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POWELL, GEO. W., farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 31; P. O. Clay’s Grove; son of Archibald Powell, who was born in Loudoun Co., Va., December, 1784, and soon after reaching his 21st year, he removed to Bedford Co., Penn., where he married Miss Elizabeth Adams, who was born in Bedford Co., Penn., June 23, 1792; they afterward settled in Franklin Co., Ohio, where they died and left a family of six children — four sons and two daughters; George was the fourth; born in Bedford Co., Penn., Jan. 25, 1815, and at the age of 23, he married Nancy daughter of Elihu and Mary McCracken, of that county, Ohio, from the State of Delaware; she was born in Franklin Co., Ohio, March 22, 1818; in 1865, they removed to Lee Co., and settled where they now reside and own 993 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre; had eleven children, ten now living — Clarissa A. (born Dec. 14, 1838, the wife of W. A. Geese, Cedar Tp.), Martha S. (Oct. 21, 1840, wife of Mathias Newby, of Marion Tp.), Joseph T. (Sept. 29, 1842), David M. (Sept. 17, 1844), Aurelia (Nov. 18, 1846, the wife of M, P. Mathews, of Van Buren Tp.), John W. (Feb. 22, 1848), William L. (Jan. 14, 1851), George T. (June 8, 1853), Nancy O. (Nov. 9, 1855; died Oct, 6, 1857), Oliver L. (Nov. 17, 1857) and Laura A. (July 2, 1860). A Jackson Democrat, conservative and conciliatory, however, rather than radical in his views and feelings. Mr. and Mrs. Powell have passed thirty-seven years of their lives as members of the M. E. Church, to which he has devoted much time and attention, having acted as Leader and Steward both in Ohio and Iowa, and has been Superintendent of the Sabbath schools for twenty-five years; to educational matters, as well, Mr. Powell has given a share of his time and attention, his children all having received a liberal education; all now married except the two youngest and all settled in Lee Co.; although not very far advanced in age, Mr. and Mrs. Powell have twenty-four grandchildren.