Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Owens, Robert R., 1901 

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       Former Citizen Dead. 
  Mr. Robert Ryland Owens, of Baltimore, 
died in that city yesteerday at 2 o'clock P. 
M.  Mr. Owens formerly lived in Rich- 
mond, and was well known here.  The re- 
mains will be taken to Scotland Neck, N. 
C., for interment. 


    Robert Ryland Owens. 
  The Baltimore Sun of yesterday printed 
the following account of the death of Mr. 
Robert Ryland Owens, Sr., which was 
briefly reported in the Dispatch: 
  Mr. Robert Ryland Owens, Sr., died 
Tuesday at his home, No. 23 West 
Saratoga Street.  He was the only 
son of Rev. Putnam Owens, a Bap- 
tist minister of Virginia, and Sarah Gath- 
right Owens, of Richmond, Va.  He was 
born in Southampton county, Va., Decem- 
ber 26, 1843: received his first educational 
training through his father, after which 
he attended Richmond College, and was 
there in his graduating year, when the 
Civil War broke out, closing the college 
before the end of the session of 1861.  He 
then volunteered in the Confederate ser- 
vice, as a private in a company com- 
manded by William E. Barnes, known as 
the Isle of WIght Avengers, which after 
a short service was made a part of the 
Army of Northern Virginia, as Company 
F, Sixty-first Regiment, Mahone's bri- 
gade, Anderson's division, and Hill's corps, 
serving in the battles of Gettysburg and 
the "Crater.".  He was one of the few 
survivors of his company to surrender at 
Appomattox Courthouse. 
  After the war he returned to the Vir- 
ginia home of his father.  He organized 
and served for several years as principal 
of the Windsor Academy, Windsor, Va., 
during which time he was commissioned 
by the Governor of Virginia as colonel of 
the Isle of Wight militia.  On January 
12, 1869, he was married to a Miss Annie 
Rebecca Baker, of Martin county, N. C., 
and after the death of his father moved 
to North Carolina, where he was a suc- 
cessful farmer and merchant in Pal- 
myra and Scotland Neck.  He finally sold 
out and moved to Baltimore, engaging 
as a traveling salesman.  His sons are 
Sydney P. Owens, manager R. G. Dun & 
Co.'s mercantile agency, Norfolk, Va.; 
Robt. P. Owens, Jr., traveling salesman; 
and Baker L. Owens, with Norfolk and 
Southern Railroad, Norfolk.  His daugh- 
ters are Ruth J. and Annie O. Owens.  All 
of his children and his wife were with 
him in his last hours.  He served for 
many years as deacon in the Scotland 
Neck Baptist Church.  In politics he was 
a Democrat. 


[Robert Ryland OWENS, Sr., 
 26 Dec 1843, Southampton Co. - 6 Mar 1901, Baltimore, MD; 
 bd. Scotland Neck, NC. 
 "The Richmond (VA) Dispatch," Wednesday, Mar. 6, 1901, p. 1, col. 2. 
 "The (Richmond, VA) Times," Thursday, Mar. 7, 1901, p. 6, col. 4. 
 The Library of Congress, Digital Collections, Historical Newspapers 
   - "Chronicling America" project: 
   http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/lccn/SN85038614/1901-03-06/ed-1/seq-1 
   downloaded file: N67429pdfFile.pdf 
   http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/lccn/sn85034438/1901-03-07/ed-1/seq-6 
   downloaded file: N67557pdfFile.pdf] 

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