Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Barren County.

ERASTUS LOGAN OWEN, a resident of Cave City, has been throughout his
life engaged in agricultural pursuits.  He was nine years old when his
mother died, and he continued to reside with his father, after whose
death he went to Missouri, where he worked on a farm for one year; then
returned home and took charge of the home place until the beginning of
the war, when he enlisted in Company C, Sixth Kentucky Confederate
Infantry, and with his command participated in the battles of Shiloh,
Mission Ridge, Chickamauga, Stone River, Dalton, Kenesaw, Resaca, Pine
Mountain, Peach Orchard, Atlanta, and Jonesboro, where he was captured
by the Federals and kept a prisoner for a short time. After being
discharged he returned to his command, and was engaged as a scout until
he was discharged, in 1865.  He then returned home and resumed farming
on the home place of 130 acres, which he purchased.  It is improved with
a comfortable dwelling, barns, orchard, and other conveniences.
September 19, 1878, he was united in marriage with Marinda C. Oldham;
they are blessed in their union by the birth of two daughters: Eva, born
December 2, 1879, and Cora, born January 22, 1882. Mrs. Owen in the
daughter of John and Eliza (Crabb) Oldham, of Hart County, and was born
December 7, 1858.  She and her husband are members of the Christian
Church. Mr. Owen is a Master Mason in Cave City Lodge, No. 418.
Politically he is a Democrat, and takes some interest in politics.  His
father, John G. Owen, who died in 1854, was a native of Barren County,
where he resided throughout his life, with the exception of one year
spent in Illinois. He was twice married; first, to Miss Malinda Vaughan.
She died in 1844, leaving thirteen children, of which number Erastus
Logan was the eighth.  Six are now living: Isaac S., James A., Fidelle
W., and Rebeca E. (Duke), Mary L. (Pulliam) and Erastus L. His second
marriage, in 1847, was to Miss Nancy A. Gill, of Hart County.  She yet
survives, aged, sixty-six years.  To this marriage have been born three
sons: Lewis C., Joseph T., and John G., and one daughter - Caroline.
John G. Owen was descended from a family that was among the most
respected of those who settled the old Virginia colony.  His father,
James Owen, was of Scotch parentage, born in Virginia, and one of the
first settlers in Barren County.

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