Joseph OWENS
Internet IGI (Aug 2003)
Ordinance Index, Ver. 1.02
Internet IGI - 2004, April
Internet IGI - 2004, April
BURIAL: Blackburn Cemetery is located on Coleto Creek. It was formerly known as Benham's Hole Cemetery. NOTE: An undocumented online genealogy states that Joseph Owens fathered five children with a slave girl Jinny. The same genealogy identifies his parents as Fanny (Kennedy) and William Owens and that his wife, Elizabeth Bennett's parents were Sarah Margaret Singletary and William Swinton Bennett.
DEATH: May have died in Escambia County, Florida. NOTE: Nancy Owens is reported to have had a son, William Swinton Bennett Owens, assumed to have been born out-of-wedlock. An undocumented online genealogy states that the child was adopted by his grandparents.
He married Elizabeth Bennett Abt 1807 at of Orangeburg, South Carolina . Elizabeth Bennett was born at St. Thomas Parish, Berkeley, South Carolina Abt 1783 daughter of (prob) William Swinton Bennett and (poss) Sarah Margaret Singletary .
They were the parents of 4
children:
William Swinton Bennett Owens
born 5 Jan 1808.
Charles Pinckney Owens
born 1810.
Nancy Owens
born Abt 1812.
William Swinton Bennett Owens
born 1828.
Joseph Owens died 1860 at Goliad, Goliad, Texas .
Elizabeth Bennett died Aug 1859 at Goliad, Goliad, Texas .