Mary Jane (Thomas) Lowe Powers

 
 
l-r: Sylvester Constantine Powers; possibly Daniel McPherson

Enoch Dalton Culpepper - age 12 1858- aft, 1910 s/o Jesse Culpepper & Emeline Garrett husband of Rachel Susan Powers	Enoch Dalton Culpepper - later years [tintype photo]	Ethel Culpepper Vandegrift 1894 - 1993 [tombstone] d/o Enoch & Rachel Powers Culpepper wife of Leonard King Vandegrift

left - unidentified right - Alston Culpepper, s/o Enoch & Rachel	Walon D. Culpepper s/o Enoch & Rachel

   6. Luther L. Powers - b. Nov. 1867   d. __________; married Olivia _______ c1891

In 1880 Sylvester Powers is age 51 and listed as a widower.  Living with him are three of his children and a woman named Olevia Deans, age 47, who was born in Virginia and who was plagued with "dropsy" when the census was taken.  On September 8, 1883 Sylvester married Olevia in Moyock.  Her marriage license states her parents as Richard & Sarah F. Halstead so it is assumed that she was previously married to a Deans.  No known children came from this marriage and it is assumed that Olevia probably died before 1886.

Mary Jane Thomas was born Oct. 10, 1854 in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank Co., NC to Holloway & Milly Thomas.  Mary Jane had been previously married to Charles T. Lowe who was born c1854.  They had Aletha V. Lowe (born c1875), Rex H. Lowe (born c1876) and Dennis C. Lowe (born Nov. 1881).

On June 1, 1886 Sylvester C. Powers married Mary Jane (Thomas) Lowe.  Sylvester and Mary Jane had the following children:
   1. William Anderson Powers - born June 22, 1888 - died July 16, 1951.  The 1910 Norfolk Va. census shows William as a silk mill warper but he left soon after 1910 to work in New Jersey.  He was married c1916 to Elizabeth ______.  William and his family lived in Passaic Co., Paterson City, New Jersey in 1930 and his occupation was still listed as a silk mill warper.
   2. Mary Millicent Powers - born Nov. 16, 1889 - died Sept. 24, 1973 in Norfolk, Va.

left back - Mary Millicent Powers left front - William Anderson Powers [people on the right are unidentified]

First two photos and information kindly submitted by Michael Blanchfield, great-grandson of Sylvester & Mary Jane Powers.   The remaining photos in this section were submitted by Sue Abadie.  No part of this document may be used for any commercial purposes. However, please feel free to copy any of this material for your own personal use and family research.  Images are for personal use only, not for redistribution.  If anyone has any further information on this family please drop me a note so I can update this page.

Noah Washington Powers

The photo at right is Sarah McCoy Miller, wife of William Pierce Miller and mother of Ollie, pictured in the center.

These three photographs and information was taken from the book entitled Moyock - A Pictorial and Folk History 1900-1920 by Marion Fiske Welch; © 1982.   Permission to post on the Currituck website was granted by Marion (Welch) Thorn, daughter of the author.

back row: Harry Robert Powers & Emmett Eugene Powers
center row, older men: Noah Powers & his friend Shepherd Lee
front row: Ovasey Powers & Vernon Powers

Noah Washington Powers, son of Sylvester Constantine Powers & Susan Bundy was first married to Ann E. (Powers) Berry (b. July 1865) in Currituck Co. on Jan. 15, 1889.  This union produced 6 children, of which only 5 are known -- one died before the 1900 census was taken.
   1) Harry Robert Powers - b. Jan. 17, 1891 [tombstone says 1892; WW I Draft says 1891; WW II Draft says 1893]  d. May 1963; married Helen Elizabeth Reese (1888-1944)  [see tombstone]
   2) Emmett Eugene Powers - b. July 17, 1892  d. July 13, 1960; married Lela May Miller in 1917

Emmett Eugene Powers	Lela May (Miller) Powers

   3) Ovasey Powers - Sept. 26, 1894  d. March 1975; married William Whitson
   4) Vernon Fleetwood Powers - Feb. 17, 1896  d. Jan. 1, 1972; married Beulah Frost in 1936
   5) Ervin Powers - Feb. 17, 1900  d. Nov. 5, 1971; married __________

Noah's second marriage was to Olive E. "Ollie" Miller on Aug. 7, 1912 and two children were born from this marriage:
   1) Virginus Dare Powers - b. Aug. 19, 1914   d. May 5, 1965; married Mildred Mizel
   2) Woodrow Wilson Powers - b. May 15, 1916   d. Aug. 9, 1982; married __________

Above three photos and the Northwest School photo below were kindly submitted by Sue Abadie.   No part of this document may be used for any commercial purposes. However, please feel free to copy any of this material for your own personal use and family research.  Images are for personal use only, not for redistribution.  If anyone has any further information on this family please drop me a note so I can update this page.

Northwest School - c1900

Photo from an album owned by Marie Sawyer, granddaughter of Ethel Culpepper Vandergrift