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Descendants of Jacob Rhodes

17. MARGARET ELIZABETH⁴ RHODES (GEORGE WASHINGTON³, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born 19 February 1878 in Oakville, Lawrence, Alabama, and died 25 May 1955 in Hartselle, Morgan County, Alabama. She married GEORGE T. OWENS 15 January 1899 in Lawrence County, Alabama, son of JOHN OWENS and JANE MCDANIEL.

Notes for MARGARET ELIZABETH RHODES:
Obituary from the Hartselle Enquirer, May 26, 1955

Mrs. Owens rites at Forest Chapel.

Funeral services were held this Thursday afternoon for Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Owens, 77, who died Wednesday at her residence, 603 Sparkman Street.

Services were conducted at Forest Chapel, interment following in the adjoining cemetery, Howell Moss Funeral Home in charge.

Mrs. Owens is survived by two daughters; Mrs. Harvey Segars, Hartselle; Mrs. Grady Parker, Hartselle; five sons, Clarence of Hartselle; Tom, Falkville; Ed, Decatur; Clellie, Columbia, TN; E.L., Gadsden; two sisters, Miss Rachel Rhoades, Hartselle; Mrs. Roxie Tullis, Moulton; 18 grandchildren; 18 great grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews.

Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

1910 Lawrence County census: Margaret was aged 32, and widowed. She and her seven children were living in Oakville with her father and mother. Margaret could read, but not write.

Notes for GEORGE T. OWENS:
Marriage license G. T. Owen-Margaret Rhodes listed in Book M, p. 112, Lawrence County, Alabama.

Buried at Forest Chapel United Methodist Churchy Cemetery in Morgan County,
Alabama. Margaret is also buried same place. 2 December 1996 Linda Owens Green said she talked with Ed Owens a couple of years ago who told her George was killed when a wagon turned over on him. She also said he was in the Union army. Ruth said her grandmother, Margaret Owens, said George ran away from home when he was a boy and went somewhere up north, not sure where. She said that is probably the reason he joined the Union army. Ruth also said Margaret drew a widow's pension and Tommie drew something for his arm from his daddy's union pension. Need a copy of his papers.

He had one son when he married Margaret. His name was Oliver.

George Owens was found on the roster of the 1st Alabama Cavalry, US, which was formed in Northern Alabama. This is the same unit that the three younger Sterlings were a part of. Three older Sterlings, Hiluriah, George and David Houston, all married the three oldest Livingston girls. Although one of the wives appeared on the relief and salt books of Lawrence County during the war, no records have been located on the men. Hiluriah was the only one to be listed on the 1870 census, leading us to believe the other two did not survive the war.

Children of MARGARET RHODES and GEORGE OWENS are:

GEORGE CLARENCE⁵ OWENS, b. 1 March 1900, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 3 November 1977, Morgan County, Alabama.

Notes for GEORGE CLARENCE OWENS:
Buried at Forest Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery in Morgan County, Alabama near Hartselle.

Clarence lived at home with his mother Margaret Owens. Clarence dated the same woman, Olie Holmes, for 55 years but never married her. Ruth said every Sunday morning he would get up, get ready and leave at about 10:00 a.m. to go see Olie and return home about 10:00 p.m. that same night.

Clarence was a truck driver.

According to the 1910 Lawrence County, Alabama census he could read and write, and was a farm laborer.

ii.

THOMAS EVANS OWENS, b. 9 March 1902, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 16 February 1960, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama; m. (1) KATIE MAE NELMS; m. (2) LOLA MAGOLENE FORTENBERRY.

Notes for THOMAS EVANS OWENS:
Buried in Forest Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery near Hartselle, Alabama in Morgan County. His funeral was at this church at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday February 19. He died at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 16. Ruth said there was a lot of snow on the ground when he died.

Tom and Katie separated when Elbert was a baby and Ruth was a small girl. Elbert went with his mother, but was raised by his grandmother Bertha Thrasher Nelms. Ruth went with her father, but she was raised by her grandmother Margaret Rhodes Owens.

Tommie is on grave marker. Ruth said she thought his first name was Tommie. According to death certificate #4665 of which I received a copy on 3 January 1996, his name was Tommy Evans Owens.

At time of death address was P.O. Box 178, Falkville, AL.

No military service.

According to 1910 Lawrence County Alabama census, he could read and write and was a farm laborer.

