Civil War veteran. Company C, 20th Illinois Infantry
Mr. E. H. Powell, a well known builder, residing on North Fifth street, died yesterday morning by an overdose of opium or laudanum. Remedies proved of no avail, all efforts to awaken the patient failed, and about 8 o'clock in the morning he expired. The deceased was about fifty years old, and leaves a wife and family.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL 8-4-1876
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The following information was contributed by #47118536 -- Ruth I. Stude:
Ebenezer H. Powell was born circa 1823 in England per censuses. He was married to Nancy Ellen McKinney (aka: Nancy Snethen, Nancy Lamb) and she is memorial# 49823237.
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900
IL, Mclean Co.: Vol. C., pg. 33: 12/06/1851 EBENEZER POWELL married NANCY MCKINNEY.
Jan. 26, 1891 Declaration for Widow's Pension (William Snethen pension) for Nancy (McKinney-Powell) Snethen: Kansas, Doniphan Co. Nancy E. Snethen, 59 yrs., resident of Troy, Doniphan Co., KS declares that she is the widow of William Snethen, who enlisted at Monroe Co., Iowa on Aug. 13, 1862, Company "A 36th" Regiment Iowa Inf. Vols. She was married under the name of Nancy E. Powel to William Snethen on Nov. 22, 1883 at Clay Centre (Clay Center), Clay Co., KS. She was previously married to Private Ebenezer Powell (of) Co. C, 20th. Reg. of IL Vols., he died Aug, 2, 1876. She had heretofore applied for the widow's pension as the widow of Ebenezer Powell (of) Co. C, 20th. Reg. of IL Vols.
Ebenezer is on these censuses:
1860 (E.H. & N.E. Powell) KY, Jefferson Co., Louisville, Ward 1, p. 109
1870 (Ebenezer & Nancy E. Powell) IL, Sangamon Co., Springfield, pg. 206 (445)
Mr. E. H. Powell, a well known builder, residing on North Fifth street, died yesterday morning by an overdose of opium or laudanum. Remedies proved of no avail, all efforts to awaken the patient failed, and about 8 o'clock in the morning he expired. The deceased was about fifty years old, and leaves a wife and family.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL 8-4-1876
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The following information was contributed by #47118536 -- Ruth I. Stude:
Ebenezer H. Powell was born circa 1823 in England per censuses. He was married to Nancy Ellen McKinney (aka: Nancy Snethen, Nancy Lamb) and she is memorial# 49823237.
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900
IL, Mclean Co.: Vol. C., pg. 33: 12/06/1851 EBENEZER POWELL married NANCY MCKINNEY.
Jan. 26, 1891 Declaration for Widow's Pension (William Snethen pension) for Nancy (McKinney-Powell) Snethen: Kansas, Doniphan Co. Nancy E. Snethen, 59 yrs., resident of Troy, Doniphan Co., KS declares that she is the widow of William Snethen, who enlisted at Monroe Co., Iowa on Aug. 13, 1862, Company "A 36th" Regiment Iowa Inf. Vols. She was married under the name of Nancy E. Powel to William Snethen on Nov. 22, 1883 at Clay Centre (Clay Center), Clay Co., KS. She was previously married to Private Ebenezer Powell (of) Co. C, 20th. Reg. of IL Vols., he died Aug, 2, 1876. She had heretofore applied for the widow's pension as the widow of Ebenezer Powell (of) Co. C, 20th. Reg. of IL Vols.
Ebenezer is on these censuses:
1860 (E.H. & N.E. Powell) KY, Jefferson Co., Louisville, Ward 1, p. 109
1870 (Ebenezer & Nancy E. Powell) IL, Sangamon Co., Springfield, pg. 206 (445)
Civil War veteran. Company C, 20th Illinois Infantry
Mr. E. H. Powell, a well known builder, residing on North Fifth street, died yesterday morning by an overdose of opium or laudanum. Remedies proved of no avail, all efforts to awaken the patient failed, and about 8 o'clock in the morning he expired. The deceased was about fifty years old, and leaves a wife and family.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL 8-4-1876
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The following information was contributed by #47118536 -- Ruth I. Stude:
Ebenezer H. Powell was born circa 1823 in England per censuses. He was married to Nancy Ellen McKinney (aka: Nancy Snethen, Nancy Lamb) and she is memorial# 49823237.
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900
IL, Mclean Co.: Vol. C., pg. 33: 12/06/1851 EBENEZER POWELL married NANCY MCKINNEY.
Jan. 26, 1891 Declaration for Widow's Pension (William Snethen pension) for Nancy (McKinney-Powell) Snethen: Kansas, Doniphan Co. Nancy E. Snethen, 59 yrs., resident of Troy, Doniphan Co., KS declares that she is the widow of William Snethen, who enlisted at Monroe Co., Iowa on Aug. 13, 1862, Company "A 36th" Regiment Iowa Inf. Vols. She was married under the name of Nancy E. Powel to William Snethen on Nov. 22, 1883 at Clay Centre (Clay Center), Clay Co., KS. She was previously married to Private Ebenezer Powell (of) Co. C, 20th. Reg. of IL Vols., he died Aug, 2, 1876. She had heretofore applied for the widow's pension as the widow of Ebenezer Powell (of) Co. C, 20th. Reg. of IL Vols.
Ebenezer is on these censuses:
1860 (E.H. & N.E. Powell) KY, Jefferson Co., Louisville, Ward 1, p. 109
1870 (Ebenezer & Nancy E. Powell) IL, Sangamon Co., Springfield, pg. 206 (445)
Mr. E. H. Powell, a well known builder, residing on North Fifth street, died yesterday morning by an overdose of opium or laudanum. Remedies proved of no avail, all efforts to awaken the patient failed, and about 8 o'clock in the morning he expired. The deceased was about fifty years old, and leaves a wife and family.
IL State Journal, Springfield, IL 8-4-1876
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The following information was contributed by #47118536 -- Ruth I. Stude:
Ebenezer H. Powell was born circa 1823 in England per censuses. He was married to Nancy Ellen McKinney (aka: Nancy Snethen, Nancy Lamb) and she is memorial# 49823237.
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900
IL, Mclean Co.: Vol. C., pg. 33: 12/06/1851 EBENEZER POWELL married NANCY MCKINNEY.
Jan. 26, 1891 Declaration for Widow's Pension (William Snethen pension) for Nancy (McKinney-Powell) Snethen: Kansas, Doniphan Co. Nancy E. Snethen, 59 yrs., resident of Troy, Doniphan Co., KS declares that she is the widow of William Snethen, who enlisted at Monroe Co., Iowa on Aug. 13, 1862, Company "A 36th" Regiment Iowa Inf. Vols. She was married under the name of Nancy E. Powel to William Snethen on Nov. 22, 1883 at Clay Centre (Clay Center), Clay Co., KS. She was previously married to Private Ebenezer Powell (of) Co. C, 20th. Reg. of IL Vols., he died Aug, 2, 1876. She had heretofore applied for the widow's pension as the widow of Ebenezer Powell (of) Co. C, 20th. Reg. of IL Vols.
Ebenezer is on these censuses:
1860 (E.H. & N.E. Powell) KY, Jefferson Co., Louisville, Ward 1, p. 109
1870 (Ebenezer & Nancy E. Powell) IL, Sangamon Co., Springfield, pg. 206 (445)
Gravesite Details
Unmarked grave. In same plot as Susan Coon Powell who died in 1895.
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