Rev. Elvin Beecher Ownby^[1]

1879 - 1942  (62 years)

• Name	Elvin Beecher Ownby
  Prefix	Rev.
  Born	8 Nov 1879	Tennessee   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	31 May 1942
  Buried	Pigeon Forge Baptist Church Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee   [3]
  Person ID	I30486	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2012

  
  

  Father	Joel Ownby,   b. Apr 1836, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 2 Jan 1909, Sevier County, Tennessee  (Age ~ 72 years)
  Mother	Malinda Elizabeth Clark,   b. 1849, Tennessee ,   d. 1904  (Age 55 years)
  Married	29 Nov 1873	Sevier County, Tennessee
  Marriage License	29 Nov 1873	Sevier County, Tennessee
  Family ID	F2041	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Mary Roseann Whaley,   b. 28 Feb 1877, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 1 Dec 1941  (Age 64 years)
  Children	+ 1. Clon Mayfield Ownby,   b. 9 Dec 1902, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 15 Mar 1990  (Age 87 years)   2. Myrtle Caldonia Ownby,   b. 10 Feb 1905, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 28 Jan 1999, Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee  (Age 93 years)   3. Roy H. Ownby,   b. 14 Mar 1907,   d. 22 Sep 1908  (Age 1 years)   4. Zelma Ownby,   b. 21 May 1909, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 27 Jul 1993  (Age 84 years) + 5. Grace Ownby,   b. 24 Jan 1912, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 18 Aug 1995  (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F11263	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 8 Nov 1879 - Tennessee Buried - - Pigeon Forge Baptist Church Cemetery, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Friendship Baptist Church Ministers, l to r: Russell Bohanan, Calvin Whaley, Walter Ownby, John Ownby, Evans Hurst, Robert King, Beecher Ownby
  		Beecher Ownby and William "Will" Mayes on bridge in Big Greenbrier on right hand fork of the river
  		Sarah (Ownby) Ball submission front, l to r: Grace, Beecher and wife Rose Ann; back, l to r: Myrtle, Clon & wife Juanita (Whaley) Ownby, & Zelma Ownby; in Greenbrier; on photo: "Was this Clon & Juanita's wedding?'
  		Sarah (Ownby) Ball submission Wedding of Willie Messer and Susie Cantrell in Greenbrier, 1920, front l to r: Willie Ownby, Zelma Ownby, Lillie Mayes, Lola Mayes, Webster Cantrell, Harvey Cantrell... see i.d. on text file

  
  

• Notes

  ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 20, 52, 115, 119. Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 62. "Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 45, 88, 101. "Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 265. "In the Shadow of the Smokies", Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 708.

  
  

• Sources

  [S47] Sevier County, Tennessee and its Heritage, Sevier County Heritage Book Committee, (1994, Don Mills, Inc.), 51. [S94] Sevier County, Tennessee Census, 318C, 1880. [S34] In the Shadow of the Smokies, Smoky Mountain Historical Society, (1993), 328.