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BIOGRAPHIES OF TIPTON COUNTY, TN "O"
Jacob A. Owen, farmer and citizen of the Second District, is a son of S. H. and Sarah A. (Smith) Owen, was born in the Second District of Tipton County in 1843, and is one of five children, four living. The father was of Welsh ancestry, born in Rowan County, N. C., about 1814, was raised there and married Mary Miller. They had two children, both living. They moved to Tipton County and settled in the First District in 1830. Mrs. Owen died in 1834, and in 1839 he married Sarah Smith. Mr. Owen was a farmer and died in 1863. Our subject's mother was born in North Carolina and died in 1862. Jacob Smith, her father, was one of the earliest settlers of Tipton County, having settled in it in 1823. Jacob Owen was raised and educated in the county. In 1862 he went to Springfield, Mo., and took charge of a government wagon train for three years, and in 1865 returned to Tipton County and resumed his farming. December 4, 1866, he married Nancy J., daughter of Leonard and Susan Smith; they had four children, one living, Leonard Franklin. Mr. Owen first located at his father's homestead, and on his present farm in 1869. He owns 200 acres of fine land. Mr. Owen is a well informed, hard-working man. He was elected to fill an unexpired term as magistrate in 1881, and was re-elected in 1882, and still holds the office. Politically he is an independent Democrat. His first presidential vote was for Gen. McClellan, in 1864. Mr. Owen is an active Mason and, with his wife, belongs to the Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Owen was born in 1843, in Tipton County also, and they both stand well in the social and religious circles of their community.
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee (1887) |
