BENJAMIN MERCER POWELL 1805 - 1864
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Benjamin Mercer Powell, Sr. was born 10 March 1805 in Hancock Co., Ga.. the youngest son of Moses Powell, Jr. and his wife, Sarah H. (Sally) Maddox. Moses Powell, Jr. was the fifth son of Moses Powell, Sr. and Ann Williams. In 1817, the Powell family moved from Hancock Co., Ga. to Jasper Co., Ga.
Ben Powell spent his boyhood on the Powell homeplace near Piedmont, Jasper Co,. Ga. His older brothers and sisters were all married when Benjamin was young and several of them had children almost as old as he.
He joined the Jasper County Militia as a 15 year old boy, continuing the military tradition of his father, Moses Powell, Jr. and grandfather, Moses Powell, Sr., both of whom served in the Revolutionary War. His military experience held him in good stead, as he would be later called on to serve in the Georgia Militia during the Cherokee Indian removal in 1836.
Benjamin's father, Moses Powell, Jr., died in 1821 in Jasper Co., Ga. when Ben was only 17 years old. His father left a considerable amount of land and property in Jasper Co. on which Ben continued to farm and take care of his elderly mother, Sarah Maddox Powell. Both parents, Moses and Sarah Maddox Powell, as well as the grandfather, Moses Powell, Sr., are buried on the old Powell homeplace in Piedmont, Jasper Co., Ga. The graves can be found in the woods just east of the old Piedmont School off Highway 19.
On 15 June 1825, B.M. Powell married Mariah Ann Cook. She was born 22 Apr 1808, the dau. of Josiah Cook. Benj. and Mariah sold the Moses Powell, Jr. land in Jasper Co., Ga. in 1825 and moved to Gwinnett Co., Ga., taking his mother, Sarah Powell, along with them. After being settled on their new farm for only a short period of time, tragedy struck the family. Mariah Ann Powell died on 23 Jul 1826, giving birth to their first child, who was stillborn. The Georgia Reporter and Christian Gazette (Sparta, Ga.) reported in it's 14 August 1826 issue: "Mrs. Maria Ann Powell, 19 years old, consort of Benjamin Powell, died in Gwinnett County, Georgia."
By 1827, young Benjamin Powell had met Ann Eliza Reeves, the dau. of Jeremiah Reeves, at the church they attended in Gwinnett Co., Ga. Rev. Jeremiah Reeves was a Baptist preacher, as was his four brothers. The Reeves family had tremendous impact on the Baptist faith in Georgia.
On 12 August 1828, Ann Eliza Reeves and Benjamin Mercer Powell were married in Jackson Co., Ga.
By 1836, B.M. Powell had moved his family from Gwinnett Co., Ga., to Cane Creek, Walker Co., Ga. He settled on Land Lot # 172, Section 4, and developed a fine farm in the fertile valley along Cane Creek and practiced medicine as a "botanical physician."
About a mile up the road from the Powell farm, several prominent men of the region organized Waterville Baptist Church. Both B.M. and Eliza Powell were charter members. Later, he was a deacon, along with his son, Evan A. Powell. Both are mentioned numerous times in Coosa Bapt. Association records. B.M. Powell served as messenger to several other churches in the region. Because of the high regard that others held of him, he was invited to attend conference at Shiloh Bapt. Church, near Waterville, to resolve a dispute among its members. B.M. Powell was an early supporter of the Cherokee Baptist College at Cassville, Ga., and on the Board of Trustees for Woodland Female College in Cedartown, Ga.
1850 U.S. Census, Walker Co., Ga., Waterville, HH # 965:
Benjamin M. Powell, age 45
Eliza Powell, age 39
Evan A. Powell, age 20
Rebecca A. Powell, age 18
Adolphus R. Powell, age 12
Mary E. Powell, age 9
Benjamin M. Powell, age 5
Jeremiah T. Powell, age 2
Mary Reeves, age 76
During the Battle of Chickamauga, Walker Co., Ga. was occupied by federal troops in the Northeast Georgia campaign. B.M. Powell was ordered to treat Union soldiers. All of B.M. Powell's sons served in the Confederate Army.
Dr. B.M. Powell died during the course of the War, on 20 Feb 1864. He was buried in the Powell Family Cemetery just off the Old Alabama Road. Eliza Powell continued to live on the homeplace with her sons and daughters. A.R. Powell died at home from wounds incurred during the War and is buried next to his father. Eliza Ann Powell continued to attend church at Waterville Bapt. Church. Because her home was so close to the church, she would often arrive for service early to start the fire in the fireplace in the winter or open up the windows in the summer to cool the sanctuary off. She was often relied on to host "dinner on the ground" after Sunday services at which her son Jeremiah Taylor Powell would sing. She had a reputation as one of the best cooks in Cane Creek and often took cakes, pies, and other treats to new members of the church and young couples in the Waterville area. She had a perfect attendance at church for almost 30 years. Mrs. Powell was hardly ever sick but took a cold which progressed to pneumonia from which she died 4 June 1884. She is buried next to her husband.
The Walker County Messenger x 21 Jun 1884 states "Mrs. Eliza Ann Powell born October 3rd, 1811, lived at Clarke Co., married in Jackson Co., Ga. to Benj. Powell of Gwinnett Co., died 4 June, Walker Co., Ga., age 73, the mother of 7 sons and 5 daughters."
As stated above, Dr. Benjamin M. and Eliza Ann Powell had twelve children: Evan Absolom Powell, Harvey Turnbull Powell, Jeremiah Reeves Powell, Adolphus Reeves Powell, Mary Eliza Powell, Sarah Doliska Powell, Ben Mercer Powell, Jr., Jeremiah Taylor Powell, John Newton Powell, Catherine Emma Powell and a daughter whose name is unknown to this biographer. Details of their lives are as follows:
1. Dr. Evan Absolom Powell, the first born son of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 25 June 1830 in Gwinnett Co., Ga. He served in the Walker County Militia as a private from 1845-49. Evan was active at Waterville Baptist Church where he served as a deacon, along with his father. He also served as a lay minister to the Cherokee Indian families in the region. In the early 1850's, he and his father were a part of a committee of church members who traveled to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) to establish a Baptist Mission for the Indian Nation there. He was responsible for directing the attention of the Coosa Bapt. Association to the needs of these Indian families.
Evan Powell studied medicine at the Atlanta Medical College and began his own medical practice shortly after his graduation in 1856. While there, he studied under Dr. A.B. Calhoun, of Newnan, who was professor of anatomy and medical jurisprudence. Shortly after graduation, Dr. Powell married Dr. Calhoun's neice, Margaret Susannah Calhoun, dau. of Alexander Calhoun and Fannie Barton. The marriage took place 29 Jun 1856 in Walker Co., Ga., conducted by Rev. Edwin Dyer, pastor of Lafayette Baptist Church.
Dr. Powell began his medical practice in Lafayette but was persuaded by the many emigrants from this region to join them on their way West. By 1859, he and Susannah made the long trip to Arkansas country, settling in Bradley Co. Dr. Powell had a thriving medical practice when the War started. By 1862, his services were needed by the Confederacy. He was commissioned as a Captain and went into service as a surgeon. His military service took him to various hospitals throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and the South. Maggie, along with their young children, would often join him throughout his travels, when conditions were safe enough.
By late 1864, Captain Powell, having seen enough death and blood, resigned his commission, which was an officer's right, and imigrated to Texas, beyond the reach of most of the War. After the War was over, Dr. Powell made one last trip back to Walker Co., Ga. to visit the fresh graves of his father, B.M. Powell and his brother, A.R. Powell.
Dr. Evan Powell set up practice in Palestine, Anderson Co., Texas, where by 1868, he had bought a 200 acre farm just outside of town from Isaac Barnett. The voter's list of 23 Nov 1869 for Anderson Co. shows that E.A. Powell had been a resident of the state for almost 5 years and had lived in the county for one and a half years. The 18 Jul 1870 tax list for Anderson Co. shows that the 200 acres owned by E.A. Powell was worth $300 and his 5 horses and 2 cattle worth $150.
The 1870 census shows that the E.A. Powell family was getting to be quite large, the last dau. having been born just two months before the census was taken.
Dr. Evan Absolom Powell died 5 Oct 1870. The cause of his death is unknown. Maggie sold the farm in early 1871 and returned to Walker Co., Ga. to be with the Calhouns and Powells there. She lived out the remainder of her life in Northwest Ga., died 13 Mar 1919 and is bur. near Summerville, Ga.
2. Rebecca Ann Powell, the second child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 25 Jan 1832. She married Charles P. Allen. Both are buried in Summerville, Ga. They had two daughters, Antie and Exa Allen. Antie died in young ladyhood. Exa, when over sixty years old, went to Texas to visit family, where she met and married an old bachelor, who proposed to her two days after their acquaintance. They lived the rest of their lives in married bliss. They are buried in Texas.
3. Harvey Turnbull Powell, third child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 13 Apr 1834 and died 8 Dec 1843, aged 9 years. His obituary was published in The Christian Index:
"Departed this life, in Walker Co., Ga. on the evening of the 8th Dec. after a short illness of five days, Harvey Turnbull, son of Dr. Benjamin M. and Eliza Powell, aged 9 years, 7 months and 25 days. Harvey T. was a pleasant and promising son; the choicest flowers are often nipt in the bud; and truly it has been so in this case; yet, death shall not always reign, nor forever separate pious parents from their children, who go to rest before them."
4. Jeremiah Reeves Powell, named for Eliza Reeves Powell's father, the fourth child, was born 23 Sept 1836 and died in infancy, 9 Jul 1837.
5. Adolphus Reeves Powell, fifth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 6 May 1838 in Walker Co., Ga. He married 19 Nov 1860 to Mary Ann Hendon, dau. of Elisha S. Hendon and Margaret Powell, dau. of William Powell, Sr. of Fayette Co., GA.
Although he had previously served in the Georgia Militia in 1860 as a 2nd Lieutenant, A.R. Powell enlisted along with his neighbors and served in K Company, 39th Georgia Infantry Regiment throughout the war. In 1862, Mary Ann Powell shows on the salt list for Walker Co. In late 1864, A.R. Powell was wounded in action performing his duties as a courier and was sent home to recover. He died at home on 7 May 1865 and is buried next to his father.
