My father's parents, brother and sister were on the last ship, The King Oscar IX, to leave Europe before World War I started, arriving at Ellis Island, N.Y., in November of 1914.
The first Power family member, that I am aware of, was born in West Virginia when it was still a part of Virginia, spent time in Pennsylvania, and finally settled in a very small town in Iowa called Stiles.
Don't know where that is? Well, neither did we with the exception that it was in Iowa.
After thinking that it was located in several different counties, we finaly found out that it was (and is) in Davis County. You see, Stiles isn't shown on an ordinary map of Iowa. It isn't even in the Atlas!
I couldn't even find these ancestors in any of the mid-to-late 1800's censuses.
I was beginning to think that these people never existed and my husband's grandfather had appeared out of nowhere.
Since I've been in genealogy I have met a lot of really nice people--in person and over the internet. I "found" my great-grandfather-in-law really did exist and that he and his family were in Grove Township, Davis County, Iowa, starting earlier than 1868 and he was born in WVA in 1841 or 1842.
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