Jane Owens 1840-1906

OWENS, KERR, SPROWEL

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Date: 7/1/2022 at 08:38:42

Columbus Gazette, Columbus Junction, Iowa
Thursday, May 31, 1906
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Mrs. Jane Lyman Owens was born in Ohio, November 9, 1820 and died May 23, 1906. She was married to Forgay Owens, October 15, 1840. The family emigrated to Iowa in 1851 and settled on a farm north of Morning Sun. She suffered all the privations and hardships of a pioneer life. She often spoke of those times of living in a one-room log cabin and of the happy hours spent there with her husband and children. She was the mother of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters. She gave three sons to her country in the time of the nation's peril. One lies buried at Jackson, Tennessee; one at Washington, Kansas. Two sons and one daughter died of consumption, several years ago. Mr. Owens died in 1887. There are six living; John, Robert, Daniel, Joseph, Sarah Kerr of this place and Julia Sprowel, of Creston.

Mrs. Owens has been a member of the Presbyterian church for about sixty years and was a regular attendant of the same until the infirmities of age came upon her. She lived a devoted Christian life and was a faithful wife and mother. She left besides her children, forty-four grandchildren and forty-five great grandchildren. Her home for the last twenty years was in Morning Sun. She went out to her daughter's for a little visit and was taken sick and was tenderly taken care of by her daughter, Mrs. Kerr. The funeral services were held at the Kerr home, conducted by Rev. Wm Mackay. burial at the Rice cemetery.