1. | Benjamin George Owen was born 29 Aug 1832, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois (son of George C. Owen and Tabitha Caroline Cherry); died 5 Aug 1890, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Owens Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. Notes:
Bengimin G. Owen was buried in the family cemetery on the little knoll behind a frame house - the last house on the left of the old Ork Bank Road just before the site of the crossing of Dunn's Creek.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 227, 236.
Benjamin married Lucretia Annie Oakley 19 Feb 1874. Lucretia (daughter of Leonard Henderson Oakley and Elizabeth Pethindy Grindstead) was born 25 Nov 1852, Washington County, Tennessee; died 1 Jan 1945; was buried Blue Springs Cemetery, Bradley County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]
Children:
- Marietta Valeria Owens was born 9 Sep 1876, Tennessee; died 28 Jun 1960; was buried Blue Springs Cemetery, Bradley County, Tennessee.
- Donald Juan Owen was born 1878, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 6 Jul 1935; was buried National Cemetery, Johnson City, Washington, Tennessee.
- Rosa L. Owen was born 1880; died 1901; was buried Owens Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.
- George W. Owen was born 1882.
- Grover Cleveland Owen was born 1884; died 1916.
- Benjamin Gaines Owen was born 9 Jan 1886, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 8 Mar 1963; was buried Blue Springs, Bradley County, Tennessee.
- Isham L. Owen was born 1888; died 1892.
- Beulah Lee Owen was born 1890.
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