Jacob Powell.
The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was James Powell, of Welsh descent, a Revolutionary soldier, living in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where Josiah Powell, the father of our subject, was born July 31, 1779. James Powell moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he reared his family….Josiah Powell was married to Margaret Mug (born in Maryland, December 7, 1793), October 8, 1812, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where our subject was born March 10, 1815….He located in Bethlehem township in the spring of 1836 and induced his father, Josiah Powell, to come to fair Bethlehem, where he lived…until his death, May 6, 1867….Jacob Powell was united in marriage December 23, 1841, to Martha A. Troutman, daughter of James Troutman of Bethlehem township. Of this union four children were born: Orlando, who is a farmer of the township….Jacob Powell….did not enlist in the army, but spent one winter (1862) with the Twenty-ninth Indiana Regiment at his own expense as a scout in citizens clothes. Mrs. Powell died May 20, 1878….He died in Cass county, June 30, 1895, and rests in Bethlehem M. E. cemetery. James Troutman was born in Kentucky in 1793, was a soldier in the War of 1812; married Nancy Stephenson of Kentucky, May 8, 1817, who was born November 24, 1798; moved to Bethlehem township in 1835, and kept a tavern, the Seven Mile House…until his death, September 17, 1847….His wife died April 11, 1880, in Fulton county.
