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ID: I049674
Name: James M. Powell
Sex: M
Birth: 16 MAY 1860 in Whips Cove, Fulton Co., Pa.
Death: 25 DEC 1928 in Norristown, Pa. 521 Haws Ave.
Burial: Riverside Cemetery Norristown, Pa.
Note:

    James M. Powell lived with his mother's family, the William Harts,
    after his father was killed two miles east of Atlanta, Georgia during the
    American Civil War.  William Hart's house was later known as the "Nettie
    Place" because Nettie Layton Diehl lived there. In that house in later
    years could be seen a doll carved from plaster of paris. This doll was
    reputed to have been a childhood toy of James M. Powell.  After James's
    father Isaac Powell was killed his brother in law Abner Hart chose not
    to be drafted into the US Army. There was a secret wall constructed in
    the attic of the house where he could hide just one rafter back from
    the real end of the house. When Abner was on the top of Sideling Hill
    mountain he could look over toward his home and if his mother's large
    bed sheet was on the clothes line, if so it meant Captain Hull the draft
    law enforcer, and only Republican in Whips Cove at the time, was not in
    the area.  Abner spent many nights sleeping under an overhanging rock
    near the Rockhouse on the east side of Sideling Hill Mountain. Other
    young men of similiar purpose used this shelter too. Their families
    would carry food up to the mountain to keep them from starving.

Father: Isaac C. Powell b: 15 JUL 1836 in Bethel Twp, Bedford (now Fulton) Co, PA
Mother: Rebecca Jane Hart b: 30 MAY 1836 in Whips Cove, Fulton Co., Pa.

Marriage 1 Jennie Davis b: 7 JAN 1867

    Married: 

Children

    Jessie L. Powell b: 20 JAN 1893

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