Grayson County TXGenWeb 
 Shannon Cemetery
   Denison, Texas



James B. Shannon
1812 - 1849

Nancy Shannon
1814 - 1848

Nancy Forrester Shannon died 10 June 1848.  

CHILDREN:
  • Thomas Jefferson Shannon b 1834
  • James Foster Shannon b 1837  d 1892
  • Elizabeth Mary Shannon  b 1839
  • Eliza Jane Shannon  b 1840
  • John M. Shannon  b 1842
  • Nancy Shannon  b 1844
  • Margaret Corey Shannon b 1846
James Barnett Shannon married Tabitha Jerusha Shelton Randolph 10 September 1848, Grayson County, Texas.
Cemeteries Help Tell Our Stories, History by Donna Hunt, former editor of The Denison Herald

1850 Mortality Census


Chronicles of Tabitha Shannon
Indian Territory

Tabitha had 4 husbands; James Mayberry Randolph, James Barnett Shannon, Abram Myers, and W.C. Shannon. Her first three husbands were all shot by individuals. She had 5 Randolph children, 6 Shannon step-children, 1 Shannon child and 2 Myers children.

 The Randolph children all but one born in Crawford County, AR where he was the sheriff in 1838-39. The last child was born in Sherman, Texas, who was named Holland Coffee Randolph. This was supposedly the first white child born in Grayson County Texas at that time was Indian Territory.
Oral history given by W.C. Parkey in 2011. W.C. was 80 years of age at the time.

SHANNON CEMETERY
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