MATTIE ESSIE MARTIN POWELL 1885-1969
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Mattie Essie Martin was born October 24th, 1885, the second youngest of nine children born to William Columbus Martin and Isabelle Peters. The children were spread out from 1866 until 1888. Mattie's oldest sister was nineteen years old and had her own children on the day Mattie was born.
Mattie was only fifteen years old when her father, W.C. Martin, died. Her father had joined the Confederate Army as a fifteen year old boy and was wounded three times in battle. He was left for dead on the battlefield at Antietam, having been shot through his legs and a lung. His comrades propped him against a fence post, gave him a rifle and told him to shoot until he was killed. He survived, and rejoined his regiment, crawling over five miles on his elbows. Mr. Martin was sent to the hospital at Richmond where he contracted typhoid and was sent home.
Mattie Martin knew Roy Powell from the time they were children. They started courting when he came home on furlough from the U.S. Army in October 1898. She stated that she "swooned" when she saw him in uniform. They were married as soon as she got old enough.
On the fourth Sunday (the 28th) of the month of July, 1901, fifteen year old Mattie Essie Martin married Roy Powell at Cat Creek Church, after the morning service, according to church records. The presiding official was Judge H.B. Peeples. Her father, Wm Columbus Martin, a thrice wounded Confederate Army veteran, who died the previous year, had been the long time Clerk of Cat Creek Church. The Martin farm was not far from the Wm Bradford farm where Roy Powell worked as a ploughhand. The newlyweds settled on the Powell family farm southwest of Nashville, Ga.
Alvah Roy and Mattie Essie (Martin) Powell were blessed with a large family:
1. ALMA MAUDELL POWELL b. 1903, d. 1979
2. MARY MARIE POWELL b. 1904, d. 1970
3. WILLIAM CULBERT POWELL b. 1906, d. 1987
4. ILA VANN POWELL b. 1910, d. 1989
5. JOHN WILBUR POWELL b. 4 Apr 1912, d. 5 Nov 1974
6. KATHRYN MONOAH POWELL b. 1914, d. 1974
7. BETH WYLEEN POWELL b. 1917, d. 2000
8. JAMES QUENTIN POWELL b. 1919, d. 1951
9. DOROTHY LANELL POWELL b. 1922, d. 1993
10. ALVAH REID POWELL b. 1925, d. 2000
Mattie Martin Powell was the great great granddaughter of a Revolutionary War soldier who fought under Gen. Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox". A recent movie, "The Patriot", roughly follows the wartime experience of Gen. Marion.
Mrs. Powell was mentioned in a Savannah newspaper article in 1927, written about her mother, Mrs. Wm Columbus Martin, who was credited with having the largest family in Georgia, over 186 living descendants. A.R. and Mattie contributed more than their fair share of progeny needed to bestow this honor on Mrs. Martin.
Rev. Powell continued to preach at Greenville and serve the community into the early 1950's until his eyesight and health began to fail. A 1958 article in the Madison Enterprise-Recorder entitled "Way Back When" credited Rev. Powell with 16 years as the pastor of the Bapt. Church in Greenville, FL.
Rev. Powell died 19 June 1953, in Greenville, FL, at the home of his son, Wilbur Powell. His wife, Mattie Martin Powell died 24 Feb 1969 at Madison Memorial Hospital. They are both buried in the Powell family plot at Evergreen Cemetery in Greenville along with several children.
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Depostion L, Case of Alva R. Powell, No. 1.360.220:
On this 14th day of October, 1908, at deponent's house, County of Berrien, State of Georgia, before me, N.D. Avis, a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Mrs. Mattie Powell, who, being, by me, first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to her during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says:
I am 22 years of age. My post office address is R.F.D. # 3, Nashville, Georgia. In July, 1901, I was married to Alva R. Powell and we have lived together continuously since.
At the time we were married, I knew that Mr. Powell was not well. He had a cough from before that was severe at times and slight at other times. From the time we were married, & before that, he has had some cough all along and sometimes some weeks would pass, only two or three, without him coughing much and then he would have more coughing for a while. He has had enough through all the years without colds. While we lived in Savannah and he was a street car conductor, he had the cough through the year and it was about the same along as it had been before we went there.
