Re: Jenny (Peggy Jane) Owen b. Scottsboro 1870
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Re: Jenny (Peggy Jane) Owen b. Scottsboro 1870
carol warren 10/23/11
Thanks for your messages.My Aunt Emma, Jenny's daughter, told me that the family was part Native American, but she wasn't sure of the details.She was told this as a child.Jenny married James Melvin Bridgewater.His mother was Emma Margaret Newberry.The Newberrys were from Groton, CT in the mid 18th century and as they moved westward, they supposedly intermarried with NAs.However, the Owens side is harder to trace.Her father was Jefferson Lafayette Owen - maybe.I think his father was John Owen from Kentucky. The trouble is the name is so common in that area and lots of farm families migrated from Kentucky and Alabama westward.