Hello, Is there any additional information on Maria Gray? Do you know who "C. J. Case" may have been? Theron Moore, born 1786 in New York, father of Theron Moore born 1810 who lived in Lorain, was married to a Clarissa Gray on 9 Aug 1819 in Huron County, Ohio. Theron Moore, born 1810, married Delia Case, daughter of Moses Case and Charlotte Miller. Thanks - Barbara >From: MennoTy46@aol.com >Reply-To: OHLORAIN-L@rootsweb.com >To: OHLORAIN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [OHLORAIN] Wiulliam Sherman Powell >Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 07:42:24 EDT > >William Sherman Powell >Commemorative Biographical Record >of the Counties of >Huron and Lorain, Ohio >pages 847 - 848 > >William Sherman Powell was born July 28, 1833, in Charlotte, Chittenden >Co., >Vt., in which State his parents were also born. > >Calvin Powell, father of William S., was born August 19, 1799. On January >6, 1819, he was married in Charlotte, Vt., to Maria Gray, who was born >September 29, 1801. In Charlotte they resided until 1838, when they sold >out >and came to Lorain county, Ohio, with their family. The journey from >Vermont, a distance of seven hundred miles, was made in a covered wagon >with >four horses attached, the trip taking four weeks. Here they pujrchased 134 >acres of heavily timbered land. Mr. Powell by hard labor and preseverance >cleared up the entire farm, and he resided there until his death. The >children born to Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Powell were as follows: Alma M., born >February 27, 1821, died March 3, 1880 (wife of J. W. Rockwell); Henry >Sherman, born July 25, 1823, died April 25, 1888; Harriet, born September >20, >1826, died May 4, 1893 (wife of C. J. Case); Polly Ann, born November 10, >1828 (Mrs. William Rockwell, residing in St. Louis, Mo.); Elvera, born May >9, 1831, died June 14, 1890 (wife of Albert Eldred); William S. , subject >of >sketch; Lorenzo C., born June 23, 1837, a resident of Frankfort, Kans.; >Amelia, born August 12, 1839 (Mrs. George Hubbard, of Decatur, Mich.); and >Mary, born October 9, 1842 (Mrs. M. Tuscott, of Lanark, Ill.) Calvin >Powell >was a man of prominence, and held various township offices. He was a >member >of the Baptist Church of Elyria, a constant attendant and earnest >supporter. >He died January 26, 1860. Mrs. Powell was also a faithful member of the >same >church. Her death occurred August 17, 1883, at the home of her youngest >daughter in Lanark, Illinois. > >W. S. Powell, the subject of this sketch, spent his early life in Amherst >township, where he attended the common schools, first in the log >schoolhouse, >afterward at the select schools, where he obtained a practical education. >He >remained at home until he was twenty-two years of age. He then, in 1856, >went to Illinois, where he remained five months, and then returned to Ohio, >where he has since resided. On November 25, 1856, he was married to Miss >Betsey M. Bender, daughter of Peter Bender, a resident of Elyria. After >his >marriage he remained on the home farm two years, then rented a farm on Lake >Avenue, where he remained one year. When his father died he again rented >the >home farm, which he carried on two years. He then purchased a farm in the >southwest part of Amherst township, and here resided four years, at the end >of which time he sold, and bought a farm of one hundred acres three miles >north of Oberlin, where he lived eight years, in the meantime adding >fifty-two acres of land. He then sold, and removed to his present farm >which >contains about 150 acres, and is regarded as one of the finest farms in >Lorain county, sixty-two acres being in the corporation of Elyria. > >His children were as follows: Ella M., born June 18, 1861, died June 2, >1863; Orpha E., born October 10, 1864, married March 17, 1886 to John >Stang, >and now living in Elyria township (they have one child, Herbert Ralph, born >June 15, 1890); Elnora T., born November 12, 1866, married March 17, 1891, >to M. B. Sonnels, who holds a position as locomotive engineer on the Lake >Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, and they reside in Elyria; Mary May, >born November 20, 1871; Edwin Sherman, born August 21, 1873; and Arthur >William, born September 7, 1878. > >Mr. Powell is a self-made man, having made his own financial success. He >is >now carrying on his farm, and although sixty years of age is vigorous and >active. For many years he has been pominent in all public affairs relating >to both the township and county of his residence. He has always been a >pronounced Democrat of the Jacksonian school, ready at all times to express >his opinions, but at the same time disposed to be charitable to his >opponents. Equipped by nature with strong intellectual endowments and >rugged >physical powers, possessing a sterling honesty which characterizes his >conduct in all the offices of life, he has won a high place in the esteem >and >confidence of his fellowmen. > > >==== OHLORAIN Mailing List ==== >Search the Archive of Messages for OHLORAIN Mailing List >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp