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March 2007

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Our Feature Article: Descendants of William and

Drucilla Echols Owen—Part 4 C. Owen Johnson

Page 52

Reuben Pickett Owen and His Descendants: Adrian Boone Owen

Jody Moeller and Lee Gentemenn

Page 55

IN FUTURE ISSUES

- March Feature Article - Descendants of William and Drucilla Echols Owen—Part 5

by C. Owen Johnson ≈

Descendants of Reuben Pickett Owen—Part 4

by Josephine Moeller ≈

A David Franklin Owen Narrative

by Hugh Goodman ≈

Descendancy of Henry “Buck” Owen By Marshall Thomas

≈ Ewing Elmer Fidler Story

By Louis Owen

Owen Histories Chris Hanlin

Volume 22, Issue 1

OWEN FAMILY NEWS

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Feature Article: Owen DNA Project Update and Table

by Whit Athey Pages 4-8

Obadiah Owens, a

Descendant of Richard Owen of Halifax Co. VA

by Josephine Moeller Pages 4 & 10

All Those Owens Named

Brackett Part II by Jane Hillard

The Owens of Texas

Part 4 by Hugh Goodman,

Page 3

Moses Grigg’s Father Part II

by Dan Wharton Page 9

An Owen-Montgomery

Tragedy; Stoddard, Missouri 1875-1907, Part 3

by Arvan D. Reese II Page 10

Bi-Annual Owen Family Association Reunion Will be held in Ashville, NC

Our bi-annual reunion will be September 29th and 30th in Ashville, NC. Carol and Bob Owens of Bakersville, NC have kindly agreed to be our host and hostess. They are busy making plans for your participation. Details will be available in the June issue of the Owen Family News.

Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Asheville is perhaps best known as the loca-tion of George Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate and the home of major American novelist, Thomas Wolfe. Asheville is also a thriving and eclectic city, dubbed the “Paris of the South” in the early 1900’s for establishing itself as an artisan city with unique style and architectural talent. Established in 1797 as the trading center and seat of the newly created Buncombe County, Asheville grew stead-ily through the 19th century. Following the arrival of a rail-road connection in 1880, Asheville became increasingly cosmopolitan and grew rapidly as a tourist destination known for its beautiful natural setting and cool mountain air, a pleasant contrast to the unbearable summer heat of the lowlands. The clean mountain air was also believed to have healing qualities benefiting sufferers of consumption and other respiratory diseases, and numerous health retreats were established. Asheville's growing reputation promoted the development of luxury inns, resorts and cottages.

For more information and to take a virtual tour of the Asheville area, visit www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/asheville/statichome.htm from which the above information was provided.

Editorial Staff of the

Owen Family News

Editor & Officer Karen Grubaugh 111 Stonegate North

Boerne TX 78006 (830) 249-3487

[email protected]

Publisher & Officer Margaret Owen Parsons

10300-142 Kings River Rd. Reedley, CA 93654

(559) 638-0025 [email protected]

Contributing Editors:

Jane Owen Hillard 4135 East Village Dr.

Mason, OH 45040 513-398-7255

Kimberly Ayn Owen 8006 Cottesmore Ct.

Richmond, VA 23228 [email protected] C. Owen Johnson Crystal Plaza #809 So. 2111 Jeff Davis Hwy. Arlington, VA 22202

(703) 415-1473 William P. Owen, III

P O Box 24165 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33307

[email protected]

Typist Jan Jordan Rosenberger

P O Box 631 North Troy VT 05859 [email protected]

Publication Dates

March, June, September & December Deadlines are the 1st day of the month preceding publication.

Submission of lineages, biographies, photographs, historical and genealogical data about any Owen anywhere is encour-aged! Your ideas for the newsletter are also solicited, just contact the editor.

March 2007 Volume 22, Issue 1 Owen Family News

The President’s Message from

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE - Did you make a New Year’s resolution? If so, I hope it included your family history and the Owen Family Association. Tradition-

ally, the beginning of each new year is the time to assess accomplish-ments during the past year, things left undone and plans for the new year. A review of 2006, shows the Association financially sound, the number of active members is steady increasing and membership partici-pation encouraging. Volunteers have provided their time and talents when needed thus resulting in creating more interest in the Association. This past year, 99% of inquiries and application requests were handled via the electronic media (E-Mail) which is much more efficient. Many members currently receive the Owen Family News electronically, sav-ing postage and printing costs. Due to overwhelming participation in the DNA project, we continue to receive praise for sponsoring this pro-gram. While all this is good, much more needs to be done. 2007 promises to be a very active year. The Association’s Bian-nual Reunion is scheduled for September 29th and 30th in Asheville, North Carolina. Our hosts, Carol and Bob Owens, are planing a memo-rable event. All members and guests should mark their calendars accord-ingly and start making plans to attend. You’ll love the mountains in Sep-tember! If the Association is to continue as a viable organization, volun-teers must step forward to help in running the day to day operations and perform the necessary tasks for which we were founded. We need more people with genealogy experience to help others with their research questions. Also, volunteers with computer skills are needed for the newsletter and the web site. There are plenty of jobs to go around. I urge everyone to get involved, run for office, write articles, assist in im-proving the organization and if possible attend the Biannual Reunions. There is much to be done. At the Biannual Reunion, time will be set aside for a business meeting and the election of officers. Candidates are needed for the of-fices of President, Vice President, Secretary/Historian , Treasurer, Genealogist, Editor and Publisher. Prior to that meeting, every effort will be made to assure a full slate of officers. Jane Owen Hillard has volunteered to chair the nominating committee. You may be contacted and asked to run. Nominations can be made from the floor at the meeting. If you are interested in serving as an officer, please let it be known by contacting Jane Hillard at 513-398-7255. We have plenty of talent to fill all these positions, so volunteer and become a part of the future of this great organization. See you in Asheville this fall!


The Owens of Texas By Hugh Goodman

(Continued from the December 2006 issue) That’s 1,765 miles and by adding another 200 to the final destination, the trip totaled approximately 2,000 miles. Considering the average day covered 20 miles and there were numerous stops to rest, the ab-solute minimum travel time would have been five months. The George Counts family left home on March 23, 1849 and arrived on November 29, 1849. Nelson was already in California in May, 1851. Therefore he probably left soon after the 1850 census was taken in August, 1850. Ironically, the Cathey family was liv-ing within 40 households of Nelson on the 1860 census. What was it like to be traveling to California in a wagon train? Andrew Cathey gave the following account of their 1851 trip,

“A trip journal shows that they traveled to Fort Smith, Arkansas where they re-grouped and purchased supplies for the trip that began on April 2nd. As the wagon train moved across the land, more people joined them. Special duties were assigned to everyone. When they reached the Rio Grande, the wagon beds had to be taken apart and all bolt holes were tightly plugged with wooden pegs. The cracks were caulked with what they had available. To-gether, they formed a ferry-like raft to transport their families, their livestock, and house-hold goods across the river. The Geary’s had started out with the Oatman family but left them to join the Cathey wagon train. The Oatmans had been warned the Indians were on the warpath but proceeded. Later, the Cathey wagon train came upon the remains of the Oat-man wagon train. Upon seeing the burned wagons and recognizing Mrs. Oatman’s clothing, Mrs. Geary was overcome with grief. The Cathey’s never encountered any hostility by the Indians.”

Frank Bowles’ writing in Frontier Times recalled his journey to the gold fields, “Along the way cholera broke out leaving seven dead. While suffering for water at Howard’s Well, the Indians had killed a mule to pollute the water. The caravan was comprised of 95 wagons and stretched out for 3 miles with a front & rear guard. At night, the wagons were circled and the livestock was driven into the “wagon corral” after grazing. The average distance covered each day was about 20 miles. Travel would commence at sunup and continue until about 3 P.M.” Cholera was a common occurrence during the journey likely caused by toilet pits dug near water sources. Nelson and his son Addison made it to California, but Sarah died along the way. As 9 of 10 deaths were caused by disease, some illness probably claimed Sarah. Within the five year gold rush period, 300,000 people, mostly men, crowded into the Sierra Nevada mountains. One in six of these emigrants died. Yosemite National Park is located in Mariposa County so the beauty of the land is undeniable. How-ever, as Leroy Radanovich noted in AN OVERVIEW OF MARIPOSA COUNTY HISTORY, “It was a lawless place and time, where English Law was established and distorted. Justice was swift and perma-nent. No jails were evidenced at first, so the most expedient method of punishment was the noose.” Little is known of Nelson’s life in California, but in June, 1860 he is listed as a miner living near Hornitos with a net worth of about $1,000. Almost everyone listed in this section of the census is listed as a miner. Living nearby in the household of Julia Herndon is Nelson’s son, Addison. Needless to say, as I do not live on old family money, Nelson did not hit it rich. While Nelson was making his fortune in California, his father, David had moved to Llano County in 1857 and was residing there in 1860 working as a wheelwright. Byrd had accompanied his father to Llano, but D. J. had moved back to Bastrop County before moving to Llano County later in 1860. Between 1850-1860, David lost William in 1852 and Mary in 1856. Of the ten children David had with Sarah Burd, five were now dead. (Continued in June 2007 issue.)


Update: The Owen DNA Project By Whit Athey

The total number of people with results listed in the DNA project has grown to 80! 13 of these peo-ple have not actually joined the project, but their results were extracted from the database of the Sorenson Molecular Genetics Foundation. Nine new participants joined the project since the last newsletter dead-line. Since this issue of the newsletter is the Spring issue, we are including the full results table in the body of the newsletter. A new Owen Group 16 has been started and it has grown quickly to four members. A fifth partici-pant with a paper trail suggesting membership should have his results reported any time now. Four of this group apparently descend from Harden Owen (b 1796 in VA). The fifth participant may descend from a brother of Harden Owen. It will be interesting to see the results for this latest participant when they are returned, probably in early March. It is somewhat surprising that there have been no new participants in several months whose results put them in the two largest of the Owen groups, Owen Group 1 and Owen Group 2. These two groups are stuck at 10 and 8 members, respectively. I have had a few inquiries about what it means when participants are shown to be members of differ-ent haplogroups. A haplogroup is a large family of Y chromosomes, all descended from a common patri-lineal ancestor. You could think of a haplogroup as being similar to one of our Owen Groups, but on a whole population scale with each haplogroup having millions of members. Most of the major haplogroups determined by FTDNA have been separate for thousands of years, so two people in different haplogroups cannot share a common patrilineal ancestor in a meaningful time frame. Even within the same haplogroup such as Haplogroup R1b, the common ancestor of two R1b participants may well have lived a few thou-sand years ago, and this is probably true of participants who are shown in different Owen groups in the re-sults table. We expect that within an Owen group, the participants will probably share an ancestor in the last few hundred years, which would be of genealogical interest. Because it is difficult to include all of the results for participants who have tested 67 or more mark-ers, I am only including a maximum of 37 markers in the results table in this issue. Also, there are rela-tively few participants who have tested as many as 67 markers, so there isn’t much yet available for com-parison. However, you can see all of the results right away as they come in at our project web site: http://home.comcast.net/~whitathey/indexo.htm Please contact me if you wish to join the project as a participant (or sponsor of a participant). To be useful in providing information on your Owen line, the person tested must be a male Owen. However, anyone can “participate” by sponsoring a male Owen cousin. The cousin doesn’t have to be interested in genealogy or genetics—his DNA will be the same whether he knows anything or not! Contact me at [email protected].

Obadiah Owens a descendant of Richard Owen of Halifax Co., VA By Josephine Moeller, Owen Family Association Genealogist

James G. Owens of Louisville, KY descended from an Obadiah Owens of Warren Co., KY. In doing re-search he found a large family of Owen/Owens in Warren Co. and presumed he descended from them; they were descended from John Owen of Prince Edward Co.,VA. Then he had a DNA sample analyzed and found out that he matched the DNA of Richard Owen of Halifax Co., VA. In the records Obadiah is spelled both with an a and with an e, I have used the a with this report. His Obadiah Owens in Warren Co. KY had 8 sons per the 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses. These sons were Abraham, Thomas, John, William, Coleman, Allen, Pharrow, and one unidentified. (continued on page 10)


Correction to Owen Group 17: The ancestor for N6985 should be James Owens (1763 VA) m. Elizabeth Marrs.

All Those Owens Named Brackett—Part 2

By Jane Hillard In tracking some of the Discrepancies published by Tyler Owen in the September issue of this newslet-ter, our investigations clarified the parentage of “the first” Brackett Owen of Shelby County, Kentucky. Now our search will lead us into the thorny thicket, wherein we’ll try to locate the ancestry of “John Owen of Prince Edward County.” Many – perhaps most – researchers have linked “John Owen of Prince Edward County, who started life in Henrico with Thomas Owen and Joanna Brookes of that county. They point out that Thomas’ brother, William, married a sister of Joanna Brookes. The father (Thomas) left a will, dated October 13, 1741, naming sons William and John. It seems to me, an outsider, that most of these researchers have put forward pretty convincing evidence that this line of descent is correct. Brackett to John to Thomas . . . But which Tho-mas of Henrico County? Records place Thomas, John and William – brothers or not brothers – all over the vast area then comprising Henrico. A big question looms: Why can’t we trace Prince Edward’s John Owen’s forebears more definitively, once and for all? Allow me to put forward my conclusions. (And re-member, they’re one person’s conclusions; you can agree or not.) Well, the very earliest records were not con-cerned with 20th or 21st century interests. They were for “here and now,” and they did not often quantify family relations. Take the list of survivors of the Mas-sacre of 1622, for instance, when the small settlements of English were nearly completely wiped out. The leaders who survived simply went about ascertaining just who was left living after the horrendous raids, simply listing the names with no family delineations, no family ties, no ages, nothing to identify them fur-ther. Earliest arrivals, of course, were men, but once the idea of colony took hold, women and children be-gan to arrive to populate the farms and villages. In-deed, it was when the settlers started spreading out and claiming lands that records of various kinds started being kept – and they are numerous! They included land transactions, both acquired through headrights or



purchase, court records, and some church records. Alas, very few marriage records for the early days survive. Luckily, there are wills aplenty, thanks to English law. Regrettably, however, so many of them have yet to be discovered. Readers will recall that in the December issue of this newsletter, it was noted that various re-searchers – all careful, cautious family genealogists – have traced this line, variously, to early immi-grants Bartholomew/William/Thomas, each of whom arrived in the early 1600s. While most re-searchers opt for Thomas or William, there certainly was a Bartholomew arriving in the 1600s. [See Greer’s list.] Each of the researchers believes he has found the right progenitor, causing a dilemma for us: Which one was our quarry? It is notable that three names, Thomas, William and John, came down in the many generations of this lineage. (One can point to some large families whose first three sons are given those names. This writer has not come across any succeeding generations using the name Bar-tholomew, but that does not mean they’re not there!) All good family researchers know the methodology we must use to get at truth, but sometimes we set up different “what ifs” to get there. What if the two early Owen immigrants, Thomas and Wil-liam, who came to Virginia at slightly different dates on different ships, what if . . .? What Mr. Owen has discovered, for sure, is that he is the scion of a much-honored, deservedly acclaimed early American family. He knows, as we do, that one cannot always take what one sees on websites or in the pages of genealogical books without checking the data provided and verifying the primary sources. We can do this easily if the authors provide sources of their information. If he/she provides no sources, watch out! As we say in this newsletter, “Verify, verify, verify.” President Reagan said it best (of the Soviet Union): “Trust but verify,” if your informants do not provide their sources, “trust” may be too strong a word.

Moses Grigg’s Father—Part II By Dan Wharton

(continued from December 2006 issue) William’s wife is identified as “Sarah” when she relin-quishes her dower right on 22 December 1763 but this is six years after the death of Sarah Ann Pin-son’s father in which she is not mentioned and presumed deceased. The five known children of Wil-liam and Sarah Grigg were bound out by order of the Amelia County Court to Nottoway Parish Church wardens “As William Grigg was unable to care for them.” However, an estrangement of the Pinsons and the Griggs over Moses Grigg’s paternity issue might have led to the Pinsons’ guardian-ship while simultaneously inhibiting any association of the Griggs with the Pinsons and Moses. Meanwhile, there is a 1768 reference to a “baseborn” apprentice named Moses Grigg in Prince Wil-liam County. If he is Moses Grigg of Lunenburg/Mecklenburg County, he was back in that area by 1769 when he marries Martha Hurst. There are no other references to Moses Grigg of Prince Wil-liam County before or after 1768.

