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John married Laura Minta Owen on 3/04 Aug 1868 in Texana, Jackson County, TX. Laura (daughter of Clark Lewis Owen and Laura Martha McNutt Wells) was born in 1850 in Texana, Jackson County, TX; died in Mar 1885 in Edna, Jackson County, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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OWEN, CLARK L. (1808-1862). Clark L. Owen, soldier and politician, son of Abraham Owen, was born in Shelby Co., Kentucky, in 1808. He left a mercantile business at New Castle, Kentucky, to fight in the Texas Revolution. He left Kentucky in March 1836 and arrived in Texas before July 18, when he enlisted as a private in Capt. Joseph H. D. Rogers's company of Kentucky Volunteers. Owen served as captain of Company A, First Regiment, from October 31 until December 31, 1836. In May 1837 he joined the Army of the Republic of Texas and was commissioned a captain. He served as first lieutenant in Capt. Thomas J. Rabb's company on John H. Moore's campaign against the Comanches in the fall of 1840 and participated in the battle of Plum Creek.

Owen declined the position of secretary of the treasury in President Sam Houston's cabinet but was appointed colonel and placed in command of a troop that patrolled around Corpus Christi, an area harried by repeated border raids. Houston gave Owen the discretionary power to proclaim martial law at Corpus Christi, but he restored order without resorting to that measure. Owen served as a captain of a company on the Somervell expedition, and in 1842 he was a member of the Mier expedition but apparently was not among those taken prisoner.

After military service he settled in Texana, Jackson Co., where he farmed, raised stock, and married Laura Martha McNutt Wells, the daughter of Dr. Francis F. Wells. Owen represented Jackson, Matagorda, and Victoria counties in the Senate of the Sixth Congress (1841-42) and served until his resignation during the called session of the Seventh Congress. He opposed secession, but once Texas left the Union he offered his services to the Confederacy and raised a company for the Second Texas Infantry, which became part of the Army of Tennessee. On April 6, 1862, Captain Owen fell leading Company I against federal positions at Shiloh.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin, 1986). Ira T. Taylor, The Cavalcade of Jackson Co. (San Antonio: Naylor, 1938). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).

Stephen L. Hardin
Typewritten note typed by Myrtle Flora Rowlett Lovejoy (she writes son of C.L. Owen but it is in fact Abraham Owen and may just be a typo or a grabbing of the wrong name by mistake):
Capt. Clark L. Owen -
A Soldier and Statesman
Clark L. Owen was born in Shelby Co., Ky. in 1812. He was the son of C.L. Owen, who fell in the Battle of Tippecanoe. He gave up a lucrative business to volunteer to assist Texas in 1836.
The following is a copy of his discharge from the Texas Army.

To all whom it may concern;
Know ye that Clark L. Owen, a private in First company, 1 Regt., Kentucky Volunteers, who enrolled on the 18th July 1836 to serve 6 month in the Army of Texas, is Honorably discharged from his 6 mos. service by Volunteering for during the War. I do herby certify that the said was Duly Elected First Lieut. of my Company on the 10th day of Nov. 1836 and in that Company Discharged the duties of Commandant of the Company up to the present time.

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Capt. Clark L. Owen - declined a position in Houston's Cabinet, but was appointed to Command of the troop in the Southwest, Houston authorized Col. Owen, at his discretion to proclaim martial law at Corpus Christi for the purpose of suppression of thieving and robbing. He succeeded in restoring order without resorting to that extreme measure. He also served in the Texas Sixth Congress in 1842. He opposed secession but Volunteered in the Confederate Service and was Capt. of Company K., Second Texas Infantry and was killed on the first day of Battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. He was a brave, modest, unassuming, christian,

Clark married Laura Martha McNutt Wells on 11 Jan 1844 in Jackson County, TX. Laura (daughter of Francis Flournoy Wells and Martha McNutt) was born on 13 Jul 1827. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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According to The Flournoy Family compiled by Flournoy Rivers, Esq. of Pulaski, Tennessee, after his parents death, "Frank" as he was known, was raised by an Uncle Mathews Flournoy, in Scott Co., Kentucky, and married Martha McNutt of Alexandria, Louisiana. Then about 1825 removed to Brazoria Co., Texas, then to Jackson Co., Texas about 1833, and died there in November 1866. He and Martha were the parents of five children.

"Frank" Flournoy was a descendant of the 'Blue Grass', Kentucky
Flournoys. His mother was the fifth child of Mathews Flournoy and his wife. This family were early settlers in Scott County, Kentucky, and many descendants migrated to Brazoria County and other counties throughout the state of Texas.
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WELLS, FRANCIS F. (ca. 1800-1866).
Francis F. Wells, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, was born in Virginia about 1800. He moved to Texas from Louisiana and on July 21, 1824, received title to a league and a labor of land in present Brazoria and Jackson counties. The Mexican census of March 1826 listed him as a doctor, a married man with a wife (née Martha McNutt), and between sixteen and twenty-five. On November 14, 1829, the ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin granted him a license to practice medicine in Texas. In July 1830 the ayuntamiento also appointed Wells a member of the new board of medical examiners. In 1832 Wells and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Pamelia (Parmelia) McNutt Porter, founded the town of Texana in Jackson County.

Wells laid off the townsite into residential and business lots. On July 17, 1835 , Wells was present at the Lavaca-Navidad Meeting. In 1838 he was a participant at a political meeting that nominated Peter W. Grayson for president of the republic. Wells had one son, who later fought in the Confederate army and served as county clerk and judge. In 1851 Wells deeded a lot in Texana to be used by the local Methodist church. He died in Jackson County, and his will was filed for probate on December 10, 1866.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (October 1897). Pat Ireland Nixon, The Medical Story of Early Texas, 1528-1853 (Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Lupe Memorial Fund, 1946). Ira T. Taylor, The Cavalcade of Jackson County (S an Antonio: Naylor, 1938). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.

"WELLS, FRANCIS F." The Handbook of Texas Online.

Francis married Martha McNutt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]