Thomas "Bracket" Owen may have been one of those in the tremendous migration to Mississippi in 1837, after the last of the Indian land in Mississippi had been opened for settletment. Both Pontotoc and Chickasaw Counties where he lived were organized for the Chickasaw Cession of 1832. It is said that the Owen family made the journey from Georgia to Mississippi in an ox-cart, probably 350 miles. There was one sentimental piece of furniture inclued in their household furnishings, an old high poster colonial bed which had belonged to Mary Hunt Owen's father Judkins Hunt, Jr. He had moved it from Virginia to Georgia. Bracket and Mary Owen's grandson, George Robert Owen, Sr., remembered having seen this bed in the home of his grandparents when he was a small child and remembered the story.

Submitted by: Mary Lois (Cook) Owen, Huntsville, TX, 1994

Daughter of Judkins and Unity (Hancock) Hunt, Jr.

Wife of Thomas "Bracket" Owen ~ married January 22, 1825, Jasper Co., GA

Bracket and Mary S. (Hunt) Owen's children were ...

1. William Judkins Owen (m. Huldah Reed)
2. Davis Goodwyn Owen, C.S.A. (m. Ciscilla Clementine Callaway)
3. Sarah Amy Owen (m. Neil M. Smith)
4. John Hunt Owen, C.S.A. (m. Mary Reed)
5. Unity Elizabeth Owen
6. Henry Bracket Owen (m. Thomana Baird)
7. Robert Bonner Hardeman Owen, C.S.A. (m. Elizabeth C. Brown)
8. Glenn Appleton Owen (m. Mallie Hubbard)
9. Joseph Perry Owen (m. Julia Ann Bright)
10. Benjamin Birdsong Owen (m. Adeline Sewell)
11. James Fontaine Owen
12. George J. Owen (m. Addie Marshall)

Family records are showing Mary S. (Hunt) Owen and her husband, Thomas "Bracket" Owen as being buried in Campground Church Cemetery, Pontotoc County, MS. They are probably buried in an unmarked grave.