David P. Owen m. F.A. Irwin, Erath Co TX
It's probably a long-shot, but I am looking for my great grandmother's real birth mother who abandoned her and went back east.
The F.A. Irwin that I'm looking for married David P. Owen on Dec 21, 1871 in Erath Co., TX. Here's how the story goes...
David P. Owen was born March 31, 1852 in North Carolina to William Edmund Owen and Arrena Malissa Lusk. They came to Texas and David P.Owen married a woman named ???, my great-grandmother (Georgie Lee Owen) was born of this woman and she left the child with David P.Owen and went back East. That's the story that I've always heard.
David P. Owen was born March 31, 1852 in North Carolina to William Edmund Owen and Arrena Malissa Lusk. They came to Texas and David P.Owen married a woman named ???, my great-grandmother (Georgie Lee Owen) was born of this woman and she left the child with David P.Owen and went back East. That's the story that I've always heard.
But because of my searching I have found on a census record, David P. was married again (Jack Co.TX 1880) and that Georgie's mother was from Alabama. (That's east of Texas, makes sense). I found the marriage license of the second wife in Hood Co., TX 1877.....I found a file that showed a David P. Owen married Miss F.A. Irvin in Erath Co., TX in 1871.I have that marriage certificate. I believe this to be our David P. Owen, because it's near the year which Georgie Lee should have been born, and also Erath Co. is next door to Hood Co. where he married the second wife.
But because of my searching I have found on a census record, David P. was married again (Jack Co.TX 1880) and that Georgie's mother was from Alabama. (That's east of Texas, makes sense). I found the marriage license of the second wife in Hood Co., TX 1877.....I found a file that showed a David P. Owen married Miss F.A. Irvin in Erath Co., TX in 1871.I have that marriage certificate. I believe this to be our David P. Owen, because it's near the year which Georgie Lee should have been born, and also Erath Co. is next door to Hood Co. where he married the second wife.I hope you have something in your files that might connect to this lead.Thanks for your help! Nancy