Early Looney in America, by Leroy W. Tilton

FIFTH GENERATION

Peter Looney Branch
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Robert5 M. LUNA (Peter4, Peter3) was born ca 1805 in Sumner County, Tennessee. He was living with his parents in Lincoln County at the 1820 census. In 1830, at the Lincoln County census report, we find Robert LUNA listed as 15/20 years of age with a wife in the same age group and one daughter under five years.

In Marshall County in 1840, one finds Robert LUNA listed as 30/40, but with no adult females. His oldest daughter was in the 10/15 age group as expected and there were two girls and one boy under five. It can, therefore, in inferred that Robert5 married (1) ca 1828 and that his wife lived about 10 years. It is probable that his first wife was Harriet5 LUNA, his first cousin and daughter of James4 LUNA, who was born 19 July 1805, and would have been the mother of his first four children. It perhaps should be noted that no names have been found for the son and three daughters of Robert5 LUNA that are evidenced by the entry in the 1840 census for Marshall County, Tennessee.

From the Marshall County Marriage Records (Volume 1, 1838-1849) it is found that Robert LUNA married (2) Martha Rodes on 31 May 1841 and the family is listed in the 1850 Marshall County census as follows:

        Robert LUNA             bn 1805 in Tennessee       $600.00
        Martha LUNA     bn 1820
        Peter Allen LUNA        bn 13 Aug 1842  See SIXTH GENERATION
        Caladonia LUNA  bn 1844 md. 2 Dec 1860 to Marion or William Huckaba in
                    Lawrence County, AL.  She is buried in the New Hope
                    Cemetery near Belfast, Marshall County, Tennessee.
        James K. LUNA   bn 1846 (Said to have moved to Lawrence County, Tennessee)
        John W. LUNA    bn 1848         See SIXTH GENERATION
        Margaret B. LUNA        bn SEP 1850
        R.B. LUNA               (female) bn ca 1854

On 28 Jul 1846, Robert LUNA was a witness to the will of his younger brother, James G. LUNA, of Marshall County (Marshall County Wills, Book A, 1835-1855, pp 153-4).

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However, he did not participate in the proving of the said will in September 1846.

Robert5 LUNA is not found in the 1860 census of Marshall County Tennessee but he was still living in 1878 and was mentioned at R.M. LUNA, and heir of James4 LUNA.

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FIFTH GENERATION
Peter2 Branch

John5 B. LUNA (Peter4, Peter3) was born about 1825 in Lincoln County Tennessee. He was living with his parents in Lincoln County at the time of the census enumeration in 1830 and 1840. He married (1) Harriet Susan BROOKS on 15/16 October 1843 (Marriage Book I, page 104). The following family record has been compiled from the Tennessee census records for Marshall County in 1850 and 1860 and for Giles County in 1870:

        John B. LUNA            bn 1825 Farmer and Mechanic
        Harriet LUNA            bn 1824
        Mary Catherine LUNA     bn 1844
        Sarah Emeline LUNA              bn 1846
        Elizabeth A. LUNA               bn 1848
        Susan M. LUNA           bn 1852
        John Nathaniel LUNA     bn 1854 (Moved to Fannin County Texas)
        James LUNA                      bn 1855
        Lee Fisher LUNA         bn 1860 (this has been identified by 
                    Mrs. Marjorie MARTIN as being female, Lou Tishey)
        Martha LUNA             bn 1862
        Fannie LUNA                     bn 1864

Mrs. J.D. LUNA, Box 3, Eagle Lake, Texas, reported in 1952 that John6 Nathaniel LUNA and James6 LUNA moved from Giles County Tennessee to Fannin County Texas about 1903.

John5 B. LUNA married (2) Martha "Mattie" BOLDEN who was born about 1850 in Marshall County Tennessee and died about 1892 and was buried in the New Hope Cemetery near Belfast, Tennessee. From family records in possession of Mrs. D.B. MARTIN, great granddaughter of John5 B. LUNA, we find his second family as:

        John B. LUNA   bn 1823
        Martha "Mattie" LUNA    bn ca 1850
        Edwin LUNA   bn 17 July 1872; died 18 Mar 1932;
                    md Cora LOWRENCE 13 June 1894

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        Jennie LUNA   bn 2 Mar 1874; died 24 May 1919;
                     md Jasper L. COMPTON 16 Apr 1891
        Mary Myrtle LUNA   bn 19 December 1875; died 27 December 1949;
                    md Charles C. BUCHAHAN 5 Dec 1897
        Ella Gertrude LUNA   bn 7 Nov 1877; died 10 Nov 1963;
                    md William Wright LUNA 24 Oct 1895
        Cora LUNA   bn November 1880; died before 1892; never married
        Otie Penny LUNA (T)   bn 21 March 1885; died 7 March 1966;
                    md Mary O. PETERS 19 October 1905
        Thomas Odes LUNA (T)   bn 21 Mar 1885; died 6 January 1935;
                    md Connie MITCHELL

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        FIFTH GENERATION
        Peter2 Branch

Peter5 LUNA (Peter4, Peter3) called "Whisting Pete" was born about 1828 and was living with his parents at the time of the Tennessee census for Lincoln County in 1830 and Marshall County in 1840 and 1850. He probably was the Peter LUNA who had a license to marry Margaret NEIL on 4 September 1851; however the license was returned not certified. It is also possible that he married Betsy Ann THOMPSON on 26 Jan 1855 (Marshall County Marriages, Book II pg 57). He has not been located in the census records for 1860 or later years.

A certain J.D. LUNA reported in 1925 that "Whistling Pete" has sons Jim B., Willis, Manly and Billie, and of these, Willis had three sons and Manly had two boys in Texas.

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