Genealogy Report: Descendants of John Powell
Descendants of John Powell
35.JEHU20 POWELL (JAMES19, DAVID18, JOSEPH17, JOHN16, THOMAS15, JOHN14, JOHN13, JOHN12, JOHN11, HYWEL AP DAFYDD (DAVID10HOWELL), DAFYDD AP9GRUFFUDD, GRUFFUDD AP8RHYS, RHYS AP7LLYWELYN, LLYWELYN FYCHAN OF PANT HYWEL AP6, LLYWELYN AP5HYWEL, HYWEL AP4CARADOG, CARADOG AP3TRAHAERN, TRAHAERN AP CYDIFOR2FAWR, CYDIFOR1) was born 20 Jan 1775 in Chester CO, Pennsylvania.He married LYDIA BAKER 1801, daughter of AARON BAKER.She was born 29 Apr 1783, and died 05 Aug 1826 in Chester CO, Pennsylvania.
Notes for JEHU POWELL:
He moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, then to Washington County, Pennsylvania. Next he moved to Columbiana County, Ohio and then to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he resided many years prior to his death in 1849. He was a cabinet maker and millwright and a great mathematician. He possessed an acute mind and was a forceful character and great reader. He composed many rhymes for the entertainment of his friends such as one composed when he stayed over night at a friend's but could not find his way out of the house in the dark: "If you were at my house as I am at yours, I would not prevent you from going outdoors." He lived at the mouth of Island Creek on the Ohio River in Jefferson County and had a fruit farm, boatyard and shoe shop. Jehu and Lydia were the parents of seven children:
Children of JEHU POWELL and LYDIA BAKER are:
i. | PHEBE21 POWELL, b. 1804; m. HENRY TAGGART. | ||
ii. | SABINA POWELL, b. 1810. | ||
67. | iii. | JAMES POWELL, b. 1812. | |
iv. | AARON POWELL, b. 1814; m. JULIA AULT. | ||
v. | ELIZABETH POWELL, b. 1817; d. 1872. | ||
vi. | DAVID PARKER POWELL, b. 1822; m. SUSAN E STRAIN. | ||
68. | vii. | MATILDA POWELL, b. 1807. |
36.JACOB20 POWELL (JAMES19, DAVID18, JOSEPH17, JOHN16, THOMAS15, JOHN14, JOHN13, JOHN12, JOHN11, HYWEL AP DAFYDD (DAVID10HOWELL), DAFYDD AP9GRUFFUDD, GRUFFUDD AP8RHYS, RHYS AP7LLYWELYN, LLYWELYN FYCHAN OF PANT HYWEL AP6, LLYWELYN AP5HYWEL, HYWEL AP4CARADOG, CARADOG AP3TRAHAERN, TRAHAERN AP CYDIFOR2FAWR, CYDIFOR1) was born 1777 in Chester CO, Pennsylvania.He married CATHERINE MUG.
Notes for JACOB POWELL:
He moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania, with his family. He married Catherine Mug, a sister of the wife of his brother, Josiah, in Jefferson County, Ohio.
Children of JACOB POWELL and CATHERINE MUG are:
i. | WILLIAM21 POWELL, m. REBECCA BETS, 17 Dec 1835. | ||
ii. | MARY POWELL, m. MIZER. | ||
iii. | ELIZABETH POWELL, m. ROBB GUINEA, 19 Feb 1935, Jefferson CO, Ohio. |
37.ESAU20 POWELL (JAMES19, DAVID18, JOSEPH17, JOHN16, THOMAS15, JOHN14, JOHN13, JOHN12, JOHN11, HYWEL AP DAFYDD (DAVID10HOWELL), DAFYDD AP9GRUFFUDD, GRUFFUDD AP8RHYS, RHYS AP7LLYWELYN, LLYWELYN FYCHAN OF PANT HYWEL AP6, LLYWELYN AP5HYWEL, HYWEL AP4CARADOG, CARADOG AP3TRAHAERN, TRAHAERN AP CYDIFOR2FAWR, CYDIFOR1) was born 1777 in Chester CO, Pennsylvania, and died 1860 in Washington CO, Pennsylvania.
Children of ESAU POWELL are:
i. | ALBERT21 POWELL, b. 1808; m. R. ANN UNKNOWN. | ||
ii. | JEMIMA POWELL, m. PETER HARTLEY. | ||
iii. | ESAU JR POWELL, b. 1815; m. CATHERINE UNKNOWN; b. 1817, Pennsylvania. |
Notes for ESAU JR POWELL: They went West after the Civil War. They had six children. |
Notes for JOSIAH POWELL:
Josiah was affiliated with the Quaker Church and practiced their strict probity and integrity. A Virginian stole a small flock of sheep from him and drove them across the Ohio River to his Virginia home. Josiah found them and told the man, who admitted the theft, that he must aid him in driving the sheep back home, at the same time telling him that "he would give him two of the sheep for his trouble, and that thee must go home and read the Ten Commandments, to pray to God for forgiveness, and that thee must remember to sin no more," and bid him God speed in the new path he should tread.
