Ancestral Glimpses » Francis Washington Powell (1828-1899)

Persoonlijke gegevens Francis Washington Powell 

• Hij is geboren op 30 juni 1828 in Adams Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten.
• Hij is overleden op 11 februari 1899 in West Lafayette Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten, hij was toen 70 jaar oud.

  Oorzaak: by accident on a load of straw,

• Hij is begraven op 15 februari 1899 in Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde StatenPowell's Cemetery (Wesley Chapel).
• Een kind van Thomas Joseph Powell en Henrietta Jones Howells
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 23 maart 2018.

Gezin van Francis Washington Powell

Hij is getrouwd met Margaret Leach.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 14 oktober 1852 te Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten, hij was toen 24 jaar oud.

Volkstelling 1840 in Adams Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten.

CENSUS: 1840 Adams Township, Coshocton Co., Ohio M704 387
Males: 1 under 5 Females: 1 5-10 (Mary?)
1 5-10 1 10-15 (Margaret?)
1 10-15 (William?) 1 30-40 (Sarah?)
1 15-20 (Samuel?)
1 40-50 (Archibald?)

Volkstelling 1850 in Adams Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten.

CENSUS: 1850 Adams Township, Coshocton Co., Ohio
40 40 Archabald LEECH 52 M Farmer b. Penn.
Sarah " 45 F b. Ohio
Samuel " 26 M b. Ohio
Margaret " 24 F b. Ohio
William " 21 M b. Ohio
Mary " 18 F b. Ohio
Sarah B. " 5 F b. Ohio

Volkstelling 26 juli 1860 in Adams Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten.

CENSUS: 26 Jul 1860, Adams Twp, Coshocton Co, Ohio Bakersville P.O.
830 809 POWELL, Francis 32 M Farmer b. OH
Marg 32 F b. OH
Caro 6 F b. OH
John 4 M b. OH
Francis 12 M b. OH
Thomas 18 M Farm Labor b. OH [Spalding]
Freeman 16 M Farm Labor b. OH [Spalding]
Sarah 14 F b. OH

Volkstelling 23 juli 1870 in Adams Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten.

CENSUS: 23 Jul 1870, Adams Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
5 5 POWELL, F. W. W M 41 Farmer 22000 3500 b.OH
Margaret W F 42 housekeeper b.OH
Caroline L. W F 16 b.OH
John F. W M 14 works on farm b.OH
Francis J. W M 10 same b.OH
Sarah H. W F 8 b.OH
WOLF, Henrietta W F 20 house servant b.OH

Volkstelling 7 juni 1880 in Adams Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten.

Kind(eren):

1. Caroline Laura Powell  1853-> 1907 
2. John Fremont Thomas Powell  1856-1956 
3. Francis Joseph Powell  1859-1939 
4. Sarah Henrietta Powell  1861-1914

Notities over Francis Washington Powell

"Wash" helped smuggle many escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. 

Youngest son of Thos. J. and Henrietta Powell, was born in Adams twp. Coshocton county, OH, 30 Jun 1828, on the John Campbell farm, three miles north of the old homestead of our grand-father. At the age of three years he moved with his parents to the large tract of land bought by his father in the year 1831, where he spent the days of his childhood. 

At the age of 21, F. W. Powell moved with his brother-in-law, Joseph Watkins, to Delaware, 0hio, where Watkins engaged in the mercantile business, and the subject of this sketch clerked for some time for him. On his return home he bought the old home of his boyhood days, of 160 acres, from his father. 15 Oct 1852, he was md. to Miss Margaret Leach, of near Bakersville.

In the fall of 1890, he retired from farm life and moved to the village of West Lafayette, where he, wife and dau. Nettie resided for seven years. When he grew tired of retired or city life, he bought the home part of his brother Thomas' estate, and returned to the country to spend his declining years, but just after he had passed the "Three score years and ten" mark, his life was cut short by an accident, 11 Feb 1899. While riding on a load of straw, which he had loaded, he in some way fell off, causing instant death.

See Newspaper obituaries.
Ohio Cemeteries, Ohio Genealogical Society, R929.3771 037, p.61
1810 - 1811- 1825; Coshocton. Inscriptions for most of the cemeteries are
on microfilm at the Coshocton Public Library and the State Library of Ohio.
The Coshocton Library also has an obituary file and Index to Newspaper
Obituaries, Coshocton County, Ohio 1826-1908 by Miriam C. Hunter.

