Wade & Webb Family History

Elijah M. Owens1816–1880

Georgia · Coosa · DeKalb · Falkville

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Sources
  4. Notes

Birth

  1. 26 Oct 1816 Georgia 1, 6

Marriages

  1. 18 Oct 1852 Lucinda Grace Bibby, at Coosa, Alabama 5
  2. 18 Oct 1852 Lucinda Grace Bibby, at Coosa, Alabama 5
  3. 5 Apr 1832 Susannah C. Spencer, at Jasper, Georgia 3, 6
  4. 13 Apr 1848 Nancy Henson, at Troup, Georgia 4

Death and burial

  1. 22 Jun 1880 Death: Falkville, Morgan, Alabama 9
  2. Date unknown Burial: Falkville, Morgan, Alabama

Family

Parents
John N Owens 1783–1859
Elizabeth 1800–1850
Marriage 1, 18 Oct 1852
Lucinda Grace Bibby 1826–1880
Children
Lucinda Joyce Owens 1861–1933
Mary Frances Owens 1856–1931
Lucy Jane Owens 1856–1943
Josephus Albertus Owens 1866–1934
R M Owens 1853–1860
Elijah Milton Owens 1854–1926
Serepta Alice Owens 1861–1938
Marriage 2, 5 Apr 1832
Susannah C. Spencer 1814–1880
Children
N. E. Owens 1836–?
Mary Frances Owens 1841–1893
Jesse M. Owens 1844–1893
John N. Owens 1833–1880
Marriage 3, 13 Apr 1848
Nancy Henson 1820–1851

Line of descent Webb line

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

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

Life

Elijah M. Owens was born in Georgia on 26 October 1816, a son of John N. Owens and his wife Elizabeth, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives the date without an attached source.1 The tree records three marriages for him.2 On 5 April 1832 an Elijah M. Owens married Susan C. Spencer in Georgia, a marriage the tree places in Jasper County; it names four children of that marriage, John N. (born 1833), N. E. (1836), Mary Frances (1841) and Jesse M. (1844).3 On 13 April 1848, in Troup County, Georgia, according to the tree, he married Nancy Henson, who was living in Township 24 of Tallapoosa County, Alabama, at the census of 1850, close to the household of his sister Clarissa Carlisle, and who died in about 1851.4 On 18 October 1852, in Coosa County, Alabama, he married Lucinda G. Bibby, and the tree names seven children of that marriage, born between 1853 and 1866.5

These marriages are hard to reconcile.6 If the tree's birth date is right, the Elijah who married Susan Spencer in 1832 was fifteen; and Susan C. Owens was living, under her married name, at the censuses of 1850 in Henry County, 1860 in Butts County and 1880 in Newton County, Georgia, long after his later marriages.6 Inference Either the first marriage ended in a separation or divorce that has not been found, or the tree has joined two men named Elijah M. Owens, one of them older, in Georgia; a deed book of Jasper County for 1847, attached to both Elijah and Susan, may bear on the question and should be read.7

The census of 1860 lists E. M. Owens's household, with Lucinda, in the Southern Division of Coosa County, Alabama, and that of 1870 at Brooksville in the same county.8 By 1880 he had moved north to Beat 5 of DeKalb County, Alabama, and he died at Falkville, Morgan County, on 22 June 1880, and was buried there.9 The Alabama death record of his daughter Mary Gregory in 1931 and the Tennessee death record of his daughter Lucy Owens Graham in 1943 name their father as "Lize Owens" and "Eliga Owens," and their mother as Bibbie and Grace Bibby.10

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to Elijah M. Owens.

