Wasco County OR Archives Photo Tombstone.....Powell, John Melvin ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kirsty Haining khaining@comcast.net March 24, 2009, 2:25 am Cemetery: Kelly Cemetery Name: John Melvin Powell Date Of Photograph: July 17, 2005 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/wasco/photos/tombstones/kelly/powell3060gph.jpg Image file size: 166.1 Kb Gravestone of John Melvin Powell and Della Alice White, Kelly Cemetery, near Maupin, Wasco County, Oregon, USA. Photo taken 17 July 2005 by Kirsty Haining. Tombstone transcription: POWELL JOHN M. 1872 - 1958 DELLA A. 1877 - 1927 ** JOHN MELVIN POWELL was born 09 Feb 1872 in Marshfield, Coos County, Oregon, USA (now known as Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon, USA). He was the second son of the Methodist circuit preacher and farmer Isaac Jamison Powell and his wife, Adelia Emily Collver. The family eventually settled in Wasco County, farming in Dufur and Tygh Valley. On 31 December 1896 in Wapinitia, Wasco County, Oregon, John married his wife, Della Alice White, daughter of Homer White and Nancy Anna Powell (a different branch of Powells). They had a homestead up on Juniper Flat, near Wapinitia, and all of their 10 children were born there on the family farm. Della developed colon cancer, and died in 1927 in The Dalles. John remarried a few times (although none of them were lengthy marriages), lost the homestead because of financial difficulties (some stemming from Della's medical bills), and eventually ended up in Portland, where he died on 07 Feb 1958. He was buried in Kelly Cemetery, next to Della, on 11 Feb 1958. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/wasco/photos/tombstones/kelly/powell3060gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb