Jacob Owens And Wife Mary Googe Came by horseback from SC. to Pike County Ms.(Now Walthall Co.) Between 1800-1805 and settled on property that runs along dry creek west of Tylertown MS.
Jacob Owens are Noted for being the first to build a water powered Grist Mill in the community on dry creek near Tylertown MS.
He Remarried to Rebecca Anne Curry in 1845 and they had one child, born june 08,1846 named Mylie Jane Owens who is my great grandmother .
Burley Morris
Grave Location :
Jacob Owens Grave is located in Walthall County Near Tylertown,MS. about 500 feet East from the elbow turn in The Eaton Road On a hill top. The Eaton Road Connects to the Mary Sawyer Road located About 2 miles west of Tylertown, MS.
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20 March 2022
This memorial was created several years ago by Burley Morris and transferred to me after his passing. The information above is based on childhood recollections, not actual research. The following is a summation of what I have learned over 40 years of research.
The earliest information about Jacob Owens comes from the "History of Pike County, Mississippi" by Luke W. Conerly. The first mention is that Jacob and his wife, Mary Googe, were born in 1780 and 1784, respectively, and that they came from South Carolina on horseback between 1800 and 1805. From census records we can conclude that the birth years are correct, but it is more likely that the overland trip was in the late 1810's. The older children are listed as being born in South Carolina on census reports in 1850 and 1860. Also, Jacob is not listed on the 1816 Territorial Census of Pike County, Mississippi, but is on the 1820 Federal Census.
The 1810 Federal Census of Barnwell Dist., SC, lists Jacob Owens with a household that would have included himself, his wife, and two daughters under ten years of age, which would be correct based on the family information available. In 1820, Pike County, Mississippi, his household consisted of himself, his wife, five daughters and one male slave under the age of 14. There is no available Census for Pike County in 1830, so the next available census was the Federal Census of 1840. The Jacob Owens household consisted of himself, one son aged 10-14 years (Wm. Lewis), two daughters aged 10-14 years (Adeline and Nancy), two daughters aged 15-19 (Delilah and Jemima), and three slaves. Since there is no older female, we can assume that Mary died prior to 1840.
According to Conerly, Jacob Owens first built a grist mill on the upper end of Dry Creek but the current was not sufficient to power the mill so he moved down stream and constructed a second mill that subsequently was owned by Broadman & Tyler.
The first mill was located east of present-day Payne Road where it crosses Dry Creek north of U.S. Highway 98. The foundations of this structure were visible in the stream bed in 1988, but appear to have been covered over by Mother Nature during floods over the years. This mill used a pair of stones that came to Mississippi as wheels for Jacob's ox cart. My mother, Evelyn Morris Stinson, remembered that one of these stones was in the corner of the yard of a house she lived in as a child in the 1940's.
The second mill was located somewhere west of Meadowbrook Lane in present-day Tylertown, upstream of where MS Highway 27 (Tyler Avenue) crosses Dry Creek. This was on 80 acres of land that Jacob patented in 1840. The southeast corner of this tract is at the junction of Tyler Avenue and Morse Ave and was once the site of one of the last grist mills in Walthall County. It was last operated by the Mr. Jake Cantwell whose mother was a granddaughter of Jacob Owens.
As for the location of the Owens gravesite, it has always been known that it was located somewhere on his property, but has been lost to the ravages of time. A friend of my mother said that she and her husband saw them while walking in the woods in the area sometime in the 1950's. She could not remember anything about it other than it was recognizable as a grave and it could only be that of Jacob Owens. If it were marked with some bricks, it would not have been the bricks in these pictures. Bricks from that time period were handmade whereas these are modern factory-made bricks from a stack in the yard of a nearby house.
There have been many stories told regarding Jacob Owens, some may have even been true. One man who later lived in that area told my mother that he had heard that Jacob had a schoolhouse located on the site where he lived, so I feel he may have been a believer in education. There is a letter written by his daughter, Elizabeth, in the 1850's that shows that she could read and write, which was not very common at the time when many, especially girls, were not afforded the benefit of an education.
If anyone has information that can be added to this, please contact me through Find A Grave.