And through the two years that we lived in Pierce County afterward, his cough troubled him and it was about the same as it had been before that. He has had the cough, a habitual cough, from before we were married and through the last two or three years I have known him to spit blood, once last year and once before that. But I didn't see the blood every time until he got worried about it and told me.
Through parts of last year he was hardly able to work at all and he was the worst of all along in the latter part of the summer. This year he has not improved & he was in as bad a shape as he was last year but he had a spell in the last part of summer in which he was almost past going. His breast would be more sore and he would have more pains through it and he would be weak. He has had a good deal of suffering in his breast ever since. We were worried.
Only the disease of the lungs has ailed Mr. Powell that I know of, except that at night he will at times wake me up and he can't say anything but after a few minutes, if I can move him or push him, he gets all right.
My marriage to Alva R. Powell has been my only marriage.
I understand the foregoing as it was read by the examiner and it is correct.
/signed/ Mattie Powell
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of October, 1908, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
N.D. Avis
Special Examiner
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A. R. Powell
(Abstracted from the Madison Enterprise-Recorder Newspaper, Madison, Florida, June 26, 1953)
A. R. Powell, age 74, died Friday June 19th at his home in Greenville. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mattie E. Powell, of Greenville; three sons, C. W., of Moultrie; J. W., of Greenville; and Alva Reid Powell, of Mayo; six daughters, Mrs. Marion Register, of Norman Park, GA; Mrs. E. C. Bostick and Mrs. Ralph Wills, both of Moultrie; Mrs. Cecil Brannen, of Greenville; Mrs. Jim West, of Macon; and Mrs. Wesley Holland, of Bartow. Funeral services were held Saturday in the First Baptist Church of Greenville with interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
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This biographer spent many an hour hoeing Mrs. Powell's kitchen garden under the merciless southern sun. Invariably, this occasioned the opportunity for the family matriarch to spoil her grandson with lemonade and cookies. Often, she would follow down the row, parasol in hand, shielding both of us from heat prostration. Those hours together, under the guise of gardening, are where Mrs. Powell transmitted stories of her father in the Civil War, life as a young lady at the turn of the century and family history that can now be found on these various memorials.
Little did she know that long after she was gone, these stories would become family lore.
Or, maybe she did ...
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Mattie Essie Martin was born October 24th, 1885, the second youngest of nine children born to William Columbus Martin and Isabelle Peters. The children were spread out from 1866 until 1888. Mattie's oldest sister was nineteen years old and had her own children on the day Mattie was born.
Mattie was only fifteen years old when her father, W.C. Martin, died. Her father had joined the Confederate Army as a fifteen year old boy and was wounded three times in battle. He was left for dead on the battlefield at Antietam, having been shot through his legs and a lung. His comrades propped him against a fence post, gave him a rifle and told him to shoot until he was killed. He survived, and rejoined his regiment, crawling over five miles on his elbows. Mr. Martin was sent to the hospital at Richmond where he contracted typhoid and was sent home.
Mattie Martin knew Roy Powell from the time they were children. They started courting when he came home on furlough from the U.S. Army in October 1898. She stated that she "swooned" when she saw him in uniform. They were married as soon as she got old enough.
On the fourth Sunday (the 28th) of the month of July, 1901, fifteen year old Mattie Essie Martin married Roy Powell at Cat Creek Church, after the morning service, according to church records. The presiding official was Judge H.B. Peeples. Her father, Wm Columbus Martin, a thrice wounded Confederate Army veteran, who died the previous year, had been the long time Clerk of Cat Creek Church. The Martin farm was not far from the Wm Bradford farm where Roy Powell worked as a ploughhand. The newlyweds settled on the Powell family farm southwest of Nashville, Ga.
Alvah Roy and Mattie Essie (Martin) Powell were blessed with a large family:
1. ALMA MAUDELL POWELL b. 1903, d. 1979
2. MARY MARIE POWELL b. 1904, d. 1970
3. WILLIAM CULBERT POWELL b. 1906, d. 1987
4. ILA VANN POWELL b. 1910, d. 1989
5. JOHN WILBUR POWELL b. 4 Apr 1912, d. 5 Nov 1974
6. KATHRYN MONOAH POWELL b. 1914, d. 1974
7. BETH WYLEEN POWELL b. 1917, d. 2000
8. JAMES QUENTIN POWELL b. 1919, d. 1951
9. DOROTHY LANELL POWELL b. 1922, d. 1993
10. ALVAH REID POWELL b. 1925, d. 2000
Mattie Martin Powell was the great great granddaughter of a Revolutionary War soldier who fought under Gen. Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox". A recent movie, "The Patriot", roughly follows the wartime experience of Gen. Marion.
