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Looking for my Grandfather 'James Owenby" of North Carolina

Re: Looking for my Grandfather 'James Owenby" of North Carolina

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 7:34AM GMT
Classification: Query
Tanya, this message is for you and Corrie, so I hope she's keeping up with this thread. I want to read through all the messages from you two and from Mary Heathcote, and then I'll try to fill in some of the missing data on the Owenby family, perhaps starting with the children of John M. and Caroline Temperance Nelson Owenby, but then working back so that you and Corrie have a better understanding of your ancestors and some important collateral relatives. Mary probably already has most of this earlier data. I've also been doing some work on Orrin and James Robinson Owenby, Jr's, descendants, and on the Steinmans. If you search the 1940 census for Walter and Minnie Steinman, and their children, I think you will find Betty Jean and Anna Mae among them, in Casper, Natrona Co, Wyoming. That should give you a start on looking into the maternal side of your families. There's a very good chance that these are "your" Steinmans. Next, you try to find Walter in an earlier census, or a record of his or Minnie's death, and so on. I understand that James Robinson Owenby, Jr. and Betty Jean Steinman married "across the line" in Yuma, Arizona, but haven't yet found documentation. Hope to hear from you! It's 2:27 a.m. here and I have a heavy schedule of activities tomorrow, so good night! Barbara Owenby Gaffney

Re: Looking for my Grandfather 'James Owenby" of North Carolina

Posted: 3 May 2014 4:01AM GMT
Classification: Query
These mountains (western NC) are full of Owenbeys. In fact that is one of the lines I research. Hope this helps some. I I haven't found Betty Steinman.

Ronnie Allen Owenbey born 3/ 1961 to James Robinson Owenbey in Asheville, Buncombe Co NC. (mother not listed)

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/11895077/person/-322593757 could be James Robinson Owenbey - need to verify date
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