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- 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.
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Abt 1835 - Abt 1910 (~ 75 years)