A.R. and Mary Ann Hendon had two sons, Edwin Toutant Powell and Wm Stratton Powell. In 1870, Mary Ann Hendon, her two sons, and several members of the Waterville Church decided to move to Arkansas.
The pastor of Waterville Church, at the time, was Rev. Thomas Wm Powell, a cousin of the Hendons of Cane Creek. In a letter of 13 Oct 1870, Rev. Powell mentions the departure of Mary Hendon Powell, widow of A.R. Powell, her brother James A. Hendon and a family friend, Rev. John Young, from Walker Co., Ga. to Arkansas:
"Our beloved Bro. Young has started to the far off West last Tuesday and while many others feel the heavy stroke, I realize it double severe, as I have not only lost in his removal all that others have but, in addition to the loss of him as a Pastor and Counselor, I have lost the company and association of two cousins who have gone to share with him the hardships of the long wearisome road."
From "Wagon Wheels", publication of the Logan County, Arkansas Genealogy Society:
Dr. Edwin Toutant Powell, of Magazine, was born in northwest Georgia in 1861. His father died after the Civil War from injuries received in the conflict. His mother and brother moved to Magazine with Dr. Powell. Young Edwin pursued the study of medicine at the University of Kentucky in 1880. He was a very young doctor when he came to Magazine to practice but soon met Dr. Burrill Priddy, a well known physician in Magazine, under whom he interned.
As a result, one particular incident seems to have set into motion two marriages in Dr. Priddy's family. The story is told that when a young man named Emerson "Dee" Bowden came to Magazine, he was sick with malaria, from traveling through the swamps, and Dr. Powell attended him, taking him into his own home to help him gain some strength. There Dee and Dr. Priddy's young daughter, Eudora, met. When Eudora told her father that she wanted to marry Dee Bowden, he was dead set against it. When Eudora insisted, Dr. Priddy threw his hands in the air, "Go ahead, marry him, he won't last three years." But it had a happy ending. Dee Bowden lived to be 88 years old.
The second romance that budded was between Eudora's sister, Florence, and Dr. Edwin T. Powell. That, too, had a happy ending. Dr. Powell courted and married Florence Electra Priddy, the wedding occurring 31 Dec 1885 at the Priddy home in Magazine. Florence was 17 years old and Edwin was 24.
The couple made their home in Magazine, Revillee Township, Logan Co., Ark. The Powells had two sons, Adolphus, born 6 Sept 1888, called "Dolph" and named for Dr. Powell's father, Adolphus Reeves Powell, and Julian Bodine born 18 May 1891. Five years later, a daughter, Lucille, joined the family on 9 Aug 1895.
Dr. Powell moved his family to Bexar Co., in Texas and settled near San Antonio. Son, Dolph, married Ione House and son, Bodine, mar. Fannie Thomas. The dau. Lucille never married. According to a relative, Dr. Powell was proud of his family and "enjoyed them very much." The Texas and Arkansas branches of this family kept in touch for many decades by letter. The Powells would often visit the Priddys in Arkansas and vice versa (see photo from 1902.) Dr. Powell and his family died in Texas and are buried there.
Dr. E.T. Powell's younger brother, Stratton Powell, conceived after his father came home from the War and before he died of his wounds, succumbed to malaria as a young man in Magazine, Ark. on 7 Dec 1886, as reported in the Walker County Messenger, x 27 Jan 1887: "W. Stratton Powell died at Revilee, Logan Co., Ark. on the 7th of Dec. 1886. He was 21 years old. Stratton was the son of Adolphus and Mary Hendon Powell, former residents of Walker County, Ga."
6. Mary Eliza "Mollie" Powell, sixth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 1 Jan 1841, and died 30 Jan 1879. She married 22 Sept 1870 to James Madison Foster, a Confederate Veteran, by Rev. Royal Allen, brother of Charles P. Allen. They had two children: Mary Ada Foster born 1872, Devona Foster born 1874. After Mollie died, Mr. Foster remarried to Nancy Elizabeth Sims and they had one son, James Wiley Foster, born 1894. The daughter, Mary, married a Mr. Peppers and moved to Texas.
7. Sarah Dorliska (Lick) Powell, seventh child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 10 May 1843. She married 14 Dec 1869, by Rev. Robert M. Baker, to Robert Gilmer Calhoun, born 22 Jan 1844, son of Alexander and Fannie Mariah Barton Calhoun. Sarah's older brother, Evan A. Powell, had married Margaret Calhoun, R.G. Calhoun's sister. R.G. Calhoun died 14 Oct 1883 in Palestine, Anderson Co., Texas. Sarah and R.G. Calhoun had four children: Guy Anna, Sarah, Jessie and James Edward Barton Calhoun. Guy Anna married 1896 to Samuel Conrad Martin. The other three children died in childhood and are buried in Ringgold, Ga.
8. Ben Mercer Powell, Jr., eighth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 19 Oct 1845. He married 30 Oct 1870 to Miss E.P. "Maggie" Burdette, by Rev. Thomas Wm Powell, pastor of Waterville Baptist Church 1870-72. By 1880, they had a house full of children, including: Booth, Lethe, Forrest, Crozier and Gordon Powell. Ben M. Powell died 14 Jan 1892 in Walker Co., Ga. Several of his children died within a few months. His widow, Eliz. Burdette Powell and surviving children moved to Texas in Feb. 1896. She died 1921 in Erath Co., Texas.
Walker County Messenger x 20 Jan 1892: "The only daughter of Ben Powell died of pneumonia last week."
Walker County Messenger x 10 May 1892: "Booth M. Powell, age 19, died last Thursday."
9. Jeremiah Taylor Powell, ninth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 18 Jun 1848. He married Nancy Lizzie Lee at Waterville Baptist Church, by Rev. Thomas Wm Powell. In 1880, they are shown living in Cane Creek with Lizzie's mother in the family household. Taylor Powell had a most excellent voice and often organized "sings" at Waterville Church and in the region.
From the Walker County Messenger, 1884: "I would very much like to meet up with as many of my old friends from Trion and other places as possible, at Waterville Academy, on the fifth Sunday in July, at which time, and at that place, I will sing for the people. Let it be an all day affair with picnic baskets. Bring Regal Singers and the C.C.C. Teachers and leaders of music are all invited. Please do not forget to bring well filled baskets, that the inner man may be satisfied, as well. Let every fellow do his part. J.T. Powell."
"Taylor Powell, born 1848, died at the Powell homestead on the 20th of January, 1896."
The widow of Taylor Powell, Mrs. Nancy Powell, remarried to Foster Hemphill 1 Dec 1897 at Taylor's Ridge.
10. John Newton Powell, tenth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 19 Dec 1850, Walker Co, Ga. He died in Fort Worth, Texas 22 Jan 1909. He married 22 Jan 1871 to Mattie Summersgill by Rev. W.T. Russell, of Burning Bush. They had a number of children: Minnie, Maude, Buena, Jewell, Ralph and Eugene. They all moved to Fort Worth about 1894:
" Waterville Baptist Church Minutes: After preaching by the Pastor, the Church set in conference, inviting visiting brethren and sisters to seats with us; letters granted to Bro. John N. Powell and wife, and sister Maggie Powell." Maggie Powell was the widow of Ben M. Powell, Jr. She went to Ft. Worth, Texas with John Newton Powell and family.
A legal notice in the Walker County Messenger in late 1894 mentioned John N. Powell of Tarrant Co., Texas; in early 1895, a similar notice showed Kennedale, Texas. John N. Powell showed in the Fort Worth City directory from 1902-18 in various locations and occupations.
11. Catherine Emma (Kate) Powell, the eleventh child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, named for B.M. Powell's older sister, Catherine Powell who married Benjamin Maddox, was born 30 Jul 1853. She married 13 Jun 1893, to Mr. C.C. Glass, as this article from the Walker County Messenger indicates:
"Mr. C.C. Glass, who has recently been visiting in Walker, has been a resident of Texas since 1866. He left for his home on Thursday, but before doing so, he did a very wise thing. He secured a Georgia wife. That he has been so fortunate, it is only necessary to say that the charming bride he has won is none other than Miss Kate Powell. They were married in Chickamauga, Wednesday, by Rev. D.T. Murdock, in the grove in front of the preacher's house. Miss Ella Foster of LaFayette was one of the witnesses. The happy pair remained in the buggy until the brief ceremony that made them man and wife was over. They then drove over to Mr. Newt Glass', the brother of the groom. The next morning they left for Texas, carrying with them the best wishes of their many friends."
Kate Powell Glass died at Fort Worth, Texas 5:15 p.m., 12 Feb 1934. She was buried at Kennedale, Texas. The informant on her death certificate was Mrs. Ova Glass Powell, a daughter of C.C. Glass who married Eugene Powell, Kate Powell's nephew, son of her brother, John Newton Powell.
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Grandson of John Newton Powell & son of Eugene Powell, noted above:
Obituary x 8/28/2007, Dallas Star-Telegram
Robert Eugene Powell, 92, a retired General Dynamics manager, devoted and beloved husband, father and grandfather, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007.
The funeral is 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Greenwood Chapel. Interment will be at Greenwood Memorial Park, with a reception following in Greenwood Reception Center. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to a charity of choice.
Robert Powell was born May 22, 1915, in Kennedale to Eugene and Ova Powell. He married W. Mae Fairhurst on Feb. 12, 1940, and enjoyed 63 years together before Mae's passing Dec. 12, 2003.
Robert was a member of First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth for many years and a devoted Mason for over 50 years. Robert and Mae did volunteer work with Meals on Wheels, local hospitals and their church.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mae; and daughter, Janice Cason. Survivors: Son, William E. Powell and wife, Katherine; son-in-law, Joe Bill Cason; grandchildren, William E. Powell II, Robert E. Powell, Carol Shelton and husband, Doug, and Michael Cason and wife, Stacy; and great-grandchildren, Shalie, Lucas, Kimberly, Gina, Emily, Nathan, John and Lauren.
