Widow of Francis Washington Powell
Was the daughter of Archibald and Sarah (Furgeson) Leach, who moved to Coshocton county at an early day.
During the dark days of slavery, prior to and during the Civil war, this home was a station on the U. G. R. R., and through its medium, many negroes were aided in their escape to Canada. F. W. Powell greatly sympathized with these unfortunates and aided many of them in their efforts to escape to freedom. Mrs. Powell in speaking of those days, said she could remember as many as a dozen concealed, waiting for the friendly darkness, that they might be carried on to the next station near Keen, in an adjoining twp.
Margaret Powell continued to live with her daughter Henrietta, at the same place the remaining years of her life. Because of a dislocated hip caused while cleaning a mantle, she was obliged to take her bed, and on account of her weakness and old age, on June 6th, 1909, while still upon her bed of affliction, she was suddenly called by her Master by a stroke of apoplexy.
Was the daughter of Archibald and Sarah (Furgeson) Leach, who moved to Coshocton county at an early day.
During the dark days of slavery, prior to and during the Civil war, this home was a station on the U. G. R. R., and through its medium, many negroes were aided in their escape to Canada. F. W. Powell greatly sympathized with these unfortunates and aided many of them in their efforts to escape to freedom. Mrs. Powell in speaking of those days, said she could remember as many as a dozen concealed, waiting for the friendly darkness, that they might be carried on to the next station near Keen, in an adjoining twp.
Margaret Powell continued to live with her daughter Henrietta, at the same place the remaining years of her life. Because of a dislocated hip caused while cleaning a mantle, she was obliged to take her bed, and on account of her weakness and old age, on June 6th, 1909, while still upon her bed of affliction, she was suddenly called by her Master by a stroke of apoplexy.
Widow of Francis Washington Powell
Was the daughter of Archibald and Sarah (Furgeson) Leach, who moved to Coshocton county at an early day.
During the dark days of slavery, prior to and during the Civil war, this home was a station on the U. G. R. R., and through its medium, many negroes were aided in their escape to Canada. F. W. Powell greatly sympathized with these unfortunates and aided many of them in their efforts to escape to freedom. Mrs. Powell in speaking of those days, said she could remember as many as a dozen concealed, waiting for the friendly darkness, that they might be carried on to the next station near Keen, in an adjoining twp.
Margaret Powell continued to live with her daughter Henrietta, at the same place the remaining years of her life. Because of a dislocated hip caused while cleaning a mantle, she was obliged to take her bed, and on account of her weakness and old age, on June 6th, 1909, while still upon her bed of affliction, she was suddenly called by her Master by a stroke of apoplexy.
Was the daughter of Archibald and Sarah (Furgeson) Leach, who moved to Coshocton county at an early day.
During the dark days of slavery, prior to and during the Civil war, this home was a station on the U. G. R. R., and through its medium, many negroes were aided in their escape to Canada. F. W. Powell greatly sympathized with these unfortunates and aided many of them in their efforts to escape to freedom. Mrs. Powell in speaking of those days, said she could remember as many as a dozen concealed, waiting for the friendly darkness, that they might be carried on to the next station near Keen, in an adjoining twp.
Margaret Powell continued to live with her daughter Henrietta, at the same place the remaining years of her life. Because of a dislocated hip caused while cleaning a mantle, she was obliged to take her bed, and on account of her weakness and old age, on June 6th, 1909, while still upon her bed of affliction, she was suddenly called by her Master by a stroke of apoplexy.
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