Lemon S. 'Lem' Ownby

b 24 Feb 1889,
d 16 Jan 1984, James Ownby >
bur , Sevier, Tennessee John Ownby Joanna Sims >
David Ownby b 04 Apr 1791 Nicholas Koon >
| b 24 Jun 1816 Mary Jane 'Granny' Coone Mary DeWalt
Thomas D. Ownby  d 10 Oct 1889 b 1793 William 'Billy' Ogle >
|b 29 Oct 1846 | Thomas J. Ogle Martha Jane Huskey >
|d 25 Jul 1930 Eliza Ogle b 1784  
|  b 09 Apr 1823 Sophia Bosley  
Lemon S. 'Lem' Ownby  d 09 Apr 1910 b 1789  
|Jemima Ownby John Watson  
| David Corn Watson b 1801 Samuel Conner
| |b 11 Nov 1825 Susannah 'Susie' Conner Nancy Swearingen >
Sarah Elizabeth Watson  d 29 Jun 1913 b 1810 William 'Billy' Ogle >
 b 15 Oct 1851 | William 'Black_Bill' Ogle Martha Jane Huskey >
 d 05 Apr 1931 Rachel Ogle b 1790 Henry Bohanon >
 b 1828 Nancy Bohanon Amillia Shotwell >
 d 18 Oct 1859 b 1795

Notes

Lem Ownby lived alone, even though blind, within the Great Smoky Mountains National park at Elkmont until his death.

Buried in Valley View Cemetery.

Source: 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2', 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 167. 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3', Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 81, 125. 'Smoky Mountain Family Album,' Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 14, 276. 'In the Shadow of the Smokies', Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 674.


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