Josiah was strenuously opposed to human slavery and aided a number of runaway slaves to reach their destination in Canada. On one occasion, in Jefferson County, Ohio, he was on the public highway with his son, Jacob, and they met a slave driver with a Negro slave whom he had captured, handcuffed and tied behind him on horseback. Quickly recognizing the situation, Josiah accosted the slave owner, who drew a pistol and was going to shoot him, when Josiah instantly directed his son, Jacob, who carried a rifle and was a good marksman, to draw a bead on the slave driver and "the instant he shoots me, you shoot him." Josiah assisted the slave from the horse and directed the slave owner to ride on rapidly toward his Virginia home, which he did, covered by the gun in the steady hand of Jacob. The Negro was taken to a nearby Quaker cabin and was later taken by horseback, guarded by two sturdy and determined men, to the cabin of a trusted Quaker abolitionist fifty miles nearer Canada. The slave was then taken from station to station of this mysterious railroad that started nowhere and ended nowhere as far as the public knew and yet the station agents knew each other by some mysterious wireless telegraphy and anticipated the coming of the train on this underground railroad although the trains only ran at night and carried no headlights and were not announced by the clanging of bells.
Josiah kept a station of this underground railroad after he moved to Bethlehem Township, Cass County, Indiana, in 1836, and more than one Negro slave could testify to the hospitality of Josiah Powell before the Civil War.
Children of JOSIAH POWELL and MARGARET MUG are:
i. | MATILDA21 POWELL, b. 1813; m. (1) NATHANIEL STEVENSON; m. (2) SAMUEL MCMAHON. | ||
ii. | JACOB POWELL, b. 1815; m. MARTHA TROUTMAN. | ||
iii. | JEPTHA POWELL, b. 1818; m. RUHAMAH TREEN. | ||
iv. | WILLIAM POWELL, b. 1819; m. CATHERIN GRABLE. | ||
v. | SARAH POWELL, b. 10 Nov 1823; d. 20 Sep 1833. | ||
vi. | ELMIRA POWELL, b. 01 Jan 1832; d. 12 Sep 1833. | ||
vii. | LEMUEL POWELL, b. 1834; m. (1) SARAH ROBERTS; m. (2) MARTHA GRAY. |
39.JAMES20 POWELL (JAMES19, DAVID18, JOSEPH17, JOHN16, THOMAS15, JOHN14, JOHN13, JOHN12, JOHN11, HYWEL AP DAFYDD (DAVID10HOWELL), DAFYDD AP9GRUFFUDD, GRUFFUDD AP8RHYS, RHYS AP7LLYWELYN, LLYWELYN FYCHAN OF PANT HYWEL AP6, LLYWELYN AP5HYWEL, HYWEL AP4CARADOG, CARADOG AP3TRAHAERN, TRAHAERN AP CYDIFOR2FAWR, CYDIFOR1) was born 1782 in Chester CO, Pennsylvania, and died Feb 1870 in Jefferson CO, Ohio.He married LETICHE HESTON in Washington CO, Pennsylvania.She died in Washington CO, Pennsylvania.
Children of JAMES POWELL and LETICHE HESTON are:
i. | NANCY21 POWELL, d. Washington CO, Ohio; m. JESSE GREEN. | ||
ii. | SARAH POWELL, m. DAVID NOBLE. | ||
iii. | ELIHU POWELL. |
40.BENJAMIN20 POWELL (JAMES19, DAVID18, JOSEPH17, JOHN16, THOMAS15, JOHN14, JOHN13, JOHN12, JOHN11, HYWEL AP DAFYDD (DAVID10HOWELL), DAFYDD AP9GRUFFUDD, GRUFFUDD AP8RHYS, RHYS AP7LLYWELYN, LLYWELYN FYCHAN OF PANT HYWEL AP6, LLYWELYN AP5HYWEL, HYWEL AP4CARADOG, CARADOG AP3TRAHAERN, TRAHAERN AP CYDIFOR2FAWR, CYDIFOR1) was born 02 Jun 1785 in Washington CO, Pennsylvania, and died 20 Oct 1868 in Harrison Twp, Indiana.He married SARAH CARROLL 21 Nov 1812 in Jefferson CO, Ohio.She was born 16 Mar 1795, and died 11 Nov 1863 in Cass CO, Indiana.
Notes for BENJAMIN POWELL:
They moved to Cass County, Indiana, in 1835, and settled in the dense forest of Harrison Township.
