Otis Smith Owen

In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old farmer living with his mother and 4 siblings on James Clark's farm at Corn House/Roanoke, Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

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 wounded in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 but returned to duty by August 1864 and probably served to the end of the war.

By 1870 he was at Fair Play back in Randolph County, farming his own place, his mother next door, and he was a farmer in Randolph County to at least 1910.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Otis Smith Owens.

He married Frances M Roundtree (1844-) and they had 7 children between 1869 and 1884.

His brother John was also in Company K and was mortally wounded at Sharpsburg.

08/25/1843; Heard County, GA

05/20/1917; Roanoke, AL; burial in Rock Springs Cemetery, Randolph, AL