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Benjamin Mercer Powell, Sr. was born 10 March 1805 in Hancock Co., Ga.. the youngest son of Moses Powell, Jr. and his wife, Sarah H. (Sally) Maddox. Moses Powell, Jr. was the fifth son of Moses Powell, Sr. and Ann Williams. In 1817, the Powell family moved from Hancock Co., Ga. to Jasper Co., Ga.
Ben Powell spent his boyhood on the Powell homeplace near Piedmont, Jasper Co,. Ga. His older brothers and sisters were all married when Benjamin was young and several of them had children almost as old as he.
He joined the Jasper County Militia as a 15 year old boy, continuing the military tradition of his father, Moses Powell, Jr. and grandfather, Moses Powell, Sr., both of whom served in the Revolutionary War. His military experience held him in good stead, as he would be later called on to serve in the Georgia Militia during the Cherokee Indian removal in 1836.
Benjamin's father, Moses Powell, Jr., died in 1821 in Jasper Co., Ga. when Ben was only 17 years old. His father left a considerable amount of land and property in Jasper Co. on which Ben continued to farm and take care of his elderly mother, Sarah Maddox Powell. Both parents, Moses and Sarah Maddox Powell, as well as the grandfather, Moses Powell, Sr., are buried on the old Powell homeplace in Piedmont, Jasper Co., Ga. The graves can be found in the woods just east of the old Piedmont School off Highway 19.
On 15 June 1825, B.M. Powell married Mariah Ann Cook. She was born 22 Apr 1808, the dau. of Josiah Cook. Benj. and Mariah sold the Moses Powell, Jr. land in Jasper Co., Ga. in 1825 and moved to Gwinnett Co., Ga., taking his mother, Sarah Powell, along with them. After being settled on their new farm for only a short period of time, tragedy struck the family. Mariah Ann Powell died on 23 Jul 1826, giving birth to their first child, who was stillborn. The Georgia Reporter and Christian Gazette (Sparta, Ga.) reported in it's 14 August 1826 issue: "Mrs. Maria Ann Powell, 19 years old, consort of Benjamin Powell, died in Gwinnett County, Georgia."
By 1827, young Benjamin Powell had met Ann Eliza Reeves, the dau. of Jeremiah Reeves, at the church they attended in Gwinnett Co., Ga. Rev. Jeremiah Reeves was a Baptist preacher, as was his four brothers. The Reeves family had tremendous impact on the Baptist faith in Georgia.
On 12 August 1828, Ann Eliza Reeves and Benjamin Mercer Powell were married in Jackson Co., Ga.
By 1836, B.M. Powell had moved his family from Gwinnett Co., Ga., to Cane Creek, Walker Co., Ga. He settled on Land Lot # 172, Section 4, and developed a fine farm in the fertile valley along Cane Creek and practiced medicine as a "botanical physician."
About a mile up the road from the Powell farm, several prominent men of the region organized Waterville Baptist Church. Both B.M. and Eliza Powell were charter members. Later, he was a deacon, along with his son, Evan A. Powell. Both are mentioned numerous times in Coosa Bapt. Association records. B.M. Powell served as messenger to several other churches in the region. Because of the high regard that others held of him, he was invited to attend conference at Shiloh Bapt. Church, near Waterville, to resolve a dispute among its members. B.M. Powell was an early supporter of the Cherokee Baptist College at Cassville, Ga., and on the Board of Trustees for Woodland Female College in Cedartown, Ga.
1850 U.S. Census, Walker Co., Ga., Waterville, HH # 965:
Benjamin M. Powell, age 45
Eliza Powell, age 39
Evan A. Powell, age 20
Rebecca A. Powell, age 18
Adolphus R. Powell, age 12
Mary E. Powell, age 9
Benjamin M. Powell, age 5
Jeremiah T. Powell, age 2
Mary Reeves, age 76
During the Battle of Chickamauga, Walker Co., Ga. was occupied by federal troops in the Northeast Georgia campaign. B.M. Powell was ordered to treat Union soldiers. All of B.M. Powell's sons served in the Confederate Army.
Dr. B.M. Powell died during the course of the War, on 20 Feb 1864. He was buried in the Powell Family Cemetery just off the Old Alabama Road. Eliza Powell continued to live on the homeplace with her sons and daughters. A.R. Powell died at home from wounds incurred during the War and is buried next to his father. Eliza Ann Powell continued to attend church at Waterville Bapt. Church. Because her home was so close to the church, she would often arrive for service early to start the fire in the fireplace in the winter or open up the windows in the summer to cool the sanctuary off. She was often relied on to host "dinner on the ground" after Sunday services at which her son Jeremiah Taylor Powell would sing. She had a reputation as one of the best cooks in Cane Creek and often took cakes, pies, and other treats to new members of the church and young couples in the Waterville area. She had a perfect attendance at church for almost 30 years. Mrs. Powell was hardly ever sick but took a cold which progressed to pneumonia from which she died 4 June 1884. She is buried next to her husband.
The Walker County Messenger x 21 Jun 1884 states "Mrs. Eliza Ann Powell born October 3rd, 1811, lived at Clarke Co., married in Jackson Co., Ga. to Benj. Powell of Gwinnett Co., died 4 June, Walker Co., Ga., age 73, the mother of 7 sons and 5 daughters."
As stated above, Dr. Benjamin M. and Eliza Ann Powell had twelve children: Evan Absolom Powell, Harvey Turnbull Powell, Jeremiah Reeves Powell, Adolphus Reeves Powell, Mary Eliza Powell, Sarah Doliska Powell, Ben Mercer Powell, Jr., Jeremiah Taylor Powell, John Newton Powell, Catherine Emma Powell and a daughter whose name is unknown to this biographer. Details of their lives are as follows:
1. Dr. Evan Absolom Powell, the first born son of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 25 June 1830 in Gwinnett Co., Ga. He served in the Walker County Militia as a private from 1845-49. Evan was active at Waterville Baptist Church where he served as a deacon, along with his father. He also served as a lay minister to the Cherokee Indian families in the region. In the early 1850's, he and his father were a part of a committee of church members who traveled to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) to establish a Baptist Mission for the Indian Nation there. He was responsible for directing the attention of the Coosa Bapt. Association to the needs of these Indian families.
Evan Powell studied medicine at the Atlanta Medical College and began his own medical practice shortly after his graduation in 1856. While there, he studied under Dr. A.B. Calhoun, of Newnan, who was professor of anatomy and medical jurisprudence. Shortly after graduation, Dr. Powell married Dr. Calhoun's neice, Margaret Susannah Calhoun, dau. of Alexander Calhoun and Fannie Barton. The marriage took place 29 Jun 1856 in Walker Co., Ga., conducted by Rev. Edwin Dyer, pastor of Lafayette Baptist Church.
Dr. Powell began his medical practice in Lafayette but was persuaded by the many emigrants from this region to join them on their way West. By 1859, he and Susannah made the long trip to Arkansas country, settling in Bradley Co. Dr. Powell had a thriving medical practice when the War started. By 1862, his services were needed by the Confederacy. He was commissioned as a Captain and went into service as a surgeon. His military service took him to various hospitals throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and the South. Maggie, along with their young children, would often join him throughout his travels, when conditions were safe enough.
By late 1864, Captain Powell, having seen enough death and blood, resigned his commission, which was an officer's right, and imigrated to Texas, beyond the reach of most of the War. After the War was over, Dr. Powell made one last trip back to Walker Co., Ga. to visit the fresh graves of his father, B.M. Powell and his brother, A.R. Powell.
Dr. Evan Powell set up practice in Palestine, Anderson Co., Texas, where by 1868, he had bought a 200 acre farm just outside of town from Isaac Barnett. The voter's list of 23 Nov 1869 for Anderson Co. shows that E.A. Powell had been a resident of the state for almost 5 years and had lived in the county for one and a half years. The 18 Jul 1870 tax list for Anderson Co. shows that the 200 acres owned by E.A. Powell was worth $300 and his 5 horses and 2 cattle worth $150.
The 1870 census shows that the E.A. Powell family was getting to be quite large, the last dau. having been born just two months before the census was taken.
Dr. Evan Absolom Powell died 5 Oct 1870. The cause of his death is unknown. Maggie sold the farm in early 1871 and returned to Walker Co., Ga. to be with the Calhouns and Powells there. She lived out the remainder of her life in Northwest Ga., died 13 Mar 1919 and is bur. near Summerville, Ga.
2. Rebecca Ann Powell, the second child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 25 Jan 1832. She married Charles P. Allen. Both are buried in Summerville, Ga. They had two daughters, Antie and Exa Allen. Antie died in young ladyhood. Exa, when over sixty years old, went to Texas to visit family, where she met and married an old bachelor, who proposed to her two days after their acquaintance. They lived the rest of their lives in married bliss. They are buried in Texas.
3. Harvey Turnbull Powell, third child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 13 Apr 1834 and died 8 Dec 1843, aged 9 years. His obituary was published in The Christian Index:
"Departed this life, in Walker Co., Ga. on the evening of the 8th Dec. after a short illness of five days, Harvey Turnbull, son of Dr. Benjamin M. and Eliza Powell, aged 9 years, 7 months and 25 days. Harvey T. was a pleasant and promising son; the choicest flowers are often nipt in the bud; and truly it has been so in this case; yet, death shall not always reign, nor forever separate pious parents from their children, who go to rest before them."
4. Jeremiah Reeves Powell, named for Eliza Reeves Powell's father, the fourth child, was born 23 Sept 1836 and died in infancy, 9 Jul 1837.
5. Adolphus Reeves Powell, fifth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 6 May 1838 in Walker Co., Ga. He married 19 Nov 1860 to Mary Ann Hendon, dau. of Elisha S. Hendon and Margaret Powell, dau. of William Powell, Sr. of Fayette Co., GA.
Although he had previously served in the Georgia Militia in 1860 as a 2nd Lieutenant, A.R. Powell enlisted along with his neighbors and served in K Company, 39th Georgia Infantry Regiment throughout the war. In 1862, Mary Ann Powell shows on the salt list for Walker Co. In late 1864, A.R. Powell was wounded in action performing his duties as a courier and was sent home to recover. He died at home on 7 May 1865 and is buried next to his father.