Terry Stinson
Tylertown, MS
Jacob Owens are Noted for being the first to build a water powered Grist Mill in the community on dry creek near Tylertown MS.
He Remarried to Rebecca Anne Curry in 1845 and they had one child, born june 08,1846 named Mylie Jane Owens who is my great grandmother .
Burley Morris
Grave Location :
Jacob Owens Grave is located in Walthall County Near Tylertown,MS. about 500 feet East from the elbow turn in The Eaton Road On a hill top. The Eaton Road Connects to the Mary Sawyer Road located About 2 miles west of Tylertown, MS.
_______________
20 March 2022
This memorial was created several years ago by Burley Morris and transferred to me after his passing. The information above is based on childhood recollections, not actual research. The following is a summation of what I have learned over 40 years of research.
The earliest information about Jacob Owens comes from the "History of Pike County, Mississippi" by Luke W. Conerly. The first mention is that Jacob and his wife, Mary Googe, were born in 1780 and 1784, respectively, and that they came from South Carolina on horseback between 1800 and 1805. From census records we can conclude that the birth years are correct, but it is more likely that the overland trip was in the late 1810's. The older children are listed as being born in South Carolina on census reports in 1850 and 1860. Also, Jacob is not listed on the 1816 Territorial Census of Pike County, Mississippi, but is on the 1820 Federal Census.
The 1810 Federal Census of Barnwell Dist., SC, lists Jacob Owens with a household that would have included himself, his wife, and two daughters under ten years of age, which would be correct based on the family information available. In 1820, Pike County, Mississippi, his household consisted of himself, his wife, five daughters and one male slave under the age of 14. There is no available Census for Pike County in 1830, so the next available census was the Federal Census of 1840. The Jacob Owens household consisted of himself, one son aged 10-14 years (Wm. Lewis), two daughters aged 10-14 years (Adeline and Nancy), two daughters aged 15-19 (Delilah and Jemima), and three slaves. Since there is no older female, we can assume that Mary died prior to 1840.
According to Conerly, Jacob Owens first built a grist mill on the upper end of Dry Creek but the current was not sufficient to power the mill so he moved down stream and constructed a second mill that subsequently was owned by Broadman & Tyler.
The first mill was located east of present-day Payne Road where it crosses Dry Creek north of U.S. Highway 98. The foundations of this structure were visible in the stream bed in 1988, but appear to have been covered over by Mother Nature during floods over the years. This mill used a pair of stones that came to Mississippi as wheels for Jacob's ox cart. My mother, Evelyn Morris Stinson, remembered that one of these stones was in the corner of the yard of a house she lived in as a child in the 1940's.
The second mill was located somewhere west of Meadowbrook Lane in present-day Tylertown, upstream of where MS Highway 27 (Tyler Avenue) crosses Dry Creek. This was on 80 acres of land that Jacob patented in 1840. The southeast corner of this tract is at the junction of Tyler Avenue and Morse Ave and was once the site of one of the last grist mills in Walthall County. It was last operated by the Mr. Jake Cantwell whose mother was a granddaughter of Jacob Owens.
As for the location of the Owens gravesite, it has always been known that it was located somewhere on his property, but has been lost to the ravages of time. A friend of my mother said that she and her husband saw them while walking in the woods in the area sometime in the 1950's. She could not remember anything about it other than it was recognizable as a grave and it could only be that of Jacob Owens. If it were marked with some bricks, it would not have been the bricks in these pictures. Bricks from that time period were handmade whereas these are modern factory-made bricks from a stack in the yard of a nearby house.
There have been many stories told regarding Jacob Owens, some may have even been true. One man who later lived in that area told my mother that he had heard that Jacob had a schoolhouse located on the site where he lived, so I feel he may have been a believer in education. There is a letter written by his daughter, Elizabeth, in the 1850's that shows that she could read and write, which was not very common at the time when many, especially girls, were not afforded the benefit of an education.
If anyone has information that can be added to this, please contact me through Find A Grave.
