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Benjamin

Nathaniel Powley
Birth Date:

June 24, 1845

Birth Location:

Kingston Township, Frontenac, Ontario

Death Date:

November 16, 1924

Death Location:

New York

Burial:

Jones Cemetery (Beaver Creek)
Rural Papineau, Illinois

Parents
Father
John Benjamin Powley
(1814-1895)
Mother
Catharine Leonard
(1819-1857)
Eight Full Siblings; One Half Sibling
1
Matthew
 Powley

1837-?
2
Joseph Coke
 Powley

1840-1904
3
John C. R.
 Powley
1842-?
4
Benjamin N.
 Powley

1845-1924
5
George Henry
 Powley
1848-?
6
Hiram L.
 Powley

1849-?
7
Reynolds
 Powley

1852-1905
8
Mary Jane
 Powley

1854-1930

1
Rachel
 Powley

1861-1931

Marriage

Benjamin N. Powley married Martha M. Canaday
on March 18, 1867 in Iroquois County, Illinois.

After Martha's death, Benjamin N. Powley married Sarah C. (?).

Children (in birth order)
1
Benjamin A.
 Powley

1870-1901
2
Alvin L.
 Powley

1872-1948
?
Clyde N.
 Powley

1876-1936
?
Ida
 Powley
1885-?
       
The first two children were born to Martha.  Clyde may have been born to Martha or Sarah.
Ida is believed to have been born to Sarah.  This information was taken from census records.  Benjamin may have had other children not listed.
Notes

Benjamin Powley enlisted to serve Company D of the 67th Illinois
Infantry during the Civil War.  His enlistment date was May 31, 1862.

In 1870, Benjamin and Martha Powley are living in Chicago, Illinois.  He is working as a
spice mill salesman.  Also living with them is Martha's sister, Melinda Kennedy (or Canaday).
(Melinda later married Benjamin's brother, Hiram Powley.)

In 1880, Benjamin Powley is living in Chicago, Illinois, and working as a hardware salesman.
The census lists his wife as Martha, age 22.  There is some discrepancy in the records, since
Martha's gravestone says she died in 1873 (which would make her unavailable to be counted
in the 1880 census).  If she was alive in 1880, her age would have been 32.  Either the date on
Martha's gravestone is wrong, or the census taker recorded the name of Benjamin's wife
incorrectly.  The 1880 census also lists the family as having three children:  Benjamin, Albert,
and Clyde.

In 1920, Benjamin Powley is living with his daughter Ida L.
Powley in Papineau Township, Iroquois County, Illinois.

Above:  Benjamin N. Powley's obituary.
Below:  Benjamin's grave.

Above:   The obituary for Benjamin's
second wife, Sarah.
Below:  Gravestone of Sadie,
Benjamin's second wife.

Sources
  1. Brant Gibbard's Genealogy Home Page, http://home.ca.inter.net/~bgibbard/gen/

 

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