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Isaac F Powers   see FAMILY TREE
Born: Abt. 1794 New Jersey    
     
Married: Abt. 1816 to Nancy Wills Huff

Died: Probably Abt. 1836 Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH
   

FATHER

Isaac Powers 

WIFE

Nancy Wills Huff

CHILDREN

1.Eliza Jane Powers  b. Abt. 1817 OH
Married to Leroy Tomlinson. In 1850 Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY, Nancy and Isaac Powers are living with them. Leroy C. Tomlinson gave consent for Mary Ann Powers to marry John B. Stoll on 4 April 1843

2. Jacob Huff Powers b. 16 Nov 1818 OH
Gave consent for Susan Powers to marry Jesse H. Jones on 15 May 1845

3. Andrew J. Powers b. 23 Feb 1824 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH
In 1860 Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY his daughter Blanch Powers is 3. In 1870 Blanche aged 13 is living with Jesse and Susan Jones in Louisville.

4. Susan C. Powers b. 15 Apr 1828 OH (date of birth taken from headstone) Obviously either this date of birth or the date of birth of her sister, Mary Ann Powers, is incorrect.
In her marriage record 15 May 1845 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY to Jesse H. Jones, it is stated she is the "daughter of Nancy Powers who consents hereto as provided by the oath of Jacob Powers"


5. Mary Ann Powers b. 10 Sep 1828 OH (date of birth taken from death certificate)
In marriage record 4 Apr 1843 Louisville to John B. Stoll it states she is "daughter of Nancy Powers who consents as provided by the oath of Leroy Tomlinson. Leroy Tomlinson was the husband of Eliza Jane Powers.

6. Elmira Powers b. 15 Sep 1831 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH
Married 04 Oct 1853 Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY to Henry Stoll as bound by John B. Stoll. Her sister Mary Ann Powers was married to John B. Stoll.

7. Isaac F. Powers b. Abt 1832 OH
Living in household of Leroy and Eliza Jane Powers Tomlinson in 1850, Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY

8.Sarah Alice Powers b. 13 Mar 1835 KY
listed as Sarah A. Powers born about 1835 and living with Jesse and Susan C Powers Jones in Lafayette, Floyd, Indiana in 1850
listed as Alace Powers born about 1840 and .living with Elmira Powers Stoll in Louisville Ward 1, Jefferson, Kentucky in 1860 census
permission to marry in 1860 given by John B. Stoll
oral history from Lulu Jones Ridgeway has it that there was a sister Alice. courtesy of Anne Cope at [email protected]

 

Isaac F Powers
by Susan Brooke
Nov 2019

According to the 1880 census records for his children, Isaac F Powers was born in New Jersey and we assume he was born about 1794.  He may be the Isaac Powers who served in the War of 1812 under Captain John Humes who was from Hamilton Co. OH. This company was formed mostly from Clermont County, OH which is just west of Hamilton Co.(1) The War may have brought Isaac and his parents to the Cincinnati area. Andrew Jackson Powers, son of Isaac F Powers, was born in Cincinnati on 23 Feb 1824. (3) So the family was probably living with his father, Isaac Powers, Sr. in 1825 when the Cincinnati City Directory lists his father as "drayman" born in PA. (4)  In 1829, the family was living together at Vine above Canal. (5)
The 1830 census shows the three generations living together. (6) Isaac Powers Sr. was between 50 and 60 and his son, Isaac F. Powers,  between 30 and 40.  The children listed fix exactly with the known children of Isaac F. Powers.  In the 1831  Cincinnati Directory  Isaac Powers is listed as "laborers," indicating there were still two adult males in the family.
By 1834, Isaac F. Powers and his wife Nancy and 7 children had moved across the Ohio River to Covington, KY. (7)  Their oldest child, Eliza Jane Powers, was 17 years old at the time.  It was there in Covington that she met her future husband, Leroy C. Tomlinson.  Leroy Tomlinson first showed up on those tax records in 1835. (8) In 1835 Isaac F. Powers and Nancy Wills Huff had their last child, Sarah Alice Powers, who by all census records was born in KY, giving us even more evidence that the Isaac Powers in Covington is our Isaac F. Powers.
His father, Isaac Powers, Sr., however, was still living in Cincinnati. In 1834 he was living on Race St between Canal and 12th.  In the Cincinnati tax records for 1835-1836 Isaac Powers was living on Burnet in a residence that had 20 feet.  His total worth was $150 and he owed $3.34 in taxes. (9) In the 1836-1837 Cincinnati City Directory Isaac Powers was living on 7th North of Broadway.
Both Isaac Powers, Sr. and his son Isaac F. Powers disappeared from the records around 1836.  Leroy Tomlinson was still paying taxes back in Covington in 1836 but there was no Isaac Powers listed for that year. They died about the same time? Isaac Powers Sr.  had been born in PA was in his mid 60's and his son Isaac F. Powers who was born in New Jersey was in his mid 40's.  Were they working together on the canal and killed in some accident?  This is all speculation.  There is no record.
However, we do know that Eliza Jane Powers married Leroy C. Tomlinson on 23 May 1839 in Cincinnati. (10) They were living with Mrs. Ann Powers in the 1839-1840 Cincinnati city directory. (11)   The oldest of her 8 children was married.  Her older sons, Jacob and Andrew J. were 18 and 14 and probably working and bringing in some money.  The other five children were too small with Sarah Alice being only one year old when Nancy's husband died in 1836.

