Sunday’s Obituary – Miss Ellen Powell

Ellen Powell was born 11Oct 1851 and died 9 Dec 1940[1]. She was a daughter of Thompson Powell and his wife Mary Boatwright. Ellen was never married.  She had one brother and two sisters all of whom preceded her in death.  

Miss Ellen Powell, 92, died at the home of her great-nephew, Lee Jenkins, just west of Chesterfield, early Monday morning and was buried at Pine Grove cemetery Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.

Miss Powell was the youngest child of the late Thompson and Polly Powell, who were among the earliest settlers of this county. 

She had one brother, Richard Powell who was a captain in the Confederate Army and for years engaged in business in Cheraw. She was distantly related to Drewery Boatwright whose monument in the Boatwright cemetery bears the date 1812. 

She was the aunt of Miss Artie Hurst, Mrs. Jesse Jenkins, Miss Garphilia Smith and Miss Nettie Smith. 

She was distantly related also to the Powells of Columbia, Bennettsville and Cheraw, and to the Rivers family of Chesterfield. [The Chesterfield Advertiser, Dec 1940][2][3]

Her niece Artie Hurst is a daughter of her sister Mary E. Powell Hurst and the other 3 nieces are daughters of her sister Ann Rebecca Powell Smith. 

On the 26 April 1934, Ellen E. Powell, of Chesterfield County applied for admission to the Confederate Home for the service of her brother Richard Thompson Powell in Company B, Eighth Regiment, Infantry. Disposition unknown but suspect it was disapproved based on her obituary.[4]

---

[1] Jim Tipton, Find A Grave, digital image, http://www.findagrave.com; Headstone for Ellen E. Powell; (11 November 1851–9 December 1940); Memorial # 18965360; Record of the Pine Grove Baptist Church Cemetery; Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA; Accessed on 15 June 2012.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Miss Ellen Powell, The Chesterfield Advertiser, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, 12 December 1940.

[4] "Record for Confederate Veterans, 1909 -1973," SC Department. of Archive & History (SCDAH), SCDAH Database Search (http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/search.aspx : viewed 15 June 2012), , "Application for admission to the Confederate Home," Series: S128005, Item 316; Ellen E. Powell.