Terry Stinson
Tylertown, MS
Jacob Owens And Wife Mary Googe Came by horseback from SC. to Pike County Ms.(Now Walthall Co.) Between 1800-1805 and settled on property that runs along dry creek west of Tylertown MS.
Jacob Owens are Noted for being the first to build a water powered Grist Mill in the community on dry creek near Tylertown MS.
He Remarried to Rebecca Anne Curry in 1845 and they had one child, born june 08,1846 named Mylie Jane Owens who is my great grandmother .
Burley Morris
Grave Location :
Jacob Owens Grave is located in Walthall County Near Tylertown,MS. about 500 feet East from the elbow turn in The Eaton Road On a hill top. The Eaton Road Connects to the Mary Sawyer Road located About 2 miles west of Tylertown, MS.
_______________
20 March 2022
This memorial was created several years ago by Burley Morris and transferred to me after his passing. The information above is based on childhood recollections, not actual research. The following is a summation of what I have learned over 40 years of research.
The earliest information about Jacob Owens comes from the "History of Pike County, Mississippi" by Luke W. Conerly. The first mention is that Jacob and his wife, Mary Googe, were born in 1780 and 1784, respectively, and that they came from South Carolina on horseback between 1800 and 1805. From census records we can conclude that the birth years are correct, but it is more likely that the overland trip was in the late 1810's. The older children are listed as being born in South Carolina on census reports in 1850 and 1860. Also, Jacob is not listed on the 1816 Territorial Census of Pike County, Mississippi, but is on the 1820 Federal Census.
The 1810 Federal Census of Barnwell Dist., SC, lists Jacob Owens with a household that would have included himself, his wife, and two daughters under ten years of age, which would be correct based on the family information available. In 1820, Pike County, Mississippi, his household consisted of himself, his wife, five daughters and one male slave under the age of 14. There is no available Census for Pike County in 1830, so the next available census was the Federal Census of 1840. The Jacob Owens household consisted of himself, one son aged 10-14 years (Wm. Lewis), two daughters aged 10-14 years (Adeline and Nancy), two daughters aged 15-19 (Delilah and Jemima), and three slaves. Since there is no older female, we can assume that Mary died prior to 1840.
According to Conerly, Jacob Owens first built a grist mill on the upper end of Dry Creek but the current was not sufficient to power the mill so he moved down stream and constructed a second mill that subsequently was owned by Broadman & Tyler.
The first mill was located east of present-day Payne Road where it crosses Dry Creek north of U.S. Highway 98. The foundations of this structure were visible in the stream bed in 1988, but appear to have been covered over by Mother Nature during floods over the years. This mill used a pair of stones that came to Mississippi as wheels for Jacob's ox cart. My mother, Evelyn Morris Stinson, remembered that one of these stones was in the corner of the yard of a house she lived in as a child in the 1940's.
The second mill was located somewhere west of Meadowbrook Lane in present-day Tylertown, upstream of where MS Highway 27 (Tyler Avenue) crosses Dry Creek. This was on 80 acres of land that Jacob patented in 1840. The southeast corner of this tract is at the junction of Tyler Avenue and Morse Ave and was once the site of one of the last grist mills in Walthall County. It was last operated by the Mr. Jake Cantwell whose mother was a granddaughter of Jacob Owens.
As for the location of the Owens gravesite, it has always been known that it was located somewhere on his property, but has been lost to the ravages of time. A friend of my mother said that she and her husband saw them while walking in the woods in the area sometime in the 1950's. She could not remember anything about it other than it was recognizable as a grave and it could only be that of Jacob Owens. If it were marked with some bricks, it would not have been the bricks in these pictures. Bricks from that time period were handmade whereas these are modern factory-made bricks from a stack in the yard of a nearby house.
There have been many stories told regarding Jacob Owens, some may have even been true. One man who later lived in that area told my mother that he had heard that Jacob had a schoolhouse located on the site where he lived, so I feel he may have been a believer in education. There is a letter written by his daughter, Elizabeth, in the 1850's that shows that she could read and write, which was not very common at the time when many, especially girls, were not afforded the benefit of an education.
If anyone has information that can be added to this, please contact me through Find A Grave.
