ROBERT(1) LOONEY AND ELIZABETH LOONEY
Robert Luna received a patent dated 12 November 1735
from George the Second for 294 acres on the north bank
of the Cochongorona (upper Potomac) river, near Samuel
Owen's Plantation, this property not far from what is
now Hagerstown, MD. His will is dated 14 September
1769.
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ABSALOM (2) LOONEY, son of Robert and Elizabeth
b. ca. 1729; d. 1791-1796 (Some give date definitely as
1796. We know that his will
was probated 1796.)
m. Margaret (Peggy)-----------------------------
somewhere around 1750
(Absalom discovered Abb's Valley in the Bluestone area
of VA., and settled there in the Valley between 1751
and 1753.)
They had the following children, as listed in Absalom's
will:
MICHAEL(3)
b. ca. 1751-VA.
d.
m. ca. 1780--Temperance Cross
ELIZABETH (3)
b. ca. 1753-VA.
d.
m. David Potts
PETER (3)
b. ca. 1755-VA.,probably 24 Nov.1755, Botetourt Co.
d.
m. Margaret Lauderdale
MARY (3)
b. ca. 1757-VA.
d.
m. 1. Edward Carver (or Carvin) ( He was killed at
Fort Nashborough by Indians.)
2. Edward Swanson (See "Life & Times of Edward
Swanson.")
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MARGARET (3)
b. ca. 1758- VA.
d.
m. Alexander Caldwell (lic.) 5 January 1778
JOHN (3)
b. VA.
d. Killed by Indians--No data on him.
JONATHAN (3)
b. ca. 1761-VA.
d. Lincoln Co. Tenn.
m. Jane Harbeson
ABSALOM (3)
b. ca. 1763-VA.
d. ca. 1818, near Huntsville, Alabama
m. suggested may have been Margaret (Peggy)
Mills, or Wills. or Warren, no proof
RUTH (3)
b. ca. 1765-VA.
d.
m. James Harbeson, 26 October 1786
CATHERINE (Katie) (3)
b. ca. 1769-VA.
d.
m. John Summerfield,4 August 1792,
Botetourt Co.VA.
PRISCILLA (3)
b. ca. 1771-VA.
d.
m. William Caldwell- (lic.) 24 March ----
BENJAMIN (3)
b. ca. 1773-VA.
d.
m. Elizabeth McClure, 27 July 1793,
Botetourt Co. VA.
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ABSALOM (3) LOONEY, son of Absalom and Peggy Looney
b. ca. 1763
d. ca. 1818, near Huntsville, Alabama
m. Margaret (Mills, Wills, Warren), no proof on last name.
PRICILLIA (4) LOONEY
b. 7 June 1794
d. 27 January 1848- Rhea Co. Tenn.
m. Thomas K. Thompson-- ca. 1806/7,
Hawkins Co. Tenn.-(no proof)
JOHN WARREN (4) LOONEY
b. ca. 1793,Hawkins Co. TN
d. 1848, Texas- On the road to Goliad-Of dysentery
m. Nancy Campbell, 2-8-1815--They lived in Madison Co.
Alabama, and later moved to Goliad Co. Texas.
Nancy died in 1868, Goliad, Texas
Elizabeth (5) m. Frank Ayers. (She died at childbirth.)
Harriet (5) m. John Grantland
Ann Eliza (5) m. Judge William Hunter
Tuberville (5) m. Martha Holdren Bailey
Susan (5) m. 1. Harrison W. Campbell
2. Joseph Goff
John Warren Jr.(5) m. Catherine Ville
Martain Van Buren (5) m. Sarah Best
Andrew Jackson (5) m. Elvira Best
JANE (JEAN) (4) LOONEY
m. Jesse Thompson, (lic.) 1807. Hawkins Co. Tenn.
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ABSALOM (4) LOONEY
b.
d.Corinth, Mississippi
m. Alcidora (Alsadora in County Record) Wynne
March 1, 1826, Madison Co. Alabama. Huntsville
is County Seat. Moved later to possibly Wayne
Co. Tenn. Moved later to Corinth, Miss., where
he died.
James(5)
Richard(5)
Francis M. (5) unmarried
Lucretia A. (5) -m. Jefferson Waters, July 9, 1856
Tishomingo Co. Miss.
( Note- Lucretia Haynie, who
was Lucretia M.E. Haynie
1-16-1876. Tishomingo Co.
Miss.)
Nancy (5) m. Possibly married J. Irving?
(Note, A Nancy J. Looney married
Bushby Jackson, 11,27,1866, Tishamingo
Co. Miss.--Who was she?)
Margaret(5)-m. J.S. Dillon, Corrinth, Miss.
11-18-1877
John (5) Killed in Civil War
Elizabeth (5) m. Samuel C. Cobb. 24 Sept. 1854
(1851?)
Mary (5)
Absalom (5) - Called "Babe", moved to Texas, thought
in early 1880's.
Delvadela (Dollie) (5)- married a Myers
Lowery Booker (5)- m. Mary Ann Hughes, 1/20/1853
MARGARET(4) LOONEY
b. ca. 1797
d.
m. Jacob Fuqua, (lic) 25 August 1818, Madison Co.
Alabama
MARTHA (called Patsy) (4) LOONEY
b.ca. 1801
d.
m. Col. Fleming Hodges, 14 April 1823, Morgan Co
Alabama. He died in 1828. Martha was his
second wife.
MARY (Polly) (4) LOONEY
According to tradition
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