| b 04 Apr 1791, , , Rutherford, North Carolina | ||||
| d 03 Sep 1857, Greenbrier, Sevier, Tennessee | bur , Sevier, Tennessee | Arthur Ownbey | ||
| John 'Johny' Ownbey | b 1670 | |||
| | b 1735 | ||||
| James Ownby | d 1824 | Benjamin Porter | > | |
| |b 06 Jan 1761 | | | Ambrose Porter | Ann Campbell | |
| |d 26 Sep 1850 | Nancy Ann 'Nannie' Porter | b 1731 | ||
| | | b 1743 | Jemima | ||
| John Ownby | d 1818 | James Sims | ||
| |Mary Jane 'Granny' Coone | Richard Sims | Willmouth | |m 17 Feb 1812 | William Sims, [Captain] | b 1676 |
| |, , Rutherford, North Carolina | |b 25 Feb 1731 | Mrs. Joanna Sims | ||
| Joanna Sims | d 1797 | b 1678 | Abraham Stapp | > |
| b 24 Mar 1761 | | | Joshua Stapp | Dorothy Moss | > |
| d 01 Apr 1852 | Annister Step | b 1688 | Edward Coffey | > |
| b 1731 | Martha 'Patsy' Coffey | Ann Powell | > | |
| d 1759 | b 1690 | |||
| 1 | < | Nicholas H. Ownby | 2 | < | Mary Ownby | 3 | < | David Ownby | 4 | < | Rachel Ownby | 5 | < | James S. 'Big_Cadger_Jim' Ownby | 6 | < | Sarah Elmira 'Sally' Ownby | 7 | < | John B. Ownby | 8 | Ownby | 9 | < | George Ownby | 10 | Ownby | 11 | < | Madison Ownby |
In 1833, John Ownby and his family migrated to Sevier County, Tennessee from Buncombe County, North Carolina. They made their 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 listed in the 1840 and 1850 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee.
An interesting story about John Ownby at the time of his death was told by his grandson, 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 before Grandfather Ownby died he walked from his house to the store, that he told the people in the store that he would die about that same time on the following day. 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, etc., then turned his face to the wall & died.'
John Ownby was buried in Proffitt Cemetery in the Glades.
Source: 'Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue 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 Shadow of the Smokies', Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 553. 'Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage', 1994, p 298.