File for Arthur Ownby - Cemetarian

Nickname: Addie?
Died young, never married. Listed in 1860 census of McD owell County, North Carolina as five years
old.
Source: 'Kinfolk, Ownbey Fami ly Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina', p 25. .;
More About Adeline Owenby:
Record Change: May 14, 2000
+ 360 ii. James Madison Owenby, born December 25, 1847; died January 14, 1895 in Henderson, North
Carolina.
361 iii. Mary Owenby, born 1851; died Unknown.
362 iv. William Owenby, born 1853; died Unknown.
More About William Owenby:
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151. John 21 Ownbey (Ambrose 'Little Ambrose' 20 , James 19 Owenby, John 'Johny' 18 Ownbey, John 17
Ownby, Arthur (Onby) 16 , Thomas 15 Oneby, Thomas 14 , John 13 , John (of Ondeby Esq) 12 Ondeby,
Richard 11 , Thomas (of Leicester & Warwick) 10 , Unknown 9 , John (of Rutland) 8 , Thomas (of Stoke Dry &
Rutland) 7 , Thomas (of Sadington) 6 , John (of Stoke Dry & Saddington) 5 , Roger 4 , Thomas 3 , Unknown 2 ,
Thomas (The Sheriff) 1 ) was born April 04, 1791 in Rutherford Co., NC, and died September 03, 1857 in
Greenbriar, Seville Co., TN. He married Mary Jane Coone February 17, 1812 in Rutherford, North
Carolina. She was born 1793 in Rutherford, North Carolina, and died 1881 in Greenbrier, Sevier,
Tennessee.
Notes for John Ownbey:
John Ownby lived with his parents in Rutherford County, North Carolina, later B uncombe County,
North Carolina.
In 1833, John Ownby and his family migrated t o Sevier County, Tennessee from Buncombe County,
North Carolina. They made thei r home in the Glades community, 2nd Civil District of Sevier County,
Tennessee. Here John Ownby lived until his death.
John Ownby and his family were list ed in the 1840 and 1850 Federal Census of Sevier County,
Tennessee.
An inte resting story about John Ownby at the time of his death was told by his grandso n, Samuel
Ownby. It is:
'...Mother told me this story and I don't think my mother would tell me something that wasn't true.
Mother said that the day befor e Grandfather Ownby died he walked from his house to the store, that
he told th e people in the store that he would die about that same time on the following d ay. The next
day at about the time he had told them this, he layed down on the bed, talked as fast as he could,
telling his family how to live, what to do, et c., then turned his face to the wall & died.'
John Ownby was buried in Prof fitt Cemetery in the Glades.
Source: 'Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the B lue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina', p 1. 'Smoky
Mountain Clans, Volume 3', 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 66. Wiley Emmett Koon, Jr., 15 July 1995. 'In the
Sha dow of the Smokies', Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 553. 'Sevier Co unty, Tennessee
and Its Heritage', 1994, p 298.
More About John Ownbey:
Burial: September 1857, Greenbriar, Seville Co., TN
Notes for Mary Jane Coone:
Nickname: Granny
Parents are listed as Koon; grandparents as Kuhn
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