Thank you, Judy, for the wonderfully informative story you sent on John Thompson Powers. So, he was married three times! That is a lot for that time in history, but I have found that men of that era seem to remarry soon after a wife dies (or divorce). Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Genealogy Bug" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [MOMARIES] John Wild, Elizabeth Henson Wild, Powers, Copeland > Elizabeth Ferrier was John Thompson Powers first wife. She was born 22 > Sep > 1804 in TN. She died 3 Dec 1864 in Maries County. They married about > 1825, > probably in Montgomery County (another courthouse fire!). After her death > he married Mary Ann whose maiden name MAY BE Darmon. She died 14 Aug 1873 > in Maries County. After her death, he married Elizabeth Henson Wild, a > widow. In 1888 John filed suit in Maries County Circuit Court for a > divorce. He claims she left him 2 Jun 1887. She crossfiled, claiming he > sold all of his property to his daughter, Catherine Dodds, and that left > him > without any assets that she could claim for alimony. On 13 Feb 1888 his > daughter, Catherine Dodds, soninlaw John Dodds, Rev Joseph David, Robert > Krone, David Renfrew, W. S. Dodds, James Rigsby and Matilda Rigsby (She is > a > granddaughter of John T. Powers, James is her husband) and T. Powers > (James > T. Powers, John's only son) went to court and filed an affadavit saying he > was not competent to handle his own affairs. There are two pieces of paper > from Jury Forement stating the jury had found him incompetent (insane) but > neither is dated. But, on 1 Aug 1887 James T. Powers as guardian and > curator filed an inventory of John's assets. The following day, 2 Aug, > they > had his sale. (On the sale were two books sold to son James, but no books > were on the 1 Aug inventory. Could one have been a bible? As John was > both a Physician and a Preacher I would surely expect to find at least one > bible, perhaps a large family one, and perhaps a smaller one he could > carry > around with him on his calls. There are a great many marriages in the > Maries > County records which show him as the Minister.) > > By 1887, John was 81 years old, and probably senile. Elizabeth Wild was > 30 > years younger, and probably not willing to care for a senile old man, thus > the divorce. His children were unwilling to take in him in, and that > makes > me wonder if perhaps he got violent at times? For what ever reason, he > spent the balance of his life in the State Asylum at Nevada MO. Haven't > been able to find where those records went when it closed, but I would > really like to read his file. In Feb 1894, he died, thus ending a long > career as a man who cared for a man's soul as well as his body. > > Judy Germann > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Mary E. Stigler > Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOMARIES] John Wild, Elizabeth Henson Wild, Powers, Copeland > > How does Elizabeth Ferrier fit into J. T. Powers life?? I have his > first > wife as Elisabeth Henson m. 1879 - no death date or divorce for her. I > do > > not know his last wife's surname. (Mary Ann ??) > > Mary > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message