Ancestral Glimpses » Thomas Howells Powell (1809-1888)

Données personnelles Thomas Howells Powell 

• Il est né le 7 mai 1809 dans Church Street, London, ENGLAND.
• Profession: en l'an 1860 farmer dans Adams Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten.
• Il est décédé le 17 août 1888 dans Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten, il avait 79 ans.
• Il est enterré dans Powell's Cemetery, Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten.
• Un enfant de Thomas Joseph Powell et Henrietta Jones Howells
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 2 octobre 2014.

Famille de Thomas Howells Powell

Il est marié avec Mary Ann Starker.

Ils se sont mariés le 15 mars 1832 à Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten, il avait 22 ans.

Recensement 1860 en Adams Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten.

Enfant(s):

1. Louisa W Powell  1835-1896 
2. Elizabeth Powell  1838-1864 
3. Edwin Powell  1843-1893 
4. David Powell  1846-1881 
5. Charles Powell  1849-1905
6. Wellington Powell  1851-1903 
7. James Theodore Powell  1855-1893 

Notes par Thomas Howells Powell

CENSUS: 19 Nov 1850, Ohio, Coshocton Co., Adams Twp, page 318 Film 670
POWELL, Thomas H. 40 M Farmer 6800 b. England
233 233 Mary A. 36 F b. NJ
Louisa 16 F b. OH
Elizabeth 11 F b. OH
Edwin 7 M b. OH
David 4 M b. OH
Charles 1 M b. OH
CENSUS: 26 July 1860, Adams Twp, Coshocton Cnty, OH:
828 807 POWELL, Thomas 50 M Farmer 10,000 1,500 b.NJ (sic)
Mary 55 F b.OH
Edwin 15 M b.OH
Louisa 24 F Domestic b.OH
Eliz 20 F Domestic b.OH
David 14 M b.OH
Charles 11 M b.OH
Wellington 18 (sic) M b.OH

CENSUS: 23 July 1870, Adams Twp, Coshocton Co., page 1 (Have image copy)
POWELL, Thomas 61 W M Farmer b. England
Mary A. 56 W F Housekeeper b. NJ
Charles 21 W M Works on farm b. OH
Wellington 18 W M same b. OH
Theodore 15 W M same b. OH
DAUGHERTY, Columbia 6 W F b. OH

CENSUS: 07 Jun 1880, Ohio, Coshocton Co., Adams Twp, page 5 Film T-9, Roll 1003
POWELL, Thomas W M 71 Farmer b.England fb England mb England
Mary W F 65 Wife b.NJ fb NJ mb NJ
DAUGHERTY, Columbia W F 16 other b. OH
Source: FHL Film 1255003 NARA T9-1003 Page 3A

MARRIAGE: Ancestral File 4.02:
AFN:CC7L-41 b. 1809
Wife: Mary Ann STARKER (AFN:CC7L-56)
Submitted by: Steven Kim Wheatcraft
50806 Sr 541 East
Coshocton, OH 43812

"POWELL THOMAS H, Adams township; farmer; born in 1809, in Herefordshire, England; son of Thomas J. Powell and Henrietta (Howell) Powell, who were; natives of England, and emigrated to the United States in 1817. The father of Thomas J. Powell was steward to Lord Oxford, and his father-in-law was engaged extensively in the manufacture of woolen goods, and was induced to come to the United States by General Washington, and establish a factory in New England. Thomas J. followed the mercantile business fur a few years and brought a part of his stock of goods with him when he come to this country.

He landed with his family at Richmond, Virginia, where he sold his goods and rented a farm of Mrs. Haganbottom, on the James river, seven miles below Richmond. Work on the farm was performed by slave labor, he having rented a number of slaves with the farm. One of the Randolphs, who belonged to the Randolph family of revolutionary fame, was Mrs. Haganbottom's son-in-law, and was on terms of social intimacy with the Powell family. In 1818, after living there thirteen months, he moved to Steubenville, Ohio. His treatment of the slaves was the same he had given his white servants in England, and when he left for Ohio, the slaves bid their old master and mistress a very affectionate farewell, and said, "God bless yon master and mistress, we shall never forget you:' He brought with him from the old country about $30,000, but lived extravagantly while in Virginia, and had but little when he came to Steubenville.

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 nearly everything they had. After this misfortune he thought of going to Canada, but Campbell induced him to take a seven-years lease on his farm in Adams township. He visited his prospective home in Adams township during the winter, and on his return to his family, reported that the people in Coshocton would not make very desirable neighbors; that they were rough, and some were half naked and ran wild in the woods.

In the spring of 1820 he brought his family out, and stopped for a while with Judge Evans of Oxford township, who treated them very kindly, and the judge and his boys helped them get their cattle and things across the river, which was swollen. They reached the Campbell farm in safety and in time for the spring work. The cabin on the Campbell farm, put up by Colwell was the first cabin built in Adams township The door was so low that they had to stoop to enter it. He being unused to manual labor without money, on a farm nearly all in woods with neighbors few and far between, his new made friends in Coshocton county expressed fears that the English folks would starve. His fine library that he had brought with him to Steubenville, he traded for a flock of sheep.

Mrs. Powell exchanged her chinaware for necessaries, and gave a neighbor woman a fine silk shawl to learn her how to milk. At the expiration of his lease of the Campbell farm, Mr. Powell was in still more straightened circumstances than when he came to the county. He next took a contract on the Ohio canal, and engaged a farm in Jefferson county, and desired to go here where his family could enjoy better educational facilities, but his family prevailed on him to stay here. He went to England that summer and sold a life estate his oldest son, Thomas H., had in some land there, returned and purchased 1,080 acres to Adams, where his sons, Thomas H. and Washington now reside. He met with better success on his own land, become wealthy and retired to Bakersville, where he died.

Thomas H. Powell married Mary Ann Starker, a daughter of one of the earliest settlers, whose parents were natives of New Jersey. He was in partnership with Watkins in the mercantile business at Evansburgh for three years, then moved on to a farm, where he how resides. In 1849 he joined the M. E. church and imbibed Abolition principles. His home was a depot on the"under ground railroad," and he and his family assisted hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of slaves to freedom. He continued in the good work for twenty-five years or more, notwithstanding the censure and threats of the opposing Democrat political party. Some of his enemies charged that he built his store-house with the profits derived from his connection with the underground railroad, but instead of being profitable it was a great expense. Ministers thought he was doing very wrong, and endeavored to persuade him to abandon it, but he met them with the abolition arguments, and told them that he was willing to endure abuse and hatred, for he felt confident that he was doing right, and that future events would justify him in the minds of all men.

His children are Edwin, David, Wellington, Charles, Theodore, Louisa and Elizabeth. Elizabeth is dead, and all are married but Edwin and Charles. Edwin was a soldier in the late war; enlisted in 1861, in his eighteenth year, in Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-second O. V. I., and served till the close of the war. He was taken prisoner at. Winchester, got sick, and his mother visited him, and took care of him for a while; but, while there, the enemy took Winchester, carried off Mrs Powell and her companion, Leah Brown, and imprisoned them in Castle Thunder. Mrs Powell was not heard from for nine weeks, and her husband and friends in the North feared that she had declared her union and abolition principles, and that she had been summarily dealt with by the enemy."

History of Coshocton County, A.A. Graham & Co, 1881, N.N. Hill, Jr. p. 459,765-6

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