Mrs. Powell was mentioned in a Savannah newspaper article in 1927, written about her mother, Mrs. Wm Columbus Martin, who was credited with having the largest family in Georgia, over 186 living descendants. A.R. and Mattie contributed more than their fair share of progeny needed to bestow this honor on Mrs. Martin.
Rev. Powell continued to preach at Greenville and serve the community into the early 1950's until his eyesight and health began to fail. A 1958 article in the Madison Enterprise-Recorder entitled "Way Back When" credited Rev. Powell with 16 years as the pastor of the Bapt. Church in Greenville, FL.
Rev. Powell died 19 June 1953, in Greenville, FL, at the home of his son, Wilbur Powell. His wife, Mattie Martin Powell died 24 Feb 1969 at Madison Memorial Hospital. They are both buried in the Powell family plot at Evergreen Cemetery in Greenville along with several children.
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Depostion L, Case of Alva R. Powell, No. 1.360.220:
On this 14th day of October, 1908, at deponent's house, County of Berrien, State of Georgia, before me, N.D. Avis, a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Mrs. Mattie Powell, who, being, by me, first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to her during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says:
I am 22 years of age. My post office address is R.F.D. # 3, Nashville, Georgia. In July, 1901, I was married to Alva R. Powell and we have lived together continuously since.
At the time we were married, I knew that Mr. Powell was not well. He had a cough from before that was severe at times and slight at other times. From the time we were married, & before that, he has had some cough all along and sometimes some weeks would pass, only two or three, without him coughing much and then he would have more coughing for a while. He has had enough through all the years without colds. While we lived in Savannah and he was a street car conductor, he had the cough through the year and it was about the same along as it had been before we went there.
And through the two years that we lived in Pierce County afterward, his cough troubled him and it was about the same as it had been before that. He has had the cough, a habitual cough, from before we were married and through the last two or three years I have known him to spit blood, once last year and once before that. But I didn't see the blood every time until he got worried about it and told me.
Through parts of last year he was hardly able to work at all and he was the worst of all along in the latter part of the summer. This year he has not improved & he was in as bad a shape as he was last year but he had a spell in the last part of summer in which he was almost past going. His breast would be more sore and he would have more pains through it and he would be weak. He has had a good deal of suffering in his breast ever since. We were worried.
Only the disease of the lungs has ailed Mr. Powell that I know of, except that at night he will at times wake me up and he can't say anything but after a few minutes, if I can move him or push him, he gets all right.
My marriage to Alva R. Powell has been my only marriage.
I understand the foregoing as it was read by the examiner and it is correct.
/signed/ Mattie Powell
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of October, 1908, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
N.D. Avis
Special Examiner
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A. R. Powell
(Abstracted from the Madison Enterprise-Recorder Newspaper, Madison, Florida, June 26, 1953)
A. R. Powell, age 74, died Friday June 19th at his home in Greenville. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mattie E. Powell, of Greenville; three sons, C. W., of Moultrie; J. W., of Greenville; and Alva Reid Powell, of Mayo; six daughters, Mrs. Marion Register, of Norman Park, GA; Mrs. E. C. Bostick and Mrs. Ralph Wills, both of Moultrie; Mrs. Cecil Brannen, of Greenville; Mrs. Jim West, of Macon; and Mrs. Wesley Holland, of Bartow. Funeral services were held Saturday in the First Baptist Church of Greenville with interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
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This biographer spent many an hour hoeing Mrs. Powell's kitchen garden under the merciless southern sun. Invariably, this occasioned the opportunity for the family matriarch to spoil her grandson with lemonade and cookies. Often, she would follow down the row, parasol in hand, shielding both of us from heat prostration. Those hours together, under the guise of gardening, are where Mrs. Powell transmitted stories of her father in the Civil War, life as a young lady at the turn of the century and family history that can now be found on these various memorials.
Little did she know that long after she was gone, these stories would become family lore.
Or, maybe she did ...
