RAYMOND married Living [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Walter and "Katie," along with their children, John Earl and Marion "Roe", were with the caravan of some 12 families that left Stone county, Missouri, in 1907 to try their luck at homesteading in New Mexico. One child was born in Clovis, New Mexico, and another in Lewis, New Mexico.
Drought forced them to give up any hope of making a go of it in New Mexico, and they headed back to Missouri, stopping along the way at his cousin's, Andrew Owens at Binger, Oklahoma, and farming with him for 2 years. Walter and Kate then moved near Jenkins, Missouri, where their fifth child was born.
Finally they moved to Baxter, Missouri, just about the time fo teh :great flu epidemic." One child was born there.
Walter and Katie, along with Crittendon and Pansy, sons of John Owens, moved their families to Oklahoma and on to California in 1922. They sent word back that they had settled in Palermo, near Oroville, and that there was plenty of work.
They both lived to be in their 70's. Walter died 12 June, 1953, at Oroville, California, and Katie died 30 Jan., 1961, at Chico, California. They are both buried along side John Owens in the cemetery at Sutter City, California. They were the parents of 6 children.

There is a photograph on p. 570 Stone County History book of Walter and Catherin "Kate" (Hunt) Owens, 14 July, 1947.

p. 569-570
Leonard Carey
Stone County History Book

WALTER married HUNT CASSIE CATHERINE (KATE) (KATIE) on 24 Dec 1902 in Norwalk, Stone County, Missouri, bride's home, by R. A. Crawford, Minister. CASSIE (daughter of HUNT JOHN W. and NICKLE MATTIE) was born on 15 Mar 1882 in Bath, Kentucky; died on 30 Jan 1961 in Chico, Butte County, California; was buried in Sutter City, California. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In 1922 John Owens and son, Crittendon, started out west to California. They stopped in Oklahoma to see John's nephew, William and family....It was not long afterward that word arrived from California that John had found work and the opportunity was great for others. (See William Nathan Owens for further notes.)
p. 562 History of Stone County Missouri

His marriage to Cathern Parlee "Kitty" Gore was a double ceremony with his brother Hugh.

The 1880 Census lists John as living between his brothers, Daniel and James Owens. he lived close tohis mother-in-law until her death, at the age of 96, in 1917, at teh home of Crittendon and Pansy Owens, across the White River at the Jones settlement, near Lampe, Missouri. She was visiting there prior to her intentions of going up near Jenkins (between Shell Knob and Aurora, Barry County, Missouri) to visit Walter and Kate.
John and Kitty moved to Butte County, California, in 1920; and he lived 5 years before his death, 17 Sept., 1925, at Thermal, California. He is buried in the cemetery plot, at Sutter City, California, that his son-in-law, Furman Knight, had purchased at the death of his child.
Kitty moved back to Stone County, Missosuri, to live with her daughter, Sara Amanda Knight, until her death 5 March, 1935, at Cape Fair. She is buried at Cape Fair. John and Kitty were the parents of 8 children.

There is a photograph on p. 569 Stone County History Book with the following heading:

From left:Crittendon, John, Bryan, Nettle, Harvey, Amanda, Jesse, "Kitty," and Calvin Owens

p. 569
Leonard E. Carey
History fo Stone County Missouri 1989
Stone County, Missouri, Historical Society

JOHN married GORE CATHERN (CATHERINE) PARLEE (KITTY) on 14 Sep 1879 in Stone County, Missouri;by F.M. Cron, Minister. CATHERN (daughter of GORE WILLIAM CAROL (TIPTON) and UNKNOWN NANCY E. "GRANY") was born on 18 Sep 1858 in Carroll County, Arkansas.; died on 5 Mar 1935 in Cape Fair, Missouri; was buried in Cape Fair Cemetery, Stone County, Missouri. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

She lived in Section 10 of Alpine Township, on Frank Reser's farm before her marriage.

JOHN married NICKLE MATTIE. [Group Sheet]