| Quite a bit is
known about Walter Mack Key's maternal
grandfather James E. Owens. Based on information
from the 1860 Camden County, Missouri federal
census, he was born in Missouri around 1830. All
of the following information about James is taken
from the minor Children Pension Application filed
by his second wife. James married Elizabeth
Osborn on May 20, 1853. They had one child,
Martha Ellen born June 16, 1855. Elizabeth died
and James married Sarah March on October 9, 1856
in Camden County, Missouri. Sarah's maiden name
was Freeman and she is Walter Mack's maternal
grandmother.
James and Sarah had three children. Louisa J.
and James E. (twins) were born August 12, 1857.
The youngest child Nancy J. was born September 7,
1859.
James enlisted in the Union Army on August 15,
1862. He served as a private in Company D, 29th
Regiment, Missouri Infantry Volunteers. Probably
James did not see any action as he died in the
Post hospital at Patterson, Missouri, on November
29, 1862. According to his service records, while
performing the duties of a soldier, James
contracted measles, from the effects of which he
died.
Sarah married William Moore on March 4, 1870.
William Moore died sometime prior to 1880. By
that time, Sarah was living with her son, James,
her daughter, Louisa J. Key and son-in-law,
William Riley Key. Her youngest daughter, Nancy
J. had died in 1869.
Sarah died in Non, Hughes County, Oklahoma on
September 25, 1912. She was living with her son,
James E. at the time.
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