Hankins-Owens Family

Front row: Leona May Owens Thompson, 

Milton Hubert Owens, Martha Caroline Hankins Owens and Florence Iva Owens Dickson.
Back row: Milton Neil Owens, Lois Ethel Owens Hogue, Henry Monroe Owens, JoAnna "Jodie" Owens Smith, Virginia Gertrude Owens McCone and Robert Wilson Owens.

Photo submitted and copyright 2003 by Carolyn Haisty


 

I am Robert Dunn Dickson, grandson of Florence Iva Owens Dickson pictured with her father and mother and my great grandparents- Milton (Mitt) Hubert Owens and Martha Caroline Hankins Owens-and other family members

Some facts about this family pictured:
    Sister Leona May Owens Thompson (posting has extra comma) Had her husband and three sons all killed in W.W.II.  I don't know any of their names.
    Brother Milton Neil Owens lived north of Monticello and I believe had two daughters, one named Dorothy.
    Sister Virginia (Jenny) Gertrude Owens McCone married  J. G. McCone and they lived at Tillar, Drew Co.
    Brother Henry Monroe Owens resided at Wilmar, Drew Co. and was self employed as a blacksmith, logger, and farmer.
    Sister JoAnna "Jodie" Owens Smith-I have no recall except from conversations.
    Sister Lois Ethel Owens Hogue-Ditto.
    Brother Robert Wilson Owens-Ditto

    Florence Iva Owens Dickson (my grandmother) married Samuel Dunn Dickson(S.D.) and they lived in the Alice community near Wilmar where they farmed, logged and raised a family:
    Daughter Vesta Dickson Taylor married Marion O. Taylor and they reside at Little Rock, AR and they had no children..
    Son Verner B. Dickson last resided Houston, TX and had two daughters-Frances and Marie whereabouts unknown.
    Son Samuel Karl Dickson lived near Wilmar where he farmed. He had two daughters-Catherine and Isabell last addresses Houston, TX.
    Daughter Florence Dickson Coil married L.Kirk. Coil, a disabled WW I veteran and they resided at Muskogee, OK and had one son George Kirk Coil whose last known address was West Memphis, AR.
    Daughter Mittie Belle Dickson Franklin married Chester Franklin and they lived N. E. of Hamburg, AR in the Snyder and Berrea(sp)communities where they farmed.They had four children:
        Marcella Franklin Stone(James)
        Lois Franklin Moyer(Dock)
        Mary Alice Franklin Dace(Donald)
        Charles Hugh Franklin(all deceased)
    Daughter Kyle Dickson Gaster married Walter Gaster,taught school, was divorced and had no children.
    Daughter Joy Dickson Gaster married Bert Gaster,taught school in Ouchita Parish LA,two children-JoAnna Gaster and Walter Dickson Gaster both of Monroe, LA area.
    Son Robert Wilson Dickson was youngest child and died an infant.
    Son Joe Clarence Dickson- dob 8/30/1908- (my father) was next to youngest of nine children. He married Meryle Christine Scott of Monticello, AR. They farmed in the Wilmar area and had three sons :

        Robert Dunn Dickson, eldest(12/29/34), married Carolyn Rainey of Vick, Bradley Co.AR. They had three daughters and a son and currently reside in, Minden, LA , rdickson@cox-internet.com

        Jerry Gordon Dickson married Betty Moran of Monticello and they reside Independence, KS. They have three sons and a daughter.
        Paul Allen Dickson married Marths Cherry of Monticello and they reside Little Rock/Wilmar AR. They have two sons and a daughter.

 

Robert D. (Bob) Dickson

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