Poynor Owens

1908

Poynor Owens was born January 15, 1907 in Columbia, a son of Ed Owens and Eunice Argoe Owens.

1940 Census Information:

According to the United States Census recorded on April 12, 1940, W L Miles (51) owned a home in Wateree Township, Kershaw, South Carolina with his wife, Lillie E Miles (40) and their children; Mildred Miles (19), Oliver L Miles (16), Doris Miles (14), Emma Dora Miles (13), Fay Miles (9), Betty Miles (7), and William Preston Miles (1), and his brother-in-law, Owens Poynor Miles (28). It was reported that all family members were born in South Carolina and lived in the same house on April 1, 1935. W L Miles was an operator of a farm.

1960

BLANEY – Funeral services for Poynor Owens, 53, were to be conducted in Highway Pentecostal Holiness Church at 5 o’clock this evening, August 18, 1960 by the Rev. Marvin Cannon and the Rev. Dean S. Clyde. Burial was to be in the church cemetery.

Mr. Owens died Wednesday evening, August 17, 1960 in Kershaw County Memorial Hospital after an illness of several days.

A native of Columbia, he was a son of Ed Owens and Eunice Argoe Owens. He had been a resident of Blaney where he was a member of the Highway Church. He was educated in the Kershaw County Schools.

Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. W. L. Miles of Blaney and Mrs. L. B. Nelson of Columbia; and two brothers, George Owens and Fenley Owens of Spartanburg County.

August 18, 1960, Poynor Owens was listed in the newspaper article “Deaths.”