Pike County Alabama .....Samuel Tine Owen
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File contributed by:
Mary Lee Barnes mearsm2@earthlink.net June 2003

				Samuel Tine Owen 

     South Carolina to Pike Co., Alabama , Randolph Co., Al to Henderson Co., Texas 

Samuel Tine Owen , born 2 August 1795, S.C..married  Sarah Ward Knight, born 21 July 1800, 
York County, S.C.  on the 6 June 1816 ,probably in Chester 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. 

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 JohnC. 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) andwas 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. 

ii. Polly Narcissa Owen born 22 Jan. 1819. 

iii. John Wade Owen born 12 Jan. 1821. 

iv. Rachel C. Owen born 22 Dec 1822 

v. Julia M. Owen Feb. 24 1825. 

vi. Ishmael D. Owen born 7 Nov. 1826 

vii. Betsy Isabella Owen born 16 Oct 1828. 

viii. Priscilla M. Owen b. 31 Jan. 1831 

ix. Sarah Emeritus Owen b. 15 April 1833 

x. Rebecca Elmira Owen born 10 Nov. 1835. 

xi. Martha Maranza Owen born 1 April 1838. 

xii. William Randolph Owen born 7 May 1841. 

All of the children were born in Alabama,most in Pike Co. and with the exception of one came to 
Henderson County, Texas and settled. The children and their families are continued later. 
Submitted by Mary Lee Barnes