Elihu A. Shoun and Mary Nancy Hardin


      Elihu A. Shoun (15 November 1820-16 December 1851) was the seventeenth child of Leonard Shoun and Barbara Virginia Slemp. Elihu married Mary Nancy Hardin (1823-1890) around 1847 in Johnson County, Tennessee.

      Elihu and his older brother, David H., inherited the home and farm of Leonard and his wife, Barbara. Barbara continued to live with Elihu until her death.

      Unfortunately, neither David, who died in 1850 or Elihu, who died a year later, lived to further their father's work.

      Elihu and Mary had two sons, which are listed below:

(1) James Wilbur Shown(1846-1918)Sallie Holloway (c. 1871)(8 ch)
(2) Thomas Jefferson Shoun(1849-1936)(1) Amanda C. Wagner (1870)(4 ch)
(2) Ellen Wilson (1881)(6 ch)


      (1) James Wilbur Shown (20 January 1846-20 December 1918) married Sallie Holloway around 1871 in Rockrun, Cherokee County, Alabama. This family moved to Rye, Colorado in 1882 with their first two children. There they lived the rest of their lives, raising a total of eight children, which are listed below:

Joseph Willard Shown(1877-1966)Katheryn Stanley (1904)(5 ch)
      Mahlon Stan. "Jack" Shown(1906-1963)Mary Margaret Peter (1936)(3 ch)
      Marguerite Lola Shown(1908- L)Frank Edward Bodine (1930)(1 ch)
      Robert Joseph "Bob" Shown(1912- L)(1) Ruby Lindstrom (2 ch)
(2) Phyllis Staley (c. 1954)
      Elizabeth Katheryn Shown(1916- L)John H. Yaple (2 ch)
      Dorothy Belle Shown(1920- L)(1) Robert T. Arnoldus (1942)(2 ch)
(2) Wm. Harold Eagleton (1947)
Eula Mae Shown(c. 1880- ?)Died at age 30
Oscar Shown(c. 1884 -?)Died at Coos Bay, OR
Grady Shoun (Shone)(1888- ?)Margaret (Unknown)(1 ch)
      Margaret Irene Shown
Leila Shown(1893- ?)Daniel Greer
Ada Shown(c. 1895-1953)(Unknown) Packard (2 ch)
      Richard Packard
      Donald Packard
Ross Shown(c. 1900- ?)Rhoda Coolbroth (1922)(2 ch)
      James Shown, MD(1923- L)(2 ch)
      Barbara Shown(c. 1925- L?)(Unknown) Mink
Maud Shown(? - 1899)


      (2) Thomas Jefferson Shoun (25 October 1849-1936) married twice, first to Amanda C. Wagner (May 1851-15 November 1883) on 13 October (or 5 April) 1870, in Johnson County, Tennessee. This family remained in the Mountain City area, and to this union were born four children, prior to Amanda's early passing.

      Although Thomas' father inherited the family homeplace, Thomas lived near Butler, Tennessee, where he farmed and was a politician.

      Thomas and Amanda must have been divorced, if the dates in the record books are correct, if they were copied correctly, as Amanda's death was in 1883 and Thomas married Ellen Wilson (c. 1865- ?) on 24 August 1881 in Johnson County, Tennessee. Our analysis has two possibilities for the parents of Ellen Wilson, First, that Ellen was the daughter of Jacob Wilson and Eliza Jenkins, who had a daughter age three that was named Ellen, in the 1870 Johnson County, Tennessee census.

      The second possiblity as to the parents of Ellen Wilson is that she could be the daughter of Martitia Wilson, daughter of Alfred Wilson and Rosannah (Unknown). Martitia married Isaac G. Osborn in 1867. But we find Isaac G. Osborn remarried to another lady in 1870. Also in the same census, we find Martitia Osborn and Ellen Wilson living with Alfred Wilson and Rosannah, who we believe were her parents. We suspect that Martitia and Isaac osborn were divorced, and that Ellen, at age sixteen in 1880, may have been born out of wedlock, but that Martitia and Isaac subsequently wed. We favor this possibility, simply because this Ellen would be seventeen years old at the time of her marriage to Thomas Jefferson Shoun.

      Ellen and Thomas had six children. All of the children of Thomas and his two wives are listed below, with the year of birth/death, name of spouse(s), year of marriage, and the number and names of children, if known:

Iva Lee Shoun(1871-1944)William L. Greever (1888)(1 ch)
      James T. Greever(1888- ?)Mattie V. Barry (1912)(3 ch)
John Bell Shoun(1874-1947)(1) Rose A. Stallings (1898)
(2) Ruth Simmons
(3) Thelma Hunnicutt
      Anna Belle Shoun(? - L)(1) William W. Clark (3 ch)
(2) Paul Estep
      Beatrice Shoun? - ?)Roby Mast
      Mary Evelyn Shoun(? - ?)
David Walter Shoun(1877-1965)Ida Ruth Wasson (1911)(2 ch)
      James W. Shoun(1913- L)(1) Cordelia Ann Perry (1969)
(2) Ernestine Gehring (1989)
      Boy Shoun(1915-1915)
Hugh Clyde Shoun(c. 1879-1940)Selma (Unknown)(3 ch)
      Eylene Shoun(c. 1910-1996)
      Emil Muller "Bud" Shoun(1914-1983)Mollie "Mae" Nichols (1936)(4 ch)
      Elmer H. Shoun(1918-1979)Fadenia Miller (3 ch)
Charles M. Shoun(1886-1915)
James E. Shoun(c. 1889- ?)Eva Chambers (1 ch)
      James E. Shoun, Jr.(? - ?)Irene Adams
Mae Ada Shoun(c. 1892- ?)Vinson Joyner
Ora N. Shoun(c. 1893-1923)
Hattie M. Shoun(c. 1897- ?)Robert Waynick (1 ch)
Nelta H. Shoun(c. 1899- ?)Curtis Dougherty



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