Ancestral Glimpses » Edwin Powell (1843-1893)

Données personnelles Edwin Powell 

• Il est né le 3 septembre 1843 dans Ohio, Verenigde Staten.
• Il est décédé le 23 janvier 1893, il avait 49 ans.
• Un enfant de Thomas Howells Powell et Mary Ann Starker
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 7 février 2014.

Famille de Edwin Powell

Il est marié avec Eliza Jane Ferrel.

Ils se sont mariés le 24 avril 1884 à Coshocton County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten, il avait 40 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Lottie Pearl Powell  1886-1903
2. Carlos Grant Powell  1884-1909

Notes par Edwin Powell

17 June 1880, Village of Anandale, White Eyes Twp, Coshocton Cnty, OH Census:
150 150 POWELL, Edwin W M 36 single Farmer OH England NJ

1890 Union veterans and widows census, Coshocton Cnty, OH:
43 43 Edwin Powell 6th Sergeant Co.G 122 regiment Infantry
13Aug1862 - 28Jun1865 2yrs 10mos 15das
Suffered from piles, prisoner Liby & Belleisle 5months

"Edwin Powell, eldest son of Thomas H. and Mary Powell, was born Sept. 3, 1843,
and in 1861, Aug. 13, at the age of 18 years, he enlisted in Co. G, 122nd
O.V.I. Was taken prisoner at the same time his mother was at Winchester, VA,
June 15, 1863, and was at Libby and Belle Isle prisons, and being sick he
suffered many hardships, and having only bean soup and mule meat twice a day,
soon reduced his weight from 145 lbs. to 90 when he was paroled Oct. 1, 1863.
He enlisted as a private, but was promoted to corporal and later to sergeant.
He served till the close of the war and after the war remained at home till
1869, when he and his brother David went to Independence, Kan., where they
took up land that had just been vacated by the Pottawattomie Indians. After a
sojourn of 2 years he returned to Ohio, where he purchased the old homestead of
the writer's grandfather, Michael Shirk. Apr. 24, 1884, he married Eliza J.
Ferrel, who was born Jan. 24, 1863. To them were born two children, Lottrie
Pearl, Feb. 1, 1886, and died Jan. 22, 1903, and Carlos Grant, born Nov. 29,
1894, and died July 7, 1909.
"Mrs. Powell resides in Fresno but still owns the farm. Edwin who had long
been suffering from poor health, departed this life Jan. 23, 1893."
-- W.D. Shirk

"POWELL EDWIN, White Eyes township; farmer; born September 3, 1843; son of Thomas H. and Margaret (Howell) Powell, who were natives of England. Edwin Powell's home was a depot on the "underground railroad," and he was his father's principal help in assisting the colored emigrants from a land of bondage to freedom. His father was a strong union man and abolitionist, his son inherited the same principles, and when the war broke out he manifested his patriotism by going to the front in the defense of his country. He enlisted August 13, 1861, when but eighteen years of age, in Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-second O. V. I, Second Brigade, Third Division and Sixth Corps. He was taken prisoner at Winchester, June 15, 1863, confined at Belle Island and Libby, and was paroled October 1, 1863. After he was captured at Winchester he, with some other prisoners were marched ninety miles to Staunton, guarded by a detachment of rebel cavalry who had seen service in the front. They treated the prisoners very kindly, and when they reached Staunton, where the prisoners took the railroad for Richmond, the rebels warned them that they would receive rough usage from the "Home Guard"at Richmond, whom they characterized as cowardly wretches.

He was in ordinary health, when captured, but was treated so badly, while in prison, that he was nothing but a wreck when released; he weighed. but ninety pounds, an average weight, when in good health, being about 145 pounds. Rations were issued twice a day , and were of an inferior quality, consisting of bean soup and mule meat. They were so nearly starved, at one time, that he and some others killed the lieutenant's dog, and eat it. This was thought to deserve severe punishment, and the authorities refused to, issue rations until the name of him who had killed the dog was revealed. At the end of two days, their craving for food was so great that they gave up the guilty Yank, and he was bucked and gagged, and left in that condition for twenty-four hours. The rebels rifled Mr. Powell's pockets, when he entered Belle Island, and again in Libby, and took everything of value he had about him, except $25 he had concealed in his cap; one ten dollar bill he had chewed up, and put in a blouse-button, and a twenty-dollar bill,. concealed in the same way, in another button.

The prison discipline was arbitrary and strict, and new prisoners who were but little acquainted with the regulations would sometimes step across the dead line, and all each were shot without ceremony. Some one was shot nearly every day, and the boys believed that the guard was promised a furlough for every Yankee he shot. The apartments and clothes of Mr. Powell and his fellow-prisoners were allowed to become so filthy that they were compelled to fight the gray backs whole days at a time until they were covered with blood. He entered the service as a private, was made third corporal and was promoved to fifth duty sargent. He served till the close of the war, was mustered out at Baily's Cross Roads, near Washington, June, 1865, and was discharged at Columbus. His regiment was in over eighty engagements. While at Winchester he was visited by his mother, who was taken prisoner with him, and she was put in , Castle Thunder. (See Thomas H. Powell's, sketch). After the war he lived at home with his parents until 1869, when he went to Independence, Montgomery county, Kansas, and entered 160 acres of land. He lived on it two years, returned to White Eyes, and traded his Kansas land for a large farm in White Eyes, on which he now resides. His first vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln, while in the Shenandoah valley.."

Source: History of Coshocton County, A.A. Graham & Co, 1881, N.N. Hill, pp 766-767

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