My Looney Branch

by Miss Elizabeth Looney of Washington, D. C.

Transcribed to computer format

by Wilma McKinney, 1997

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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