Husband: John POWELL
Birthdate: March 26, 1813
Birthplace: Combs, Suffolk, England
Death date: July 12, 1900
Place of death: Alvarado, Johnson County, Texas
Father: Thomas Joseph Powell
Mother: Henrietta Jones Howells

Marriage date: 1848
Marriage place: Louisiana

Wife: Elizabeth Muse HINES
Birthdate: September 14, 1829
Birthplace: South Carolina
Death date: December 20, 1885
Place of death: December 20, 1885
Father: James H. Hines
Mother: Jane H. Muse

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Thomas James Powell
Sex: M
Birthdate: 01/09/1850
Birthplace: Louisiana
Death date: after 1909
Place of death:
Marriage date: December 09, 1874
Marriage place: Johnson County, Texas
Spouse's name: Georgia "Georgie" Johnston

Child No. 2: Mary Henrietta Powell
Sex: F
Birthdate: 04/05/1851
Birthplace: Crockett, Houston County, Texas
Death date: March 05, 1903
Place of death:
Marriage date: November 13, 1872
Marriage place: Johnson County, Texas
Spouse's name: James M. Russell

Child No. 3: Francis Pinkney Powell
Sex: M
Birthdate: July 21, 1853
Birthplace: Crockett, Houston County, Texas
Death date: September 21, 1914
Place of death: Plainview, Hale County, Texas
Marriage date: June 01, 1892
Marriage place: Ellis County, Texas
Spouse's name: Myrtle M. Middleton

Child No. 4: Eliza J. Powell
Sex: M
Birthdate: 03/??/1855
Birthplace: Crockett, Houston County, Texas
Death date: July 17, 1933
Place of death: Tarrant County, Texas
Marriage date: December 02, 1874
Marriage place: Alvarado, Johnson County, Texas
Spouse's name: Marion A. Sansom
 
 
Documentation:
* CENSUS: 1900, Texas, Johnson, Alvarado, vol-65, ED-62, Sh-3, Line-65: Johnson County, Pct 7, Alvarado
"POWELL, John W M Mar 1813 87yr England England England
Enumerated with SANSOM, Marion, son-in-law"
* GRAVESTONE: Rev. John Powell, born March 27, 1813, in Leuminster, Eng., died July 12, 1900, in Alvarado, Texas
Emblem for Minister of Methodist Church, Emblem for Grand Mason
Servant of God, well done.
Rest from thy loved employ.
The battle fought the victory won,
Enter thy Maker's joy.
* OBITUARY: Johnson County Review, Cleburne, Tex.
"Rev. Jno. Powell.
"Rev. John Powell, an aged servant of God, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Col. Marion Sansom, in Alvarado, Thursday, July 12, after an illness of several weeks.
"He was born March 26, 1813, in Wales [sic]. While yet a child he came with his parents to America, settling in Richmond, Virginia. After a time the family moved to Coshocton, Ohio, where the Powells still reside.
"At the age of twenty he went to preach the gospel in the wilds of Arkansas, then a Territory. Four years later he was transferred to the Louisiana Conference where for a while he was presiding elder of his district.
"During the war between Mexico and the United States he was Chaplain of a Louisiana regiment.
"In 1850 he was transferred to the East Texas Conference and at the close of the civil war moved from Madison county to Alvarado. For several years during his early residence in Alvarado he was extensively engaged in mercantile pursuits, first in partnership with Col. Samuel Milliken, and later with L. B. Truelove.
"John Powell was a man of strong character, inflexible virtue, and unimpeachable integrity. He made many and warm friends and had resided in Alvarado so many years as a guide and example that he won the warm attachment of the younger people, who spoke affectionately of him as "Father Powell."
"Few men have so little need of obituary praise. All knew him, and knew him to love and reverence him. His life was ever an open book.
"The writer of this remembers, with gratitude inexpressible, the thoughtful kindness of this good old man to him when he was a young and inexperienced boy, a stranger in a strange land.
"May his sleep be sweet and may God care for the soul of this aged father in our Israel."