Terry Stinson
Tylertown, MS
Jacob Owens are Noted for being the first to build a water powered Grist Mill in the community on dry creek near Tylertown MS.
He Remarried to Rebecca Anne Curry in 1845 and they had one child, born june 08,1846 named Mylie Jane Owens who is my great grandmother .
Burley Morris
Grave Location :
Jacob Owens Grave is located in Walthall County Near Tylertown,MS. about 500 feet East from the elbow turn in The Eaton Road On a hill top. The Eaton Road Connects to the Mary Sawyer Road located About 2 miles west of Tylertown, MS.
_______________
20 March 2022
This memorial was created several years ago by Burley Morris and transferred to me after his passing. The information above is based on childhood recollections, not actual research. The following is a summation of what I have learned over 40 years of research.
The earliest information about Jacob Owens comes from the "History of Pike County, Mississippi" by Luke W. Conerly. The first mention is that Jacob and his wife, Mary Googe, were born in 1780 and 1784, respectively, and that they came from South Carolina on horseback between 1800 and 1805. From census records we can conclude that the birth years are correct, but it is more likely that the overland trip was in the late 1810's. The older children are listed as being born in South Carolina on census reports in 1850 and 1860. Also, Jacob is not listed on the 1816 Territorial Census of Pike County, Mississippi, but is on the 1820 Federal Census.
The 1810 Federal Census of Barnwell Dist., SC, lists Jacob Owens with a household that would have included himself, his wife, and two daughters under ten years of age, which would be correct based on the family information available. In 1820, Pike County, Mississippi, his household consisted of himself, his wife, five daughters and one male slave under the age of 14. There is no available Census for Pike County in 1830, so the next available census was the Federal Census of 1840. The Jacob Owens household consisted of himself, one son aged 10-14 years (Wm. Lewis), two daughters aged 10-14 years (Adeline and Nancy), two daughters aged 15-19 (Delilah and Jemima), and three slaves. Since there is no older female, we can assume that Mary died prior to 1840.
According to Conerly, Jacob Owens first built a grist mill on the upper end of Dry Creek but the current was not sufficient to power the mill so he moved down stream and constructed a second mill that subsequently was owned by Broadman & Tyler.
The first mill was located east of present-day Payne Road where it crosses Dry Creek north of U.S. Highway 98. The foundations of this structure were visible in the stream bed in 1988, but appear to have been covered over by Mother Nature during floods over the years. This mill used a pair of stones that came to Mississippi as wheels for Jacob's ox cart. My mother, Evelyn Morris Stinson, remembered that one of these stones was in the corner of the yard of a house she lived in as a child in the 1940's.
The second mill was located somewhere west of Meadowbrook Lane in present-day Tylertown, upstream of where MS Highway 27 (Tyler Avenue) crosses Dry Creek. This was on 80 acres of land that Jacob patented in 1840. The southeast corner of this tract is at the junction of Tyler Avenue and Morse Ave and was once the site of one of the last grist mills in Walthall County. It was last operated by the Mr. Jake Cantwell whose mother was a granddaughter of Jacob Owens.
As for the location of the Owens gravesite, it has always been known that it was located somewhere on his property, but has been lost to the ravages of time. A friend of my mother said that she and her husband saw them while walking in the woods in the area sometime in the 1950's. She could not remember anything about it other than it was recognizable as a grave and it could only be that of Jacob Owens. If it were marked with some bricks, it would not have been the bricks in these pictures. Bricks from that time period were handmade whereas these are modern factory-made bricks from a stack in the yard of a nearby house.
There have been many stories told regarding Jacob Owens, some may have even been true. One man who later lived in that area told my mother that he had heard that Jacob had a schoolhouse located on the site where he lived, so I feel he may have been a believer in education. There is a letter written by his daughter, Elizabeth, in the 1850's that shows that she could read and write, which was not very common at the time when many, especially girls, were not afforded the benefit of an education.
If anyone has information that can be added to this, please contact me through Find A Grave.
Terry Stinson
Tylertown, MS
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See Owens & Thornhill Cemeteries in Walthall County MS. for his family burials
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