Notes for KATIE MAE NELMS:
Buried at Caddo Cemetery in Lawrence County, Alabama. There is no marker, but grave is between James Brinkley (no marker) and Onis J. Morgan in front of a fence close to the road in farthest corner away from the church.

iii.

AARON LAWSON OWENS, b. 1904, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. Gadsden, Alabama; m. UNKNOWN.

Notes for AARON LAWSON OWENS:
Lived in Gadsden, Alabama

iv.

EARL L. (BUNK) OWENS, b. 1905; m. PORTIA BECHTEL.

Notes for EARL L. (BUNK) OWENS:
Retired from Goodyear in Gadsden, Alabama

EDWARD JAMES OWENS, b. 25 April 1905, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. BESSIE VIOLA GRAY.

Notes for EDWARD JAMES OWENS:
As of November 1996 lives in Lawrence County, Alabama and is hard of hearing.

vi.

CLELLIE L. OWENS, b. 1907, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 1995, Columbia, Tennessee; m. VERA SCHRADER.

Notes for CLELLIE L. OWENS:
Lived in Pulaski, TN

	vii.		FANNIE LEE OWENS, b. 20 July 1908, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 7 May 1994, Morgan County, Alabama; m. GRADY FOREST PARKER, 3 January 1933, Morgan County, Alabama.
	viii.		TRANNIE B. OWENS, b. 20 July 1908, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. SILAS (LAMON) LEEMON, 19 August 1927, Morgan County, Alabama.

Notes for TRANNIE B. OWENS:
Trannie had a son, and when her second baby boy was born both Trannie and the baby died.

18. ROXIE ANNA⁴ RHODES (GEORGE WASHINGTON³, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born 14 June 1885 in Lawrence County, Alabama, and died 16 January 1982 in Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama. She married MAYLON SIMPSON TULLIS 1900 in Lawrence County, Alabama.

Notes for ROXIE ANNA RHODES:
Buried next to her husband at Bald Knob Cemetery in Lawrence County, Alabama.

Obituary was in "The Decatur Daily" on January 17, 1982. She was survived by daughter Mrs. Kate Jeffreys and four grandchildren. They were all from Town Creek, Alabama.

She was a member of Union Grove Methodist Church.

Notes for MAYLON SIMPSON TULLIS:
Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920 - Population, taken 2 January 1920 by Paul Nesmith, enumerator Kitchen's Beat No. 12, Lawrence County, Alabama list Maylon S. Tullis as head of household at age 42, wife Roxie A. and age 33 with Katie E. at age 13, farming own farm.

Child of ROXIE RHODES and MAYLON TULLIS is:

KATIE EVELYN⁵ TULLIS, b. 28 June 1906, Lawrence County, Alabama¹⁵; d. 28 March 1987, Morgan County, Alabama¹⁶; m. (1) JOHN LOUIS JONES; m. (2) LEROY JEFFREYS, 9 February 1949, Iuka, Mississippi.

Notes for KATIE EVELYN TULLIS:
The Decatur Daily, Monday, March 30, 1987

Katie Jeffreys

MOULTON - Funeral for Katie E. Jeffreys, 80, of Decatur, was to be today at 2 p.m. at Lawrence County Funeral Home with the Rev. Paul McWhorter and the Rev. Arthur Woolverton officiating.

Burial was to be in Johnson's Chapel Cemetery.

Mrs. Jeffreys died Saturday at Decatur General Hospital. She was a member of the Sanderson Chapel Methodist Church.

She is survived by one son, Clenton Jones of Moulton, two daughters, Mildred Smith of Decatur and Peggy Harrison of Town Creek; one step-daughter, Nellie Lee Taylor of Town Creek; 13 grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

Pallbearers will be Steve Harrison, Mike McKay, Terry Jones, Ronnie Smith, Randy Smith and Milton Taylor.

Notes for JOHN LOUIS JONES:
The Decatur Daily, Sunday, May 26, 1946

Funeral services for John Louis Jones will be held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Union Grove church on the Moulton Highway. Burial will be a Johnson's Chapel Cemetery with Howell directing.

Jones is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katie E. Jones; one son, Clenton Jones, Moulton 2; his mother, Mrs. H. H. Jones, Moulton 2; three brothers, Ed Jones, Hartselle, Lyle Jones, Decatur, Dyke Jones, Albertville, and one grandchild, Miss Janice Jones.

Stewards of the Union Grove Church will be pallbearers.

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