When Lillian Southerland was born on March 17, 1892, in Oklahoma, her father, William, was 26 and her mother, Nancy, was 18. She had four sons and two daughters with Wesley Dubuc between 1914 and 1930. She died in 1935 in Oklahoma, at the age of 43, and was buried in Gans, Oklahoma.
The three men in the back row are Wesley, Joseph and William Dubuc. The old lady in the sack like dress is Nancy Caroline Powell Southerland DeVault, daughter of Cyrus Powell and Elizabeth Dollison. The three older women are Elma Dubuc, Mildred Dubuc and Jessie Barnes (wife of Joseph Dubuc). The man with the crutch is George DaVault. The three children are baby Ronald Dubuc, boy with hat Clayton Dubuc and young girl is Elgie Dubuc.
This picture was shared with the Sisters by Virginia Lee Powell Smith (Granddaughter of Lige Powell). Here is what she wrote:
Nancy K. Powell Southerland Davault, (Aunt Nannie) and her daughter's family. Lillian Southernland Dubuc. (Pronounced Dee Bue) (1892-1935)
Children of Lillian and Wesley Dubuc from my Ancestry Page!
Nannie Powell Southerland was a colorful lady. Here is one account we received about Aunt Nannie!
According to my dad [her grandson], who spent a lot of time with her as a kid, she was the original "earth muffin"....making herbal remedes, etc.....
According to him, she was married three times...well, the 2nd one we really don't know if it was a marriage....when Southerland died, the lawyer that settled the estate (Bob White) ran off with her and her three kids to Yakima WA.....at age 13 my grandfather drove back to OK with a team of mules and a wagon....a year later, he and his uncle Charlie Powell went back to Yakima to get her and the two girls and bring them back to OK. She then married the Devault guy and they ran a general store of sorts in Gans, OK. Her sister Sallie lived in Gans, also. (from Donna Southerland Culpepper)
Note by Betty Powell--Of course, some of the memories of Nannie Powell Southerland Davault are not correct but in each rings a little truth. Henry Powell was one of many brothers. I have copied the entire document as Nannie told it to Avis Powell!
From Avis Powell I have a two page transcript of a statement made by Aunt Nannie on October 15 1962.
Seven Powell brothers came from England and settled in seven different states. One, Dr. Dave Powell settled in Texas. Others settled in other states. (NOTE: Cyrus Powell did have a Uncle David Powell who was a Doctor in Texas, but he was from Kentucky, not England and there were eight brothers in the family.)
William Henry Powell, father of Cyrus H. Powell, owned and raised race horses and ran a dry goods business. He owned two known race horses, 'Screwball and Dolly Varden.' Screwball was one of the fastest in the U. S. of America. They lived in Missouri, and also lived in Louisville, KY.
Cyrus H. Powell was born in North Missouri. He was married to Elizabeth (Betsy) Dollison, who was born in Ohio. Cyrus was a cattleman and had a large ranch (or lived on one and worked for the owner, not sure of this), in Wilbarger County, Texas. He was a veterinary. Due to the health of one of his children, (John W.), he sold his ranch and settled in Indian Territory that is now Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Then alter they moved to Gans, Oklahoma, and became farmers. Cyrus was married before he was married to Elizabeth (Betsy). They had three children, all boys. While married to this first wife, they lived in Fannon, Texas. She died at the beginning of the Civil War, and one of the boys died too. He took the two remaining sons to live with his parents, Wm. H. and Sarah Powell in Missouri. Cyrus went back to Texas, and joined up with the Texas Rangers, and fought in the Civil War. When Lee surrendered, he and seven others ran the 'Gauntlet', or what they called wouldn't surrender, but they were recaptured a little later, and were bent over bayonets until they said they surrendered. He served under 'Pap Price', in the Rangers. He talked about them being made to drink gun powder mixed in whiskey to make them surrender.
Cyrus rode his father's horses in the races because he was also small when he was young. HE was only 5 ft. 2 in. tall and until he was older, didn't weigh much.
They had a past time in Texas with fighting cocks. They fed them gun powder in the feed to make them fight better. He also told about when his father lived in Kentucky, and owned race horses. How a man with tow horse, their hair all matted and turned the wrong way, finally matched up a race, then he went off and cleaned and brushed his horses, and they were the best looking race horses on the ground that day and won the race. [NOTE: Willis Powell, my father, told this same story. According to my father, John Powell was the name of the man who owned the horses in the story.]
After the war, he married Elizabeth (Betsy) Dollison. They had six children. They raised five, three boys and two girls lived. His tow sons by his first wife came to live with them when they were in their tenns. One of the boys took pneumonia and died. The other boy, Andrew Jackson Powell, married. Never knew what happened to him for sure, but thinks he might be buried at Sulpher Springs, Oklahoma. They did live at Davis, Oklahoma.
Nancy Mary Kathryn Powell Southerland Devault (Nanny) is the only child of Cyrus and Betsy Powell, still living at this writing. At the age of 89 years. She will be 90 on the 19th of February 1963. This is being written October 15, 1962, by Elsie Bethel, her grand-daughter. Cyrus, Betsy and their children are buried at Fleetwood and Mitchell cemeteries.
End of story from Aunt Nannie
Found this picture on Ancestry! It is Nannie Powell Southerland in rocker, Lillian Southerland--older girl, older man Wesley O. Dubuc, other two children are Nannie's boy and girl, Elenore and Albert Southerland. Here is what was said about the picture:
The Southerland Family moved from Davis, Oklahoma to Aberdeen, Washington early 1900's. The Hercule DuBuc family was living in the Aberdeen area at that time. The Southerland's moved back to Oklahoma by 1910 and Wesley went with them. Lillian and Wesley were married abt 1912 in Davis, Oklahoma.
