Thomas W. Owings

Birth Date

1818

Death Date

1878

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Meade County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Sally Owings. Father of Lawrence L. Owings, Rebecca Owings, John Owings, Robert T. Owings, Mary L. Owings, Charles Owings, Isaac Owings, Tom W. Owings, Sally Owings, and James Stuart Owings. Farmer in Meade County in 1850 and 1860. Owned four enslaved people in Meade County in 1850. Owned eight enslaved people in Meade County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Meade County from 1863 to 1865. Owned the Breckinridge Petroleum Company of Kentucky in partnership with Alfred Allen, William Watkins, David Looney, Samuel B. Thomas, Gideon P. Jolly, Charles F. Sanford, and J. B. Huylin in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky District, p. 230; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky District; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Unnamed District, p. 45; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Unnamed District, p. 6; Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Begun and held in the Town of Frankfort, on Monday, the Seventh day of December, in the Year of our Lord 1863, and of the Commonwealth the Seventy-Second (Frankfort: William E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863); "An Act to incorporate the Breckinridge Petroleum Company of Kentucky," January 25, 1865, Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the Adjourned Session (January, 1865) Which was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Monday, the Seventh Day of December, 1863. (Frankfort: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 94-96; Find A Grave, "Thomas Williamson Owings, I (1818-1878)," Memorial #143658236, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143658236/ (accessed November 16, 2017).

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