MARGARET OWENS

David and Jane’s youngest daughter, Margaret Owens is the only one of their children who didn’t leave Licking County, Ohio. According to the 1900 US census, she was born in May of 1846 in Ohio. She was the only one of their children to be born in the US. She stayed with her mother after her father died. She was living with Jane in the 1880 census, and stayed single until after Jane died. She married Elias Davis around 1892. I imagine that they lived on the “homestead” after their marriage, and there are several news articles in the Newark papers showing that they were residing in Newark area. Elias died on October 22, 1909 and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Margaret continued to live in Newark at least through 1915. Her brother’s obituary says that she is living in Columbus, Ohio in 1920, and I can’t find her in the Newark census, but I can’t definitively find her in the Columbus census either. Her sister’s obituary says that she is living in Newark as of January 1922. She died on February 19, 1924 and is buried in Newark’s Cedar Hill Cemetery. The 1900 census shows that she never had any children.


I just realized that the group picture I have that includes Maggie and her husband Elias was taken in Los Angeles California. Some of the other Owens, or maybe some of his family? Yes!! More questions, more research. As usual there are variations on the name, sometimes it was Davies, but usually was Davis, and was always Davis in the newspaper articles.

Sharing the Stories

The reason I’m doing this blog is to share information and pictures that have been left to me by my mother. I’m not interested in posting information that is already general knowledge, but I will clarify or correct that information if I can. I love doing the research part of genealogy, and I probably get just as excited as a gold miner when I find a new nugget of information. I can spend hours going through the things my mother left. What I don’t like too much is actually organizing everything that I have found, and that is bad because the knowledge is only in my mind and that will be gone someday. There are times when I get bored, when I hit dead ends, and when I would rather keep researching instead of organizing. Lots of times I wonder why I bother, because most people don’t really care. But last night when I was looking for more information on line, I was hit hard by the fact that I have information that no one else does. I was looking for more information on Walter Frank Gillmore. What I found were 4 or 5 family trees that knew his name and birth date, but none of them knew when he died. If they don’t know when he died, they don’t know the story of where and how he died. There are a number of family letters written around the time of his death that I have, and I know the story of his death. If I don’t tell about it, then the story will be gone, and for the generations to come that might care, they’ll never know. So, I’d better keep on working, and get as much done as I can. I’ll have to find those letters sometime soon and tell his story.