FRANCES POWLES - Biography

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This biography appears on page 656 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

FRANCES POWLES, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Union Grove; widow of John
Powles, who was born in Wales, May 12, 1838, and died Dec. 30, 1877; he
was a brave soldier in the late war, serving his time faithfully in the
22d Wisconsin regiment; he was a mason by trade, worked on the capitol
at Madison, also on Congregational Church, in Union Grove; was a
respected man, and left his family well provided for. He married Francis
Damon Dec. 19, 1865; she has had four children, three living- William
C., born March 6, 1867, Lena, June 19, 1868, Harley, Sept. 28, 1872, and
died, June 22, 1874; Nellie, born March 20, 1876. Mrs. Powles has a
comfortable home and a farm of eighty acres. Member of Congregational
Church; her grandfather was Captain in the Revolutionary war.