ancestor of my grandma Mary Agnew, through her mother, Cora Belle Owens:
Owen Owens established a homestead farm in Indiana, after giving his slaves their freedom in Kentucky, and moving to Indiana sometime during the 1830s, & PRIOR TO the end of the Civil War. In the 1860 census, they were living on the Indiana farm valued at $3000., which was a good bit of money in 1860.
Solomon Jordan Owens, son of Owen, was born on this Indiana farm in 1837. It was in Lawrence County, near Bedford.
Solomon married Margaret Malinda Lemond on 20 Oct. 1859. They had 9 children. The 4th child was Cora Belle Owens, who married Charles Reid on 27 Feb. 1889 in Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana.
Charles and Cora Belle were parents of Mary, my grandma Mary Reid Agnew. Mary was the 3rd child of 4 children: Margaret b.28 Oct. 1892, Noyes Earl b.25 Aug. 1895, Mary Frances b. 10 Dec. 1899, and then Walter who only lived 8 mos., b. 07 Nov. 1903 and d. 30 July 1904.
Doctor Grandma 
August 19, 2011 at 7:32 pm |
This is very interesting. There was an ob-gyn named Walter Owens who was raised (I believe) near Heltonville, in Lawrence County, northeast of Bedford. My kids went to Montessori with his granddaughters. I had one of them in my Girl Scout troop. He has passed, but his wife is still around. Good people.
August 19, 2011 at 7:33 pm |
Also, my maiden name is Noyes. I wonder what the connection is that that would be used as a first name.
August 31, 2011 at 8:36 am |
That Walter Owens family is probably related to me. There are a lot of descendants from Solomon Jordan Owens on ancestry.com As far as the name Noyes, I have no idea. Maybe there is some family connection between us, who knows? We certainly are from southern Indiana.
August 31, 2011 at 2:30 pm |
Noyes is an old New England last name. That’s where I’m from. Ruth’s mother-in-law’s father had Noyes as a middle name, and he was from Alabama (I think), though she was born and raised in Indianapolis.
Actually, I think Walt Owens was raised at Norman, in Lawrence County. An even smaller locality than Heltonville, but northeast of Bedford, just the same.
I find genealogy interesting. Jerry and I have a common ancestor, way back. He and the girls are descended from one of the Salem “witches” who was executed. Odd stuff. But somebody has to be descended from these people.
May 10, 2014 at 10:42 pm |
The evidence I have found for my Scots-Irish-English ancestors points to their being free-minded and anti-slavery which is nice to know. I think in all the 4-5 yrs of research I’ve done, I’ve found 1 or 2 who owned any slaves, & that listed 1-2 slaves total. There have been some who owned land & had money, but many were working class poor immigrant types. Another one on my dad’s side had a 1st wife who belonged to a church known to be an Underground RR stop, & this would have been at that time. Many of them also had roots in southern states (NC, TN, KY) but moved north.
August 12, 2014 at 12:49 pm |
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