Sarah Elizabeth Powell Gann

Virgina Powell Smith shared this picture which I have seen before.  It was taken in the 1950's.  In the chair is Sarah Elizabeth Powell Gann (barefooted)--Sallie, behind her with the hat is Charles Alexander Powell and bare headed John Wesley Powell.  Charlie and John never married and John was deaf.  John lived in the house with Lige Powell until he died and then Ida Belle said he had to move.  He died in a Nursing Home.  I think Virginia said it was in Muldrow, OK.  Charlie had his own cabin on Lige's farm.

Sallie Powell married Cherokee Elias Swimmer Gann.  Swimmer died in 1920, but Sallie lived until 1959.  From Virginia's account of Swimmer, I think he had a problem with alcohol.  Virginia said the Ganns owned a farm near to 'Lige Powell.  Sallie had one daughter Mintie who married a George Patterson and then a Lem Cousins.  Her two sons were Rabbit and Foxy!  I think they were also called Jack and Doc Gann.

I have a copy of the translated Moravian diaries.  Thomas Gann was an overseer for the Vann Plantation at Spring Place, Georgia.  He married Catherine Hicks Miller.  Catherine was the daughter of Lydia Halfbreed and William Hicks.   She had a full brother George Hicks.  Catherine married a white man, Andrew Miller.  The Gambolds called him a trouble maker.  He was murdered in 1818 and his widow married Thomas Gann.  Catherine and Thomas had:  George, Elias, Isaac, and Ruth Gann.  George Gann married Mary Ann McCoy and Elias Swimmer Gann was their son.  Gans, OK is named for Swimmer and his two brothers.