Edwin Luther Searcy

Notes:

Never married.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
35.

Notes:

Carl G. Searcy, Portland, Oregon, wrote in 1971:

"The first family from North Carolina at Yale, Oklahoma was Ed and Ann Haydock
from Henderson County, North Carolina. Ed and Ann together with my Dad's
cousin, Rusha Barnwell and her husband moved to the Ozarks in Arkansas when
Oklahoma was opened up. Ed and Ann moved to Yale where they bought a small
forty acre farm about six miles southwest of Yale. In 1906 my Uncle John
Laughter, who married Grandpa Uriah's oldes girl Mary, and two of his
boys,Fulton and Roscoe, together with his nephew, Sherm Laughter, and Sid
Laughter moved to Yale, Oklahoma. In 1907 the Searcy family moved to Yale
also. All of us, Dad, mother and five of us kids lived on a farm three miles
west of Yale at first, but later moved to an Indian lease six miles north of
Cushing, Oklahoma. We were still about five miles from the other North
Carolina families. The Haydocks lived and died there, and Sherm and Sid, but
Uncle John and Aunt Mary went back to North Carolina. The still have one son
living Ben Laughter.

Carl G. Searcy descends through Marcellus and Julia Etta (Ownbey) Searcy.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
26, 32, 35.

Marcellus married Julia Etta Ownbey 23 Jan 1893. Julia (daughter of Uriah Ownbey and Nancy Louisey (Nancy Lou) Hudgins) was born 21 Dec 1870, , McDowell, North Carolina; died 30 Jan 1919; was buried Fairlawn Cemetery, Payne County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
26, 35.

Notes:

William B. Searcy's name appears on the widow pension application of Mrs. Kitty
Adeline Ownbey, as living in Bat Cave, North Carolina, on 13 July 1885. He
served in the Civil War in Company C, 60th Regiment, North Carolina. He buried
Caleb Ownbey on Missionary Ridge, in Tennessee. Therefore could serve as a
witness to his death.

William was captured some months later and taken to a prisoner of war camp in
Ohio where they offered him his freedom to go to Kansas to help gather the
wheat harvest. He collected a pension from the Union and Confederates until he
died.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
19, 32.

William — Martha Clementine Hudgins. Martha (daughter of Josiah Hudgins and Susanna Ownbey) was born 29 Oct 1840, Rutherford County, North Carolina; died 20 Sep 1917, Henderson County, North Carolina; was buried Searcy Family Cemetery, Henderson County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
19.

Notes:

Uriah Ownbey built a house about two miles from his boyhood home, about a mile
from Rocky Creek, and lived and died in Marion, McDowell, North Carolina. He
and his wife are buried in the "Old Field's" Cemetery on Bald Mountain.

Uriah, had some clothing made by a tailor at Newport, Tennessee, Andrew
Johnson, who later read law, entered politics and eventually became President
of this nation. Carl Searcy of Portland, Oregan can remember the fancy vest of
beautiful flowered silk.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
4, 5, 14, 25.

Uriah married Nancy Louisey (Nancy Lou) Hudgins 18 Jan 1855, , McDowell, North Carolina. Nancy (daughter of John Hudgins and Mary Owenby) was born Abt 1830/1839, North Carolina; died 1890. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
14, 25. .;

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 9, 77.

David married Anna Owenby 4 Oct 1821. Anna (daughter of Arthur "Little Arthur" Ownby and Barbara Hill) was born 1798, North Carolina; died 26 Aug 1854. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 9, 77.

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
16.

Josiah — Susanna Ownbey. Susanna (daughter of Ambrose "Little Ambrose" Ownbey and Margarette "Peggy" Hodge) was born 19 Mar 1820, , Rutherford, North Carolina; died 1897, , Henderson, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
16.

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Cocke County, Tennessee

Notes:

William was a soldier in the War of 1812 and received a pension for his service. After his second marriage, William moved to Sevier County, Tennessee, and later moved to Cooke County Tennessee where he died.

William went with his brother, John and his uncle John to Sevier County, Tennessee, about 1825-1826.
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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 4, 5, 14.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 65.

William married Sarah (Sally) Brown Abt Dec 1819, Rutherford County, North Carolina. Sarah was born Abt 1800; died Mar 1823. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p
4, 5, 14.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 65.

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 9, 25.

John — Mary Owenby. Mary (daughter of Arthur "Little Arthur" Ownby and Barbara Hill) was born 1803, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 9.