A.R. and Mary Ann Hendon had two sons, Edwin Toutant Powell and Wm Stratton Powell. In 1870, Mary Ann Hendon, her two sons, and several members of the Waterville Church decided to move to Arkansas.
The pastor of Waterville Church, at the time, was Rev. Thomas Wm Powell, a cousin of the Hendons of Cane Creek. In a letter of 13 Oct 1870, Rev. Powell mentions the departure of Mary Hendon Powell, widow of A.R. Powell, her brother James A. Hendon and a family friend, Rev. John Young, from Walker Co., Ga. to Arkansas:
"Our beloved Bro. Young has started to the far off West last Tuesday and while many others feel the heavy stroke, I realize it double severe, as I have not only lost in his removal all that others have but, in addition to the loss of him as a Pastor and Counselor, I have lost the company and association of two cousins who have gone to share with him the hardships of the long wearisome road."
From "Wagon Wheels", publication of the Logan County, Arkansas Genealogy Society:
Dr. Edwin Toutant Powell, of Magazine, was born in northwest Georgia in 1861. His father died after the Civil War from injuries received in the conflict. His mother and brother moved to Magazine with Dr. Powell. Young Edwin pursued the study of medicine at the University of Kentucky in 1880. He was a very young doctor when he came to Magazine to practice but soon met Dr. Burrill Priddy, a well known physician in Magazine, under whom he interned.
As a result, one particular incident seems to have set into motion two marriages in Dr. Priddy's family. The story is told that when a young man named Emerson "Dee" Bowden came to Magazine, he was sick with malaria, from traveling through the swamps, and Dr. Powell attended him, taking him into his own home to help him gain some strength. There Dee and Dr. Priddy's young daughter, Eudora, met. When Eudora told her father that she wanted to marry Dee Bowden, he was dead set against it. When Eudora insisted, Dr. Priddy threw his hands in the air, "Go ahead, marry him, he won't last three years." But it had a happy ending. Dee Bowden lived to be 88 years old.
The second romance that budded was between Eudora's sister, Florence, and Dr. Edwin T. Powell. That, too, had a happy ending. Dr. Powell courted and married Florence Electra Priddy, the wedding occurring 31 Dec 1885 at the Priddy home in Magazine. Florence was 17 years old and Edwin was 24.
The couple made their home in Magazine, Revillee Township, Logan Co., Ark. The Powells had two sons, Adolphus, born 6 Sept 1888, called "Dolph" and named for Dr. Powell's father, Adolphus Reeves Powell, and Julian Bodine born 18 May 1891. Five years later, a daughter, Lucille, joined the family on 9 Aug 1895.
Dr. Powell moved his family to Bexar Co., in Texas and settled near San Antonio. Son, Dolph, married Ione House and son, Bodine, mar. Fannie Thomas. The dau. Lucille never married. According to a relative, Dr. Powell was proud of his family and "enjoyed them very much." The Texas and Arkansas branches of this family kept in touch for many decades by letter. The Powells would often visit the Priddys in Arkansas and vice versa (see photo from 1902.) Dr. Powell and his family died in Texas and are buried there.
Dr. E.T. Powell's younger brother, Stratton Powell, conceived after his father came home from the War and before he died of his wounds, succumbed to malaria as a young man in Magazine, Ark. on 7 Dec 1886, as reported in the Walker County Messenger, x 27 Jan 1887: "W. Stratton Powell died at Revilee, Logan Co., Ark. on the 7th of Dec. 1886. He was 21 years old. Stratton was the son of Adolphus and Mary Hendon Powell, former residents of Walker County, Ga."
6. Mary Eliza "Mollie" Powell, sixth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 1 Jan 1841, and died 30 Jan 1879. She married 22 Sept 1870 to James Madison Foster, a Confederate Veteran, by Rev. Royal Allen, brother of Charles P. Allen. They had two children: Mary Ada Foster born 1872, Devona Foster born 1874. After Mollie died, Mr. Foster remarried to Nancy Elizabeth Sims and they had one son, James Wiley Foster, born 1894. The daughter, Mary, married a Mr. Peppers and moved to Texas.
7. Sarah Dorliska (Lick) Powell, seventh child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 10 May 1843. She married 14 Dec 1869, by Rev. Robert M. Baker, to Robert Gilmer Calhoun, born 22 Jan 1844, son of Alexander and Fannie Mariah Barton Calhoun. Sarah's older brother, Evan A. Powell, had married Margaret Calhoun, R.G. Calhoun's sister. R.G. Calhoun died 14 Oct 1883 in Palestine, Anderson Co., Texas. Sarah and R.G. Calhoun had four children: Guy Anna, Sarah, Jessie and James Edward Barton Calhoun. Guy Anna married 1896 to Samuel Conrad Martin. The other three children died in childhood and are buried in Ringgold, Ga.
8. Ben Mercer Powell, Jr., eighth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 19 Oct 1845. He married 30 Oct 1870 to Miss E.P. "Maggie" Burdette, by Rev. Thomas Wm Powell, pastor of Waterville Baptist Church 1870-72. By 1880, they had a house full of children, including: Booth, Lethe, Forrest, Crozier and Gordon Powell. Ben M. Powell died 14 Jan 1892 in Walker Co., Ga. Several of his children died within a few months. His widow, Eliz. Burdette Powell and surviving children moved to Texas in Feb. 1896. She died 1921 in Erath Co., Texas.
Walker County Messenger x 20 Jan 1892: "The only daughter of Ben Powell died of pneumonia last week."
Walker County Messenger x 10 May 1892: "Booth M. Powell, age 19, died last Thursday."
9. Jeremiah Taylor Powell, ninth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 18 Jun 1848. He married Nancy Lizzie Lee at Waterville Baptist Church, by Rev. Thomas Wm Powell. In 1880, they are shown living in Cane Creek with Lizzie's mother in the family household. Taylor Powell had a most excellent voice and often organized "sings" at Waterville Church and in the region.
From the Walker County Messenger, 1884: "I would very much like to meet up with as many of my old friends from Trion and other places as possible, at Waterville Academy, on the fifth Sunday in July, at which time, and at that place, I will sing for the people. Let it be an all day affair with picnic baskets. Bring Regal Singers and the C.C.C. Teachers and leaders of music are all invited. Please do not forget to bring well filled baskets, that the inner man may be satisfied, as well. Let every fellow do his part. J.T. Powell."
"Taylor Powell, born 1848, died at the Powell homestead on the 20th of January, 1896."
The widow of Taylor Powell, Mrs. Nancy Powell, remarried to Foster Hemphill 1 Dec 1897 at Taylor's Ridge.
10. John Newton Powell, tenth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 19 Dec 1850, Walker Co, Ga. He died in Fort Worth, Texas 22 Jan 1909. He married 22 Jan 1871 to Mattie Summersgill by Rev. W.T. Russell, of Burning Bush. They had a number of children: Minnie, Maude, Buena, Jewell, Ralph and Eugene. They all moved to Fort Worth about 1894:
" Waterville Baptist Church Minutes: After preaching by the Pastor, the Church set in conference, inviting visiting brethren and sisters to seats with us; letters granted to Bro. John N. Powell and wife, and sister Maggie Powell." Maggie Powell was the widow of Ben M. Powell, Jr. She went to Ft. Worth, Texas with John Newton Powell and family.
A legal notice in the Walker County Messenger in late 1894 mentioned John N. Powell of Tarrant Co., Texas; in early 1895, a similar notice showed Kennedale, Texas. John N. Powell showed in the Fort Worth City directory from 1902-18 in various locations and occupations.
11. Catherine Emma (Kate) Powell, the eleventh child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, named for B.M. Powell's older sister, Catherine Powell who married Benjamin Maddox, was born 30 Jul 1853. She married 13 Jun 1893, to Mr. C.C. Glass, as this article from the Walker County Messenger indicates:
"Mr. C.C. Glass, who has recently been visiting in Walker, has been a resident of Texas since 1866. He left for his home on Thursday, but before doing so, he did a very wise thing. He secured a Georgia wife. That he has been so fortunate, it is only necessary to say that the charming bride he has won is none other than Miss Kate Powell. They were married in Chickamauga, Wednesday, by Rev. D.T. Murdock, in the grove in front of the preacher's house. Miss Ella Foster of LaFayette was one of the witnesses. The happy pair remained in the buggy until the brief ceremony that made them man and wife was over. They then drove over to Mr. Newt Glass', the brother of the groom. The next morning they left for Texas, carrying with them the best wishes of their many friends."
Kate Powell Glass died at Fort Worth, Texas 5:15 p.m., 12 Feb 1934. She was buried at Kennedale, Texas. The informant on her death certificate was Mrs. Ova Glass Powell, a daughter of C.C. Glass who married Eugene Powell, Kate Powell's nephew, son of her brother, John Newton Powell.
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Grandson of John Newton Powell & son of Eugene Powell, noted above:
Obituary x 8/28/2007, Dallas Star-Telegram
Robert Eugene Powell, 92, a retired General Dynamics manager, devoted and beloved husband, father and grandfather, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007.
The funeral is 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Greenwood Chapel. Interment will be at Greenwood Memorial Park, with a reception following in Greenwood Reception Center. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to a charity of choice.
Robert Powell was born May 22, 1915, in Kennedale to Eugene and Ova Powell. He married W. Mae Fairhurst on Feb. 12, 1940, and enjoyed 63 years together before Mae's passing Dec. 12, 2003.
Robert was a member of First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth for many years and a devoted Mason for over 50 years. Robert and Mae did volunteer work with Meals on Wheels, local hospitals and their church.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mae; and daughter, Janice Cason. Survivors: Son, William E. Powell and wife, Katherine; son-in-law, Joe Bill Cason; grandchildren, William E. Powell II, Robert E. Powell, Carol Shelton and husband, Doug, and Michael Cason and wife, Stacy; and great-grandchildren, Shalie, Lucas, Kimberly, Gina, Emily, Nathan, John and Lauren.
