Enlisted on 10/28/1861 at Lebanon, KY; was mustered in on 11/21/1861; mustered out on 12/6/1864 at Louisville, KY.
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George W. Powers was a son of Benjamin (Berry) Ellis Powers, b.1804 in Kentucky and Martha Dezarn Powers, b. between 1814-1820.
George married Georgia Ann Hoback on 8 Feb 1865 in LaRue County, Kentucky.
GEORGE W. POWERS is found in family number 506 or 676 in the 1860 census. He was 20 when he enrolled in the Union Army at Camp Crittenden. He was disabled at his company's barracks in Columbia, Tennessee, in mid-1862 by a pistol shot wound in his hand, but recovered enough to continue to serve, and he was honorably discharged at Louisville on December 6, 1864.
He was married on February 8, 1865. He farmed in the Otter Creek community after the war and filed for a pension in February 1879.
In the 1910 LaRue County census, George Powers was head of household 234 and 83 years old. He had been married for 41 years to: George A., age 63, who was listed as the mother of 10 children, 9 living. The children living at home were; James, 40; and Rubin H., 35 years old. His neighbors were John and James Lamb on one side, and Charles S. Ferrill, on the other side of him.
Above addition by Russell Perkins, FAG #47213352
Enlisted on 10/28/1861 at Lebanon, KY; was mustered in on 11/21/1861; mustered out on 12/6/1864 at Louisville, KY.
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George W. Powers was a son of Benjamin (Berry) Ellis Powers, b.1804 in Kentucky and Martha Dezarn Powers, b. between 1814-1820.
George married Georgia Ann Hoback on 8 Feb 1865 in LaRue County, Kentucky.
GEORGE W. POWERS is found in family number 506 or 676 in the 1860 census. He was 20 when he enrolled in the Union Army at Camp Crittenden. He was disabled at his company's barracks in Columbia, Tennessee, in mid-1862 by a pistol shot wound in his hand, but recovered enough to continue to serve, and he was honorably discharged at Louisville on December 6, 1864.
He was married on February 8, 1865. He farmed in the Otter Creek community after the war and filed for a pension in February 1879.
In the 1910 LaRue County census, George Powers was head of household 234 and 83 years old. He had been married for 41 years to: George A., age 63, who was listed as the mother of 10 children, 9 living. The children living at home were; James, 40; and Rubin H., 35 years old. His neighbors were John and James Lamb on one side, and Charles S. Ferrill, on the other side of him.
Above addition by Russell Perkins, FAG #47213352
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