- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Ephraim Owen with Robert Gregor Owen, Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia, ca. 1880?]
- Date of Original:
- 1880
- Subject:
- Children--Georgia--Cuthbert
Freedmen--Georgia--Cuthbert
African Americans--Georgia--Cuthbert
Portraits--Georgia--Cuthbert - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Randolph County, Cuthbert, 31.77127, -84.78937
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Cuthbert, ca. 1880? Ephraim Owen (1823-1930) was born a slave. He is seen in the photograph with Robert Gregor Owen, the son of Emily Hillyer Owen. The black man was known as "Uncle Eph Owen." during the Civil War he helped a surgeon from Virginia. After the war he came to Georgia, first to Quitman County and then to Randolph County. After the war he was associated with the family of a Reverend Owen. He performed all sorts of odd jobs and was somewhat of a doctor and seer, too.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_ran100
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:ran100
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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