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BENJAMIN MERCER POWELL 1805 - 1864
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Benjamin Mercer Powell, Sr. was born 10 March 1805 in Hancock Co., Ga.. the youngest son of Moses Powell, Jr. and his wife, Sarah H. (Sally) Maddox. Moses Powell, Jr. was the fifth son of Moses Powell, Sr. and Ann Williams. In 1817, the Powell family moved from Hancock Co., Ga. to Jasper Co., Ga.
Ben Powell spent his boyhood on the Powell homeplace near Piedmont, Jasper Co,. Ga. His older brothers and sisters were all married when Benjamin was young and several of them had children almost as old as he.
He joined the Jasper County Militia as a 15 year old boy, continuing the military tradition of his father, Moses Powell, Jr. and grandfather, Moses Powell, Sr., both of whom served in the Revolutionary War. His military experience held him in good stead, as he would be later called on to serve in the Georgia Militia during the Cherokee Indian removal in 1836.
Benjamin's father, Moses Powell, Jr., died in 1821 in Jasper Co., Ga. when Ben was only 17 years old. His father left a considerable amount of land and property in Jasper Co. on which Ben continued to farm and take care of his elderly mother, Sarah Maddox Powell. Both parents, Moses and Sarah Maddox Powell, as well as the grandfather, Moses Powell, Sr., are buried on the old Powell homeplace in Piedmont, Jasper Co., Ga. The graves can be found in the woods just east of the old Piedmont School off Highway 19.
On 15 June 1825, B.M. Powell married Mariah Ann Cook. She was born 22 Apr 1808, the dau. of Josiah Cook. Benj. and Mariah sold the Moses Powell, Jr. land in Jasper Co., Ga. in 1825 and moved to Gwinnett Co., Ga., taking his mother, Sarah Powell, along with them. After being settled on their new farm for only a short period of time, tragedy struck the family. Mariah Ann Powell died on 23 Jul 1826, giving birth to their first child, who was stillborn. The Georgia Reporter and Christian Gazette (Sparta, Ga.) reported in it's 14 August 1826 issue: "Mrs. Maria Ann Powell, 19 years old, consort of Benjamin Powell, died in Gwinnett County, Georgia."
By 1827, young Benjamin Powell had met Ann Eliza Reeves, the dau. of Jeremiah Reeves, at the church they attended in Gwinnett Co., Ga. Rev. Jeremiah Reeves was a Baptist preacher, as was his four brothers. The Reeves family had tremendous impact on the Baptist faith in Georgia.
On 12 August 1828, Ann Eliza Reeves and Benjamin Mercer Powell were married in Jackson Co., Ga.
By 1836, B.M. Powell had moved his family from Gwinnett Co., Ga., to Cane Creek, Walker Co., Ga. He settled on Land Lot # 172, Section 4, and developed a fine farm in the fertile valley along Cane Creek and practiced medicine as a "botanical physician."
About a mile up the road from the Powell farm, several prominent men of the region organized Waterville Baptist Church. Both B.M. and Eliza Powell were charter members. Later, he was a deacon, along with his son, Evan A. Powell. Both are mentioned numerous times in Coosa Bapt. Association records. B.M. Powell served as messenger to several other churches in the region. Because of the high regard that others held of him, he was invited to attend conference at Shiloh Bapt. Church, near Waterville, to resolve a dispute among its members. B.M. Powell was an early supporter of the Cherokee Baptist College at Cassville, Ga., and on the Board of Trustees for Woodland Female College in Cedartown, Ga.
1850 U.S. Census, Walker Co., Ga., Waterville, HH # 965:
Benjamin M. Powell, age 45
Eliza Powell, age 39
Evan A. Powell, age 20
Rebecca A. Powell, age 18
Adolphus R. Powell, age 12
Mary E. Powell, age 9
Benjamin M. Powell, age 5
Jeremiah T. Powell, age 2
Mary Reeves, age 76
During the Battle of Chickamauga, Walker Co., Ga. was occupied by federal troops in the Northeast Georgia campaign. B.M. Powell was ordered to treat Union soldiers. All of B.M. Powell's sons served in the Confederate Army.
Dr. B.M. Powell died during the course of the War, on 20 Feb 1864. He was buried in the Powell Family Cemetery just off the Old Alabama Road. Eliza Powell continued to live on the homeplace with her sons and daughters. A.R. Powell died at home from wounds incurred during the War and is buried next to his father. Eliza Ann Powell continued to attend church at Waterville Bapt. Church. Because her home was so close to the church, she would often arrive for service early to start the fire in the fireplace in the winter or open up the windows in the summer to cool the sanctuary off. She was often relied on to host "dinner on the ground" after Sunday services at which her son Jeremiah Taylor Powell would sing. She had a reputation as one of the best cooks in Cane Creek and often took cakes, pies, and other treats to new members of the church and young couples in the Waterville area. She had a perfect attendance at church for almost 30 years. Mrs. Powell was hardly ever sick but took a cold which progressed to pneumonia from which she died 4 June 1884. She is buried next to her husband.
The Walker County Messenger x 21 Jun 1884 states "Mrs. Eliza Ann Powell born October 3rd, 1811, lived at Clarke Co., married in Jackson Co., Ga. to Benj. Powell of Gwinnett Co., died 4 June, Walker Co., Ga., age 73, the mother of 7 sons and 5 daughters."
As stated above, Dr. Benjamin M. and Eliza Ann Powell had twelve children: Evan Absolom Powell, Harvey Turnbull Powell, Jeremiah Reeves Powell, Adolphus Reeves Powell, Mary Eliza Powell, Sarah Doliska Powell, Ben Mercer Powell, Jr., Jeremiah Taylor Powell, John Newton Powell, Catherine Emma Powell and a daughter whose name is unknown to this biographer. Details of their lives are as follows:
1. Dr. Evan Absolom Powell, the first born son of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 25 June 1830 in Gwinnett Co., Ga. He served in the Walker County Militia as a private from 1845-49. Evan was active at Waterville Baptist Church where he served as a deacon, along with his father. He also served as a lay minister to the Cherokee Indian families in the region. In the early 1850's, he and his father were a part of a committee of church members who traveled to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) to establish a Baptist Mission for the Indian Nation there. He was responsible for directing the attention of the Coosa Bapt. Association to the needs of these Indian families.
Evan Powell studied medicine at the Atlanta Medical College and began his own medical practice shortly after his graduation in 1856. While there, he studied under Dr. A.B. Calhoun, of Newnan, who was professor of anatomy and medical jurisprudence. Shortly after graduation, Dr. Powell married Dr. Calhoun's neice, Margaret Susannah Calhoun, dau. of Alexander Calhoun and Fannie Barton. The marriage took place 29 Jun 1856 in Walker Co., Ga., conducted by Rev. Edwin Dyer, pastor of Lafayette Baptist Church.
Dr. Powell began his medical practice in Lafayette but was persuaded by the many emigrants from this region to join them on their way West. By 1859, he and Susannah made the long trip to Arkansas country, settling in Bradley Co. Dr. Powell had a thriving medical practice when the War started. By 1862, his services were needed by the Confederacy. He was commissioned as a Captain and went into service as a surgeon. His military service took him to various hospitals throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and the South. Maggie, along with their young children, would often join him throughout his travels, when conditions were safe enough.
By late 1864, Captain Powell, having seen enough death and blood, resigned his commission, which was an officer's right, and imigrated to Texas, beyond the reach of most of the War. After the War was over, Dr. Powell made one last trip back to Walker Co., Ga. to visit the fresh graves of his father, B.M. Powell and his brother, A.R. Powell.
Dr. Evan Powell set up practice in Palestine, Anderson Co., Texas, where by 1868, he had bought a 200 acre farm just outside of town from Isaac Barnett. The voter's list of 23 Nov 1869 for Anderson Co. shows that E.A. Powell had been a resident of the state for almost 5 years and had lived in the county for one and a half years. The 18 Jul 1870 tax list for Anderson Co. shows that the 200 acres owned by E.A. Powell was worth $300 and his 5 horses and 2 cattle worth $150.
The 1870 census shows that the E.A. Powell family was getting to be quite large, the last dau. having been born just two months before the census was taken.
Dr. Evan Absolom Powell died 5 Oct 1870. The cause of his death is unknown. Maggie sold the farm in early 1871 and returned to Walker Co., Ga. to be with the Calhouns and Powells there. She lived out the remainder of her life in Northwest Ga., died 13 Mar 1919 and is bur. near Summerville, Ga.
2. Rebecca Ann Powell, the second child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 25 Jan 1832. She married Charles P. Allen. Both are buried in Summerville, Ga. They had two daughters, Antie and Exa Allen. Antie died in young ladyhood. Exa, when over sixty years old, went to Texas to visit family, where she met and married an old bachelor, who proposed to her two days after their acquaintance. They lived the rest of their lives in married bliss. They are buried in Texas.
3. Harvey Turnbull Powell, third child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 13 Apr 1834 and died 8 Dec 1843, aged 9 years. His obituary was published in The Christian Index:
"Departed this life, in Walker Co., Ga. on the evening of the 8th Dec. after a short illness of five days, Harvey Turnbull, son of Dr. Benjamin M. and Eliza Powell, aged 9 years, 7 months and 25 days. Harvey T. was a pleasant and promising son; the choicest flowers are often nipt in the bud; and truly it has been so in this case; yet, death shall not always reign, nor forever separate pious parents from their children, who go to rest before them."
4. Jeremiah Reeves Powell, named for Eliza Reeves Powell's father, the fourth child, was born 23 Sept 1836 and died in infancy, 9 Jul 1837.
5. Adolphus Reeves Powell, fifth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 6 May 1838 in Walker Co., Ga. He married 19 Nov 1860 to Mary Ann Hendon, dau. of Elisha S. Hendon and Margaret Powell, dau. of William Powell, Sr. of Fayette Co., GA.
Although he had previously served in the Georgia Militia in 1860 as a 2nd Lieutenant, A.R. Powell enlisted along with his neighbors and served in K Company, 39th Georgia Infantry Regiment throughout the war. In 1862, Mary Ann Powell shows on the salt list for Walker Co. In late 1864, A.R. Powell was wounded in action performing his duties as a courier and was sent home to recover. He died at home on 7 May 1865 and is buried next to his father.
