City: McMinnville<\/p>\n
OWEN, Samuel Alexander<\/strong>, minister of the gospel; born near Covington, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1865; Welsh-German descent; son of Isaac W. and Eveline (Burkhardt) OWEN<\/strong>; father’s occupation, farmer, public official; educated Covington (Tenn.) High School, Union University, Jackson, Tenn., and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; graduated from Union University, A.B., June, 1893, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, degrees Th. G. and Th. B., June, 1897; in early life worked on farm and helped to sustain his widowed mother from 14 years old; had a hard battle with poverty to get an education; acting as janitor of college, selling books, teaching school during vacation; ordained minister, 1893; married twice, first Kathryn McAFEE<\/strong>, Oct. 19, 1899, second Ella PREWITT<\/strong>, May 11, 1910; member of K.P.; Independent; member of Baptist church; served as pastor of churches in Crockett and Dyer counties, Tenn.; was pastor in Richmond, Ky., 1897-1899; Newbern, Tenn., 1900-1906; Lexington, Ky., 1901-1902; recent charges at Horse Cave, Ky., Whiteveille [sic], Tenn., and McMinnville, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: McMinnville OWEN, Samuel Alexander, minister of the gospel; born near Covington, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1865; Welsh-German descent; son of Isaac W. and Eveline (Burkhardt) OWEN; father’s occupation, farmer, public official; educated Covington (Tenn.) High School, Union University, Jackson, Tenn., and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; graduated from Union University, A.B., June, 1893, Southern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,649,84,260,410,288,4419],"tags":[2506,2507,243,2508],"class_list":{"0":"post-6063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crockett","7":"category-dyer","8":"category-surname-o","9":"category-tipton","10":"category-union-university","11":"category-warren","12":"category-x_featured-image-no","13":"tag-burkhardt","14":"tag-mcafee","15":"tag-owen","16":"tag-prewitt","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15752,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions\/15752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}