Carmia Etta "Connie" Ownbey

1890 - 1923  (32 years)

• Name	Carmia Etta "Connie" Ownbey
  Born	4 Apr 1890	Broad River Twp., Buncombe County, North Carolina
  Gender	Female
  Died	11 Feb 1923	Nelsontown, Sullivan, Tennessee
  Buried	Kingsport, Sullivan, Tennessee
  Person ID	I9892	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	26 May 2012

  
  

  Father	Daniel Rufus Ownbey,   b. 11 Nov 1856, Broad River Twp., Buncombe County, North Carolina ,   d. 28 Mar 1898  (Age 41 years)
  Mother	Olive Antonette (Anty) Moffitt,   b. 22 Apr 1868, Broad River, McDowell, North Carolina ,   d. 5 Jun 1898  (Age 30 years)
  Married	28 Mar 1887	Broad River, McDowell, North Carolina
  Family ID	F3564	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Henry Thomas White,   b. 1 Nov 1880, Clyde, Haywood, North Carolina ,   d. 26 Oct 1928, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina  (Age 47 years)
  Married	30 Dec 1906	Old Fort, McDowell, North Carolina
  Children	+ 1. Ralph Claude White,   b. 23 Jan 1910, Old Fort, McDowell, North Carolina  (Age 114 years)   2. Edythe Gertrude White,   b. 10 Oct 1912, Old Fort, McDowell, North Carolina  (Age 111 years)   3. Mildred Anton White,   b. 29 Dec 1913, Old Fort, McDowell, North Carolina  (Age 110 years) + 4. Charles Clifford White,   b. 12 Oct 1915  (Age 108 years)
  Family ID	F3608	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Born on homeplace near Hickory Nut Mountain. Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. Carmia was her name given at birth. After her parents death, all her sisters were separated into various homes. She stayed with an aunt, Cora Nevada (Moffitt) Vess (Mrs. Canney Vess) on Crooked Creek. Later she moved and lived with a woman who called her Connie Eldora. By the time she married Henry Thomas White, she had changed her name again to Connie Etta, as her children knew her. Connie Etta met her husband while she was a waitress working in Old Fort, McDowell, North Carolina, in a boarding house where Henry Thomas White was living. Before they were married, they had purchased a house and then were married. Four years later their home is where Ralph C. White was born. All children were born in this house. The house still stands and has been kept in excellent condition by the present owner. According to her sister, Carrie Lee, Carmia was headstong and beligerent and that at one time Bailey Nesbitts took her for some time in her home, but couldn't make her happy. Carmia is buried in the same plot with her husband and his second wife in Oak Hill Cemetery. Their child separates Carmia from her husband. ---------- Reference: "Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 1, 36, 42.