A.R. and Mary Ann Hendon had two sons, Edwin Toutant Powell and Wm Stratton Powell. In 1870, Mary Ann Hendon, her two sons, and several members of the Waterville Church decided to move to Arkansas.
The pastor of Waterville Church, at the time, was Rev. Thomas Wm Powell, a cousin of the Hendons of Cane Creek. In a letter of 13 Oct 1870, Rev. Powell mentions the departure of Mary Hendon Powell, widow of A.R. Powell, her brother James A. Hendon and a family friend, Rev. John Young, from Walker Co., Ga. to Arkansas:
"Our beloved Bro. Young has started to the far off West last Tuesday and while many others feel the heavy stroke, I realize it double severe, as I have not only lost in his removal all that others have but, in addition to the loss of him as a Pastor and Counselor, I have lost the company and association of two cousins who have gone to share with him the hardships of the long wearisome road."
From "Wagon Wheels", publication of the Logan County, Arkansas Genealogy Society:
Dr. Edwin Toutant Powell, of Magazine, was born in northwest Georgia in 1861. His father died after the Civil War from injuries received in the conflict. His mother and brother moved to Magazine with Dr. Powell. Young Edwin pursued the study of medicine at the University of Kentucky in 1880. He was a very young doctor when he came to Magazine to practice but soon met Dr. Burrill Priddy, a well known physician in Magazine, under whom he interned.
As a result, one particular incident seems to have set into motion two marriages in Dr. Priddy's family. The story is told that when a young man named Emerson "Dee" Bowden came to Magazine, he was sick with malaria, from traveling through the swamps, and Dr. Powell attended him, taking him into his own home to help him gain some strength. There Dee and Dr. Priddy's young daughter, Eudora, met. When Eudora told her father that she wanted to marry Dee Bowden, he was dead set against it. When Eudora insisted, Dr. Priddy threw his hands in the air, "Go ahead, marry him, he won't last three years." But it had a happy ending. Dee Bowden lived to be 88 years old.
The second romance that budded was between Eudora's sister, Florence, and Dr. Edwin T. Powell. That, too, had a happy ending. Dr. Powell courted and married Florence Electra Priddy, the wedding occurring 31 Dec 1885 at the Priddy home in Magazine. Florence was 17 years old and Edwin was 24.
The couple made their home in Magazine, Revillee Township, Logan Co., Ark. The Powells had two sons, Adolphus, born 6 Sept 1888, called "Dolph" and named for Dr. Powell's father, Adolphus Reeves Powell, and Julian Bodine born 18 May 1891. Five years later, a daughter, Lucille, joined the family on 9 Aug 1895.
Dr. Powell moved his family to Bexar Co., in Texas and settled near San Antonio. Son, Dolph, married Ione House and son, Bodine, mar. Fannie Thomas. The dau. Lucille never married. According to a relative, Dr. Powell was proud of his family and "enjoyed them very much." The Texas and Arkansas branches of this family kept in touch for many decades by letter. The Powells would often visit the Priddys in Arkansas and vice versa (see photo from 1902.) Dr. Powell and his family died in Texas and are buried there.
Dr. E.T. Powell's younger brother, Stratton Powell, conceived after his father came home from the War and before he died of his wounds, succumbed to malaria as a young man in Magazine, Ark. on 7 Dec 1886, as reported in the Walker County Messenger, x 27 Jan 1887: "W. Stratton Powell died at Revilee, Logan Co., Ark. on the 7th of Dec. 1886. He was 21 years old. Stratton was the son of Adolphus and Mary Hendon Powell, former residents of Walker County, Ga."
6. Mary Eliza "Mollie" Powell, sixth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 1 Jan 1841, and died 30 Jan 1879. She married 22 Sept 1870 to James Madison Foster, a Confederate Veteran, by Rev. Royal Allen, brother of Charles P. Allen. They had two children: Mary Ada Foster born 1872, Devona Foster born 1874. After Mollie died, Mr. Foster remarried to Nancy Elizabeth Sims and they had one son, James Wiley Foster, born 1894. The daughter, Mary, married a Mr. Peppers and moved to Texas.
7. Sarah Dorliska (Lick) Powell, seventh child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 10 May 1843. She married 14 Dec 1869, by Rev. Robert M. Baker, to Robert Gilmer Calhoun, born 22 Jan 1844, son of Alexander and Fannie Mariah Barton Calhoun. Sarah's older brother, Evan A. Powell, had married Margaret Calhoun, R.G. Calhoun's sister. R.G. Calhoun died 14 Oct 1883 in Palestine, Anderson Co., Texas. Sarah and R.G. Calhoun had four children: Guy Anna, Sarah, Jessie and James Edward Barton Calhoun. Guy Anna married 1896 to Samuel Conrad Martin. The other three children died in childhood and are buried in Ringgold, Ga.
8. Ben Mercer Powell, Jr., eighth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 19 Oct 1845. He married 30 Oct 1870 to Miss E.P. "Maggie" Burdette, by Rev. Thomas Wm Powell, pastor of Waterville Baptist Church 1870-72. By 1880, they had a house full of children, including: Booth, Lethe, Forrest, Crozier and Gordon Powell. Ben M. Powell died 14 Jan 1892 in Walker Co., Ga. Several of his children died within a few months. His widow, Eliz. Burdette Powell and surviving children moved to Texas in Feb. 1896. She died 1921 in Erath Co., Texas.
Walker County Messenger x 20 Jan 1892: "The only daughter of Ben Powell died of pneumonia last week."
Walker County Messenger x 10 May 1892: "Booth M. Powell, age 19, died last Thursday."
9. Jeremiah Taylor Powell, ninth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 18 Jun 1848. He married Nancy Lizzie Lee at Waterville Baptist Church, by Rev. Thomas Wm Powell. In 1880, they are shown living in Cane Creek with Lizzie's mother in the family household. Taylor Powell had a most excellent voice and often organized "sings" at Waterville Church and in the region.
From the Walker County Messenger, 1884: "I would very much like to meet up with as many of my old friends from Trion and other places as possible, at Waterville Academy, on the fifth Sunday in July, at which time, and at that place, I will sing for the people. Let it be an all day affair with picnic baskets. Bring Regal Singers and the C.C.C. Teachers and leaders of music are all invited. Please do not forget to bring well filled baskets, that the inner man may be satisfied, as well. Let every fellow do his part. J.T. Powell."
"Taylor Powell, born 1848, died at the Powell homestead on the 20th of January, 1896."
The widow of Taylor Powell, Mrs. Nancy Powell, remarried to Foster Hemphill 1 Dec 1897 at Taylor's Ridge.
10. John Newton Powell, tenth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 19 Dec 1850, Walker Co, Ga. He died in Fort Worth, Texas 22 Jan 1909. He married 22 Jan 1871 to Mattie Summersgill by Rev. W.T. Russell, of Burning Bush. They had a number of children: Minnie, Maude, Buena, Jewell, Ralph and Eugene. They all moved to Fort Worth about 1894:
" Waterville Baptist Church Minutes: After preaching by the Pastor, the Church set in conference, inviting visiting brethren and sisters to seats with us; letters granted to Bro. John N. Powell and wife, and sister Maggie Powell." Maggie Powell was the widow of Ben M. Powell, Jr. She went to Ft. Worth, Texas with John Newton Powell and family.
A legal notice in the Walker County Messenger in late 1894 mentioned John N. Powell of Tarrant Co., Texas; in early 1895, a similar notice showed Kennedale, Texas. John N. Powell showed in the Fort Worth City directory from 1902-18 in various locations and occupations.
11. Catherine Emma (Kate) Powell, the eleventh child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, named for B.M. Powell's older sister, Catherine Powell who married Benjamin Maddox, was born 30 Jul 1853. She married 13 Jun 1893, to Mr. C.C. Glass, as this article from the Walker County Messenger indicates:
"Mr. C.C. Glass, who has recently been visiting in Walker, has been a resident of Texas since 1866. He left for his home on Thursday, but before doing so, he did a very wise thing. He secured a Georgia wife. That he has been so fortunate, it is only necessary to say that the charming bride he has won is none other than Miss Kate Powell. They were married in Chickamauga, Wednesday, by Rev. D.T. Murdock, in the grove in front of the preacher's house. Miss Ella Foster of LaFayette was one of the witnesses. The happy pair remained in the buggy until the brief ceremony that made them man and wife was over. They then drove over to Mr. Newt Glass', the brother of the groom. The next morning they left for Texas, carrying with them the best wishes of their many friends."
Kate Powell Glass died at Fort Worth, Texas 5:15 p.m., 12 Feb 1934. She was buried at Kennedale, Texas. The informant on her death certificate was Mrs. Ova Glass Powell, a daughter of C.C. Glass who married Eugene Powell, Kate Powell's nephew, son of her brother, John Newton Powell.
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Grandson of John Newton Powell & son of Eugene Powell, noted above:
Obituary x 8/28/2007, Dallas Star-Telegram
Robert Eugene Powell, 92, a retired General Dynamics manager, devoted and beloved husband, father and grandfather, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007.
The funeral is 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Greenwood Chapel. Interment will be at Greenwood Memorial Park, with a reception following in Greenwood Reception Center. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to a charity of choice.
Robert Powell was born May 22, 1915, in Kennedale to Eugene and Ova Powell. He married W. Mae Fairhurst on Feb. 12, 1940, and enjoyed 63 years together before Mae's passing Dec. 12, 2003.
Robert was a member of First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth for many years and a devoted Mason for over 50 years. Robert and Mae did volunteer work with Meals on Wheels, local hospitals and their church.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mae; and daughter, Janice Cason. Survivors: Son, William E. Powell and wife, Katherine; son-in-law, Joe Bill Cason; grandchildren, William E. Powell II, Robert E. Powell, Carol Shelton and husband, Doug, and Michael Cason and wife, Stacy; and great-grandchildren, Shalie, Lucas, Kimberly, Gina, Emily, Nathan, John and Lauren.