William Grigg’s first cousin, Lewis Grigg (abt 1718-1787) of Dinwiddie County, VA also married a “Sarah”(maiden name unknown) in about 1750. This Sarah is known to have lived until 1796 or later. Again, survival past 1757 does not necessarily exclude this Sarah from being Sarah Ann Pinson. In both cases, the naming pattern of the Grigg children follow names common to this extended Grigg family, while Pinson names such as Eleanor, Thomas, Joseph and Aaron are absent.

To summarize, it is clear that Moses Grigg’s father was an Owen and most likely his mother’s family neighbor, Edward Owen. Given that it would have been unconventional for Moses to have acquired the Grigg name in some arbitrary fashion, we might continue to assume – as we have all along - that before or shortly after his birth in 1748, his mother married a Grigg, . Interestingly, Moses Grigg’s descendants can be found with the three common variations of this surname Grigg, Gregg, and Griggs. Moses himself was literate and always signed his name “Moses Grigg.”


An Owen-Montgomery Tragedy By Arvan D. Reese, II

(Continued from December 2006 issue) Presumably with the assistance of her two sisters-in-laws, Lucille was able to remain in the area for nineteen months (through April, 1909), during which period she gave birth to their second daughter, whom she named after her hus-band, Reuben, and testified at Crow’s two trials, both of which resulted in mistrials. Shortly thereafter, local support exhausted with no means of livelihood in Stoddard County and dismayed with the local judicial processes, she re-moved herself and the children to Kansas City where she took refuge at the Odd Fellows Home, Liberty Township, Clay County, Missouri, wherein they were enumerated in the 1910 census. In 1911 the children were adopted by Mr. William Tell and Cora Garst of Kansas City, during which proceedings Reuben's name was changed to Ruth. Their mother stayed in touch with the Garst family and her daughters until her death in 1937. EPILOGUE The Circuit Court’s judicial records of the State of Missouri vs. Greenfield Crow covering the period April, 1908 through November, 1910 are extracted in Part II. Fascinating, they cover the first two mistrials and the final dismissal of all charges against Crow. In summary: after Crow’s March 1909 mistrial, further prosecution of the case was abated until Lucille, the State’s only witness, had left the area. It resumed only with the 1910 September Term. Dur-ing this period, with a newly elected prosecuting attorney and sheriff, Henry Cain and Oscar McNiel, respectively, any interest in further prosecuting this case evaporated. With the prosecuting attorney terminating the case by filing a nolle pros, Crow walked free and the State paid court costs of $1,559.70. On November 18th, 1911, on an appointment by Sheriff McNiel, Crow was sworn in as deputy sheriff of Stoddard County. Greenfield Crow died in 1934 and was bur-ied in the Dexter cemetery.

