Aaron Ownbey

b 26 Oct 1815, , , Buncombe, North Carolina
d 29 Oct 1897, , Sevier, Tennessee  
bur 1898, Gatlinburg, Sevier, Tennessee Arthur Ownbey  
John 'Johny' Ownbey b 1670  
| b 1735    
John Ownby, Jr.  d 1824 Benjamin Porter >
|b 11 Jul 1781 | Ambrose Porter Ann Campbell
|d 05 Sep 1869 Nancy Ann 'Nannie' Porter b 1731  
|  b 1743 Jemima  
Aaron Ownbey  d 1818  
|Mary 'Polly' Buckner    
|m 1834 John Hill  
|, Sevier, Tennessee |b 1760    
Elizabeth Hill    
 b 06 Nov 1784 |    
 d 24 Aug 1830    
   

Children

1 < Joel Ownby
2 < Elizabeth M. Ownby
3 < James Pruit Ownbey
4 < Marion Harrison Ownby
5 < Albert Ownby
6 < John W. Ownby, Rev.
7 < Nancy Jane Ownby
8 < Brazelton Ownby
9 Vera Ownbey
10 < Aaron Isaac Ownby

Notes

Aaron Ownby served as the clerk for White Oak Flats Baptist Church and also served as the Justice of Peace for the 11th Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee.

They were listed in the 1840 through 1880 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee.

They were buried in the Aaron Ownby Cemetery just off the State Highway 73 before entering Hidden Hills Subdivision.

Source: 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3', Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 106, 115. 'In the Shadow of the Smokies', Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 550. 'Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina', p 13. 'Mountain Ways', Gene Aiken, 1983, p 203.


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