Nancy moved to Louisville, KY with her children by 1843 where her sons worked as butchers alongside her son-in-law Leroy Tomlinson.  She died in 1850 of consumption.

Sources

(1) War of 1812

War of 1812 Many biographies claim that the man serving was the Isaac Powers born April 12, 1777, of Youngstown, Ohio.
Captain John Humes was from Hamilton Co. and at least four of his officers were from Clermont County.
None of the soldiers seem to be from the Youngstown area.

(2) 1825 City Directory, Cincinnati 

 1825 Cincinnati City Directory

(3) Death record for Andrew Jackson Powers says born 23 Feb 1824 in Cincinnati.

(4) 1825 City Directory, Cincinnati 
Isaac Powers, drayman,  New (St.) E of Broadway, (born) PA

1825 Cincinnati City Directory

(5) City Directories and Tax records on Isaac Powers

1825 Cincinnati City Directory Isaac Powers, drayman, New E. of Broadway (born in) PA (1) on map below
1829 Cincinnati City Directory Isaac Powers, Vine above Canal  (2) on map below
1830 census Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH Isaac Powers is head of family but there are two men living in the household.  One was born between 1770-1780 and one between 1790-1800. There are two sons and three daughters in the census list which accurately correspond with Eliza, Jacob, Susan, Andrew J and Mary Ann Powers.
1831 Cincinnati City Directory Isaac Powers, laborers, elbow of the Canal (note that the directory says "laborers"  (3) on map below
1834 Covington, Campbell, KY On Tax list. Isaac Powers, 1 white male over 21.
1834 Cincinnati City Directory Isaac Powers, laborer, Race b Canal and 12th (4) on map below
1835 Covington, Campbell, KY On Tax list. Isaac Powers, 1 white male over 21 no horses, etc
1836-7 Cincinnati City Directory Isaac Powers, laborer, 7th n B way  (5) on map below
1840 Cincinnati City Directory Mrs. Ann Powers on Spring Street (6) on map below


blue line is Canal

(6) 1830 census Cincinnati, Ohio

(7) 1834 Covington, (then) Campbell Co., KY tax list
Isaac Powers, one male over 21

1834 Covington, Campbell Co KY tax list

(8) 1835 Covington, Campbell Co KY tax List
Leroy Tomlinson, one male over 21
1835 Covington, Campbell Col KY tax records

(9) 1835-1836 Tax List, Cincinnati, OH

1835-1836 Cincinnati Tax List

(10) Ohio County Marriage Records
fhl Hamilton County Marriage Records 1839-41 Vol A8 image 63
Leroy C Tomlinson to Eliza Jane Powers, 23 May 1839, Hamilton Co., OH

(11) 1840 City Directory Cincinnati Ohio
Leroy Tomlinson, butcher, resides at Mrs. Ann Powers

1839-1840 City Directory Cincinnati Ohio

 

 

