Fred T. Plemmons

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
47.

Fred — Loretta Brooks. Loretta was born 29 Jul 1951. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
37, 47.

Elbert married Florence Lola Ownbey 16 Feb 1911, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. Florence (daughter of Daniel Rufus Ownbey and Olive Antonette (Anty) Moffitt) was born 30 May 1894, Broad River Twp., Buncombe County, North Carolina; died Aft Nov 1972. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Born near Hickory Nut Mountain.

Aunt Florence lives at Route 1, Box 12, Camp Branch Road, Black Mountain, North
Carolina 28711. We contacted her as soon as G. Dewey Owenby sent us the
address and she responded quickly, hence, her family history complete - as she
sent it - on the first letter, but it would have been different, had we
contacted her first, as it might have taken more assurance - I'm sure.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
37, 47.

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
47.

Hiram — Amanda McElroy. Amanda was born 10 May 1861; died 11 Nov 1951, , Haywood, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
47.

Notes:

Died of T.B.

Daniel Rufus Ownbey is buried in "The Old Field's Cemetery" near Bat Cave,
Rutherford, North Carolina. His first wife, Saphronia, is also buried there
but his second wife, Anty, preferred being buried by her infant son in Stone
Mountain churchyard cemetery, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
26, 30, 36.

Daniel married Olive Antonette (Anty) Moffitt 28 Mar 1887, Broad River, McDowell, North Carolina. Olive (daughter of James Ivy (Ivey) Moffitt and Nancy Murphy) was born 22 Apr 1868, Broad River, McDowell, North Carolina; died 5 Jun 1898. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died of Tuberculosis.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
30, 69.

Notes:

Died while serving in the Civil War during the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee.

Caleb enlisted in the Civil War, 30 June 1862, and served in Company C, 60th Regiment. After the battle of Chichamauga in Georgia, near Chattanuga, there was a small battle in which Caleb was killed in September, 1863. His face was shot off and he was buried where he fell on Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, near Chattanoga. Much research has been made to locate the grave. Princer Clauden Searcy, a few years ago, visited all the old battlefields around where Caleb and John Ledbetter were killed, but failed to find their graves. "Uncle Billy" (William B. Searcy) was captured some months later and was taken to a prisoner of war camp in Ohio, where they offered him his freedom to go to Kansas and help gather the wheat harvest, a lucky thing for him. He drew a Union and Confederate pension until he died in October, 1904.

Adeline applied for a pension #359, dated 13 July 1885, and was living in Daisy, North Carolina. William B. Searcy witnessed for her. Again, "Broad River, North Carolina, June 19, 1901, to Thomas Morriss, Marion, North Carolina, written by D. L. Clements, stating they were sorrection her pension application proving that she was the widow of Caleb (Caliph) Ownbey ... that Thomas K. Patton was his captain, that the regiment was made up in Buncombe County, that W. B. Searcy was standing by Caleb's side in Combany C, 60 Regiment, when Ownby was shot down and killed in battle and W. B. Searcy says he saw Caleb shot and killed and that he helped to bury Ownby and will make oath to this if necessary ... that Mrs. Ownby had been drawing a stay pension ever since the law that granted it was enacted ... that Dr. Freeman witnessed it also."

Adeline had other children, parentages unknown to me. She was a midwife and it was her reputation she never lost a baby. George Dewey Ownbey owes her much, she delivered him. Caleb had a grandson, "Little Caliph" who died in 1909. Parent not named ... Broad River, now extinct, was situated at the junction of Highway #9, the road from Old Frot and Moffitt Hill, McDowell County, North Carolina, where the Broad River crosses the highway.

In census reading, I located a Rhodes line that was Indian, first name Alberta (male). According to G. D. Owenby, "Adeline was of Indian Blood." There were several Rhodes families in Henderson County, sons of Sheriff Rhodes of Henderson County, around 1905. While in North Carolina, I saw hanging on the wall, a picture (in Aunt Carrie Lee Nanney's home) of Adeline, she is in a group, the Indian features are very strong - GE White. Adeline claimed the T. B. came thru the Rhodes side of the family.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
20, 29.

Caleb — Kitty Adeline Rhodes. Kitty was born Abt 1835; died Abt 1910; was buried Stonemountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Adeline applied for a pension #359, dated 13 July 1885, and was living in
Daisy, North Carolina. William B. Searcy witnessed for her. Again, "Broad
River, North Carolina, June 19, 1901, to Thomas Morriss, Marion, North
Carolina, written by D. L. Clements, stating they were sorrection her pension
application proving that she was the widow of Caleb (Caliph) Ownbey ... that
Thomas K. Patton was his captain, that the regiment was made up in Buncombe
County, that W. B. Searcy was standing by Caleb's side in Combany C, 60
Regiment, when Ownby was shot down and killed in battle and W. B. Searcy says
he saw Caleb shot and killed and that he helped to bury Ownby and will make
oath to this if necessary ... that Mrs. Ownby had been drawing a stay pension
ever since the law that granted it was enacted ... that Dr. Freeman witnessed
it also."

Adeline had other children, parentages unknown to me. She was a midwife and it
was her reputation she never lost a baby. George Dewey Ownbey owes her much,she delivered him. Caleb had a grandson, "Little Caliph" who died in 1909.
Parent not named ... Broad River, now extinct, was situated at the junction of
Highway #9, the road from Old Frot and Moffitt Hill, McDowell County, North
Carolina, where the Broad River crosses the highway.

In census reading, I located a Rhodes line that was Indian, first name Alberta
(male). According to G. D. Owenby, "Adeline was of Indian Blood." There were
several Rhodes families in Henderson County, sons of Sheriff Rhodes of
Henderson County, around 1905. While in North Carolina, I saw hanging on the
wall, a picture (in Aunt Carrie Lee Nanney's home) of Adeline, she is in a
group, the Indian features are very strong - GE White. Adeline claimed the T.
B. came thru the Rhodes side of the family.

Buried in churchyard in Stonemountain, North Carolina.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
20, 29.

Notes:

Reverand. James died of cancer of the stomach.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
28, 67, 69.

James married Nancy Murphy 1 Dec 1865, Broad River Twp., North Carolina. Nancy (daughter of William Albert B. Murphy and Zillah Ownbey) was born 19 May 1847, Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina; died 18 Dec 1932; was buried Stone Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Nancy and James had a rough time, matrimonically, she was stubborn and could
be real vindictive - was selfish - but other qualities she had were that she
sometimes loved her husband and family to a point of possiveness. When the
gold rush took place, the Moffitts were among those wh headed the call, before
1890.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
28, 67, 69, 70.