Owens, Sheriff Nathaniel

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William, Allan B,A history of Kentucky : embracing gleanings, reminiscences, antiquities, natural curiosities, statistics, and biographical sketches of pioneers, soldiers, jurists, lawyers, statesmen, divines, mechanics, farmers, merchants, and other leading men, of all occupations and pursuits (Louisville, Ky. : Bradley & Gilbert, 1872)

HISTORY OF KENTUCKY. pages 383-384

The first high sheriff of Green County was Nathaniel Owens. He was a farmer of good education for the times, and of a high order of native intellect He was a man of untiring perseverance and industry, and acquired considerable wealth. He bestowed great attention to the education of his children, sent them from home to the best schools, and occasionally employed in his family a private teacher for their instruction. He was among the earliest pioneers to Green County, and participated largely in the hardships which the first settlers had necessarily to encounter. He was thought by many to be selfish in his disposition, and like the old
woman, who, after keeping house many years, bought her a tea-kettle, and determined from that period that she would
neither borrow or lend. He was a close, economical, money making man, but punctiliously honest in all his dealings. He
dispensed but little, if any, of his property to his children in his life-time, but they and their descendants received it all
after his death. Mr. Owens acted for a time as justice of the peace, and also as a judge of the Green County Quarter Session Court previous to 1801, when the Circuit Court system was established. Mr. Owens lived to be eighty odd years of
age, and died about the year 1846, at his residence, on Little Brush Creek, where he lies buried.

Nathaniel married Grayham, Nancy on 8 Dec 1795 in Green Co., Kentucky, USA. Nancy (daughter of Grayham, William) was born about 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Yates, Mary Ann. Mary was born about 1794. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]