Person:David Powell (21)

"...ran a threshing machine in the home neighborhood. In 1865 he moved to Marshall county, IN near Bourbon, where he bought eighty acres of timber land and as he says,"cut a hole in it and built a plank house." He then proceeded to clear off the timber deriving considerable income from sale of lumber. In 1869 he sold out and bought a cleared farm near by. In 1870 he bought an interest in a threshing machine, which he helped run, along with his farming, for twelve years. In 1882 he exchanged his farm near Bourbon for on of 200 acres near Plymouth, the county seat of he same county, where he lived until 1901, when he returned to Bourbon Twp and farmed four years. The second marriage took place in the mean time. In March, 1905, he rented the farm and located in bourbon where he lives a retired life, enjoying the fruit of his labor, being in comfortable circumstances. With his happy, cheerful disposition, he should live many more years to help those around him by his neighborly kindness, he has always been "a red-hot" Republican."S1

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} D.J. Powell. The Powell Family a Record and Biography of the Descendants of Thomas Powell, Sr. (1906, Damascus, Ohio).