William Powe

William Powe is buried in the family cemetery located behind the house he built in 1811. It is said that William Powe asked the family to bury him in a plot behind the house and he wanted no tombstone at his grave--just a lightwood knot be placed at his head. Until a few years ago one remained there. After the lightwood knot was gone descendants joined together to purchase a headstone for William Powe and to put a chain wire fence around the cemetery. In this year of 2003 the house is still standing but is in much need of repair. It is privately owned by persons unrelated to the Powe family.

Birth: Oct. 22, 1766

South Carolina, USA

Death: 1840, USA

Burial:

Powe Cemetery

Buckatunna

Wayne County

Mississippi, USA

Record added: Jan 28 2003

By: Emma Jean McKee

William Ellerbe Powe

Birth: Feb. 9, 1829

Death: Jan. 29, 1905

Inscription: Born in Cheraw S.C.

Burial:

Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery

Morganton

Burke County

North Carolina, USA

Record added: Jun 17 2003

By: Armantia

Alexander Powe

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Birth: Mar. 3, 1771

South Carolina, USA

Death: Feb. 22, 1825

Mississippi, USA

Alexander Powe, son of Thomas and Rachel Allen Powe, was born in Darlington District, S. C. Emigrated to Mississippi in 18ll and settled approximately two miles south of Winchester in Wayne County. His wife's name was Eliza Spencer. Burial:

Powe Cemetery

Winchester

Wayne County

Mississippi, USA

Eleanor Ester Powe

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Birth: Aug. 9, 1840

Death: Sep. 11, 1843

Burial:

Arrington Cemetery

Wayne County

Mississippi, USA

Record added: May 29 2005

By: jamie baygents

Eliza Spencer Powe

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Birth: Feb. 27, 1783

Chesterfield County

South Carolina, USA

Death: Feb. 10, 1850

Winchester

Wayne County

Mississippi, USA

Eliza Spencer Powe was the daughter of Calvin and Rebecca Ford Spencer. She married Alexander Powe on 21 Feb. 1799. They emigrated to Mississippi in 1811 and settled approximately two miles south of Winchester in Wayne County. Their children were: Mary Anne Powe b 26 Jan 1800 d 3 May 1873 m Edward Hall, Mobile, AL; Harriet R. Powe b 1 Aug 1801 m Alexander Edwards, Raymond MS; Calvin Spencer Powe b 1 Jan 1803 m Adeline Smith lived Wilcox Co., AL; Oliver Horace Powe b 6 July 1804; H. Hawley Powe b 5 Jan 1806 d 19 Sept 1808; Sarah Eliza Powe b 5 Aug 1808 m Mr. Hendrix of Louisiana; Thomas Alexander Powe b 1 Nov 1809 Chesterfield, S. C.; William Erasmus Powe b 20 March 1812; Lavinia Elizabeth Powe b 27 Feb 1814; Caroline L. Powe b 14 April 1816 m Jessie Praxton of Texas; Samuel Henry Powe b 9 July 1818 d 27 June 1896.

Burial:

Powe Cemetery

Winchester

Wayne County

Mississippi, USA

Record added: Jul 31 2000

By: Emma Jean McKee

Sgt Erasmus L. Powe

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Birth: unknown

Death: unknown

Charlottesville city

Virginia, USA

Co.B,13th Miss.Inf.Regt.

Burial:

Confederate Cem.,U.Va.

Charlottesville city

Virginia, USA

Record added: Jul 13 2005

By: Scott Hutchison

Harriet Elizabeth Pegues Powe

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Birth: Aug. 15, 1770

South Carolina, USA

Death: unknown

Mississippi, USA

Harriet Elizabeth Marcia Pegues Powe was the wife of William Powe. She was the daughter of William and Elizabeth Sanders Pegues. Harriet and William moved from South Carolina to Wayne County in 1811 and built a three story house not far from the town of Buckatunna, Mississippi on the Chickasawhay River. Harriet and William Powe had thirteen children: William Powe b 10 May 1790 d young; Harriet Pegues Powe b 8 Aug 1791; Thomas Powe b 12 Dec 1793; Claudius Powe b 27 Aug 1895; Alexander Craig Powe b 17 May 1797; William Henry Pegues Powe b 27 April 1799; Calvin Powe b 8 Feb 1801; Edwin Powe b 5 Oct 1802; Rufus B. Powe b 27 Sept 1804; Caroline E. Powe b 27 May 1806; Maria Powe b 13 Dec 1807; Elizabeth Powe b 12 Nov 1809; Erasmus W. Powe b 14 April 1813.

