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OWEN FAMILY NEWS Volume 23, Issue 4 Published by Owen Family Association December 2008 Page 1 http//www.geocities.com/~owenfamily Letter from the Indiana Historical Society Contributor: Karen Grubaugh Karen Grubaugh, our past OFA Newsletter editor, received this letter from the Indiana Historical Society and contributed this information to the OFA. Thank you to Karen for sharing this information and assisting in providing the Indiana Historical Society with the most current OFA organization informa- INSIDE THIS ISSUE tion. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Our Feature Article: Letter from the July 15, 2008 Descendants of William and Indiana Historical Society Drucilla Echols Owen—Part 4 Re: Exchange Program with The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections Page 1 C. Owen Johnson Family history journal from the Indiana Historical Society Press Page 52 Letter from our President To Whom It May Concern: ThomasReuben Pickett Evan Owen and HisPage Descendants: 2 On behalf of the Indiana Historical Society I would like to thank your organization Adrian Boone Owen for participating in the exchange program with The Hoosier Genealogist: Connec- OwenJody DNAMoeller Update and tions. Currently, we are updating our files to ensure that we have the correct contact ByLee Whit Gentemenn Athey information for each participating organization and that each organization still plans Page 55 to participate in the exchange. Page 3 IN FUTURE ISSUES Conclusions of The Please take the time to check the address on the label below and let us know of any Reverend- March FeatureRichard Article Owings - changes. Also, if you have an organizational Web address or e-mail address, we Descendantsarticle of William and would like to add it to our files. Please e-mail your response to Drucilla Echols Owen—Part 5 [email protected], or mail it to: by C.Pages Owen 3-5Johnson ≈ Roger Lawton John,Descendants Thomas, of and THG Exchange Reuben PickettWilliam: Owen—Part 4 Indiana Historical Society Press Theby Devil’s Josephine in theMoeller Details 450 West Ohio Street Pages≈ 6-9 Indianapolis, Indiana 4620 – 3269 A David Franklin Owen Owen ListNarrative Moderator Thank you very much for sharing your periodical(s) with the Indiana Historical Soci- by HughPages Goodman 10 ety so that we can share them with researchers for decades to come! We appreciate ≈ the time and effort you give through this valuable program. Descendancy of IN HenryFUTURE “Buck” ISSUES Owen Sincerely, ByEphraim Marshall Owen Thomas By David Owen≈ Jackson M. Teresa Baer Ewing Elmer Fidler Story Managing Editor GenealogyBy Louis OwenTidbits Family History Publications By Carla Grune Indiana Historical Society Press Owen Histories [email protected] Chris Hanlin 317-234-0071 Volume 23, Issue 4 Owen Family News December 2008 Page 2 Editorial Staff of the The President’s Message Owen Family News from Thomas E. Owen Editor & Officer Greetings to all in the Owen Family Association (OFA), fall Carla Grune is a great time of year. Those of you way up north have al- 784 S. Villier Ct. ready pulled out your coats while those of us who are in the Virginia Beach, VA 23452 south are thinking about putting on a sweater. (757) 570-7079 [email protected] I was rereading the Thomas Owen family history by Clifford Publisher & Officer Owen that appeared in our last news letter. It was interesting to see how many common first names there were in that Margaret Owen Parsons Owen family and my own. Clifford Owen certainly has done 10300-142 Kings River Rd. Reedly, CA 93654 some outstanding research, thanks Cliff for sharing that fam- (559) 250-0740 ily history with us. [email protected] Contributing Editors Let me review with all of you just a few of the OFA objec- tives: Jane Owen Hillard Document our family histories, Kimberly Ayn Owen Collect narratives, C. Owen Johnson List of cemeteries where there are Owen family plots, William P. Owen, III Publish news letter, Proofreading Committee Aid others who are looking/searching for family histories. Margaret Owen Parsons This is not a complete list of our objectives (complete list at Michael Patrick Owen end of news letter); I would like this to serve as a reminder Alan D. Smith and also to say there are two very capable individuals who Carolee Moncur, PhD would be willing to help any OFA member. Josephine Moel- Raye Puckett ler is our genealogist and Jane Owen is our historian. You Marsha Carmack Owen Sue Owen will find their contact information at the end of the news let- ter. Typist Volunteer Needed I hope you all have a joyous Christmas season. May your Publication Dates families come together to share love for one another and all March, June, September & December mankind, and may the new year be a prosperous and healthy Deadlines are the 1st day of the month preceding publication. year for each of you. Submission of lineages, biographies, Tom Owen photographs, historical and genealogical data about any Owen anywhere is encour- aged! Your ideas for the newsletter are also solicited, please contact the editor. Volume 23, Issue 4 Owen Family News December 2008 Page 3 Update: The Owen DNA Project By Whit Athey ([email protected]) This update covers the last six months of the Owen DNA Project. 