Sheppard/Ovens or Overns/Escambia Co.
I am looking for my Great Grandfathers family. His name is Joseph Patrick Ovens/or/Overns b.1887 in Flordia. He had a brother named Marion and 3 sisters named Mabel--Lillian--Vergie. I feel like Joseph's father died and Joseph's mother remarried or was a Sheppard. I do not have any info on Joseph's parents. I have heard that Joseph and Marion was sent to a boys home. I understand that although Joseph's legal name was Ovens/Overns he liked to go by the surname Sheppard. I do know the Sheppards lived in Pensacola. Joseph married Janet Campbell in Mobile in the year of 1915. He died in 1938 at the Alabama State Docks. Anyone with any info please contact me at [email protected]