Obadiah Owen (Continued from page 4) Our first search was the tax lists of Warren and Allen Cos. KY. In Warren Co. starting in 1803 we do find Edy Owen, and David, John, Hezekiah, Obadiah W., plus others always on tax list #1 through 1825; this is the group that descends from a William Owen a descendant of John of Prince Edward Co. They are to-gether on one side of the county. Then in 1819 an Obe Owens shows up on tax list #2 and is just there through 1824. They are close to the line when Allen Co. was formed. So we go to the Allen Co. tax lists and find in 1825 Obadiah and Faro Owens. Obadiah remains on the Allen Co. tax lists through 1847 along with his various sons as they come of age: Abraham, Thomas, John, William, Colman, Pharo. The microfilm reel ended with 1847 but they probably remained there or in Warren Co. The 1850 census showed most of these sons and Abraham, Thomas, and John were born in Virginia, John being born 1818, then William b. 1820 in KY and the rest of the sons born in KY. And Obadiah was born ca 1785 in VA. Obadiah moved between 1818 and 1820 from VA to KY. So then we move to the tax lists of Halifax Co. VA which is where we should find these descendants of Richard Owen. In Halifax there are many many Owen men listed on every tax list; its very difficult to sort out family groups. Searching the film of tax lists 1813-1821, we find an Obadiah Owen listed 1813-1819, but not in 1820-21. These tax lists don’t prove that it is our Obadiah, but does give an indication since he disappears in 1820. But luck was with us. In the Owen Source Book by Charles Owen Johnson, there is a will by an Obadiah Owen who died in September 1802 in Halifax Co.,VA, and he lists daughter Patsy and sons Abraham Womack, Herbert, and Obadiah who is not of age 21. In 1802 the Obadiah in Warren Co. KY would have been 17. We are pretty sure this is our Obadiah. Going back to earlier tax lists luck is with us again for the Halifax Co., VA tax list of 1788 shows a William Owen with an Obadiah Owen >21 living with him, making him born at least prior to 1767. So we can postulate that William Owen who was the son of Richard Owen (per Richard’s will of 1756) is the father of Obadiah who died in 1802, and grandfather of the Obadiah who died in Warren Co., KY. Searching needs to be done in the marriage, court and probate records of Halifax Co. VA. But we have at least tentatively connected up with the Owen group in Halifax to agree with the DNA results for James G. Owen.


Welcome New Members If you have information about these Owen(s) lines, please contact our new member(s).

Judith Spence, (#392), 7897 S. University Way, Centennial, CO 80122, 720-840-6471, [email protected]. Earliest known Owen ancestor: Washington Owens b. 1780 NC, now Washington Co., TN, d. 1840 KY. Roe Wilkins Linzee (#393) 48 Elm AV, Fairhaven MA 02719, 508-991-8483, [email protected]. Earliest known Owen ancestor: Josiah Owen, b. 6 Mar 1803, Halifax VA, daughter b. 1837, Como TN. Scott S. Felgenhauer (#394) 1917 W Dickens ST, Chicago IL 60614, 773-235-5292, [email protected]. Earliest known Owen ancestor: Lewis Owen, b. 1500, Dolgelley, Wales; in US John Owen b. 1650, New Castle Paand Hugh Owen b. 1680, Prince Geroge MD. Juanita Martinez (#395) 2809 Carlisle RD, Birmingham AL 35213-3417, 205-933-2334, [email protected]. Earliest known Owen ancestor: Jesse Owens, b. ca. 1774/84 d. ca 1840s, NC, m. Sarah Pat-terson. Carolee Moncur, PhD (#396) 266 Greenbrier DR, Heyburn ID 83336, 209-679-1796, [email protected]. Earliest known Owen ancestor: Thomas Owen b. 1776 d. 1859, Halifax Co., VA m. Sarah (Sallie) Stewart. Rayvenia L. Puckett (#397), 364 Eveningside AV, Henderson NV 89012, 702-656-4768, [email protected]. Earliest known Owen ancestor: Bartholomew Owen 1620-1677, England, m. Johanna; in US Robert Owen 1688-1717, Surry Co., VA m. Katherine.

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION For information or an application for membership, please e-mail [email protected] or write to: Owen Family Association c/o Arnold Owen P.O. Box 692, Westtown, PA 19395 after March 31, 2007.

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Owen Family Association The Owen Family Association was organized in 1981.

The objectives of the association are: ▪ To establish and document as complete a list of descendants of Owen and allied families as possible. ▪ To collect a narrative history of individual family lines of descent . ▪ To compile and maintain a listing of cemeteries, homes and other buildings and sites associated with Owen and allied families. ▪ To publish and distribute a periodic newsletter. ▪ To bring members of the family association together for periodic reunions. ▪ To aid association members to establish their family line and assist them in joining hereditary and patriotic societies, if they so desire. ▪ To ultimately produce a volume documenting the verified family histories. ▪ To provide publications to Genealogy Libraries in order to assist Owen researchers. Annual dues of $10.00 are payable January 1st . The Owen Newsletter is published quarterly and is subject to copyright.

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