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Benjamin Mercer Powell, Sr. was born 10 March 1805 in Hancock Co., Ga.. the youngest son of Moses Powell, Jr. and his wife, Sarah H. (Sally) Maddox. Moses Powell, Jr. was the fifth son of Moses Powell, Sr. and Ann Williams. In 1817, the Powell family moved from Hancock Co., Ga. to Jasper Co., Ga.
Ben Powell spent his boyhood on the Powell homeplace near Piedmont, Jasper Co,. Ga. His older brothers and sisters were all married when Benjamin was young and several of them had children almost as old as he.
He joined the Jasper County Militia as a 15 year old boy, continuing the military tradition of his father, Moses Powell, Jr. and grandfather, Moses Powell, Sr., both of whom served in the Revolutionary War. His military experience held him in good stead, as he would be later called on to serve in the Georgia Militia during the Cherokee Indian removal in 1836.
Benjamin's father, Moses Powell, Jr., died in 1821 in Jasper Co., Ga. when Ben was only 17 years old. His father left a considerable amount of land and property in Jasper Co. on which Ben continued to farm and take care of his elderly mother, Sarah Maddox Powell. Both parents, Moses and Sarah Maddox Powell, as well as the grandfather, Moses Powell, Sr., are buried on the old Powell homeplace in Piedmont, Jasper Co., Ga. The graves can be found in the woods just east of the old Piedmont School off Highway 19.
On 15 June 1825, B.M. Powell married Mariah Ann Cook. She was born 22 Apr 1808, the dau. of Josiah Cook. Benj. and Mariah sold the Moses Powell, Jr. land in Jasper Co., Ga. in 1825 and moved to Gwinnett Co., Ga., taking his mother, Sarah Powell, along with them. After being settled on their new farm for only a short period of time, tragedy struck the family. Mariah Ann Powell died on 23 Jul 1826, giving birth to their first child, who was stillborn. The Georgia Reporter and Christian Gazette (Sparta, Ga.) reported in it's 14 August 1826 issue: "Mrs. Maria Ann Powell, 19 years old, consort of Benjamin Powell, died in Gwinnett County, Georgia."
By 1827, young Benjamin Powell had met Ann Eliza Reeves, the dau. of Jeremiah Reeves, at the church they attended in Gwinnett Co., Ga. Rev. Jeremiah Reeves was a Baptist preacher, as was his four brothers. The Reeves family had tremendous impact on the Baptist faith in Georgia.
On 12 August 1828, Ann Eliza Reeves and Benjamin Mercer Powell were married in Jackson Co., Ga.
By 1836, B.M. Powell had moved his family from Gwinnett Co., Ga., to Cane Creek, Walker Co., Ga. He settled on Land Lot # 172, Section 4, and developed a fine farm in the fertile valley along Cane Creek and practiced medicine as a "botanical physician."
About a mile up the road from the Powell farm, several prominent men of the region organized Waterville Baptist Church. Both B.M. and Eliza Powell were charter members. Later, he was a deacon, along with his son, Evan A. Powell. Both are mentioned numerous times in Coosa Bapt. Association records. B.M. Powell served as messenger to several other churches in the region. Because of the high regard that others held of him, he was invited to attend conference at Shiloh Bapt. Church, near Waterville, to resolve a dispute among its members. B.M. Powell was an early supporter of the Cherokee Baptist College at Cassville, Ga., and on the Board of Trustees for Woodland Female College in Cedartown, Ga.
1850 U.S. Census, Walker Co., Ga., Waterville, HH # 965:
Benjamin M. Powell, age 45
Eliza Powell, age 39
Evan A. Powell, age 20
Rebecca A. Powell, age 18
Adolphus R. Powell, age 12
Mary E. Powell, age 9
Benjamin M. Powell, age 5
Jeremiah T. Powell, age 2
Mary Reeves, age 76
During the Battle of Chickamauga, Walker Co., Ga. was occupied by federal troops in the Northeast Georgia campaign. B.M. Powell was ordered to treat Union soldiers. All of B.M. Powell's sons served in the Confederate Army.
Dr. B.M. Powell died during the course of the War, on 20 Feb 1864. He was buried in the Powell Family Cemetery just off the Old Alabama Road. Eliza Powell continued to live on the homeplace with her sons and daughters. A.R. Powell died at home from wounds incurred during the War and is buried next to his father. Eliza Ann Powell continued to attend church at Waterville Bapt. Church. Because her home was so close to the church, she would often arrive for service early to start the fire in the fireplace in the winter or open up the windows in the summer to cool the sanctuary off. She was often relied on to host "dinner on the ground" after Sunday services at which her son Jeremiah Taylor Powell would sing. She had a reputation as one of the best cooks in Cane Creek and often took cakes, pies, and other treats to new members of the church and young couples in the Waterville area. She had a perfect attendance at church for almost 30 years. Mrs. Powell was hardly ever sick but took a cold which progressed to pneumonia from which she died 4 June 1884. She is buried next to her husband.
The Walker County Messenger x 21 Jun 1884 states "Mrs. Eliza Ann Powell born October 3rd, 1811, lived at Clarke Co., married in Jackson Co., Ga. to Benj. Powell of Gwinnett Co., died 4 June, Walker Co., Ga., age 73, the mother of 7 sons and 5 daughters."
As stated above, Dr. Benjamin M. and Eliza Ann Powell had twelve children: Evan Absolom Powell, Harvey Turnbull Powell, Jeremiah Reeves Powell, Adolphus Reeves Powell, Mary Eliza Powell, Sarah Doliska Powell, Ben Mercer Powell, Jr., Jeremiah Taylor Powell, John Newton Powell, Catherine Emma Powell and a daughter whose name is unknown to this biographer. Details of their lives are as follows:
1. Dr. Evan Absolom Powell, the first born son of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 25 June 1830 in Gwinnett Co., Ga. He served in the Walker County Militia as a private from 1845-49. Evan was active at Waterville Baptist Church where he served as a deacon, along with his father. He also served as a lay minister to the Cherokee Indian families in the region. In the early 1850's, he and his father were a part of a committee of church members who traveled to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) to establish a Baptist Mission for the Indian Nation there. He was responsible for directing the attention of the Coosa Bapt. Association to the needs of these Indian families.
Evan Powell studied medicine at the Atlanta Medical College and began his own medical practice shortly after his graduation in 1856. While there, he studied under Dr. A.B. Calhoun, of Newnan, who was professor of anatomy and medical jurisprudence. Shortly after graduation, Dr. Powell married Dr. Calhoun's neice, Margaret Susannah Calhoun, dau. of Alexander Calhoun and Fannie Barton. The marriage took place 29 Jun 1856 in Walker Co., Ga., conducted by Rev. Edwin Dyer, pastor of Lafayette Baptist Church.
Dr. Powell began his medical practice in Lafayette but was persuaded by the many emigrants from this region to join them on their way West. By 1859, he and Susannah made the long trip to Arkansas country, settling in Bradley Co. Dr. Powell had a thriving medical practice when the War started. By 1862, his services were needed by the Confederacy. He was commissioned as a Captain and went into service as a surgeon. His military service took him to various hospitals throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and the South. Maggie, along with their young children, would often join him throughout his travels, when conditions were safe enough.
By late 1864, Captain Powell, having seen enough death and blood, resigned his commission, which was an officer's right, and imigrated to Texas, beyond the reach of most of the War. After the War was over, Dr. Powell made one last trip back to Walker Co., Ga. to visit the fresh graves of his father, B.M. Powell and his brother, A.R. Powell.
Dr. Evan Powell set up practice in Palestine, Anderson Co., Texas, where by 1868, he had bought a 200 acre farm just outside of town from Isaac Barnett. The voter's list of 23 Nov 1869 for Anderson Co. shows that E.A. Powell had been a resident of the state for almost 5 years and had lived in the county for one and a half years. The 18 Jul 1870 tax list for Anderson Co. shows that the 200 acres owned by E.A. Powell was worth $300 and his 5 horses and 2 cattle worth $150.
The 1870 census shows that the E.A. Powell family was getting to be quite large, the last dau. having been born just two months before the census was taken.
Dr. Evan Absolom Powell died 5 Oct 1870. The cause of his death is unknown. Maggie sold the farm in early 1871 and returned to Walker Co., Ga. to be with the Calhouns and Powells there. She lived out the remainder of her life in Northwest Ga., died 13 Mar 1919 and is bur. near Summerville, Ga.
2. Rebecca Ann Powell, the second child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 25 Jan 1832. She married Charles P. Allen. Both are buried in Summerville, Ga. They had two daughters, Antie and Exa Allen. Antie died in young ladyhood. Exa, when over sixty years old, went to Texas to visit family, where she met and married an old bachelor, who proposed to her two days after their acquaintance. They lived the rest of their lives in married bliss. They are buried in Texas.
3. Harvey Turnbull Powell, third child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 13 Apr 1834 and died 8 Dec 1843, aged 9 years. His obituary was published in The Christian Index:
"Departed this life, in Walker Co., Ga. on the evening of the 8th Dec. after a short illness of five days, Harvey Turnbull, son of Dr. Benjamin M. and Eliza Powell, aged 9 years, 7 months and 25 days. Harvey T. was a pleasant and promising son; the choicest flowers are often nipt in the bud; and truly it has been so in this case; yet, death shall not always reign, nor forever separate pious parents from their children, who go to rest before them."
4. Jeremiah Reeves Powell, named for Eliza Reeves Powell's father, the fourth child, was born 23 Sept 1836 and died in infancy, 9 Jul 1837.
5. Adolphus Reeves Powell, fifth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 6 May 1838 in Walker Co., Ga. He married 19 Nov 1860 to Mary Ann Hendon, dau. of Elisha S. Hendon and Margaret Powell, dau. of William Powell, Sr. of Fayette Co., GA.
Although he had previously served in the Georgia Militia in 1860 as a 2nd Lieutenant, A.R. Powell enlisted along with his neighbors and served in K Company, 39th Georgia Infantry Regiment throughout the war. In 1862, Mary Ann Powell shows on the salt list for Walker Co. In late 1864, A.R. Powell was wounded in action performing his duties as a courier and was sent home to recover. He died at home on 7 May 1865 and is buried next to his father.