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MATTIE ESSIE MARTIN POWELL 1885-1969
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Mattie Essie Martin was born October 24th, 1885, the second youngest of nine children born to William Columbus Martin and Isabelle Peters. The children were spread out from 1866 until 1888. Mattie's oldest sister was nineteen years old and had her own children on the day Mattie was born.
Mattie was only fifteen years old when her father, W.C. Martin, died. Her father had joined the Confederate Army as a fifteen year old boy and was wounded three times in battle. He was left for dead on the battlefield at Antietam, having been shot through his legs and a lung. His comrades propped him against a fence post, gave him a rifle and told him to shoot until he was killed. He survived, and rejoined his regiment, crawling over five miles on his elbows. Mr. Martin was sent to the hospital at Richmond where he contracted typhoid and was sent home.
Mattie Martin knew Roy Powell from the time they were children. They started courting when he came home on furlough from the U.S. Army in October 1898. She stated that she "swooned" when she saw him in uniform. They were married as soon as she got old enough.
On the fourth Sunday (the 28th) of the month of July, 1901, fifteen year old Mattie Essie Martin married Roy Powell at Cat Creek Church, after the morning service, according to church records. The presiding official was Judge H.B. Peeples. Her father, Wm Columbus Martin, a thrice wounded Confederate Army veteran, who died the previous year, had been the long time Clerk of Cat Creek Church. The Martin farm was not far from the Wm Bradford farm where Roy Powell worked as a ploughhand. The newlyweds settled on the Powell family farm southwest of Nashville, Ga.
Alvah Roy and Mattie Essie (Martin) Powell were blessed with a large family:
1. ALMA MAUDELL POWELL b. 1903, d. 1979
2. MARY MARIE POWELL b. 1904, d. 1970
3. WILLIAM CULBERT POWELL b. 1906, d. 1987
4. ILA VANN POWELL b. 1910, d. 1989
5. JOHN WILBUR POWELL b. 4 Apr 1912, d. 5 Nov 1974
6. KATHRYN MONOAH POWELL b. 1914, d. 1974
7. BETH WYLEEN POWELL b. 1917, d. 2000
8. JAMES QUENTIN POWELL b. 1919, d. 1951
9. DOROTHY LANELL POWELL b. 1922, d. 1993
10. ALVAH REID POWELL b. 1925, d. 2000
Mattie Martin Powell was the great great granddaughter of a Revolutionary War soldier who fought under Gen. Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox". A recent movie, "The Patriot", roughly follows the wartime experience of Gen. Marion.
Mrs. Powell was mentioned in a Savannah newspaper article in 1927, written about her mother, Mrs. Wm Columbus Martin, who was credited with having the largest family in Georgia, over 186 living descendants. A.R. and Mattie contributed more than their fair share of progeny needed to bestow this honor on Mrs. Martin.
Rev. Powell continued to preach at Greenville and serve the community into the early 1950's until his eyesight and health began to fail. A 1958 article in the Madison Enterprise-Recorder entitled "Way Back When" credited Rev. Powell with 16 years as the pastor of the Bapt. Church in Greenville, FL.
Rev. Powell died 19 June 1953, in Greenville, FL, at the home of his son, Wilbur Powell. His wife, Mattie Martin Powell died 24 Feb 1969 at Madison Memorial Hospital. They are both buried in the Powell family plot at Evergreen Cemetery in Greenville along with several children.
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Depostion L, Case of Alva R. Powell, No. 1.360.220:
On this 14th day of October, 1908, at deponent's house, County of Berrien, State of Georgia, before me, N.D. Avis, a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Mrs. Mattie Powell, who, being, by me, first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to her during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says:
I am 22 years of age. My post office address is R.F.D. # 3, Nashville, Georgia. In July, 1901, I was married to Alva R. Powell and we have lived together continuously since.
At the time we were married, I knew that Mr. Powell was not well. He had a cough from before that was severe at times and slight at other times. From the time we were married, & before that, he has had some cough all along and sometimes some weeks would pass, only two or three, without him coughing much and then he would have more coughing for a while. He has had enough through all the years without colds. While we lived in Savannah and he was a street car conductor, he had the cough through the year and it was about the same along as it had been before we went there.
