prev  next John and Dorothy Hardeman © 2008 Michal M. Farmer Page 47

Home


    
children of my deceased son William Owen and one share to the children of my deceased daughter Jane Arnold. Elizabeth Echols of course receiving nothing until the balance of my children and grandchildren are made equal to her. Also the property given to my wife during her life I wish to be distributed at her death in the same manner that I have above directed the balance and residue of my estate to be distributed. In regard to the portion that may fall under this will to my daughter Elizabeth Echols I will and bequeath the same to my Executor hereinafter named in trust for the sole benefit of my daughter during her life and at her death to be equally divided among her children then in life. 4th I nominate and appoint John Wynn and Davis Owen Executors of this my last will, 3 June 1839. /s/ Glen Owen. Witnesses: Robert Daniel, Robert Innings, Daniel Morgan. Proved at September Term 1839 by Robert Inning and Daniel Morgan. Recorded 6 September 1839.213
    Glen and Dorothy were received by letter to the Sardis Baptist Church at Rayle, Wilkes County, Georgia, 17 July 1819. Glen and Dorothy Owen were members of County Line Baptist Church in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. The death of Glen Owen was announced to the church on 6 July 1839.214
    Children of Glen Owen and Dorothy Hardeman:
+41. i. William Owen, born 9 March 1778, Guilford County, North Carolina, died before May 1814, married 12 December 1799, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, to Amy Powell.215 Amy Powell Owen married second, 29 March 1818, Oglethorpe County, to John Armistead.216
+42. ii. John Hardeman Owen, born 24 January 1780, Guilford County, North Carolina, died 24 September 1843, Monroe County,

    213 Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Will Book D, p. 63. Will of Glen Owen.
    214 Minutes of the County Line Baptist Church, Georgia Archives.
    215 Mary Bondurant Warren, Georgia Genealogist, Marriages before 1800, p. 32. William Owen to Amey Powell, Oglethorpe County, 12 December 1799.
    216 Mrs. Herschel W. Smith, Historical Collections of the Georgia Chapters Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume V, Marriage Records of Greene County, Georgia (1787-1875) and Oglethorpe County, Georgia (1795-1852), p. 150. John Armsted to Amy Owen, 29 March 1818.