Benjamin Powell was of medium height, rather slender and had dark hair. He was a surveyor, a great mathematician, and a Swedenborgian in religion.
All the sons of Benjamin and Sarah who grew to manhood, Lycurgus, Stebbins, John, William and Josiah, were school teachers when young men.
Notes for SARAH CARROLL:
She had been blind several years prior to death.
Children of BENJAMIN POWELL and SARAH CARROLL are:
i. | JULIANA21 POWELL, b. 11 Nov 1812, Ohio; d. 15 Sep 1818. | ||
ii. | RUTH POWELL, b. 15 May 1814; d. 16 Feb 1815. | ||
iii. | LYCURGUS CARROLL, b. 1816; m. HANNAH FOSTER. | ||
iv. | JEPTHA POWELL, b. 04 Jul 1818; d. 30 Mar 1819. | ||
69. | v. | JOHN CARROLL POWELL, b. 16 Jul 1820, Steubenville, Ohio. | |
70. | vi. | STEBBINS JOHNSON POWELL, b. 11 Jan 1823; d. 1893, Kansas. | |
vii. | DAVID POWELL, b. 12 Jul 1825, Ohio; d. 11 Aug 1840. | ||
viii. | WILLIAM P POWELL, b. 03 Feb 1828; m. (1) BELLE GRESSINGER; m. (2) HARRIET SMITH, 1854. | ||
ix. | SARAH SUSANNA POWELL, b. 1831; m. OTIS WORSTELL. | ||
x. | JOSIAH Y POWELL, b. 15 Sep 1834; d. Aft. 1914; m. PHOEBE E WEAVER, 09 Jan 1862; b. Aug 1844, Jefferson CO, Ohio. | ||
xi. | IRA POWELL, b. 1836; d. 1842. |
41.BENJAMIN JR20 POWELL (BENJAMIN19, DAVID18, JOSEPH17, JOHN16, THOMAS15, JOHN14, JOHN13, JOHN12, JOHN11, HYWEL AP DAFYDD (DAVID10HOWELL), DAFYDD AP9GRUFFUDD, GRUFFUDD AP8RHYS, RHYS AP7LLYWELYN, LLYWELYN FYCHAN OF PANT HYWEL AP6, LLYWELYN AP5HYWEL, HYWEL AP4CARADOG, CARADOG AP3TRAHAERN, TRAHAERN AP CYDIFOR2FAWR, CYDIFOR1) was born 1795.He married ELIZABETH.She was born 1807 in Ohio.
Children of BENJAMIN POWELL and ELIZABETH are:
i. | JOHN21 POWELL, b. 1836, Indiana. | ||
ii. | THOMAS POWELL, b. 1841, Indiana. | ||
iii. | ELIZABETH POWELL, b. 1844, Indiana. |
42.JOSEPH JR20 POWELL (JOSEPH SR19, DAVID18, JOSEPH17, JOHN16, THOMAS15, JOHN14, JOHN13, JOHN12, JOHN11, HYWEL AP DAFYDD (DAVID10HOWELL), DAFYDD AP9GRUFFUDD, GRUFFUDD AP8RHYS, RHYS AP7LLYWELYN, LLYWELYN FYCHAN OF PANT HYWEL AP6, LLYWELYN AP5HYWEL, HYWEL AP4CARADOG, CARADOG AP3TRAHAERN, TRAHAERN AP CYDIFOR2FAWR, CYDIFOR1) was born 18 Jan 1784 in Chester CO, Pennsylvania, and died 1870 in Butler CO, Pennsylvania.He married SOPHIA BONZO.She was born 1805 in Beaver CO, Pennsylvania, and died 1879 in Butler CO, Pennsylvania.
Children of JOSEPH POWELL and SOPHIA BONZO are:
i. | PETER21 POWELL, b. Beaver CO, Pennsylvania. | ||
ii. | MARGARET POWELL, b. Beaver CO, Pennsylvania; m. GEORGE TEETS. | ||
iii. | MARY POWELL, b. Beaver CO, Pennsylvania. | ||
iv. | EDWARD POWELL, b. Beaver CO, Pennsylvania. | ||
v. | BELL POWELL, b. Beaver CO, Pennsylvania. | ||
71. | vi. | JOSEPH III POWELL, b. 04 Sep 1827, Beaver CO, Pennsylvania; d. 30 Jan 1915, Middle Lancaster, Pennsylvania. | |
vii. | CHARLES POWELL, b. 1835, Beaver CO, Pennsylvania; d. 09 Jun 1862, Bottoms Ridge, Virginia. | ||
viii. | JOHN POWELL, b. Beaver CO, Pennsylvania. | ||
ix. | LIZZY POWELL, b. Beaver CO, Pennsylvania. | ||
x. | JANE POWELL, b. Beaver CO, Pennsylvania. |