And through the two years that we lived in Pierce County afterward, his cough troubled him and it was about the same as it had been before that. He has had the cough, a habitual cough, from before we were married and through the last two or three years I have known him to spit blood, once last year and once before that. But I didn't see the blood every time until he got worried about it and told me.
Through parts of last year he was hardly able to work at all and he was the worst of all along in the latter part of the summer. This year he has not improved & he was in as bad a shape as he was last year but he had a spell in the last part of summer in which he was almost past going. His breast would be more sore and he would have more pains through it and he would be weak. He has had a good deal of suffering in his breast ever since. We were worried.
Only the disease of the lungs has ailed Mr. Powell that I know of, except that at night he will at times wake me up and he can't say anything but after a few minutes, if I can move him or push him, he gets all right.
My marriage to Alva R. Powell has been my only marriage.
I understand the foregoing as it was read by the examiner and it is correct.
/signed/ Mattie Powell
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of October, 1908, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
N.D. Avis
Special Examiner
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A. R. Powell
(Abstracted from the Madison Enterprise-Recorder Newspaper, Madison, Florida, June 26, 1953)
A. R. Powell, age 74, died Friday June 19th at his home in Greenville. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mattie E. Powell, of Greenville; three sons, C. W., of Moultrie; J. W., of Greenville; and Alva Reid Powell, of Mayo; six daughters, Mrs. Marion Register, of Norman Park, GA; Mrs. E. C. Bostick and Mrs. Ralph Wills, both of Moultrie; Mrs. Cecil Brannen, of Greenville; Mrs. Jim West, of Macon; and Mrs. Wesley Holland, of Bartow. Funeral services were held Saturday in the First Baptist Church of Greenville with interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
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This biographer spent many an hour hoeing Mrs. Powell's kitchen garden under the merciless southern sun. Invariably, this occasioned the opportunity for the family matriarch to spoil her grandson with lemonade and cookies. Often, she would follow down the row, parasol in hand, shielding both of us from heat prostration. Those hours together, under the guise of gardening, are where Mrs. Powell transmitted stories of her father in the Civil War, life as a young lady at the turn of the century and family history that can now be found on these various memorials.
Little did she know that long after she was gone, these stories would become family lore.
Or, maybe she did ...
___________________________________________________________
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Mattie Essie Martin was born October 24th, 1885, the second youngest of nine children born to William Columbus Martin and Isabelle Peters. The children were spread out from 1866 until 1888. Mattie's oldest sister was nineteen years old and had her own children on the day Mattie was born.
Mattie was only fifteen years old when her father, W.C. Martin, died. Her father had joined the Confederate Army as a fifteen year old boy and was wounded three times in battle. He was left for dead on the battlefield at Antietam, having been shot through his legs and a lung. His comrades propped him against a fence post, gave him a rifle and told him to shoot until he was killed. He survived, and rejoined his regiment, crawling over five miles on his elbows. Mr. Martin was sent to the hospital at Richmond where he contracted typhoid and was sent home.
Mattie Martin knew Roy Powell from the time they were children. They started courting when he came home on furlough from the U.S. Army in October 1898. She stated that she "swooned" when she saw him in uniform. They were married as soon as she got old enough.
On the fourth Sunday (the 28th) of the month of July, 1901, fifteen year old Mattie Essie Martin married Roy Powell at Cat Creek Church, after the morning service, according to church records. The presiding official was Judge H.B. Peeples. Her father, Wm Columbus Martin, a thrice wounded Confederate Army veteran, who died the previous year, had been the long time Clerk of Cat Creek Church. The Martin farm was not far from the Wm Bradford farm where Roy Powell worked as a ploughhand. The newlyweds settled on the Powell family farm southwest of Nashville, Ga.
Alvah Roy and Mattie Essie (Martin) Powell were blessed with a large family:
1. ALMA MAUDELL POWELL b. 1903, d. 1979
2. MARY MARIE POWELL b. 1904, d. 1970
3. WILLIAM CULBERT POWELL b. 1906, d. 1987
4. ILA VANN POWELL b. 1910, d. 1989
5. JOHN WILBUR POWELL b. 4 Apr 1912, d. 5 Nov 1974
6. KATHRYN MONOAH POWELL b. 1914, d. 1974
7. BETH WYLEEN POWELL b. 1917, d. 2000
8. JAMES QUENTIN POWELL b. 1919, d. 1951
9. DOROTHY LANELL POWELL b. 1922, d. 1993
10. ALVAH REID POWELL b. 1925, d. 2000
Mattie Martin Powell was the great great granddaughter of a Revolutionary War soldier who fought under Gen. Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox". A recent movie, "The Patriot", roughly follows the wartime experience of Gen. Marion.