Hill, Norman Newell, Jr., History of Coshocton County, OH, p.766:
"POWELL F.W., Adams township; farmer; post office, Evansburgh; born in Adams township, Coshocton county, Ohio, 30 Jun 1828, son of Thomas and Henrietta (Howells) Powell, and grandson of William Powell and Henry Howells, who came to this country on a visit soon after the revolution, and, on his return to England, tried to induce his wife to move to America, but she would not come.
"Mr. Powell is cousin to William C. Howells, of Ashtabula county, and has always been a farmer. He was one time engaged in mercantile business in Orange. He has been elected to the office of justice of the peace three times, and has also filled the offices of clerk and treasurer of the township. He lives on a farm of 640 acres, in the southwest corner of Adams township. Mr. Powell was md., 13 Oct 1852, to Miss Margaret Leach, dau. of Archibald and Sarah Ferguson. She was born 29 Jun 1826. They are the parents of four children, viz: Caroline L., John T. F., Francis J. and Sarah H. He was first a free soil or anti-slavery man, and voted that ticket when there were but four or five in the township, but is now a Republican. Had at one time, during the rebellion, fifteen nephews in the United States army, five of whom lost their lives."
Source: Hill, Jr., N.N., History of Coshocton County, A.A. Graham & Co, 1881, pp. 456, 773.
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Directory of the Names of Underground Railroad Operators in Tuscarawas, Ohio

Craig, Wm. H.
Fox, J. W.
Lindsey, Samuel.
McClain, Edward.
McClain, Wm.
Meek, Robert.
Powell, F. W.
Powell, Thomas.

Source: http://www.ugrr.org/names/map-oh.htm
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"Enos and Samuel Dean and John Norman were the earliest settlers in the western part of the township. They had been here sometime before the year 1816. Mr. Norman's father had located on the Tuscarawas river, and John moved up to the head of White Eyes creek very early. Enos Dean first pitched his cabin down by the creek, but not succeeding as he thought he should he built another cabin on a hill situated on F. W. Powell's upper farm west of the creek, with the expectation of doing better. This place, from this circumstance, was dubbed "Mount Hope," a name which clung to it for many years."

Source: Hill, Jr., N.N., History of Coshocton County, A.A. Graham & Co, 1881, p. 456.
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"Wesley Chapel, another Methodist Episcopal church, is situated at Powell's Cross Roads, in the southwestern part of the township. The building was erected in 1860, at a cost of $2,000. It is a neat frame, thirty-two by forty-two feet in size. At the time of its construction, Rev. Benjamin Heskett was the pastor in charge. He conducted a revival about this time, which resulted in goal to the congregation. He soon after enlisted in the service as captain of Company C of the Fifty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fell at the battle of Stone River. The society was formed abt. 1843. The greater part of its members had been connected with a congregation at Evansburg and, when they deemed themselves of sufficient strength, separated from it and organized Wesley Chapel. Among the leading members, at the time, were James and John Powell, Thomas H. and Washington Powell, George, Isaac and Andrew Norman, John Sondels and J. R. Davis. John Powell was the first class-leader. The meetings were held in the Powell school-house until the church was built. The church was included in the Newcomerstown circuit, at first, but has since been joined to that of Bakersville. The present class-leaders are Washington Powell and Thomas Hamilton. The Sunday-school is a department of Christian work which has been conducted since the organization of the church."