By tracing marriage and census records of people named Powers in Louisville, KY, we can connect several siblings. Many of them claim their mother as Nancy Powers. For instance when Susan Powers married Jesse H Jones in Louisville, KY on 15 May 1848. Jacob Powers gave consent and Susan stated that her mother was Nancy Powers.  In the 1844 tax records for Louisville, Jacob Powers, butcher, was living at the same address as Mrs. N. Powers. In the 1850 census for Louisville, Leroy Tomlinson, butcher, who had married Eliza Jane Powers in Cincinnati on 23 May 1839, is living with an Isaac Powers aged 18 and a Nancy Powers aged 54 born in NJ. Leroy Tomlinson gave permission for Mary Ann Powers to marry John B. Stoll in Louisville on 4 Apr 1843. And Mary Ann Powers also stated that her mother was Nancy Powers. Elmira Powers married Henry Stoll, a brother to John B. Stoll, on 4 Oct 1853 in Louisville. Her obituary states that she was the daughter of Isaac F Powers and Nancy Powers. And In 1870 Blanche Powers, aged 13, and daughter of Andrew J Powers, was living with Jesse and Susan Powers Jones in Louisville. Thus we have siblings whose parents were Isaac F Powers and wife Nancy.

 

 


Facts on Isaac Powers

His daughter, Elmira Powers Stoll, died in July of 1867 and an obituary on her ran six months later in December 1867.  In fact it ran twice.  It was in the Louisville Daily Democrat on Dec 15 and Dec 17, 1867.  It says, "Mrs. Elmira Stoll, wife of Henry Stoll, and daughter of Isaac F and Nancy Powers, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio September 15, 1831," etc.  See original obituary on page for Elmira Powers.  Elmira's husband, Henry Stoll, was alive at that time and must have given the information for the obituary. 

 

 

 

The Civil War and the Powers Family

by Susan Brooke May 2013

As in many families in the border states, the Powers family was pretty much split in two with the Civil War.  Seven of the eight men, sons and sons-in-law, had started out as butchers.  Peter Fleck was a tailor.  During the war years there were six of the eight men still alive.  Leroy Tomlinson, butcher, and husband of Eliza Jane Powers, and son, Isaac F Powers, butcher, had died.  Three of the men appear to have been Unionists.  The sympathies of one of the men lay with the Confederacy.

Jacob Huff Powers had started out as a butcher.  He moved to Sparta, White Co., TN around 1850 and started the Sparta  Building and Loan Associated.  His brother-in-law fought for the Confederacy, but the rest of the family appears to have been Unionists.  After the war the Unionists, along with Jacob Power and his family, moved to Johnson Co., IN.

Andrew Jackson Powers also started out as a butcher.  However, he was called for the draft in 1863.  He probably did not serve, but he had sworn oath to the Union, or he would not have been able to serve as an officer of the election of 1862. (Louisville Daily Democrat, pg 2, April 1, 1862)

Jesse Hand Jones was married to Susan Catherine Powers.  He was also a butcher.  He bought Union bonds as he is on a list in the Louisville Weekly Journal of Jan 3, 1865."The following is a list of the names of the various persons who have executed bonds, from the commencement of the present rebellion to this date, to keep the peace and be of good behavior toward the Government of the United States, which bonds are now on file in the clerk's office of the district Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky, at Louisville." Both Jesse Jones and Benjamin F Jones are on the list.  Jesse Jones also ran for councilman from the Tenth Ward in 1862 and you could not vote or run for office in Kentucky unless you had sworn an oath to the Union.

John Bascom Stoll married Mary Ann Powers.  In 1867 he became a director of the German Security Bank, and Insurance Company. * He and Mary Ann never had any children, but at the death of his brother and her sister, they took in two of the children of Henry Stoll and Elmira Powers.  He was a Democrat running for the Legislature from the 4th District as listed in the Louisville Daily Express on July 31, 1869.  In the 1870 Louisville City Directory he is listed as Stoll, J. B. & Co. and butcher, Citizens Market.  He is also listed as Stoll, J. B. & Co. (J. B. E. L. and George A Stoll) tanners, curriers and dlrs, in hides 774, 776 and 778 E. Main.  He appears to have been a fairly successful merchant.  The Louisville Daily courier for June 15, 1859 mentions his slave, David, who had been accused of stealing hides.  Most certainly his sympathies lay with the Confederacy.       * (Page 116 of City of Louisville and a glimpse of Kentucky / Young Ewing Allison. )

Henry Stoll, brother to John Bascom Stoll, married Elmira Powers.  He also started out as a butcher.  He lived next door to his brother on Beargrass. Henry died in 1869 of typhoid fever leaving no trace of his politics.

Peter Fleck married Sarah Alice Powers.  He had been born in Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1854.  He was a tailor and again left no trace of his politics.