#216 Anna Katherine Powers ( Arthur Erastus PowersHenry Edward "Edward" PowerGeorge Power )

Anna was born 13 Oct 1904 in Salona, Clinton Co., Pennsylvania. She died 20 Oct 1992 in Hollywood, Broward Co., Florida from lymphablastic leukemia. She was cremated.

The Clinton Co. Record of Births has her birth year, erroneously, as 1905. This is a hand-written document, often constructed well after the events it recorded.

She went to school only as far as the tenth grade. She then took a job clerking in Smiths' Department Store she met Lewis, a coal miner. After their marriage, they moved into a house near where her parents lived in West Derry.

Anna was visiting her parents when she went into labor with her first child, and Charlotte was born in her grandparents' home. Eight weeks later, Mayme died and Anna went home to act as a wet nurse for her infant sister, Josephine. Shortly after that, Leiws and Anna moved to Shamokin, where he went to work in the anthracite mines.

After Lewis' death in a mine accident, Anna was left with two small children. She stayed for a short time with her father and siblings in the family home in Derry, then went to work as a clerk, a waitress, anything she could do to earn a living for them. Usually one of her sisters or brothers stayed with them to help with the children while she worked. At one point tried her hand at a confectionary store in Derry, but it failed.

Anna married again to Alfonse Wazelle, moved to Blairsville, and went to work in the Woolen Mill in Latrobe. Later, she and Al partnered with her brother, Jim, and his wife as bar owners in New Kensington.

After her daughter, Nancy's, murder Anna and Al left New Kensington and moved back to Blairsville where both went to work at the Torrance State Hospital. They stayed there until retirement. A few years after that, they moved to Florida.

Both Anna and Al were cremated and their ashes scattered.

Anna married first #217 Lewis Bryan Showers.

Marriage notes

They married.

 

Lewis was born 16 May 1900 in Pennsylvania. He died 25 Apr 1927 in Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania from a mine accident. He was buried in St. James Cemetery, Youngstown, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania.

Lewis was a coal miner. After his marriage, he went to work in the anthracite mines in Shamokin. Miners worked in pairs and Lewis' partner was his stepfather, Emerson Davies. The two of them were going down into a mine single file when they rounded a corner and were hit by a dynamite blast. Emerson was unharmed, but Lewis..in the lead...was killed instantly.

Children of this relationship:

#317FiCharlotte Alberta Showers(4 Jul 1924–15 Jun 2012)
#319FiiNancy Gene Showers(14 Nov 1925–26 Nov 1953)

Anna married second #218 Alphonse "Al" Wazell.

Marriage notes

They married 13 Aug 1938.

They were married in the home of the minister, Rev. Timothy F. Sexton.

 

Al was born 14 May 1905. He died 14 Sep 1985. He was cremated.

Al lived in Blairsville, where he worked at the glass plant, as a police officer and later at the American Locomotive in Latrobe.


"Clintondale", The Express, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania (29 Sep 1936), p. 3, col. 4.

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: 9A; Enumeration District: 0011; FHL microfilm: 1375345.

1920 U.S. Census, Scalp Level, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010, Roll: T625_1662; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 88; Image: 892.

Charlotte Hensel, email to Tad Deffler, dated: 19 Mar 2007.

Lewis Bryan Showers, cemetery notes, www.findagrave.com, #90984637.

Personal recollection of Florence (Powers) Deffler, as related to Tad Deffler.


Line Generation: 4

Relationship: Grand-Aunt