Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Moving the Hen House, for the Sake of the Shadow Lake Road

During January's Waterford Historical Society archives work, this remarkable document emerged from donated materials. "Town Road #19" is today called Shadow Lake Road; Glenn and Eva Powers are the parents of Willard Powers and Geneva Powers Wright; and the rest is up to you to read!


Interested in more about the Powers family? Here is a family tree showing early settlers and recent descendants, including the connection to Waterford's beloved and influential 20th-century historian Eugenia Powers:


Powers Family Tree

Michael Powers (1727 Ireland-1807) New London CT
mar. Hannah Fox (1728-1793 New London CT)
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Joseph Powers 1760 (CT)-1832 (Lunenburg VT) mar. Susan Barker (1770-1850)
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*Stephen Brunswick Powers (1798-1860, Lunenb.) mar. Almira Johnson
**Russell Powers (1807 b. Lunenb. VT – 1885, Lunenb.) mar. Louise Chase Powers (1816-1892)
+3 more siblings

**Russell Powers (1807 CT – 18855, Lunenb.) mar. Louise Chase Powers (1816-1892)
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Frank Russell Powers (1848-1936, b. Lunenb. VT) mar. (Concord VT) Sarah Ella Gilbert
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Glenn Gilbert Powers (1895-1982) mar. Eva Belle Page (1896-1977)
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Geneva Ella Powers (1919-2018) mar. (1 March 1938) Gilbert Augustus Wright
Theresa Powers (1921-1983) mar. Merton Roberts (1920-2003)
Russell Frank Powers (1924-2009) mar. Patricia Wallace (1926-)
Willard Bates Powers (b. 1925) mar. 1 (19 Dec 1946) Lina Elizabeth Bullock (1927-1986) [Lina Bullock’s parents: Frank Bullock, Lola Kirkpatrick];
                                                mar. 2 (4 Aug 1990) Gwendolyn Janice Sidell
Ellen Pearl Powers (1931-2003) mar. Donald Wark (1928-2011)

[Russell and Patricia’s children: Lois Eileen Powers 1950-1950, Daniel Glenn Powers 1953-2007; also Ronald, Kevin, Judith, Sandra, Sharon]

[Donald Wark’s parents: James Joseph Ira Wark 1906-1982, mar. Elizabeth Schubert (of German descent) 1907-1998]

[Glenn’s brother Roy F. Powers mar. Luvia M. Powers]


*Stephen Brunswick Powers (1798-1860, Lunenb.) mar. Almira Johnson
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Timothy Powers (1827-) mar. 1 Electa Balch (1837) [mar. 2 at age 60 Lizzie D. Hurlbutt]
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Ernest William Powers (1874-1960) mar. Stella Rebekah Church (1873-1959)
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Eulalie Powers (1912-1999)
Eugenia Powers (1913-1985)



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