Burial:

Powe Cemetery

Buckatunna

Wayne County

Mississippi, USA

Record added: Jan 28 2003

By: Emma Jean McKee

Henrietta McWillie Stover Powe

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Birth: Mar. 10, 1829

Alabama, USA

Death: Sep. 23, 1915, USA

Henrietta McWillie Stover was born in Evergreen, Alabama, daughter of William Bradford Stover and Sarah McWillie Stover. She married Samuel Henry Powe 2 Oct 1850. They built a new house on the property settled by Alexander Powe after the house Alexander had built burned in 1856. The house Samuel and Henrietta built burned in 1927. The children of Samuel Henry and Henrietta were: Alexander Powe b 17 Aug 1851 d 11 Nov. 1919; Sarah McWillie Powe b 16 Aug 1855 d 21 Jan 1859; Elizabeth Lavinia Powe b 16 April 1858 d 27 March 1940 Unmarried; Samuel Henry Powe, Jr. b 30 Oct. 1860 d 22 March 1935; Oliver Spencer Powe b 5 March 1864 d 24 Aug 1871 (twin); William Stover Powe b 5 March 1864 d 8 March 1946 (twin); James McWillie Powe b 26 April 1867 d 28 March 1940; George Prentice Powe b 17 March 1869 d 22 Dec. 1942. Henrietta and her family were Methodists.

Burial:

Powe Cemetery

Winchester

Wayne County

Mississippi, USA

Record added: Jan 28 2003

By: Emma Jean McKee

Katie Tate Powe

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Birth: Apr. 9, 1841

Death: Feb. 10, 1918

Inscription: And His WIfe (William Ellerbe Powe)

Burial:

Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery

Morganton

Burke County

North Carolina, USA

Record added: Jun 17 2003

By: Armantia

Martha Olivia Powe

Birth: 1849

Death: 1931

Burial:

Oak Hill Cemetery

Talladega

Talladega County

Alabama, USA

Record added: Jan 8 2003

By: Richard Robinson

Samuel Henry Powe

Birth: Jul. 9, 1818

Winchester

Wayne County

Mississippi, USA

Death: Jun. 27, 1896

Mississippi, USA

The following is summarized from his obituary written by W. S. Davis: Samuel Henry Powe was a member of the Legislature from 1854-1858. In May 1861 he went to the Civil War as a first lieutenant in the Wayne Rifles, which was afterwards known as Company B, Thirteenth Mississippi Regiment. He was promoted to captain in July, 1862 after Capt. W. J. Eckford was killed in the seven days of battles around Richmond. In 1863, being unable to perform the labors in the infantry service, he resigned and joined the cavalry and was elected first lieutenant, where he served in Adam's Brigade, Forest's command until the close of the war. He was kind to all his men and was always doing everything he could for their welfare, especially those that were sick and wounded. The title of "Colonel" was bestowed on him by one of the governors of this State. Colonel Powe was a man of great energy. At the close of the war he came home and found his property gone; but he was not the man to complain, and went to work and was soon in independent circumstances. He was a man of fine memory and splendid conversational power. He was personally acquainterd with many of the leading men both State and National. He remembered well the great Indian, Pushmataha, chief of the Choctaws, whom his father had entertained.

He married Henrietta McWillie Stover on October 2, 1850. Together they had eight children. These children are listed under Henrietta McWillie Stover's biography.

Burial:

Powe Cemetery

Winchester

Wayne County

Mississippi, USA

Record added: Aug 5 2000

By: Emma Jean McKee

Susan McGhee Powe

Birth: 1829

Death: 1898

Burial:

Oak Hill Cemetery

Talladega

Talladega County

Alabama, USA

Record added: Jan 8 2003

By: Richard Robinson