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Author's note: Sally Owens was a Rosewood Scrub pioneer of the 1840s-60s. The Marburg Valley was once known as Sally Owens’ Plain. She used the plains to keep her cattle and horses safe from thieves and it was also reputed to be the location of an illicit still that supplied liquor to nearby Ipswich. She was the widow of grazier and former convict Samuel Owens who had the Woolpack Inn at Old Man's Waterhole (now Laidley). She remarried in the 1860s and died as Sarah Stubbs at Ipswich in 1861. There is no headstone to identify her final resting place at the Ipswich cemetery.
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