Recent research has found the Owens in
the same area, Monroe County, Alabama as a group of people from Sumter
County, S.C. whose arrival has been documented as being there in January or
February 1817.  This group was known as the Broughton- Couliette party, and
Nathaniel Broughton's son, Edward Thomas Broughton married Rachel Winborne,
the granddaughter of John Owen of Chester Co., S.C. and daughter of Dempsey
Winborne, Jr.  and Priscilla Owen. Winborne was also a Primitive Baptist
Preacher. The significance of this is that PriscillaOwen Winborne and David
Owen were brother and sister.

On October 1817 Samuel T. Oweings signed a petition to the U.S. Congress
with 363 Co-signers, inhabitants of Alabama Territory residing between and
near the waters of Mobile and the Tombigee River, protesting the annexation
of parts of Alabama to Mississipi.  Another signer of this document was
Dempsey Winborne, a Primitive Baptist Preacher, the son-in-law of John Owen
of Chester County, S.C. who also was in the group that arrived in Monroe
County, Alabama late 1816.  The next record of Samuel Tine is in Monroe
County when he signed a voucher for the sum of $1.00 he borrowed from
Christopher Couliette.  Also signing vouchers were David Owen, Robert Owen
and John Owen. These were dated March and April 1818. (See later)

In 1821, Samuel Tine is found in Pike County, Alabama, listed among the 100
first settlers of that County. He was appointed as a commissioner to select
a seat of Justice for Pike County.  The deed written in long hand begins as
follows:
 Know all men by these present that we , Samuel T. Owen,
   John Hanchy and Barnet Franklin, commissioners, duly
appointed to select a seat of Justice for said County
   of Pike, for and consideration of sixty-two dollars to
   us in hand , paid by John C.  Curtis, the receipt where
   of is hereby acknowledged.  We do hereby acknowledge,
      give, grant, bargain, sell and confirm unto the said John C. Curtis,
 all those tracts or lots situated, lying and being in the town of Troy
known and designated as lots no.  one, three and
   four in Block A measuring ninety-three feet in front
   and depth.  Each one will now fully appear by reference
   to the plan of said town."  The deed was written 6
   October 1838 and recorded in Deed Bk A, p.  554-55.

The family of Samuel Tine. and the families of his father, David ,
brothers, John Bunyan and Robert Fleming Owen are listed on the 1830 census
Pike County, Alabama census. Also living in same area were Kindred Karter
Knight and William Sanders, his brothers-in-law.

Allen Knight, the father of Sarah Ward Knight, died in Lowndes County, 
Alabama in 1839.  Kindred Karter Knight was the administrator.  A summons
was made to Sarah Ward and Samuel Tine Owen  to appear before the Orphans
Court in Lowndes County to show why the real estate of Allen Knight should
not be sold. Each child of Allen Knight's received $458.00 being"their full
distributive share of said estate"in February of 1843.  Also Samuel Tine
was paid for attending Allen Knight for services as a phisician for 18 days
and received $25.00 in 1841 for this.

By this time he and his family had removed to Randolph County, Alabama in
1840.  Samuel Tine is not found on the census there, but his father, David,
is.  A deed is found in Pike County  where they sold land owned jointly by
Samuel Tine, Priscilla S Owen, his sister, and  David Allen Owen to Abram
Cannon .approximately 100 acres for five hundred dollars. Kindred K.
Knight, William Sanders,  Daniel W. Cannon and John A. Williams sign as
witnesses. The deed was dated 12 of February 1840 and recorded 14 May 1840.
William Sanders also sold 39 97/100 acres to Cannon on January 29 1840 to
which David A. Owen was witness. No deed was found to show when they
obtained it.

The records of the Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church of Christ in Randolph 
County show they were in that county by Saturday June 1840 when the
following were received into the church: Polly Owen, S.T. Owen, Sally W.
Owen, Elender Owen, and David R. (A?) Owen.  On October 3, 1840 Samuel T.
Owen was appointed Clerk of the Church.

He served as Tax Collector and Justice of the Peace in Randolph County in
1843.  He ran as Democrat for the Alabama Legislature and defeated Whig
candidate,  Jerry Murphy.  He served in the Assembly in Montgomery in
1845-47.
On November 2, 1850, he and other family members received letters of
dismission from the church.  In the minutes, Samuel Tine states:
       "This closes my clerkship for Shiloh Church, and I hope my brethren
will excuse   
        all my imperfections. Farewell. Samuel T. Owen."
However, they did not leave immediately as he and most of his children and
families were on the 1850 Randolph County, Alabama census which was not
taken until December 3, 1850. The families Of his son, David Allen Owen and
Kindred K. Knight and Stephen Bradley were already in Smith County, Texas
as evidenced by the  1850 Census  taken  several  months earlier.  

Before they left a church was constituted by the group known as Pilgrim's
Rest, and Samuel T. was named clerk.   Samuel Tine and Sarah Owen with his
brother, John Bunyan Owen arrived in Henderson County sometime early in
1851. He became involved in politics soon after his arrival and was elected
Chief Justice (county judge) and was sworn  in 12 August 1852 by Chief
Justice J. B. Luker.

After his arrival here, Samuel T. Owen made application for a Bounty Land
Claim which act was passed in 1851.  He served in the Creek War as private
under Captain James McDougal in Captain Denisons's Company of the Alabama
Militia from 9th June to 28 July 1836.  He was drafted from Pike County,
Alabama on May of 1836 and honorably discharged at Montgomery, Alabama on
or about 1 July 1836.

