Joseph Alvers Powers

1808–January 1879 (Age 71)
Clarke, Durham, Ontario, Canada

The Life Summary of Joseph Alvers

When Joseph Alvers Powers was born in 1808, in Clarke, Durham, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph Powers, was 58 and his mother, Rebecca Stearns, was 41. He married Caroline Amelia Walker in January 1836, in Smith, Lesser Slave River No.124, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died in January 1879, in Durham, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 71, and was buried in Gage Cemetery, Ferrisburgh, Addison, Vermont, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Alvers Powers
1808–1879
Caroline Amelia Walker
1820–1906
Marriage: January 1836
Freeman Powers
1841–1870
Salina Jane Powers
1842–
Hartwell Abner Powers
1844–1919
Joseph Walker Powers
1848–1932
Levi Osgood Powers
1853–
Caroline Laura Powers
1855–1934

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    January 1836Smith, Lesser Slave River No.124, Alberta, Canada
    • Children

    (6)

    +1 More Child

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (10)

    +5 More Children

    World Events (7)

    1808
    Age 0
    Atlantic slave trade abolished.
    1812
    Age 4
    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
    1830 · The Second Great Awakening
    Age 22
    Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

    Name Meaning

    English (Warwickshire and Lancashire): variant of Power , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Power

    Sources (12)

    • Joseph Powers in entry for Hartwell A Powers, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
    • Joseph in entry for Henry Adams and Selina Jane Powers, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
    • Joseph Powers in entry for Caroline Breen, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"

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