When James Monroe Owen was born on 11 August 1862, in Upson, Georgia, United States, his father, Allen Ferdinand Owen, was 27 and his mother, Lucy Jane McCord, was 22. He married Carrie Virginia Mcghee on 23 December 1886, in Upson, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in District 561, Upson, Georgia, United States in 1900 and Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States in 1910. He died on 11 July 1936, in Cedartown, Polk, Georgia, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Cedartown, Polk, Georgia, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Welsh: from the personal name Owain, from Latin Eugenius (see Eugene ). This Welsh personal name is cognate with Old Irish Eogán, see 2 and 3.
Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eoghain ‘son of Eoghan’. See McEwen .
Irish: from Ó hEoghain, ‘descendant of Eoghan’. See Ewen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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