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Isaac Jamison POWELL
(1843 –1921)

 

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1. Adelia Emily COLLVER

Isaac Jamison POWELL 4 5
  • Born: 21 April 1843, Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, USA 2 3 6
  • Marriage (1): Adelia Emily COLLVER on 18 January 1870 in Empire, on Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon, USA 1 2 3
  • Died: 6 September 1921, Tygh Valley, Wasco County, Oregon, USA at age 78 7 8
  • Buried: 1921, Grandview, Yakima County, Washington, USA

bullet   Cause of his death was Heart Disease, about 3 years.

bullet   Other names for Isaac were Isaac J. POWELL,3 Issac J. POWELL 8 and J. Isaac POWELL.2

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bullet  General Notes

Was an Indian Agent; very involved with the mission at Warm Springs, Oregon.

bullet  Death Notes

Age at death 78 years, 4 months, 17 days.

bullet  Burial Notes

Grandview Cemetery. Isaac was originally interred in the local cemetery near his farm (Kelly Cemetery), but his children thought he should be buried next to his wife.  The story is that — in the dead of night, and completely illegally — several of the older sons dug him up out of Kelly Cemetery, drove several hours up to Grandview Cemetery and re-buried him next to Adelia.

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He was United Brethren.
  • He has conflicting birth information of April 1842 and Missouri, USA.
  • He has conflicting birth information of 19 April 1843 and Missouri, USA. 8
  • He has conflicting birth information of 19 April 1843 and Van Buren County, Missouri, USA. (He was born in what was later named Cass County, Missouri.)
  • He has conflicting birth information of 21 April 1843 and Clay County, Missouri, USA. 2 3 9
  • Isaac crossed the plains when he was 2 years old. He left Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, USA on 15 May 1845 to travel west with the great wagon train of 1845.
  • He appeared on the 1850 US Federal Census on 24 January 1850 in Marion County, Oregon Territory, USA. 10 Marion County, Oregon Territory, USA (Isaac, age 7)

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  • Fact: Isaac helped build Rock Creek Methodist Church (now a museum in the cemetery), in 1858, in Needy, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA.
  • He appeared on the 1860 US Federal Census on 19 July 1860 in Sublimity, Marion County, Oregon, USA. 11 Sublimity, Marion County, Oregon, USA (I.J., age 17)
  • He was educated at Willamette University about 1862 in Oregon, USA.
  • He taught school (Waldo Hills, then at Coos Bay [Empire], Oregon; then he began to preach (Coos Bay, Dufur, Tygh Valley, Warm Springs, Wapinitia, The Dalles, & Needy, Oregon) about 1868.
  • He appeared on the 1870 US Federal Census on 19 August 1870 in Lincoln Precinct, Marion County, Oregon, USA. 12 Lincoln Precinct, Marion County, Oregon, USA (Isaac, age 27)
  • He worked as a farmer on 25 June 1880 in Fifteen Mile, Wasco County, Oregon, USA. 2

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  • He appeared on the 1880 US Federal Census on 25 June 1880 in Fifteen Mile, Wasco County, Oregon, USA. 2

1880 Census Place: Fifteen Mile, Wasco, Oregon
Name / Race / Gender / Age / Relation / Marital Status / Occupation / Birthplace / Father's Birthplace / Mother's Birthplace

Powell J. Isaac     W   M   37                 Married   Farmer          Missouri  
------ E. Adelia    W   F   28      Wife       Married   Keeping house   Utah       Ohio       Iowa
------ W. Herbert   W   M    9      Son                                  Oregon     Missouri   Utah
------ M. John      W   M    8      Son                                  Oregon     Missouri   Utah
------ R. Alice     W   M    5      Daughter                             Oregon     Missouri   Utah
------ W. James     W   M    3      Son                                  Oregon     Missouri   Utah
------ A. Nancy     W   F   5/12*   Daughter                             Oregon     Missouri   Utah
   *Born in February 1880

  • He worked as an United Brethren Minister on 13 June 1900 in Dufur, Wasco County, Oregon, USA. 3

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  • He appeared on the 1900 US Federal Census on 13 June 1900 in Dufur, Wasco County, Oregon, USA. 3

Name / Relation / Race / Sex / Birth / Age / Marital Status and Number of Children / Birthplace / Father's Birthplace / Mother's Birthplace / Occupation

