Living married OWENS DARRELL (NMN) DARRELL (daughter of OWENS FRANKLIN BRYAN and TOWNSEND MILDRED CECILE) was born on 10 Jan 1923 in Norwalk, Stone County, Missouri; died on 15 Nov 1950 in Chico, California; was buried in Oroville, California. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

There is a photograph p. 573 History of Stone County Missouri with teh following heading:

Darrell, Barbara, Garland, Cecil (Townsend) and Bryan Owens

FRANKLIN married TOWNSEND MILDRED CECILE on 21 Feb 1921 in Norwalk, Stone County, Missouri. MILDRED (daughter of TOWNSEND WILLIAM and UNKNOWN CORA) was born on 25 Jun 1900 in Baxter, Stone County, Missouri; per D. Whetstone date is June 5, 1900.; died on 30 Dec 1984 in Rolling Hills Estate Nursing Home, Branson, Missouri; was buried in Blue Eye Memorial Cemetery, Blue Eye, Stone County, Missouri. [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.

WILLIAM married UNKNOWN CORA. [Group Sheet]