Luther Owens (1910-1984) was the second child of James Alderson Owens (b.1889) and Elizabeth Sutherland of Prater, Buchanan Co., Virginia. He married Velva Dare Taylor (b.1912), the daughter of William Jackson Taylor and Emma Curtis Sutherland of Tenso, Dickenson Co., VA. They were the parents of three children: Daniel, Jack and Shirley. Family members are descendants of William Owens of Russell Co., VA, Moses Ramey of Pike Co., KY, Charles Rakes, David Diel/Deel and other early settlers. Several generations of descendants are given.

This is the definitive work on Americans taken prisoner during the Revolutionary War. The bulk of the book is devoted to personal accounts, many of them moving, of the conditions endured by U.S. prisoners at the hands of the British, as preserved in journals or diaries kept by physicians, ships' captains, and the prisoners themselves. Of greater genealogical interest is the alphabetical list of 8,000 men who were imprisoned on the British vessel The Old Jersey, which the author copied from the papers of the British War Department and incorporated in the appendix to the work. Also included is a Muster Roll of Captain Abraham Shepherd's Company of Virginia Riflemen and a section on soldiers of the Pennsylvania Flying Camp who perished in prison, 1776-1777.

This book is a substantive record of the ancestry of the Owens families of the northern neck of Virginia, from A.D. 1960 to approximately 1178 B.C. The first chapter is specific to my family tree, starting with my grandfather, Eustace Conway Owens, then following his lineage back to Brutus Silvius, the founder and first King of Britain. However, if your last name is Owens or you have an Owens, Owain, Owen, Jones, Via, Flory, Diehl, Powell, Lewis, Tanner, Tudor, Ludlow, Morris, Merrick, Meyrick, Davis, Howell, Pettit, or Massey in your family tree, our bloodlines may cross somewhere in this history.Each chapter is representative of a generation starting with generation one or Chapter One, Eustace Conway Owens. Some Chapters include copies of documents, pedigrees, in-laws, pictures, photographs or maps. Follow the Owens family through the ages from Brutus, the first King of Britain (1178 B.C.) to the small town of Owens, Virginia (A.D. 1960).

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

William Gibson (ca. 1715-1813) migrated to America before the Revolutionary War and settled in Fauquier County, Virginia. He was the father of at least eight children, ca. 1754-ca. 1766. Descendants listed lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and elsewhere.

The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.

Theophilus Simonton was born in about 1685 in North Ireland. He married Mary Smith. They emigrated in about 1725 and settled in Lewes, Delaware. They had six children. Theophilus died in 1754 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Delaware, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, Nebraska, Texas and elsewhere.