Jeff D. Owen - Owen Cemetery - Henderson County, TX
N 32° 07.344 W 095° 50.103
15S E 232522 N 3557523
Woodmen of the World obelisk for Jefferson Davis Owen, in historic Owen Cemetery, a little south of Athens in rural Henderson County, TX.
Waymark Code: WMZPTB
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/16/2018
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This gray granite obelisk has a simple inscription below the Woodmen of the World emblem:
Jeff D. Owen
May 4, 1861
June 22, 1916
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The cemetery bears the name of Mr. Owen's father, and a 1985 Texas Historical Marker up front references them and their family:
David Allen Owen came to Texas with his first wife, Mary (Langsdon), who died enroute, and their 5 children. They traveled with family members and others from Randolph County, Alabama to Henderson County, Texas in 1851. Owen served as chief justice (county judge) from 1860 to 1869 and was a pioneer member of the Pilgrim's Rest Primitive Baptist Church at Baxter. He later settled in the Mill Run community and set aside part of his land for this cemetery.
The earliest marked grave is for Owen's son, Silas Monk Owen, who died in 1873. Friends and neighbors, as well as other Owen family members, are buried here. Tombstones dated before 1900 bear the names of Clayton, Davis, Hanks, Hester, Moon, Ratcliff, Regester, and Rogers. David Allen Owen (1817-1885); his second wife, Lucinda (Woodard) (1834-1925); sons Jefferson Davis (1861-1916), David Randolph (1864-1927), Jordan Wade (1869-1947), Joseph Collins (1875-1930), and Dewitt Judson (1872-1943); and Mary Matilda (Clayton) Pace (1849-1930), a daughter by his first wife, also are buried here.
Although many of the graves are unmarked or are marked only with rocks, the Owen Cemetery stands as part of the recorded history of this area of Henderson County.
Was the inscription legible?: Yes
Location of Marker/Monument: Cemetery
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