Jacob "Ben" Powell 1833-1915 Butler, Bates County, Missouri Obituary

 1833 - Jacob Powell - 1915 

     Jacob Powell, commonly known as "Ben" Powell, was born in Monroe County, Mo., June 8, 1838.  Departed this life February 20, 1915, at his home in Butler.  He was brought up in Schuyler County, Mo., and moved to Bates County about 48 years ago.  The last five years the Powell family has resided in Butler.

     Deceased was married in Schuyler County, 60 years ago.  Along the way of life these good people have walked together.  Through the changing scenes along the way, and the labors of all the years they have lightened each other's burdens and deepened their joys.  On the third day of this month, just sixteen days ago, his wife passed over the river, and so shortly he to, answered the eternal call.

     To this family eleven children were born, seven of whom survive. Sarah A. Powell, Mrs. Jennie Miller of St. Joseph; Mrs. Helen Venner of Canada; W. B., Lee, David and Andrew Powell of Butler.  John T. Lane and G. W. Lane, sons by a former marriage, and both of Oklahoma, also survive.

     Deceased was well and favorably known  by his friends and neighbors.  Mr. Powell was a kind father and a devoted husband.  He shall be missed through all the days that are to come.  These children are doubly bereft by the going of both father and mother so closely together.  The blessings of a rich Heavenly Father, and the warm sympathy of many friends and neighbors are sufficient for the hour of bereavement and a source of comfort.

     Funeral conducted from the house Sunday at 2:30 p. m. by Rev. R. M. Webdell,  Interment in Eilliott Cemetery south of Butler.

Tennessee Counties, 1819

 

Otto’s Plate

 Otto Hardesty married Lillie Arvilla Gaddy.  They had a store at Coin, AR. In the the teens of the 1900’s.  In 1916, Arvilla was appointed postmistress of Coin.  In 1914, they gifted these plates to customers of their store.  One has surfaced and the owner, Dexter Combs wants me to have it.  I told him to take it to Sister Fleta.  He said he would.  Arvilla’s death certificate has she died of nervous disease. She passed in 1942.  Otto passed in 1955.  I think they rest at Denver Cemetery.

The Spinning Wheel Still Spins Its Tale

 The Journey of the Spinning Wheel

It all started with a question. “What do you know about the spinning wheel?” My son Chris asked me this just before Christmas. Actually, it started well before this – When Chris was in the 2nd grade, he was fascinated by the spinning wheel and all things old/antique. He borrowed the spinning wheel from my mother who had inherited it from a long line of her ancestors.  He wanted to take it to show and tell.  It was then she determined that Chris would be in line to receive the spinning wheel, but I told her it had to go through me first.

This past Fall, it was time to pass it on to Chris. He and his wife, Colynn, had a friend over. The friend asked Chris the question – “What do you know about the spinning wheel?” Chris answered, “Not much. All I know is that it came across in a wagon and it survived a fire.” The wagon is folklore and the fire was at my mother’s house.  Chris then posed this question to me. Like him, I did not know anything. I told him I would start researching after Christmas.

I called Uncle Aaron. He told me the spinning wheel, best he could remember, belonged to Grandma Josie’s mother Mary Ann (Cash) Jameson. We discussed the folklore of it coming across on a wagon and if that were the case it had to belong to Mary Ann’s mother, Elizabeth “Betsy” (Holmes) Cash. This is based on the fact that Mary Ann was born in Arkansas. However, after further consideration, Betsy, born in Tennessee, was just a young girl when the Holmes family relocated from Tennessee to Arkansas. My thoughts now are that it must have belonged to Betsy’s mother, Mary Polly (Denton) Holmes because I don’t think a young girl had any need for owning a spinning wheel. If anyone has information to the contrary, please let me know. We really want to know its history.

If the facts plus folklore is correct, the spinning wheel would be circa 1820ish.

Uncle Aaron told me another story about a beautiful wool indigo blue and white hand-spun, hand-woven throw. He said, as told to him by Grandma Josie, Betsy owned the sheep, sheared them, spun the wool into yarn/thread, then hand-wove the throw on a loom. Uncle Aaron said that he thought maybe Uncle John might have received the throw, or maybe Aunt Myrtle’s daughter Dorothy Vescovo had it. I’ve tried to contact Dorothy but have not been successful. If anyone has an address for her or her children, please let me know.   Is it still in the family?  If the throw is still out there, I would like to see it even if it is by way of a photograph.

Josie and Arthur

My investigations led me to do an internet search. This is how I came up with my facts – people, places, and dates. Clicking and reading, clicking and reading, clicking and reading… I did a search for Levi and Elizabeth Betsy Holmes Cash and came across a Facebook group called, Snowball, AR, Pictures. A woman, Betty Renfroe, who is somewhat of an expert on genealogy had a very interesting and informative post dated 2-11-20 in which she “would talk about the family of Levi C. and Elizabeth Betsy Holmes Cash family…” 

Another search led me to Find-A-Grave site for Elizabeth Holmes Cash. Someone had posted a comment on this page, and I had a question about it. I emailed this person via Find-A-Grave which became quite the ordeal so she suggested that we communicate via text and so we did. She was able to answer my question regarding the name of Scott vs Denton. Low and behold, turns out my Find-A-Grave woman was the one and only Betty Renfroe, my genealogy expert from the Snowball group.

Back to the Snowball group – this is where it gets interesting. Betty’s post was full of names, dates, and places. She even had several photos. At the time two photos caught my attention.

See the spinning wheel in the top, right background… This James & Martha (Grandma & Pa Rea) are sister and brother-in-law to Mary Ann Cash Jameson, my mother’s paternal Great-Grandmother. I felt as though I hit the jackpot – a picture of the spinning wheel… Is this one ours? Maybe, maybe not – if it’s not then it is very similar and belongs to the same family.

Martha Cash And James Rea—spinning wheel in background!

The other photo that caught my attention was one of Betsy, Mary Ann’s mother.  There should be a correction to the above photo regarding Levi Cash died “dueling”. The lady (Mary Watts, I think) who posted it says that the picture cut off and it should actually state – “Levi Cash died during the Civil War.”  A private in the Union Army, he was out on patrol and was shot. He died three days later. This photo is also posted on her Find-A-Grave site. Additionally, note the throw on the back of her chair.  Could this be the one Uncle Aaron told me about? I sent it to him, and he replied, “Yes the pattern is what I remember; my young and small eyes thought it to be a little larger.” And then, “I think if this throw isn’t the one Grandma Josie had, I’ll bet it was made on the same wheel and loom!”

If anyone has any information regarding the spinning wheel or throw, please let me know. Or, if any of my information is incorrect, please let me know. We just want to put a history on the spinning wheel before it’s too late.

Story Written by Lanell🤍

Joel Thomas

Rush Creek - 
JOEL THOMAS, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania.  Joel Thomas was a native of Wales, who emigrated to America, and died in the city of Detroit, Mich., and Joel Thomas, his son, was a native of New York, but who, emigrating to Ohio, was one of the earliest settlers of Champaign Co.  He settled on "Pretty Prairie," in said county, and, with his father, followed driving cattle to Detroit during the war of 1812.  Joel Thomas, son of latter and grandson of the former Joel Thomas, was born Dec. 25, 1811, on "Pretty Prairie," Champaign Co., Ohio.  On the 1st day of July, 1838, he joined hands with Rachel Leonard, born May 26, 1816, in Washington Co., Pa., and these pioneers have passed through forty years of their country's history together.  They have had the following children, who were born as follows - Phebe Jane, born May 10, 1839; Mary Ann, Nov. 3, 1840, died when 11 months old; Sarah Ellen, born Jan. 17, 1843, died Jan. 8, 1866; George Washington born July 17, 1845; William L., Sept. 14, 1847; Elizabeth, Apr. 6, 1853, died Sep. 12, 1879; John B., born Apr. 6, 1853, and Angeline, Aug. 12, 1855.  Our subject was one of the pioneers of Logan Co., and of Rush Creek Twp.  He settled on the head waters of Miami, which was then a wilderness, and what is called Miami farm was paid for with money earned at the rate of three shillings per day.  The head spring of the Miami was on his farm.  He heard George McCullouch preach his first sermon, and heard Dr. Gray Eyes, the Indian preacher, preach in the cabin of his father-in-law, Ebenezer Zane.  He was an eye-witness to the terrific tornado of 1827, and has eaten bear meat in the cabin of Ebenezer Zane.  Although bowed with the infirmities of age, his memory is still rich with pioneer reminiscences, which he relates with the vigor of youth.  Of this family, three are dead, and the balance, all save one, are married and settled in different sections of the country.  Two reside in Hardin Co., one in Sandusky city, one in Livingston Co., Ill., and one, a son, remains at home.  Farming pursuits and stock-raising, especially horses, engross his attention in his declining years.
Source:  History of Logan County and Ohio - Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186 Dearborn Street. - 1880 - w/ some illustrations and portraits ~ Page 702

Adam and Phoebe

 

Fleta thinks this is Adam Kinzer.

Fleta thinks this is Cora and Myrtle Mae Kinzer.  Cora is the older girl.

Adam and Phoebe Cox Kinzer

Gilbert Age 1

 August 1962 Betty 12 and Gilbert 1