JOHN married Living [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Crittendon and Pansy bought 80 acres of land from his Uncle Daniel Owens and were living on this property when Daniel was found unconscious and was taken to their home for care until he died.
Crittendon was a "Circuit Preacher," in addition to being a farmer. He would harvest the crops, and as soon as school was out they would take off on a tour of the community that might extend into Oklahoma and Texas. The same schedule was met, even when the family moved to California.
Pansy was a school teacher at the Owens and Jones schools. She spoke of other schools where she taught in Ston County. In later years she became a preacher of the Pentecostal faith.
The family moved to Butte county, California, with Walter and Kate Owens in 1922. They owned 24 acres in Thermal and 200 acres just below Marysville, where he ran a dairy. Crittendon would take the young calves back and forth between the two farms. He died 11 Oct., 1946, at Marysville, California, while on one of these transfer trips. He had to cross a railroad track at Sheridan, and a train crashed into his truck, killing him and destroying the truck, but the calves were not hurt. Pansy died 27 May, 1981, Colusa, California. They are both buried at Oroville, California.

There is a photograph on p. 571 Stone County History Book with the following heading:

Nancy "Granny" Gore and grandson, Crittendonand Pansy and John Newell. Granny, a full blooded Cherokee Indian, settled in teh Owens Bend area and was a well known midwife to hundreds of hill folks. her daughter married John Owens adn ehr granddaughter married Andrew Owens.
p. 570-571
Leonard Carey
Stone County History Book

CRITTENDON married BURCH PANSY MAY on 28 Sep 1910 in Hailey, Missouri. PANSY was born on 5 Oct 1887 in Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri; died on 27 May 1981 in Colusa, California; was buried in Oroville, 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.