Person:Margaret Marrs (1)

About Margaret Marrs

NOTE: The following appears to be in error! The Margaret Marrs that married John Shannon on 23 Sept. 1779 in Fincastle County, Virginia would have been too old to have been a child of Hugh Marrs. She was more likely a sister of Hugh and child of John Marrs. The Alexander Marrs listed as "sister of Margaret Marrs that married John Shannon" (paragraph below) is also most likely Alexander, son of John Marrs. More research is necessary on this family.

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10. Margaret Marrs (Hugh , John ).

Margaret married John Shannon son of Samuel Shannon and Jean Reid on 23 Sep 1779 in Fincastle, Montgomery County, Virginia. John was born in 1755 in Montgomery Co., Virginia.

John Shannon married Margaret Marrs, daughter of Hugh Marrs and alsosister of Alexander Marrs who married John's sister, Jane Shannon. John and Margaret moved to Cumberland Settlement where his signature appears on the original "Articles of Agreement by Settlers of Cumberland" (see page 5 of"Pioneers of Davidson County, Tenn.")

John and Margaret had the following children:

56 M i John Shannon was born in 1782.

57 M ii Thomas R. Shannon.

58 F iii Lucy Shannon.

59 M iv Samuel Shannon was born in 1780.

60 M v Thomas Jefferson Shannon was born on 19 Dec 1801 in Kentucky. He died on 9 Aug 1895.

Thomas J. Shannon of Logan County, was born Dec.18,1801, and is a son of John and Margaret (Marrs) Shannon, the former a native of Virginia, and immigrated to the state of Kentucky in 1787 and to Warren County, Kentucky in 1810.Thomas J. lived in Warren County, Kentucky for sixty two (62) years, then abandoned the Shakers and moved to Auburn, where he lived for nine (9) years, and in the meantime he married the daughter of Benjamin Woodward. Thomas was a trader and a farmer and held public office. He returned to Warren County, Kentucky in 1881, and again united with the Shakers. He was an active man and held many offices of responsibility in the society. He is believed to have gone to Lamar County, Texas along with Jesse Shelton before returning to Warren County, Kentucky. Re: Kentucky Genealogy & Biography Vol. II Pg. 20

Thomas married Woodward.

+ 61 M vi Hugh Shannon