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Canzada Margaret White Owen

17 Jun 1862 – 31 May 1905

Birth	17 Jun 1862
Death	31 May 1905
Cemetery	Brashear Cemetery Brashear , Hopkins County , Texas , USA
Added by	Jamie Ellis on 26 Jul 2007
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20642290

Bio

Canzada Margaret White Owen was the daughter of Thomas Aaron and Hulda Ann (Powell) White. The wife of Jefferson Porterfield Owen. "Canzada M Owen, aged forty-two, housewife, died attempting to rescue Emma C and Mabel C McLain, and Elizabeth Deffenbaugh, aged thirty-three, one and thirty-six respectivley, from a runaway, Brashear, Texas, May 31, 1905. Mrs Owen, with an uplifted chair in her hands, ran into the road in the path of a team of mules drawing a wagon containing the women and child. She was struck by one mule, knocked to the ground, and run over by the wagon, sustaining fatal injuries",as stated on the Carnegie Medal which was awarded to her husband on Jan 17 1912 The Carnegie Hero Fund was established on April 15, 1904. "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"

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Family

Parents

• Aaron Thomas White 1833–1894 FaG
• Huldah A Powell White 1836–1891 FaG

Spouse

• Jefferson Porterfield Owen 1856–1925

Siblings

• James Thomas White 1858–1883 FaG
• William Virgil White 1860–1942 FaG
• George Marshall White 1867–1895 FaG
• Anna Bell White Harlow 1869–1951 FaG
• Jasper Newton White 1875–1943 FaG

Children

• Oscar Maynard Owen 1882–1948
• William Thomas Owen 1885–1964
• Marshall Emmett Owen 1887–1965
• Robert Porterfield Owen 1891–1973
• Katie Alice Owen Noble 1894–1975

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