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.
----------
Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
20, 29.
|