OWEN
OLIVER PERRY'S AND MARY A.'S OBITUARIES: 

DALLAS MORNING NEWS JANUARY 22, 1907 PAGE 4 
OP OWEN, AGED 76 YEARS, DIED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON 
AT HIS RESIDENCE AT 209 LAKE AVENUE.   HE WAS BORN IN TENNESSEE.   
FOR MORE THAN TWENTY-SIX YEARS, HE HAD BEEN A TEXAN 
AND FOR ELEVEN YEARS HAD RESIDED IN DALLAS.   MR. OWEN WAS A MASON
FOR MANY YEARS AND A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH.  
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT HIS RESIDENCE
AT 1:30 THIS AFTERNOON.   INTERNMENT WILL BE IN 
OAKLAND CEMETARY, DALLAS, TEXAS.

DALLAS MORNING NEWS 26 FEB 1907 PAGE 5 
DEATH OF MRS. OWEN
AGED LADY PASSES AWAY SOON AFTER HUSBAND'S DEATH. 
MRS. OP OWEN,  AGED 75 YEARS, DIED AT HOME AT 214 LAKE AVENUE.   
THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD AT 2:30 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON.  
THE DECEASED HAD BEEN LIVING IN DALLAS ABOUT ELEVEN YEARS, 
COMING HERE FROM TENNESSEE.   HER HUSBAND DIED JANUARY 21, 
AGED 76 YEARS. 

COMMENT:
OLIVER PERRY SOLD 100 ACRES IN DISTRICT #2
(AROUND TAFT) IN LINCLON CO., TENNESSEE FOR 400 $ 
AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT HE MOVED HIS FAMILY TO 
TEXAS SOMETIME THEREAFTER---PROBABLY BY TRAIN. 
BASED ON THE ABOVE OBITUARIES, HE WAS IN DALLAS FROM 1896. 
HE WAS IN HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS ON 29 NOVEMBER 1883 WHEN
HIS SON, DAVID JAMES, WAS MARRIED TO VESTA VIRGINIA BOSWELL. 

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