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The Owens Family. By the time Jesse Owens traveled to Berlin for the 1936 Olympic Games, he was already married with a baby daughter. Owens and Minnie Ruth Solomon had met at Fairmount Junior High School in 1930 in Cleveland when he was fifteen and she was thirteen.
Jesse Owens, originally known as J.C., was the youngest of ten children (three girls and seven boys) born to Henry Cleveland Owens [1881-1942] (a sharecropper) and Mary Emma Fitzgerald in Oakville, Alabama, on September 12, 1913.
Jun 20, 2024 · Jesse Owens' daughters Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin admired their father’s values in sports and beyond. Here, they speak to PEOPLE about their father's legacy.
A replica of a small, wooden house stands in Jesse Owens Memorial Park in Oakville, Alabama to commemorate the birthplace of the four-time Olympic gold medalist. It was there on Sept. 12, 1913, that James Cleveland (J.C.) Owens was born, the last of 10 children raised by Henry and Mary Emma Owens.
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James Cleveland Owens was born in Oakville, Alabama, on September 12, 1913, the son of a sharecropper, a farmer who rents land. He was a sickly child, often too frail to help his father and brothers in the fields. The family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1921, for better work opportunities.
Jun 19, 2024 · At 9 years old, Owens moved with his family to Cleveland, where the young “J.C.” discovered a world far different than the slower, Southern life he’d known. School proved to be one of the ...
Jul 13, 2024 · Jesse Owens was born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. He was the 10th and final child of two sharecroppers; his grandparents had been slaves. As a child, Owens picked cotton with his family.
Jesse Owens was born as James Cleveland Owens to Henry Cleveland Owens and Mary Emma Fitzgerald in Oakville, Alabama. He was the youngest of the ten children of the couple. At the age of nine, his family relocated to Cleveland, Ohio for better opportunities.
Jesse’s parents were Henry and Emma Alexander Owens. He was their tenth child, and was named James Cleveland when he was born in Alabama on September 12, 1913. He was known as “J.C.” in his early years. At the age of nine, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Reportedly, his new teacher mistook “J.C.” as “Jesse” and the name stuck.
1910. 1913: [September 12] Mary Emma Owens gives birth to James Cleveland (J.C.) Owens in Oakville, Alabama. 1920. 1922: The Owens family moves to Cleveland, Ohio. James Cleveland Owens enrolls in Bolton Elementary School where he becomes known as “Jesse” (from “J.C.”) Owens.
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