Brief Life History of Edward William
When Edward William Powell was born on 31 December 1865, in Marshall, Clark, Illinois, United States, his father, John Milton Powell, was 21 and his mother, Margaret Ann Brown, was 21. He married Jennie Thankful Bolton in 1893, in Ellsworth, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Empire Township, Ellsworth, Kansas, United States for about 30 years. He died on 14 December 1936, in Kanopolis, Ellsworth, Kansas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Ellsworth, Kansas, United States.
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- Ed Powell, "United States Census, 1930"
- William Edward Powell, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ed in entry for Mrs Cleo Powell, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1867
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Ellsworth, Kansas, United States
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel ‘son of Hywel’, a personal name meaning ‘eminent’ (see Howell ).
Irish: mainly of Welsh origin as in 1 above, but sometimes a surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phóil ‘son of the servant of Saint Paul’ (see Guilfoyle ).
English: variant of Paul or Poole .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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