Powell  Isaac J    Head       W  M   Ap   1843   57  M  30         Missouri  Virginia   Virginia   U B Minister*
------  Adelia E   Wife       W  F   Jny  1853   47  M  30  9  8   Utah      Ohio       Ohio      
------  Eva        Daughter   W  F   July 1883   16  S             Oregon    Missouri   Utah       at school
------  Bessie     Daughter   W  F   Dec  1885   14  S             Oregon    Missouri   Utah       at school
------  Lida       Daughter   W  F   Dec  1888   11  S             Oregon    Missouri   Utah       at school
------  Myrtle     Daughter   W  F   July 1892    7  S             Oregon    Missouri   Utah       at school
------  James      Son        W  M   June 1877   22  S             Oregon    Missouri   Utah       Farm Laborer
Barzee  Alice      Daughter   W  F   Aug  1874   25  M   1         Oregon    Missouri   Utah
   *Owns house free of mortgage

Census:  First Street, Dufur City, Dufur Precinct, Wasco County, Oregon, USA (Enumeration District No. 149, Sheet No. 6);
         enumerated on the 13th of June 1900, but data recorded as of 01 June 1900

  • He appeared on the 1910 US Federal Census on 19 April 1910 in Tygh Valley Precinct, Wasco County, Oregon, USA. 13 Tygh Valley Precinct, Wasco County, Oregon, USA (Isaac J., age 66)

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  • He was buried at the Grandview Cemetery in Grandview, Yakima County, Washington, USA in 1921. Isaac was first buried at Kelly Cemetery up on Juniper Flat (near Maupin), in Wasco County, Oregon.  Later, however, his body was moved to be next to his wife, who was buried in Grandview, Yakima County, Washington.  He was moved by "the elder boys" (the grandsons, probably Carl and Lawrence Powell).  According to the family story, the re-interment was done unofficially, in the middle of the night.
  • He worked as a farmer & minister before 6 September 1921 in Tygh Valley, Wasco County, Oregon, USA. 8

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  • Gallery: Death Certificate, on 6 September 1921, in Tygh Valley, Wasco County, Oregon, USA.
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Isaac married Adelia Emily COLLVER, daughter of Alfred Bainbridge COLLVER and Ruth RICE, on 18 January 1870 in Empire, on Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon, USA.1 2 3 (Adelia Emily COLLVER was born on 17 January 1852 in Provo, Utah County, Utah, USA,2 14 15 died on 31 May 1920 in Grandview, Yakima County, Washington, USA 15 16 17 and was buried on 2 June 1920 in Grandview, Yakima County, Washington, USA 18.). The cause of her death was Tuberculosis.


bullet  Marriage Notes

Adelia married Isaac the day after she turned 18.  He had come to Coos County to teach school; about the time they were married he decided to become a Methodist minister. 

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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 12. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  2. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), J. Isaac Powell household, Fifteen-Mile, Wasco County, Oregon; Roll T9_1084; Family History Film 1255084; Page 282D; Enumeration District 123; Image 0558.
  3. Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls), Isaac J. Powell household, First Street, Dufur City, Dufur Precinct, Wasco County, Oregon, USA; 1900 Census Place: Dufur, Wasco, Oregon, roll 1353, page 6B, enumeration district 0149, FHL microfilm 1241353.
  4. Kirsty M. Haining.
  5. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 12, 56, 91-92. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  6. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 7. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  7. Ancestry.com, Oregon, Death Index, 1898 – 2008 [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: State of Oregon. Oregon Death Index, 1903 –1998. Salem, OR, USA: Oregon State Archives and Records Center; and Oregon Death Indexes, 1903 –1970 and Oregon Death Indexes, 1971– 2008; Salem, OR, USA: Oregon State Library), Isaac J. Powell death, 06 Sep 1921, Wasco County, Oregon, Certificate No. 78.
  8. Death Certificate (digital or paper copy of official death record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining).
  9. Personal knowledge of Elden Eugene Richmond (1924 – 2017), family historian. Email Kirsty Haining for contact info for Elden.
  10. Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. NARA microfilm publication M432, 1009 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, DC).
  11. Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, National Archives, Washington, DC).
  12. Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Ninth Census of the United States, 1870, NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls; and Minnesota Census Schedules for 1870, NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, National Archives, Washington, DC).
  13. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC).
  14. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 55, 66, 91. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  15. Washington Death Certificates, 1907 –1960, Adelia Emily Powell death, 1920, Grandview, Yakima County, Washington.
  16. Obituary.
  17. Death Certificate (digital or paper copy of official death record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining), 1920 Adelia Emily Powell in Grandview, WA.
  18. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 92. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.


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