John Edward Powers

#196 John Edward "Edward" Powers ( Henry Edward "Edward" Power◊ • George Power◊ )

Edward was born 12 Jan 1875 in Jacksonville, Centre Co., Pennsylvania. He died 25 Mar 1961 in Lamar Twp., Clinton Co., Pennsylvania. He was buried 28 Mar 1961 in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Lamar Twp., Clinton Co., Pennsylvania.

His World War I draft card gives the month of birth as April. It shows him as an axe maker for the Mann Edge Tool Co. in Mill Hall. He is listed as medium height, medium build, gray eyes and brown hair.

At the time of his marriage, he lived in Cedar Springs, Pennsylvania. He was a laborer in a brick yard.

On the 1900 Census he is in Bald Eagle Twp., Clinton Co., Pennsylvania with Alice, Clarence and Earl. He is a farmer.

In 1910 he is listed in Lamar Twp., Clinton Co., Pennsylvania and is a woodsman.

In 1920 he is still in Lamar Twp. working in the ax factory making draw bits.

On the 1930 Census of Greene, Clinton Co., Pennsylvania he is a laborer on a farm, presumably Clarence's.

In 1940 he is back in Lamar Twp. working as a kiln fireman.

The [Mr] source includes the following text from an obituary of unknown source. Some of the facts in it are at odds with his marriage license.

John Edward Powers, 85, died at 5.30 a.m. today at his home at Mill Hall RD1 a mile above Cedar Springs. He had been in failing health in recent weeks, and was a patient in the Lock Haven hospital from March 4 until last Wednesday.

Mr. Powers and his wife, Alice R. Knarr Powers, who survives him, were married in 1895 at Rosecrans. They had observed their 65th wedding day last year.

Mr. Powers worked variously in local brick yards for the Mann Edge Tool Co. at Mill Hall, and for W.O. Knapp in the lumber business until his retirement 5 years ago. He was born at Jacksonville, Centre County, and had lived in Lamar Twp. 55 years. He was a member of the Mount Pleasant Evangelical United Brethren Church of the Sugar Valley charge.

Surviving are also three sons, Clarence W., Breenburr, Kenneth E., Howard RD 2, and William A., Avis, seven grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, a brother and two sisters, Walter E. Powers, Jersey Shore RD, Mrs Annie Paul of Alberta, Canada, and Mrs. Effie Williams, Lock Haven.

∞ Edward married #197 Alice Regina Knarr.

Marriage notes

They married 9 Jan 1896 in Lock Haven, Clinton Co., Pennsylvania.

Alice was born 30 Nov 1878 in Loganton, Clinton Co., Pennsylvania. She died 1965 in Greenburr, Logan Twp., Clinton Co., Pennsylvania.

She is the daughter of Andrew Solomon & Carharine (Cashner) Knarr. At the time of her marriage, she was a resident of Ligonier, Pennsylvania.

Children of this relationship:

#208	M	i	Clarence W. Powers	(6 Nov 1896–19 May 1984)
#51027	M	ii	Earl Henry Powers	(20 Mar 1899–12 Apr 1901)
#51028	M	iii	Gordon Powers	(22 Apr 1902–1 Jun 1902)
#66821	U	iv	«Unknown» Powers	(Aft 1900–Bef 1910)
#209	M	v	Kenneth Edward "Earl" Powers	(15 Sep 1903–5 Jun 1994)
#46066	M	vi	William A. Powers	(31 Mar 1913–11 Oct 2000)

"Clair R. Powers", The Express, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania (23 Feb 1948), p. 2, col. 5.

(9 Jan 1896) license #2188, Lock Haven, Clinton Co., Pennsylvania.

1880 U.S. Census, Lamar Twp., Clinton Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010, Roll: 1113; Family History Film: 1255113; Page: 573D; Enumeration District: 247; Image: 0709.

1900 U.S. Census, Bald Eagle, Clinton Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009., Roll: 1397; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0007; FHL microfilm: 1241397.

1910 U.S. Census, Lamar Twp., Clinton Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009., Roll: T624_1332; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 0011; FHL microfilm: 1375345.

1920 U.S. Census, Lamar Twp., Clinton Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009., Roll: T625_1554; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 12; Image: 251.

1930 U.S. Census, Greene, Clinton Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002, Roll: 2021; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0014; Image: 719.0; FHL microfilm: 2341755.

1940 U.S. Census, Lamar Twp., Clinton Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012, Roll: T627_3472; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 18-19.

Charlotte Hensel, email to Tad Deffler, dated: 26 Apr 2007.

Jeffrey L. Kinley, "Mr", RootsWeb GEDCOM, (Ancestry.com WorldConnect , db=jkinley).

John Edward Powers WW I draft registration card, Roll: 1877880; Clinton Co., Pennsylvania (12 Sep 1918), Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

Justin Kirk Houser, "Justin Kirk Houser's Ancestry - Central Pennsylvania and beyond", RootsWeb GEDCOM, (Ancestry.com WorldConnect , db=jkhouser84).

Line Generation: 3

Relationship: Great-Grand-Uncle