On 24 October 1916, Morton R. Owen married Mable Coleman in King and Queen County, Virginia. He was 30, single, born in Essex County, living in Essex County, son of John R. Owen and E. M. Shearwood, occupation farmer. She was 28, single, born in Essex County, living in Essex County, daughter of R. S. Coleman and M. Brizendine. Marriage by W. A. Pearson. [Essex County, Virginia, Marriage Register 1, page 201.]

On 6 March 1972, Mabel Coleman Owen died in Howertons, Essex County, Virginia. She was female; 83; white; a resident of Howertons, Essex County, Virginia 22475; father was Robert L. Coleman; mother was Margaret Brizendine; ciziten of U.S.A.; widowed; husband was Morton R. Owen, Sr.; not a veteran; born in Virginia on 17 April 1888; occupation housewife; informant Mrs. Ella Margaret Allen; cause of death myocardial infarction (20 minutes) due to coronary sclerosis (2 years); other significant factor left hemiplegia (5 years); no autopsy; buried at Smyrna Christian Cemetery, King and Queen County, Virginia. [Commonwealth of Virginia, Certificate of Death 72-009547.]

Information on Ella Mable Coleman from Myrle Theimer, letter of 7 December 1993 to Thomas Moore.

Mabel Coleman is listed as the mother of her daughter Frances in Frances’s marriage record.