Source: Hill, Jr., N.N., History of Coshocton County, A.A. Graham & Co, 1881, p. 459.
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In the death of Francis W. Powell, which occurred on 11 Oct 1899, Coshocton County lost one of her oldest and most respected citizens, whose entire life had been spent within her borders and his energies had been expended in the promotion of her moral and material growth and development. 
He was born in Adams Township, 30 Jan 1828, the son of Thomas J. and Henrietta (Howells) Powell, both of whom were natives of England, where they continued to reside for some years after their marriage. The birth of the father occurred on 18 Aug 1777, while his wife was born on 8 Oct 1783. The paternal grand-father was steward to Lord Oxford, while the maternal grand-father was extensively engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods in England and was induced to come to the United States and establish a factory in New England by General Washington. 
Doubtless his settlement in this country was instrumental in causing the parents of our subject to come to America, which they did in the year 1817. They were prosperous in their native land, where the father followed the mercantile business for a few years, and on coming to the United States he brought a part of his stock of goods with him and about thirty thousand dollars. He landed at Richmond, Virginia, where he sold his goods and rented a plantation, together with the slaves which constituted a part of the property, which was located on the James River seven miles below Richmond. 
The plantation was the property of a Mrs. Higgenbottom, whose dau. was the wife of one of the Randolphs, of the well known Randolph family of Revolutionary fame, who was on terms of social intimacy with the Powell family. Here the family lived extravagantly with small returns from the plantation and after a residence of thirteen months the father gave up his lease of the place, bade the slaves, whom he had treated with the same consideration that he had given his servants in England, an affecting farewell and removed to Steubenville, Ohio, having left but a small portion of the means which he had brought with him to America the year before. He rented a farm on the Mingo bottoms in Jefferson County and hired a man to teach him to farm. While there a disastrous fire consumed a large portion of what the family had left and after this misfortune he thought of taking his family to Canada, but a man by the name of Campbell urged him to take a seven years' lease on a farm which he owned in Adams township, Coshocton county, and with that possibility in view he paid a visit to that section. Our readers will smile on reading his report to his family on his return, which was to the effect that the people there were half naked, that some ran wild in the woods, and that they would consequently not have very desirable neighbors. On the other hand, when the family did arrive in their midst and settled on a wooded, unimproved farm, the neighbors expressed their fears that the English family would starve. Nevertheless they took up their abode there in the spring of 1820 and stopped for a while with Judge Evans, of Oxford Township, who extended to them true, pioneer hospitality, and the Judge and his boys helped them to get their cattle and things across the river, which was swollen with the spring freshets. They reached the Campbell farm in safety and in time for the spring work. The cabin on their new home had the distinction of being the first one built in Adams Township, it having been erected by a Mr. Colwell. The door was so low that they had to stoop to enter it. The fine library that the father had brought with him to Steubenville he traded for a flock of sheep, while Mrs. Powell exchanged her chinaware for necessaries and gave a neighbor woman a fine silk shawl to teach her how to milk. 
At the expiration of his seven years' lease of the Campbell farm Mr. Powell was in even more straitened circumstances than when he first came to the county. He then took a contract on the Ohio canal and rented a farm in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he desired to locate, as there his family could enjoy better educational facilities, but they had become attached to Coshocton county and prevailed on him to remain here. 
He went to England that summer and sold the interest in a life estate which his eldest son, Thomas II, had in some land there, with the proceeds of which he returned to Coshocton County and purchased ten hundred and eighty acres of land in Adams Township. He met with better success on his own land and he became wealthy, living retired in Bakersville in his declining years, where his death occurred in Aug 1859, while his wife passed away 8 Oct 1864. They were the parents of twelve children, only one of whom is now living, Henry C., a sketch of whose life appears elsewhere in this edition. 
Francis W. Powell was reared to manhood in the midst of pioneer environments and contributed his youthful energies to the aid of his father in the unaccustomed work which he had undertaken in the country of his adoption. On 13 Oct 1832, (I believe this is a typo - should be 14 Oct 1852- DLP 2008) he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Leach, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio. 29 Jun 1826, the dau. of Archibald and Sarah (Ferguson) Leach. Her father was born in Pennsylvania in 1793, while the birth of her mother occurred in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1805. They became the parents of seven children, of whom three are living, namely: Margaret, the widow of our subject; Mary, the widow of J. A. Walters, of Chicago; and Sarah, the wife of William C. Hawk, of Bakersville. The mother passed away in 1855, while the father survived her for one year, his death occurring in 1856. 
Following their marriage the young couple started life together on the old farm in Adams township, which was at that time owned by the father of our subject and on which he erected, some sixty years ago, an old fashioned, one-story, substantial residence. During slavery days it was a station on the old underground railroad, and through its medium probably thousands of negroes have been aided in their escape to the north. Francis W. Powell greatly sympathized with these unfortunates and aided hundreds in their efforts to escape to freedom. Mrs. Powell can remember having as high as a dozen at one time concealed, waiting for the friendly darkness to take them on to the next station near Keene in Keene Township. The farm that they at first rented they eventually acquired the ownership of, and our subject became a successful, prosperous citizen, at one time owning seven hundred acres of land. He provided generously for his children, of whom there were four, namely: Caroline, T., the wife of Melville Graham, of Winfield, Kansas; John F., who resides in Adams township; Francis, of West Lafayette; and Henrietta, who resides at home with her mother. 
In 1890 Mr. Powell retired from farm life and went to West Lafayette to live, but in 1897 he returned to the farm and remained there until the time of his death, two years later. Politically, he was a stanch republican, and he was also a strong temperance man. Because of his prominence he was called upon at sundry times to fill various township offices and through actual experience he became familiar with the duties of each and every one of them in the course of time. He was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a generous contributor to its support. He was highly esteemed and respected by all who knew him and now, "Life's fitful fever o'er, he rests at last." Mrs. Powell has maintained her residence in the old home, fraught with memories of the past, and now, in her eighty-second year, is sustained by an unfaltering trust in the Providence which has guided her thus far on life's journey and is remarkably well preserved for one of her years. Like her husband, she is a faithful and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. From Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio (Chicago, Illinois: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1909.

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