History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 547.
[Bourbon County]  [North Middletown Precinct]

MRS. BETTIE OWEN, farmer, P. O. North Middletown.  Robert Owens was born
in Mary, and emigrated to Kentucky in 1784, and temporarily settled in
Clark County;he married when twenty-two years of age and moved to Bourbon,
where he reared a family of three sons and five daughters.  Geo. W., the
youngest son was born on the 4th of April, 1813, and married Feb. 13, 1839,
to our subject, Miss Bettie, daughter of William Scott, of this county; by
this marriage there were fourteen children, nine daughters, viz: Emma,
wife of Dr. Joe Fithian, of paris, Ky.; Nancy S., wife of Marcus Evans, of
Clark County; Fannie, who married Wm. Boston, of this county, and died in
April, 1881; Sallie, who died in 1867; Bettie, Cinnie, Mary Lou, Carrie
and Dixie, and five sons: Joseph, who married Alice Scarce, of this county,
and now resides in Ohio; Wm. R., who married the widow Peoples, of Bates
County, Mo., where he now lives; Thomas, who is telegraphing in Chicago;
George and John Ed, who are still at the old homestead with the widowed
mother.  Nancy S. graduated at Winchester Female College; Sally graduated
at Oxford, Ohio; Fannie at the Bourbon Female College; Carrie at the
Millersburg Female College; Dixie and John Ed are now students of the
K.C. & B. College.  This family are nearly all Methodists; the sons are
Democrats.  Mrs. Owen has 260 acres of land.

Owen Scott Fithian Evans Boston Scarce Peoples
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Clark-KY Bates-MO IL OH MD

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