Brief Life History of John Brooks
When John Brooks Owens was born on 16 October 1845, in Clinton, Missouri, United States, his father, John Brooks Owens, was 37 and his mother, Nancy Thorpe, was 28. He married Ethleen Best on 22 February 1877, in Maysville, DeKalb, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Benton Township, Daviess, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Grant Township, DeKalb, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died on 5 April 1941, in Maysville, DeKalb, Missouri, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Berlin, Gentry, Missouri, United States.
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- John B Owen in household of John Sheeler, "United States Census, 1860"
- John Brooks Owens, "Find A Grave Index"
- J B Owens, "United States Census, 1940"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Welsh: variant of Owen , with post-medieval excrescent English -s.
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form by bearers of the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain (see McEwen ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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