Wade & Webb Family History

Susannah C. Spencer1814–1880

South Carolina · Henry · Butts · Newton

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  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Sources
  4. Notes

Birth

  1. about 1814 South Carolina

Marriages

  1. 5 Apr 1832 Elijah M. Owens, at Jasper, Georgia 2

Death and burial

  1. after 1880 Death: place not recorded

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 5 Apr 1832
Elijah M. Owens 1816–1880
Children
N. E. Owens 1836–?
Mary Frances Owens 1841–1893
Jesse M. Owens 1844–1893
John N. Owens 1833–1880

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Susannah C. Spencer
  2. Wife of Elijah M. Owens
  3. Clarissa Ann Mitchell Owens
  4. Clarrissa Jane Carlisle, daughter
  5. James Pleasant Webb, son
  6. Hilda Webb, daughter
  7. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Wife of 2nd great-granduncle of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Susannah C. Spencer, who appears in the records as Susan C. Spencer and later as Susan C. or S. C. Owens, was born in South Carolina in about 1814, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the date or place and names no parents for her.1 On 5 April 1832 she married Elijah M. Owens in Georgia; the tree places the marriage in Jasper County.2 The tree names four children, John N. (born 1833), N. E. (1836), Mary Frances (1841) and Jesse M. (1844).3 The federal censuses list "S C Owen" in Henry County, Georgia, in 1850, and Susan C. Owens in the Jackson District of Butts County, Georgia, in 1860, each time in an entry under her own name, and in 1880 S. C. Owens was living in the household of J. M. Fincher in District 464 of Newton County, Georgia.4 Inference Entries under her own name suggest that she was then the head of her household, without a husband present.4 The Elijah M. Owens to whom the tree joins her married Nancy Henson in 1848 and Lucinda G. Bibby in 1852, while Susan was still living as Mrs. Owens.5 Inference Either the marriage had ended in a separation or divorce that has not been found, or the tree has combined two men of the same name.5 A Jasper County deed book of 1847 is attached to both her and Elijah, but its content has not been examined.6 The tree records her death only as after 1880.7

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to Susannah C. Spencer.

  1. 5 Apr 1832Susan C. Spencer, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
  2. 5 April 1832Susan C. Spencer, "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967"
  3. 1850S C Owen, "United States, Census, 1850"
  4. 1860Susan C Owens, "United States, Census, 1860"
  5. 1880S. C. Owens, "United States, Census, 1880"
  6. Jasper, Georgia. Deed Books 1847
  7. 5 April 1832Elijah M. Owens, "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GDF4-MLM: birth about 1814, South Carolina, no source attached; no parents recorded back to the text
  2. "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", FamilySearch, Elijah M. Owens and Susan C. Spencer, 5 Apr 1832. Record: Elijah M. Owens and Susan C. Spencer, 5 Apr 1832 "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967", FamilySearch, Susan C. Spencer in entry for Elijah M. Owens, 5 April 1832. Record: Susan C. Spencer in entry for Elijah M. Owens, 5 April 1832 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GDF4-MLM: marriage 5 Apr 1832, Jasper, Georgia back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GDF4-MLM: children John N. (1833), N. E. (1836), Mary Frances (1841), Jesse M. (1844) back to the text
  4. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, S C Owen, 1850. Record: S C Owen, 1850 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Susan C Owens, 1860. Record: Susan C Owens, 1860 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, S. C. Owens in entry for J. M. Fincher, 1880. Record: S. C. Owens in entry for J. M. Fincher, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GDF4-MLM: residence 1850, Henry, Georgia; 1860, Jackson District, Butts, Georgia; 1880, District 464, Newton, Georgia back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KH9G-23T (their page): marriages to Nancy Henson, 13 Apr 1848, and Lucinda Grace Bibby, 18 Oct 1852 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Elijah M. Owens and Lucinda G. Bibby, 18 Oct 1852. Record: Elijah M. Owens and Lucinda G. Bibby, 18 Oct 1852 back to the text
  6. Jasper, Georgia. Deed Books 1847 Record: Jasper, Georgia. Deed Books 1847 back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GDF4-MLM: death after 1880 back to the text