Listed are 13 generations of 5,504 known descendants (8,794 if you include spouses) of Johny Ownbey, most who migrated to the Smoky Mountains.
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GENSERV has GEDCOM's of Owenby/Ownbey/Ownby descendants.
Roots Surname List (RSL) of Owenby researchers.
Roots Surname List (RSL) of Ownbey researchers.
Roots Surname List (RSL) of Ownby researchers.
Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest.
Mr. Otis R. Anderson is searching his wife's line who is a descendant of Felix and Adeline (Owenby) Estes.
Donna Ownbey is also an Ownbey descendant.
Steve and Teresa Medd descend through Arthur's grandson Joseph and his wife Nancy Watkins.
Ownbey surname distribution map courtesy Hamrick Software.
Ownby surname distribution map courtesy Hamrick Software.
Civil War Pension Papers, US National Archives.
"Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, 6043 Magazine Road, Knoxville, TN 37912.
"In the Shadow of the Smokies," Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993.
"Rosa Lee Downey notes", 16 July 1983 (out of print).
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994.
"Social Security Death Index", December 1994.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," 1984, Gladys Trentham Russell, PO Box 250, Alcoa, TN 37701.
"Smoky Mountain Clans", 1974, Donald B. Reagan, 801 Henrietta Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37912 (615) 689-4438.
"Smoky Mountain Clans", 1978, Donald B. Reagan.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", 1983, Donald B. Reagan.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan.
"Smoky Mountain Historical Society Newsletter", Smoky Mountain Historical Society.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", 1993, Donald B. Reagan.
"The Townsend Heritage," 1984, Kathy Townsend, 1422 Newsome Dr., Sevierville, TN 37862, (615) 428-4264.