Benjamin Franklin Owens

Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin

When Benjamin Franklin Owens was born in July 1868, in Cullman, Cullman, Alabama, United States, his father, Lewis F Owens, was 19 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Calvert, was 20. He married Mary Livingston on 26 July 1887, in Walker, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Little Texas Township, Craighead, Arkansas, United States in 1900. He died in 1903, in Craighead, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 35.

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Benjamin Franklin Owens
1868–1903
Mary Livingston
1872–1899
Marriage: 26 July 1887
David L. Owens
1888–1969
Ethel Owens
1893–

Sources (7)

  • Ben S Owens, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Benj S Owens, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
  • John B. Owens in entry for David L. Owens, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"

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World Events (8)

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.

1873

Historical Boundaries: 1873: Blount, Alabama, United States 1877: Cullman, Alabama, United States

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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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