NOTES from the photographer Margaret E. Potter: These are not all of the Owen family photos in Hist. Cem. #23--I'm sure there are others. These are just all that I found in the short time that I had.
The initial photos are of an Owen family monument, which has inscriptions on 4 sides. This monument says that "Benjamin Owen was a descendant of Samuel & Priscilla (Belcher) Owen who emigrated from Wales to New England in 1685." This information was apparently based on a family genealogy prepared sometime in the 1850s which may be erroneous.
Benjamin T. Owen was a marble sculptor who, I believe, is the person who sculpted many, if not all, of the Owen monuments/gravestones in Acotes Hill Cemetery. He is definitely the person who contributed the funds for the Owen Soldiers Monument that stands in North Scituate, RI.
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