Mrs. Powell was mentioned in a Savannah newspaper article in 1927, written about her mother, Mrs. Wm Columbus Martin, who was credited with having the largest family in Georgia, over 186 living descendants. A.R. and Mattie contributed more than their fair share of progeny needed to bestow this honor on Mrs. Martin.
Rev. Powell continued to preach at Greenville and serve the community into the early 1950's until his eyesight and health began to fail. A 1958 article in the Madison Enterprise-Recorder entitled "Way Back When" credited Rev. Powell with 16 years as the pastor of the Bapt. Church in Greenville, FL.
Rev. Powell died 19 June 1953, in Greenville, FL, at the home of his son, Wilbur Powell. His wife, Mattie Martin Powell died 24 Feb 1969 at Madison Memorial Hospital. They are both buried in the Powell family plot at Evergreen Cemetery in Greenville along with several children.
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Depostion L, Case of Alva R. Powell, No. 1.360.220:
On this 14th day of October, 1908, at deponent's house, County of Berrien, State of Georgia, before me, N.D. Avis, a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Mrs. Mattie Powell, who, being, by me, first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to her during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says:
I am 22 years of age. My post office address is R.F.D. # 3, Nashville, Georgia. In July, 1901, I was married to Alva R. Powell and we have lived together continuously since.
At the time we were married, I knew that Mr. Powell was not well. He had a cough from before that was severe at times and slight at other times. From the time we were married, & before that, he has had some cough all along and sometimes some weeks would pass, only two or three, without him coughing much and then he would have more coughing for a while. He has had enough through all the years without colds. While we lived in Savannah and he was a street car conductor, he had the cough through the year and it was about the same along as it had been before we went there.
And through the two years that we lived in Pierce County afterward, his cough troubled him and it was about the same as it had been before that. He has had the cough, a habitual cough, from before we were married and through the last two or three years I have known him to spit blood, once last year and once before that. But I didn't see the blood every time until he got worried about it and told me.
Through parts of last year he was hardly able to work at all and he was the worst of all along in the latter part of the summer. This year he has not improved & he was in as bad a shape as he was last year but he had a spell in the last part of summer in which he was almost past going. His breast would be more sore and he would have more pains through it and he would be weak. He has had a good deal of suffering in his breast ever since. We were worried.
Only the disease of the lungs has ailed Mr. Powell that I know of, except that at night he will at times wake me up and he can't say anything but after a few minutes, if I can move him or push him, he gets all right.
My marriage to Alva R. Powell has been my only marriage.
I understand the foregoing as it was read by the examiner and it is correct.
/signed/ Mattie Powell
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of October, 1908, and I certify that the contents were fully made known to deponent before signing.
N.D. Avis
Special Examiner
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A. R. Powell
(Abstracted from the Madison Enterprise-Recorder Newspaper, Madison, Florida, June 26, 1953)
A. R. Powell, age 74, died Friday June 19th at his home in Greenville. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mattie E. Powell, of Greenville; three sons, C. W., of Moultrie; J. W., of Greenville; and Alva Reid Powell, of Mayo; six daughters, Mrs. Marion Register, of Norman Park, GA; Mrs. E. C. Bostick and Mrs. Ralph Wills, both of Moultrie; Mrs. Cecil Brannen, of Greenville; Mrs. Jim West, of Macon; and Mrs. Wesley Holland, of Bartow. Funeral services were held Saturday in the First Baptist Church of Greenville with interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
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This biographer spent many an hour hoeing Mrs. Powell's kitchen garden under the merciless southern sun. Invariably, this occasioned the opportunity for the family matriarch to spoil her grandson with lemonade and cookies. Often, she would follow down the row, parasol in hand, shielding both of us from heat prostration. Those hours together, under the guise of gardening, are where Mrs. Powell transmitted stories of her father in the Civil War, life as a young lady at the turn of the century and family history that can now be found on these various memorials.
Little did she know that long after she was gone, these stories would become family lore.
Or, maybe she did ...
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