Minor Lafayette Owen

An unmarried 26 year old farmer from Greenville, Butler County, AL, He enlisted at there on 5 July 1861 (or at Montgomery, AL on 19 July) and mustered as 3rd Sergeant of Company G of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was reduced to Private on 20 April 1862 but appointed First Sergeant to date from 1 July 1862.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was detailed as Brigade Ordnance Sergeant on 1 December 1862, but was largely absent on furlough and was discharged after supplying a substitute on 5 June 1863.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Franklin County, TN but in 1900 was farming at Wolf Creek in Pike County, AR.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, as Miner L. Owen, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Victoria Ann Evans (1842-1917) in Butler County, AL in February 1863. He married again, Nancy Ann Farris (1845-1922) in Franklin County, TN in June 1868 and they had 7 children.

His brother Alvin was also in Company G.

09/1835 in AL

08/25/1906; in AR; burial in Antoine Cemetery, Antoine, AR