Arminda (Ramey) Owens (abt. 1820 - 1876)

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Arminda RAMEY was born about 1820 in Kentucky and died about February 1875 in Virginia. She was the daughter of Moses RAMEY and Tabitha CANTRELL

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 June 2018), memorial page for Arminda Ramey Owens (1821–16 Feb 1876), Find A Grave: Memorial #47272050, citing Owens Family Cemetery, Buchanan County, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8). Tombstone Picture posted by Sheila Compton Ramsey.

BIRTH ESTIMATE:

1820 Census - Age Bracket: Under 10 Years

1830 Census - Age Bracket: 10 to 15 Years

1840 Census - Age Bracket: 20 to 30 Years

1850 Census - Age: 30 Years, Place of Birth: Kentucky

1860 Census - Age: 40 Years, Place of Birth: [Not recorded, last recorded was Virginia]

1870 Census - Age: 48 Years, Place of Birth: Kentucky

Arminda RAMEY married on 16 March 1837 in Pike County, Kentucky to Andrew OWENS.^[1]

Andrew OWENS was born about 1817 in Virginia^[2] and died on 17 April 1887 in Virginia (probably Buchanan County, Virginia). He was the son of Harden OWENS and Rebecca RAMEY.

Find a Grave Memorial No. 47,271,959, Entry for Andrew OWENS (1817 - 1887), Buried in Owens Family Cemetery, Buchanan County, Virginia, accessed 2 November 2017. Tombstone Picture posted by Sheila Compton RAMSEY.

BIRTH ESTIMATE:

1820 Census - Age Bracket: Under 10 Years

1830 Census - Age Bracket: 10 to 15 Years

1840 Census - Age Bracket: 20 to 30 Years

1850 Census - Age: 33 Years, Place of Birth: Virginia

1860 Census - Age: 43 Years, Place of Birth: [Not recorded, last recorded was Virginia]

1870 Census - Age: 52 Years, Place of Birth: Virginia

1880 Census - Age: 61 Years, Place of Birth: Virginia

Children of Andrew OWENS and Arminda RAMEY:

1. James M. OWENS (Born: About 1838 in Virginia)
2. Moses OWENS (Born: About 1840 in Virginia)
3. Hardin OWENS (Born: About 1843 in Virginia
4. Feriley "Fereba" OWENS (Gender: Female, Born: About 1845 in Virginia)
5. Tabitha OWENS (Born: About 1846 in Virginia)
6. Martha OWENS (Born: About 1848 in Virginia)
7. Frances J. "Franky" OWENS (Born: About 1850 in Virginia)
8. Priscy OWENS (Born: About 1852 in Virginia)
9. Andrew OWENS (Born: 29 November 1854 in Russell County, Virginia^[3])
10. Albert OWENS (Born: 29 November 1854 in Russell County, Virginia^[4] - Note this individual is not listed in the 1860 census record.
11. Louisa "Eliza" OWENS (Born: About 1857 in Virginia)
12. Arminda OWENS (Born: About 1860 in Virginia)
13. Robert H. OWENS (Born: About 1861 in Virginia) - may have been listed as Henderson OWENS in the 1880 census record.

Also listed in the 1850 census household was Almarine OWENS, age 14 [Est. Birth: 1836 in Virginia]. It is possible that this individual was another child. I have seen individuals listed at the end of the household when the child was a child from a different marriage as well.

Sources

1. ↑ Clyde Runyon, Marriage Bonds of Pike County, Kentucky 1822 - 1865 (Belfrey, Kentucky: Clyde Runyon, 1984), p. 92, file 532, Andrew Owens to Arminda Ramey, bond 7 March 1837, married 16 March 1837. [Letter listed as dated on 4 March 1837 requesting license for Andrew Owens and Arminda Ramey; signed by Moses Ramey and Tabitha Ramey and attested by Jno A. Chadwell and Harden Oens.]
2. ↑ 1850 U. S. Census Age given as 33 Years and place of birth was recorded as Virginia.
3. ↑ "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X5FQ-V5G : 5 December 2014), Andrew Owens, 29 Nov 1854; citing Russell, Virginia, reference p 14; FHL microfilm 2,046,964.
4. ↑ "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X5FQ-V5R : 5 December 2014), Albert Owens, 29 Nov 1854; citing Russell, Virginia, reference p 14; FHL microfilm 2,046,964.

• 1820 - Arminda RAMEY in parent's household - "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLN-T1K : accessed 2 November 2017), Moses Ramey, Floyd, Kentucky, United States; citing p. 38, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 22; FHL microfilm 186,182.

• 1820 - Andrew OWENS in parent's household - "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLJ-2PX : accessed 4 November 2017), Harden Owens, Lebanon, Russell, Virginia, United States; citing p. 150, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 141; FHL microfilm 193,700.

• 1830 - Arminda RAMEY in parent's household - "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPG-66S : 24 August 2017), Moses Rmy, Pike, Kentucky, United States; citing 371, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 40; FHL microfilm 7,819.

• 1830 - Andrew OWENS in parent's household - "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5N-G9L : 19 August 2017), Hardin Owens, Russell, Virginia, United States; citing 164, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 199; FHL microfilm 29,678.

• 1840 - "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHT2-K6V : 13 September 2017), Andrew Owens, Russell, Virginia, United States; citing p. 27, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 577; FHL microfilm 29,692.

• 1850 - "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8DP-FBG : 12 April 2016), Andrew Owens, Russell county, part of, Russell, Virginia, United States; citing family 1665, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• 1860 - "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M41S-N1L : 26 July 2017), Andrew Owens, 1860. [Location: Buchanan County, Virginia]

• 1870 - "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFLV-P1K : 12 April 2016), Andrew Owens, Virginia, United States; citing p. 29, family 193, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,136.

• 1880 - "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCPL-Q2K : 15 July 2017), Andrew M Owens, Sand Lick, Buchanan, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 16, sheet 370B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1357; FHL microfilm 1,255,357.