Brief Life History of Drucella
When Drucella Powell was born on 19 March 1847, her father, Joshua Powell, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth Moore, was 18. She married John M Clark in 1868, in Vigo, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Lewis Township, Clay, Indiana, United States in 1870 and Terre Haute, Sullivan, Indiana, United States for about 20 years. She died on 5 May 1911, in Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, United States.
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- Drucella Clark in household of J M Clark, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Drucella Powell - birth: March 1847; Greene, Indiana, United States
- Drusilla Powell, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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