The Owen House on Olive Street

There stands a House on Olive Street Where many tales unfold Of pioneer stock and history made It's stately columns hold These stories so worth ....remembering now The House they built A solid fort The Owen Family........right from the start ELEVEN (11) OWEN BROTHERS MARRIED TWO (2) GUNN SISTERS AND FIVE (5) KEENE SISTERS FROM ANOTHER FAMILY AND CREATED A MOB OF DOUBLE FIRST COUSINS THEY ROSE FROM THE COVERED WAGON ERA, THE BOYS ONLY ABLE TO CIPHER, THE GIRLS TAUGHT THEM TO READ......FROM THIS WILD AND WOOLY START TO BECOMING THE LARGEST HORSE & MULE TRADERS IN THE WORLD DURING WWII AND AFTER WHAT WENT ON BEHIND THE DOORS OF THE OWEN HOUSE IS AN EPIC OF AMERICANA GRANDEUR AND RAGS TO RICHES HUMOR, INGENUITY AND A VERY UNUSUAL FAMILY .... REMEMBER, THE HOUSE AND ALL THE THINGS IT REPRESENTED.... WILL AMAZE YOU JAUNITA, THE DAUGHTER FROM MY FATHER'S SISTER, KNOWN AS AUNT JEWEL, BOTH NOW DECEASED, CONTRIBUTED A GREAT INSPIRATION IN THE STORIES... SO, HOLD ON TO YOUR SEAT BELTS AND YOUR SADDLES; OTHER OWEN FAMILY MEMBERS, ALL WITH THEIR WRITTEN PERMISSION, HAVE PROVIDED A BOOST TO MY EFFORTS AND MY MEMORY WAS: MY COUSIN, JUDY PALMER, DAUGHTER TO DALE OWENS WHO WAS ENCOURAGING AND HELPFUL, ENJOYING MY VISITS TO THE HOUSE IN THE EARLY YEARS AND LATER. ALSO, THE FIVE SONS OF WINFRED OWEN: LITTLE HAS, RICKY, GARY, RANDY AND GLENN, WHO GATHERED AROUND THE FAMILY DINING TABLE AND SHARED THEIR PERSONAL HILARITY. ALSO IN VISITS WITH FERD OWENS' GRANDSONS, FERD GOODE, JR. AND HIS BROTHER ______, MEMORIES WERE SHARED ABOUT OUR LIVES AND THEIR GRANDFATHER, FERD. PICTURES GALORE OF THESE SPECIAL TIMES IN THE PIONEERING AND BUILDING OF THE AMERICAN FROM A CERTAIN PERSPECTIVE.... READ ON AND LAUGH WITH US . AND ENJOY. A SURPRISE AT THE END OF THE BOOK WE ALL LOVED JEWEL'S COOKING DON'T MISS THE WONDERFUL RECIPES FROM THE SCRATCHED NOTES OR TYPED.. LEFT BY JEWEL FOR PRESERVATION ... SO WE COULD ALL BENEFIT FROM THE FANTASTIC EAST TEXAS COOKING I ENJOYED MYSELF SO OFTEN. OTHER OWEN FAMILY MEMBERS ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THIS WONDERFUL FAMILY COLLECTION OF GOOD OLD SOUTHERN AND ONE OF A KIND RECIPES. FROM THE AUTHOR: "I would like the world to know that fact is much more important than fiction .... And sometimes it is hard to find, but worth the search. Hopefully, my books will give readers much to think about " Nathaniel Gunn