  1. 5 Apr 1832Elijah M. Owens, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
  2. 5 April 1832Elijah M. Owens, "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967"
  3. 18 Oct 1852Elijah M. Owens, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  4. 18 Oct 1852Elijah M. Owens, "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957"
  5. 1852Elijah M. Owens, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  6. 1852Elijah M. Owens, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  7. 1860E M Owens, "United States, Census, 1860"
  8. 1870E M Owens, "United States, Census, 1870"
  9. 1880Elijah M Owens, "United States Census, 1880"
  10. 1931Lize Owens, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  11. 4 Dec 1943Eliga Owens, "Tennessee, Deaths, 1914-1966"
  12. Elijah M. Owens, "Find a Grave Index"
  13. Jasper, Georgia. Deed Books 1847
  14. 18 Oct 1852Entry for Elijah M. Owens and Lucinda G. Bibby, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  15. 5 Apr 1832Susan C. Spencer, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KH9G-23T: birth 26 Oct 1816, Georgia, no source attached; parents John N Owens and Elizabeth back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KH9G-23T: spouses Susannah C. Spencer (1832), Nancy Henson (1848), Lucinda Grace Bibby (1852) back to the text
  3. "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, Elijah M. Owens, 5 April 1832. Record: Elijah M. Owens, Georgia Marriages, 5 April 1832 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GDF4-MLM (their page): marriage 5 Apr 1832, Jasper, Georgia; children John N. (1833), N. E. (1836), Mary Frances (1841), Jesse M. (1844) back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile G9TD-MCF (their page): marriage 13 Apr 1848, Troup, Georgia; death about 1851, Alabama Year: 1850; Census Place: Township 24, Tallapoosa, Alabama; Roll: M432_15; Page: 135B; Image: 734 Record: 1850; Census Place: Township 24, Tallapoosa, Alabama; Page: 135B Year: 1850; Census Place: Township 24, Tallapoosa, Alabama; Roll: M432_15; Page: 135A; Image: 733 Record: 1850; Census Place: Township 24, Tallapoosa, Alabama; Page: 135A, the Carlisle household back to the text
  5. "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 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Elijah M. Owens, 18 Oct 1852. Record: Elijah M. Owens, Alabama Marriages, 18 Oct 1852 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K2MJ-JNN (their page): seven children, R M (1853) to Josephus Albertus (1866) back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KH9G-23T: born 26 Oct 1816 "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", FamilySearch, Elijah M. Owens and Susan C. Spencer, 5 Apr 1832. Record: 5 Apr 1832 "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 (their page): residence 1850, Henry; 1860, Butts; 1880, District 464, Newton, Georgia back to the text
  7. Jasper, Georgia. Deed Books 1847 Record: Jasper, Georgia. Deed Books 1847, attached to Elijah M. Owens and to Susannah C. Spencer back to the text
  8. "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, E M Owens, 1860. Record: E M Owens, 1860 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, L G Owens in entry for E M Owens, 1860. Record: L G Owens in entry for E M Owens, 1860 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, E M Owens, 1870. Record: E M Owens, 1870 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KH9G-23T: residence 1860, Southern Division, Coosa; 1870, Election Precinct 1 Brooksville, Coosa back to the text
  9. "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Elijah M. Owens, 1880. Record: Elijah M. Owens, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KH9G-23T: residence 1880, Beat 5, DeKalb, Alabama; death 22 Jun 1880, Falkville, Morgan, Alabama; burial Falkville "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Elijah M. Owens. Record: Elijah M. Owens, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  10. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Lize Owens in entry for Mary Gregory, 1931. Record: Lize Owens in entry for Mary Gregory, 1931 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Bibbie in entry for Mary Gregory, 1931. Record: Bibbie in entry for Mary Gregory, 1931 "Tennessee, Deaths, 1914-1966", FamilySearch, Eliga Owens in entry for Lucy Owens Graham, 4 Dec 1943. Record: Eliga Owens in entry for Lucy Owens Graham, 4 Dec 1943 "Tennessee, Deaths, 1914-1966", FamilySearch, Grace Bibby in entry for Lucy Owens Graham, 4 Dec 1943. Record: Grace Bibby in entry for Lucy Owens Graham, 4 Dec 1943 back to the text