David D Owens, son of David and Jane Owens, was born in Wales on July 15, 1833. In 1842, he arrived in New York with his parents, and settled with them in Newark, Licking, Ohio. He lived with the family in Licking until 1864, when he served a hundred days in the Civil War as a private with C 135 Ohio National Guard Inf. He filed for a pension after the war, and appears to have received it, but the 1890 census schedule doesn’t list any specific disabilities for him.
He married Francis M Stout of Licking, Ohio around 1869, and they were living in Jasper, Missouri in the 1870 census. They lived near Carthage, Missouri, where he farmed and raised livestock. David and Francis had four children, Edwin Jay, David Arthur, James Bertram, and Jerry William. Sometime after 1900, he retired to Santa Cruz, California, but still owned his 200 acre farm. I wasn’t able to find them in the 1910 census, so I’m not sure when they moved to Santa Cruz, but Francis passed away in Santa Cruz on July 17, 1913. David was living in Santa Cruz with his son David Arthur on January 2, 1920, and he passed away in February of that year.