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Owen Family Reunion Memories: Descendants of Elijah Spencer & Margaret Ottillia Blackburn Owen

Phillip R. Owen

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Description:Spending an entire weekend with your extended family may seem strange to anyone born after the internet/cellphone/Facebook age; causing younger family members to wonder why the Owen family reunion came about. I was born in 1938 and too young the recall events of the first “unofficial Owen Family reunion. As the story goes, everyone had lots of fun at the wedding celebration for Leila Eliza Owen and John Lester Newcomb in 1935. Leila was the daughter of the Tom Owen clan from the Illinois. Shortly after the wedding celebration several of the family made plans for a family reunion. Eighty-years later, the Owen clan is once again making plans for another family reunion in 2016. What are the reasons the annual reunion inspires nearly one-hundred family members to attend a family reunion each year? Well, there’s always a big selection of good things to eat, lots of fun things to do and usually some homespun entertainment and time to reminisce childhood memories. This book is a collection of memories provided by people who planned the reunions and made new memories each year. Come with me now as we journey back for a brief look at life in the 1930s that inspired our ancestors to plan that first reunion. Money was always in short supply because the great depression took a toll on family incomes. Gas was cheap but cars were not very reliable and long distance travel (beyond 50 miles) was limited to very important family occasions such as weddings and funerals. Fortunately, a majority of the Hiland Owen clan lived within twenty miles of Maquoketa, Iowa; and the Tom Owen clan lived within twenty miles of Peoria, Illinois. Some of the family from Ida Owen House; Elnora Owen Sargent; Effie Ethel Owen House and Lemuel Owen clans lived in Chicago, Oklahoma and North Dakota. Needless to say, scattered members of the clan seldom were able to attend the reunions. Telephone communication was limited to local calls and not everyone even had a phone. Postal mail was the backbone of family communication. Postal letters (many are included in family history compiled by David Owen) tell us details of daily life during the 30s and 40s. Paying the bills for food, shelter and clothes kept everyone skimping for gas money and very busy raising families. But there was always some time and no money needed for free “homemade” entertainment. At reunion time, I recall funny skits, sharing musical talents and water fights that kept everyone wondering who would come up with new antics for the next reunion. Yearly reunions were usually held on the Iowa side of the river; my first reunion memories I remember hot summer afternoons in the cow pasture at Mildred and Wilmer Bock’s farm with words of caution to avoid the cow-pies’ hidden in the tall grass. Serving table space was supplied by a hay rack pulled under a shade tree and seating was a blanket on the grassy pasture or on a log from a recently fallen dead tree. Kids (brothers, sisters, cousins) had lots of room to run and play hide and seek. The annual Sunday afternoon reunion ended all too soon and we had to head back home to do the evening chores. Reunion planning was simple: bring something to eat; everyone knew the reunion would be held the first Sunday in June; occasionally the reunion was at a Maquoketa city park; one year at Joinerville Park, near the Maquoketa River at end of the dead-end road past Mildred and Wilmer’s farm. A family reunion can build memories that last a lifetime. We record and recall our memories through the filters of our senses.If you have a good imagination it is possible that we risk adding some details as we retell a memory. Maybe you have a wonderful memory waiting in line to fill your reunion dinner plate with Aunt Carol’s ham balls or Aunt Mildred's fresh baked raspberry pie.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Owen Family Reunion Memories: Descendants of Elijah Spencer & Margaret Ottillia Blackburn Owen. To get started finding Owen Family Reunion Memories: Descendants of Elijah Spencer & Margaret Ottillia Blackburn Owen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Spending an entire weekend with your extended family may seem strange to anyone born after the internet/cellphone/Facebook age; causing younger family members to wonder why the Owen family reunion came about. I was born in 1938 and too young the recall events of the first “unofficial Owen Family reunion. As the story goes, everyone had lots of fun at the wedding celebration for Leila Eliza Owen and John Lester Newcomb in 1935. Leila was the daughter of the Tom Owen clan from the Illinois. Shortly after the wedding celebration several of the family made plans for a family reunion. Eighty-years later, the Owen clan is once again making plans for another family reunion in 2016. What are the reasons the annual reunion inspires nearly one-hundred family members to attend a family reunion each year? Well, there’s always a big selection of good things to eat, lots of fun things to do and usually some homespun entertainment and time to reminisce childhood memories. This book is a collection of memories provided by people who planned the reunions and made new memories each year. Come with me now as we journey back for a brief look at life in the 1930s that inspired our ancestors to plan that first reunion. Money was always in short supply because the great depression took a toll on family incomes. Gas was cheap but cars were not very reliable and long distance travel (beyond 50 miles) was limited to very important family occasions such as weddings and funerals. Fortunately, a majority of the Hiland Owen clan lived within twenty miles of Maquoketa, Iowa; and the Tom Owen clan lived within twenty miles of Peoria, Illinois. Some of the family from Ida Owen House; Elnora Owen Sargent; Effie Ethel Owen House and Lemuel Owen clans lived in Chicago, Oklahoma and North Dakota. Needless to say, scattered members of the clan seldom were able to attend the reunions. Telephone communication was limited to local calls and not everyone even had a phone. Postal mail was the backbone of family communication. Postal letters (many are included in family history compiled by David Owen) tell us details of daily life during the 30s and 40s. Paying the bills for food, shelter and clothes kept everyone skimping for gas money and very busy raising families. But there was always some time and no money needed for free “homemade” entertainment. At reunion time, I recall funny skits, sharing musical talents and water fights that kept everyone wondering who would come up with new antics for the next reunion. Yearly reunions were usually held on the Iowa side of the river; my first reunion memories I remember hot summer afternoons in the cow pasture at Mildred and Wilmer Bock’s farm with words of caution to avoid the cow-pies’ hidden in the tall grass. Serving table space was supplied by a hay rack pulled under a shade tree and seating was a blanket on the grassy pasture or on a log from a recently fallen dead tree. Kids (brothers, sisters, cousins) had lots of room to run and play hide and seek. The annual Sunday afternoon reunion ended all too soon and we had to head back home to do the evening chores. Reunion planning was simple: bring something to eat; everyone knew the reunion would be held the first Sunday in June; occasionally the reunion was at a Maquoketa city park; one year at Joinerville Park, near the Maquoketa River at end of the dead-end road past Mildred and Wilmer’s farm. A family reunion can build memories that last a lifetime. We record and recall our memories through the filters of our senses.If you have a good imagination it is possible that we risk adding some details as we retell a memory. Maybe you have a wonderful memory waiting in line to fill your reunion dinner plate with Aunt Carol’s ham balls or Aunt Mildred's fresh baked raspberry pie.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Owen Family Reunion Memories: Descendants of Elijah Spencer & Margaret Ottillia Blackburn Owen. To get started finding Owen Family Reunion Memories: Descendants of Elijah Spencer & Margaret Ottillia Blackburn Owen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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