POWELL, John

Date of birth:  7 Dec 1841 – Mercer County, Kentucky
Date of death: 14 Sep 1900 – Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 21, 1900,
Volume XLI Number 12, page 1 column 6

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DEATH OF JOHN POWELL.

John Powell, whose critical illness was mentioned last week, died Friday night, at 9:30 o’clock at his home north of Franklin.

Deceased was one of the best known citizens of Johnson county and held in the highest esteem. He had been hon­orable and industrious in business through life and thus merited and won success.

He was born December 7, 1841, in Mercer County, Kentucky, and when sixteen years old came to this county first engaging w____en the farm. On September 26, 1861 he was married to Juna [sic] A. Ransdall in which union were born eight children seven of whom are living viz: Alonzo; Ora and John Powell engaged in the stock yards at Indianapolis; George Powell of Hopewell; Mrs. Susan Tilson of Leb­anon, Misses Myrtle and Bessie Powell at home. William Ira Powell, another son, was killed a few years ago in a railroad accident.

Mr. Powell was for twenty-five years or more a leading stock-buyer in the county. The farm of 200 acres where he had so long resided he had owned for many years.

He was a member of the Hurricane Baptist church. The funeral services were held at this church Sunday mor­ning at 10:45, conducted by Rev. C. H. Hall and attended by a large number of friends. Burial at Greenlawn cemetery in Franklin.

In the death of Mr. Powell the county loses one of its best citizens.

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Link to John Powell’s grave

Notes: Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1875–1901 Volumn 3, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 64 that John Powell married Julia A. Ransdell on 24 Sep 1861.

Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Franklin Township, Johnson County, Certificate and Record of Death, page 190 records that John Powell died at about 9:30 o’clock p. m. on 14 Sep 1900 in Johnson County, Indiana from uremia of several days' duration, caused by cholangitis of sixteen days' duration, aged fifty-seven years, ten months and no days. He was male, white, married and a farmer, born in Kentucky. His parents' last names were Powell and Thompson, both born in Kentucky. The informant was George Powell. John was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery on 16 Sep 1900, E. G. Barnhizer, undertaker.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson