Friday, April 2, 2010
Thomas J Owens
According to the LDS records there was a Thomas J Owens, born to a David and Jane Owens on 8 Nov 1831 in Merioneth, Wales.
During the civil war, he was a private with C 27th Ohio Volunteer Inf, for almost 4 years from 1861 to 1865.
I found a Thomas Owen, age 40, in the 1870 census in Blue Mound Township, Livingston Co, Missouri. I was uncertain whether or not this was the correct Thomas, until I found a book in Welsh among my mother’s things. The book had “Thomas J Owens, Dawn, Missouri” written on the front page. Other items such as his obituary have since confirmed my belief that this is the correct Thomas.
He is listed in the 1880 census for Blue Mound as Thomas J Owens, widowed. All other Census records, and his obituary show that Thomas never married, but this census is definitely marked that he is a widower. I can’t find any information in cemetery records yet to show who he might have been married to. Was he married such a short time that it soon became as though he were just single, or did he not want his family back home to know that he had married? Was it just an error on the census or did he tell the census taker that he was widowed, since there was a young lady housekeeper living in the household at the time?
He is listed in the 1890 Veterans Census in Blue Mound Township. This shows that he suffered a “Gunshot in right knee”, “much disabled at present”. At some point in time he filed for a veterans pension. He was also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, serving for a time as the post’s chaplin.
He was listed in the Blue Mound census in 1900, and continued to live there until around 1909, when he returned to Licking, Ohio.
He passed away on May 10, 1910, leaving the will that was discussed in an earlier blog.
During the civil war, he was a private with C 27th Ohio Volunteer Inf, for almost 4 years from 1861 to 1865.
I found a Thomas Owen, age 40, in the 1870 census in Blue Mound Township, Livingston Co, Missouri. I was uncertain whether or not this was the correct Thomas, until I found a book in Welsh among my mother’s things. The book had “Thomas J Owens, Dawn, Missouri” written on the front page. Other items such as his obituary have since confirmed my belief that this is the correct Thomas.
He is listed in the 1880 census for Blue Mound as Thomas J Owens, widowed. All other Census records, and his obituary show that Thomas never married, but this census is definitely marked that he is a widower. I can’t find any information in cemetery records yet to show who he might have been married to. Was he married such a short time that it soon became as though he were just single, or did he not want his family back home to know that he had married? Was it just an error on the census or did he tell the census taker that he was widowed, since there was a young lady housekeeper living in the household at the time?
He is listed in the 1890 Veterans Census in Blue Mound Township. This shows that he suffered a “Gunshot in right knee”, “much disabled at present”. At some point in time he filed for a veterans pension. He was also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, serving for a time as the post’s chaplin.
He was listed in the Blue Mound census in 1900, and continued to live there until around 1909, when he returned to Licking, Ohio.
He passed away on May 10, 1910, leaving the will that was discussed in an earlier blog.
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