Brief Life History of John Lawrence
When John Lawrence Owen was born in 1839, in Alabama, United States, his father, Daniel Crawford Owen, was 37 and his mother, Mary Vickery, was 25. He lived in Randolph, Alabama, United States in 1850 and Bibb, Alabama, United States in 1850.
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Family Time Line
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- John Owen in household of Alex Owen, "United States Census, 1850"
- John Owen in household of D C Owen, "United States Census, 1850"
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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: 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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