Edwin J Owens

Edwin J Owens, the oldest son of David D Owens and Francis M Stout, was born in Missouri, February 15, 1870. He lived with his family in Jasper until his marriage to Alice Folger on 7 March 1898. In 1900 they were living on her mother’s farm, and he was farming. By 1910 they had moved to the Canyon City area of Colorado where he was working as a butcher and was back to farming again in 1920. By 1930 they had moved to Santa Cruz, California, where he was a proprietor of a furniture business. By 1942 he had retired and continued to live in Santa Cruz until his death on March 16, 1950. His wife Alice was born in Missouri in December of 1873, and appears to have outlived Edwin, but I haven’t been able to verify when she died.


Their only child, David Benjamin Owens was born on December 31, 1898 in Missouri. He was living with his parents in Colorado in the 1910 and 1920 census, but as early as 1918 he was in Santa Cruz, driving truck for Owens Bros Trucking. He was in Santa Cruz during the 1930’s and early 1940’s, sometimes working for his father in the furniture store. After the early 1940’s I am unable to find him until his death in San Francisco on August 30, 1978. He was married around 1925 to a woman named Mildred and they had two children in Colorado before they moved to Santa Cruz. They were Virginia B, born 1925, and Benjamin, born in 1926.