Etowah County AlArchives Cemeteries.....Owens Family Cemetery - Complete Survey
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David Norton dpnorton.cp75@gtalumni.org August 17, 2008, 3:28 pm

Abstracted By: Owens Family Cemetery Corporation

Author, James W. Ashley; dated November 5, 1992

Quoted from James W. Ashley, Chmn., Owens Family Cemetery 
Corp.

"It is said that as a young man, Luke Owens (born 1824) 
acquired several acres of land situated between Black Creek 
and Big Wills Creek in an area now known as South Gadsden. 
He spent his entire life clearing and cultivating this 
land. In 1874 his daughter Cassie F. died at 19 years of 
age and was buried in a portion of this land which is now 
known as Owens Family Cemetery. Luke Owens deeded this land 
to "a family burrying ground" 3 years before he died in 
1909. The cemetery is located in a corner of a 40 acre plot 
which he had given to his daughter Louisa Frances Ashley 
(wife of Sanford 1850) (excepting the 1 and 1/4 acres 
reserved for the cemetery) and was where the Sanford Ashley 
family lived.  The cemetery is located just off Main Street 
in the rear of some dwellings. In October 1984 The Owens 
Family Cemetery Corp. was founded with the following 
trustees; James W. Ashley, Mrs. Macy Nell Owens, Rev. 
Herman A. Owens, Rev. Wade Talley, and Rev. J.M. Owens."
End of Quotation from James W. Ashley

Last Name     First Name    Middle Name   Birth         Death          Comment
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Nail          Joel          Richard       Feb 20, 1860  June 14, 1937  



Additional Comments:
The City of Gadsden receives a municipal charter from the state legislature 
during 1882-1883. The original city boundry encompassed not much more than what 
was referred to as the the old "Double Springs" along the Coosa River, northward
to the foothills of Lookout Mountain and Shinebone Ridge, westward to about 
current Twelth Street over to Turrentine Avenue; and, to the south it extended 
along the banks of the Coosa southwesterly to an area roughly corresponding to 
south Sixth Street.  This is not a very large area. The "Main Street" made via 
a reference by the writer JWAshley may have existed in the era 1900-1909. 
Clearly, this city has expanded municipal limits in the modern era, or post 
1909.


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