TX Family Groupsheet for John Powell Family *********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: David Powell Email address: Husband: John POWELL Birthdate: March 26, 1813 Birthplace: Combs, Suffolk, England Death date: July 12, 1900 Place of death: Alvarado, Johnson County, Texas Father: Thomas Joseph Powell Mother: Henrietta Jones Howells Marriage date: 1848 Marriage place: Louisiana Wife: Elizabeth Muse HINES Birthdate: September 14, 1829 Birthplace: South Carolina Death date: December 20, 1885 Place of death: December 20, 1885 Father: James H. Hines Mother: Jane H. Muse CHILDREN Child No. 1: Thomas James Powell Sex: M Birthdate: 01/09/1850 Birthplace: Louisiana Death date: after 1909 Place of death: Marriage date: December 09, 1874 Marriage place: Johnson County, Texas Spouse's name: Georgia "Georgie" Johnston Child No. 2: Mary Henrietta Powell Sex: F Birthdate: 04/05/1851 Birthplace: Crockett, Houston County, Texas Death date: March 05, 1903 Place of death: Marriage date: November 13, 1872 Marriage place: Johnson County, Texas Spouse's name: James M. Russell Child No. 3: Francis Pinkney Powell Sex: M Birthdate: July 21, 1853 Birthplace: Crockett, Houston County, Texas Death date: September 21, 1914 Place of death: Plainview, Hale County, Texas Marriage date: June 01, 1892 Marriage place: Ellis County, Texas Spouse's name: Myrtle M. Middleton Child No. 4: Eliza J. Powell Sex: M Birthdate: 03/??/1855 Birthplace: Crockett, Houston County, Texas Death date: July 17, 1933 Place of death: Tarrant County, Texas Marriage date: December 02, 1874 Marriage place: Alvarado, Johnson County, Texas Spouse's name: Marion A. Sansom Child No. 5: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 6: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 7: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 8: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 9: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 10: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 11: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 12: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 13: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 14: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 15: Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Documentation: CENSUS: 1900, Texas, Johnson, Alvarado, vol-65, ED-62, Sh- 3, Line-65: "POWELL, John W M Mar 1813 87yr England England England Johnson County, Pct 7, Alvarado Enumerated with SANSOM, Marion, son-in-law" GRAVESTONE: Rev. John Powell born March 27, 1813 in Leuminster, Eng. died July 12, 1900 in Alvarado, Texas Emblem for Minister of Methodist Church Emblem for Grand Mason Servant of God, well done. Rest from thy loved employ. The battle fought the victory won, Enter thy Maker's joy. OBITUARY: Johnson County Review, Cleburne, Tex. " Rev. Jno. Powell. "Rev. John Powell, an aged servant of God, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Col. Marion Sansom, in Alvarado, Thursday, July 12, after an illness of several weeks. "He was born March 26, 1813, in Wales [sic]. While yet a child he came with his parents to America, settling in Richmond, Virginia. After a time the family moved to Coshocton, Ohio, where the Powells still reside. "At the age of twenty he went to preach the gospel in the wilds of Arkansas, then a Territory. Four years later he was transferred to the Louisiana Conference where for a while he was presiding elder of his district. "During the war between Mexico and the United States he was Chaplain of a Louisiana regiment. "In 1850 he was transferred to the East Texas Conference and at the close of the civil war moved from Madison county to Alvarado. For several years during his early residence in Alvarado he was extensively engaged in mercantile pursuits, first in partnership with Col. Samuel Milliken, and later with L. B. Truelove. "John Powell was a man of strong character, inflexible virtue, and unimpeachable integrity. He made many and warm friends and had resided in Alvarado so many years as a guide and example that he won the warm attachment of the younger people, who spoke affectionately of him as "Father Powell." "Few men have so little need of obituary praise. All knew him, and knew him to love and reverence him. His life was ever an open book. "The writer of this remembers, with gratitude inexpressible, the thoughtful kindness of this good old man to him when he was a young and inexperienced boy, a stranger in a strange land. "May his sleep be sweet and may God care for the soul of this aged father in our Israel.