16 new participants have joined the DNA pro- ject in the period covered, and there have been six upgrades to more markers (usually to 37 markers). Incoming results during the quarter have added four new participants to Owen Group 2 (displacing Group 1 as the largest group), and one new participant to each of Owen Groups 1, 7, 8, 12a, and 13. Four new participants presently have no matches in the project. Two of the new participants match each other and form a new Owen Group 20 and one new participant matches a previously unmatched participant and they form a new Owen Group 21. With this issue of the newsletter the full DNA results table will be provided as a separate pdf attachment for those subscribing by e-mail. Our US Mail subscribers will receive a printed updated DNA results table with the June 2009 issue of the Owen Family News. As always, the most current results may be viewed at our web site. Note that the web site has a new address since June: http://www.hprg.com/owen/. The new web site has a slightly dif- ferent look and the most current results table may be downloaded as an Excel file for any who would like to have it in that form. Five of our new participants have ordered their testing through Ancestry.com, taking advantage of the initial pro- motional sale in August. These participants have ID numbers that start with an “A.” Another fairly new testing lab is Genetree. These two companies have different standards on a small number of markers from those of Fam- ily Tree DNA. Hopefully, the different labs will soon standardize their approaches to all markers to avoid confu- sion, but for now, the results from Ancestry have to be adjusted in a few cases in order to be comparable to Family Tree DNA. For those who would like to join the project, but are reluctant to spend the money, keep in mind that there is a “free” option. You can be tested through the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMGF) by ordering a test kit from their web site (http://www.smgf.org). The disadvantage of this approach is that it takes over a year for your results to become available, and even then the results are not provided directly to you. Your results sim- ply show up in the SMGF database with no notification, so you have to go looking for them by searching on your surname or an ancestor of yours. If you need more information on this option, you can contact me at wa- [email protected]. Please see the updated DNA table for new results on this project. For questions on the results or project or ques- tions on how to participate in the OWEN DNA project, please contact Whit Athey. Conclusions of The Rev. Richard Owings article (By David Owings, [email protected]) I would like to thank David Owings for contributing this information on The Reverend Richard Owings. With no further a due, the OFA presents the diary and concluding information on The Reverend Richard Owings. Monday, March 8th 1773 “Rose this morning with a determination to fight or die; I spent an hour in earnest prayer. Lord, keep me ever watchful. I was also much comforted by a letter which I received from Richard Owings, part of which follows: “I know not what it will come to. Almost every person seems to be under a religious concern. There are about twenty-two persons already joined in society at Seneca. At Georgetown four have been lately enabled to rejoice in God: one at Rock Creek. Blessed be God; who hath not forgotten to be gracious.” Volume 23, Issue 4 Owen Family News December 2008 Page 4 Lord’s Day (Sunday), August 29th 1773 “After preaching at Mr. Joshua Owings in the morning, and at Mr. Daniel Evans in the afternoon, I rode thence to town under heavy exercises of mind. Surely there will be good done here, or the place must be given up.” Monday, September 13th 1773 “Found it necessary on a particular occasion to get to Pipe creek; and while preaching to a large number of people at Richard Owings, the power of the Lord was present.” Thursday, December 23rd 1773 “Richard Owings informed me that the work of God was gaining ground in Frederick County.” Lord’s Day (Sunday), January 30th 1774 “It appears that the people have a great desire to know the truth; for though it rained and froze as it fell, yet a great many attended to hear.