The dates on the application and official rolls do not agree, but he first
made this claim to E.L. Smith, J. P. on the 5 December 1851.  The original
discharge paper was given to his attorney, Wm. H. Martin, who ,on the 9
December 1851, made oath that he had received it, and in his negligence,
had lost it.

On the 24th April 1855 Samuel Tine made another application for bounty land
under Act of March 3, 1855 and declared that he received a warrant for 40
acres under under the former and sold it to Wm C. Bobo, but he could not
remember the number.  He was entitled to more land and according to
official records received 120 acres No. 10 in 1856.

Samuel Tine Owen died in 1856 and is buried in the Davis Cemetery  in
Athens, Texas beside his wife, Sarah Ward Knight Owen who lived until 18
October 1882.  A rock cairn marked the graves until several years ago when 
descendants placed a monument there.

Sallie Ward Knight kept a Bible record of all the births and deaths of
their twelve children, some of which she outlived. In one entry , she made
the statement " this day Jan. 2, 1848, all my children, sons-in-law,
daughters-in-law, and their children , dined with me , thirty-one in all ,
twelve of whom are members of the Primitive Baptist Church.
The children of Samuel Tine Owen and Sarah Ward Knight were:

   i.         David Allen Owen born 11 July 1817;m. (1) Mary Langstone
(Lansdale)(2)         
              Lucinda   Woodward

ii.	Polly Narcissa Owen born 22 Jan. 1819;m. Stephen Bradley in Pike Co.,
Al.17 Oct   1838 .

iii.	John Wade Owen born 12 Jan. 1821;m. Asenath L. Prewitt 7 December 1842
 
             probably Randolph Co., Al; buried in Cryer Cemetery near Barry
, Texas . 

iv.	Rachel C. Owen born 22 Dec 1822 m. Zachariah Marion Monk 7 December
1848 ;d/ 8/41899.   Rachel is buried in Meredith Campground Cemetery in
Henderson County, Texas

v.	Julia M. Owen  born Feb. 24 1825; m. Richard W. Moore on 5 January 1843
She is     the only child who did not come to Henderson County..

  vi.        Ishmael D. Owen  born 7 Nov.  1826; married Hannah A.A. Daniel
, 5 March   
            1846;m(2) Sarah Clark ;m. (3) Rebecca Herbough

 vii.       Betsy Isabella Owen born 16 Oct 1828;d. 1893; m. William
Meredith Brown;        
              buried   in Davis Cemetery , Henderson County, Tx

viii.  Priscilla M. Owen b. 31 Feb. 1831;d. 26 Jan 1885;m. George W.
Stephens 7 Dec. 1848 the same day        
       as  Rachel and Zachariah  Monk . they lived in the Oak Grove
Community of Henderson Co. near Baxter. 
  
 ix.  Sarah  Emeritus Owen b. 15 April  1833;m. (1) John Brown in Al and
was on 150 census there; m(2)  Simeon        DeRolle Lafayette Davis on
1860 census. ; m.(3)James Hannah by David Allen Owen. She died in Oklahoma 
      20 April 1891.   
  
  x.  Rebecca Elmira Owen born 10 Nov. 1835;m. Stephen Bradley, the widower
of her sister, Polly Narcissa 10        March 1853 Henderson Co., Tx. 

 xi. Martha Maranza Owen born  1 April 1838; m. John Washington Gauntt ,
son of Luke Gauntt; They m. 11       January 1855 according to bible record
of  Samuel Tine and Sarah Ward Owen. She died 16 Feb. 1880;he died      
1912. They are buried in the Myrtle Springs Cemetery near LaRue, Texas. The
Gauntts are said to have traveled        to Henderson County with the
Owen/Knight families and their children.

 xii. William Randolph Owen born 7 May 1841; m. Finetta boles in 1861 by
D.A. Owen. He was imprisoned and        died in a New York prison. 

All of the children were born in  Alabama and with the exception of one
came to Henderson County, Texas and settled.  The children and their
families are continued   


                                                            End Notes and References 
                                                Sarah Ward Knight  and  Samuel  Tine  Owen

1. Bonner Frizzell, The David Allen Owen Family History, 1967. 

2. 1800 York Co., S.C. Census.

3. Chester County, S.C. Deeds

4. Clarence Edward Carter, The Territorial Papers of the United States Vol.
XVII," The Territory of Alabama 1817-1819," 
    Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. ,    P. 198-201.

5. The Pike County County Alabama Historical Society, The History of Pike
county, Alabama.

6. 1830 Pike County Alabama Federal Census.
7. Allen Knight's Estate Records, Lowndes County, Alabama, Coutesy of  The
Dungans  
8. Mildred Laney, Minutes of  the  Shiloh Baptist Church, Clay County,
Alabama 
9.Copy of Suit, John B. Lorez vs. Nathaniel  Broughton & Christopher
Couliette, Monroe Co., Al.

10. Henderson County Commission Court Book B,1852.

11. Henderson County, Texas  Marriage Records and Cemetery Records

12. Copy of Application of Bounty Land  and  Records, courtesy  of  Estelle
 Carter.

13. 1840 and 1850 Randolph  County, Alabama  Federal  Census

14. 1860 Henderson County  Texas Federal Census 


From: Mary Barnes:  MEARSM2@prodigy.net
Descendants of SAMUEL TINE OWEN and SARAH WARD KNIGHT

Descendants of
SAMUEL TINE OWEN and SARAH WARD KNIGHT