A.R. and Mary Ann Hendon had two sons, Edwin Toutant Powell and Wm Stratton Powell. In 1870, Mary Ann Hendon, her two sons, and several members of the Waterville Church decided to move to Arkansas.
The pastor of Waterville Church, at the time, was Rev. Thomas Wm Powell, a cousin of the Hendons of Cane Creek. In a letter of 13 Oct 1870, Rev. Powell mentions the departure of Mary Hendon Powell, widow of A.R. Powell, her brother James A. Hendon and a family friend, Rev. John Young, from Walker Co., Ga. to Arkansas:
"Our beloved Bro. Young has started to the far off West last Tuesday and while many others feel the heavy stroke, I realize it double severe, as I have not only lost in his removal all that others have but, in addition to the loss of him as a Pastor and Counselor, I have lost the company and association of two cousins who have gone to share with him the hardships of the long wearisome road."
From "Wagon Wheels", publication of the Logan County, Arkansas Genealogy Society:
Dr. Edwin Toutant Powell, of Magazine, was born in northwest Georgia in 1861. His father died after the Civil War from injuries received in the conflict. His mother and brother moved to Magazine with Dr. Powell. Young Edwin pursued the study of medicine at the University of Kentucky in 1880. He was a very young doctor when he came to Magazine to practice but soon met Dr. Burrill Priddy, a well known physician in Magazine, under whom he interned.
As a result, one particular incident seems to have set into motion two marriages in Dr. Priddy's family. The story is told that when a young man named Emerson "Dee" Bowden came to Magazine, he was sick with malaria, from traveling through the swamps, and Dr. Powell attended him, taking him into his own home to help him gain some strength. There Dee and Dr. Priddy's young daughter, Eudora, met. When Eudora told her father that she wanted to marry Dee Bowden, he was dead set against it. When Eudora insisted, Dr. Priddy threw his hands in the air, "Go ahead, marry him, he won't last three years." But it had a happy ending. Dee Bowden lived to be 88 years old.
The second romance that budded was between Eudora's sister, Florence, and Dr. Edwin T. Powell. That, too, had a happy ending. Dr. Powell courted and married Florence Electra Priddy, the wedding occurring 31 Dec 1885 at the Priddy home in Magazine. Florence was 17 years old and Edwin was 24.
The couple made their home in Magazine, Revillee Township, Logan Co., Ark. The Powells had two sons, Adolphus, born 6 Sept 1888, called "Dolph" and named for Dr. Powell's father, Adolphus Reeves Powell, and Julian Bodine born 18 May 1891. Five years later, a daughter, Lucille, joined the family on 9 Aug 1895.
Dr. Powell moved his family to Bexar Co., in Texas and settled near San Antonio. Son, Dolph, married Ione House and son, Bodine, mar. Fannie Thomas. The dau. Lucille never married. According to a relative, Dr. Powell was proud of his family and "enjoyed them very much." The Texas and Arkansas branches of this family kept in touch for many decades by letter. The Powells would often visit the Priddys in Arkansas and vice versa (see photo from 1902.) Dr. Powell and his family died in Texas and are buried there.
Dr. E.T. Powell's younger brother, Stratton Powell, conceived after his father came home from the War and before he died of his wounds, succumbed to malaria as a young man in Magazine, Ark. on 7 Dec 1886, as reported in the Walker County Messenger, x 27 Jan 1887: "W. Stratton Powell died at Revilee, Logan Co., Ark. on the 7th of Dec. 1886. He was 21 years old. Stratton was the son of Adolphus and Mary Hendon Powell, former residents of Walker County, Ga."
6. Mary Eliza "Mollie" Powell, sixth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 1 Jan 1841, and died 30 Jan 1879. She married 22 Sept 1870 to James Madison Foster, a Confederate Veteran, by Rev. Royal Allen, brother of Charles P. Allen. They had two children: Mary Ada Foster born 1872, Devona Foster born 1874. After Mollie died, Mr. Foster remarried to Nancy Elizabeth Sims and they had one son, James Wiley Foster, born 1894. The daughter, Mary, married a Mr. Peppers and moved to Texas.
7. Sarah Dorliska (Lick) Powell, seventh child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 10 May 1843. She married 14 Dec 1869, by Rev. Robert M. Baker, to Robert Gilmer Calhoun, born 22 Jan 1844, son of Alexander and Fannie Mariah Barton Calhoun. Sarah's older brother, Evan A. Powell, had married Margaret Calhoun, R.G. Calhoun's sister. R.G. Calhoun died 14 Oct 1883 in Palestine, Anderson Co., Texas. Sarah and R.G. Calhoun had four children: Guy Anna, Sarah, Jessie and James Edward Barton Calhoun. Guy Anna married 1896 to Samuel Conrad Martin. The other three children died in childhood and are buried in Ringgold, Ga.
8. Ben Mercer Powell, Jr., eighth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 19 Oct 1845. He married 30 Oct 1870 to Miss E.P. "Maggie" Burdette, by Rev. Thomas Wm Powell, pastor of Waterville Baptist Church 1870-72. By 1880, they had a house full of children, including: Booth, Lethe, Forrest, Crozier and Gordon Powell. Ben M. Powell died 14 Jan 1892 in Walker Co., Ga. Several of his children died within a few months. His widow, Eliz. Burdette Powell and surviving children moved to Texas in Feb. 1896. She died 1921 in Erath Co., Texas.
Walker County Messenger x 20 Jan 1892: "The only daughter of Ben Powell died of pneumonia last week."
Walker County Messenger x 10 May 1892: "Booth M. Powell, age 19, died last Thursday."
9. Jeremiah Taylor Powell, ninth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 18 Jun 1848. He married Nancy Lizzie Lee at Waterville Baptist Church, by Rev. Thomas Wm Powell. In 1880, they are shown living in Cane Creek with Lizzie's mother in the family household. Taylor Powell had a most excellent voice and often organized "sings" at Waterville Church and in the region.
From the Walker County Messenger, 1884: "I would very much like to meet up with as many of my old friends from Trion and other places as possible, at Waterville Academy, on the fifth Sunday in July, at which time, and at that place, I will sing for the people. Let it be an all day affair with picnic baskets. Bring Regal Singers and the C.C.C. Teachers and leaders of music are all invited. Please do not forget to bring well filled baskets, that the inner man may be satisfied, as well. Let every fellow do his part. J.T. Powell."
"Taylor Powell, born 1848, died at the Powell homestead on the 20th of January, 1896."
The widow of Taylor Powell, Mrs. Nancy Powell, remarried to Foster Hemphill 1 Dec 1897 at Taylor's Ridge.
10. John Newton Powell, tenth child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, was born 19 Dec 1850, Walker Co, Ga. He died in Fort Worth, Texas 22 Jan 1909. He married 22 Jan 1871 to Mattie Summersgill by Rev. W.T. Russell, of Burning Bush. They had a number of children: Minnie, Maude, Buena, Jewell, Ralph and Eugene. They all moved to Fort Worth about 1894:
" Waterville Baptist Church Minutes: After preaching by the Pastor, the Church set in conference, inviting visiting brethren and sisters to seats with us; letters granted to Bro. John N. Powell and wife, and sister Maggie Powell." Maggie Powell was the widow of Ben M. Powell, Jr. She went to Ft. Worth, Texas with John Newton Powell and family.
A legal notice in the Walker County Messenger in late 1894 mentioned John N. Powell of Tarrant Co., Texas; in early 1895, a similar notice showed Kennedale, Texas. John N. Powell showed in the Fort Worth City directory from 1902-18 in various locations and occupations.
11. Catherine Emma (Kate) Powell, the eleventh child of B.M. and Eliza Powell, named for B.M. Powell's older sister, Catherine Powell who married Benjamin Maddox, was born 30 Jul 1853. She married 13 Jun 1893, to Mr. C.C. Glass, as this article from the Walker County Messenger indicates:
"Mr. C.C. Glass, who has recently been visiting in Walker, has been a resident of Texas since 1866. He left for his home on Thursday, but before doing so, he did a very wise thing. He secured a Georgia wife. That he has been so fortunate, it is only necessary to say that the charming bride he has won is none other than Miss Kate Powell. They were married in Chickamauga, Wednesday, by Rev. D.T. Murdock, in the grove in front of the preacher's house. Miss Ella Foster of LaFayette was one of the witnesses. The happy pair remained in the buggy until the brief ceremony that made them man and wife was over. They then drove over to Mr. Newt Glass', the brother of the groom. The next morning they left for Texas, carrying with them the best wishes of their many friends."
Kate Powell Glass died at Fort Worth, Texas 5:15 p.m., 12 Feb 1934. She was buried at Kennedale, Texas. The informant on her death certificate was Mrs. Ova Glass Powell, a daughter of C.C. Glass who married Eugene Powell, Kate Powell's nephew, son of her brother, John Newton Powell.
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Grandson of John Newton Powell & son of Eugene Powell, noted above:
Obituary x 8/28/2007, Dallas Star-Telegram
Robert Eugene Powell, 92, a retired General Dynamics manager, devoted and beloved husband, father and grandfather, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007.
The funeral is 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Greenwood Chapel. Interment will be at Greenwood Memorial Park, with a reception following in Greenwood Reception Center. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to a charity of choice.
Robert Powell was born May 22, 1915, in Kennedale to Eugene and Ova Powell. He married W. Mae Fairhurst on Feb. 12, 1940, and enjoyed 63 years together before Mae's passing Dec. 12, 2003.
Robert was a member of First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth for many years and a devoted Mason for over 50 years. Robert and Mae did volunteer work with Meals on Wheels, local hospitals and their church.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mae; and daughter, Janice Cason. Survivors: Son, William E. Powell and wife, Katherine; son-in-law, Joe Bill Cason; grandchildren, William E. Powell II, Robert E. Powell, Carol Shelton and husband, Doug, and Michael Cason and wife, Stacy; and great-grandchildren, Shalie, Lucas, Kimberly, Gina, Emily, Nathan, John and Lauren.
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