# ID: I9552
# Name: Narcissa Clark Chisholm
# Given Name: Narcissa Clark
# Surname: Chisholm 1 2 3 4
# Sex: F
# Birth: 3 Oct 1831 in Cherokee Nation, AR 5 6 4
# Death: 12 Jul 1911 7 4
# Burial: Spring Hill Cem., Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VA 7 4
# Note:
As the Memoirs portray it, Narcissa Owen had an eventful life. Born in the Arkansas Indian Territory shortly before the Trail of Tears (54), she attended several good schools (52-3, 56-8), became a teacher herself (59-60), then married a railway construction engineer–Robert Owen, with deep family roots in Lynchburg, Virginia (60-3). Moving to Lynchburg, where her husband became president of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, Narcissa Owen–despite her Cherokee heritage–became a community leader during the Civil War; and, by {8} her own account, she foiled a Union attack on Lynchburg by providing false information to enemy spies (71-82). Robert Owen died in 1873, leaving the family destitute; however, by working as a music teacher and obtaining scholarships, Narcissa Owen managed to secure a college education for both of her sons–one became a surgeon, the other, a lawyer
