Biography of Harvey Stone Powers - Wayne Co. WV


(This information was passed on to me by Steve and Janeen Reynolds. 
Out of Hardesty's History.)

Harvey Stone Powers is a native of Virginia, born in Scott county, 
February 25, 1853. Jonas and Sarah A. Reynolds Powers 
were his parents, both born in Scott county, Virginia, the former 
September 1, 1820 and the latter September 12, 1835. Jonas 
Powers served through the civil wasr in the Federal army, a member of 
Company E, 39th Kentucky Infantry. In 1875 he made 
his home in Wayne county, and Harvey S. accompanied him. In this county, 
November 23, 1877, Harvey S. Powers and 
America Watts were united in marriage, and in the home they have 
established are two children; Era, born March 7, 1880; Ira 
born August 12,1881. John Hansford Watts, born January 15, 1820, and 
Nancy Ross Watts, born in 1840, were the parents 
of Mrs. Powers, and she was born in Wayne county, April 10, 1859. Her 
mother died October 7, 1881. Harvey S. Powers 
owns 100 acres of land, well improved, well watered and with a fine 
young orchard, a portion of the land still heavily timbered 
with poplar, oak, and other hard woods. His wife has been in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church for fifteen years, and he has 
recently entered the same fold.


Submitted by Lorna Corns Workman <pworkman@newwave.net> 

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