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Descendants of John MITCHELL
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Green Berry MITCHELL
Source: Ancestors of Ruth Barr McDaniel & Raymond Allen McDaniel; Ruth Barr McDaniel;Faith Printing Company, 4210 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors, SC 29687;1977; Green Berry Mitchell's home and farm was located north of the present town of Batesburg, SC, part of Edgefield District, now in Saluda County. Location was the old Holley Ferry Road (now known as County Road 138) 7-1/2 miles N. of Batesburg, SC, at the head of a branch of Clouds Creek. The home, built about 1800, burned in the early 1950's. An old log barn and some small outbuildings were still standing in 1977. In a heavily wooded area several hundred yards east of the house is a family cemetery, containing graves of Green Berry Mitchell and his son William Capers Mitchell. The farm was sold about 1845 to the Rev. Emanuel Caughman, who passed it down through his family, son John C. Caughman, and John E. Caughman. It is (1977) owned by the Charlie D. Barr, Jr. family of Leesville, SC.
Susan Catherine MINICK
Died at the home of her son McKendree RECORD: Ancestors of Ruth Barr McDaniel & Raymond Allen McDaniel; Ruth Barr McDaniel;Faith Printing Company, 4210 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors, SC 29687;1977; Susan joined the Concord Methodist Church early in her life. The church is located north of Leesville, SC about one mile from her parents home. The church (in 1977) was a Baptist church
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William Carey Tarbucket MITCHELL
RECORD: Ancestors of Ruth Barr McDaniel & Raymond Allen McDaniel; Ruth Barr McDaniel;Faith Printing Company, 4210 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors, SC 29687;1977;
Tombstone states he was born in Amelia County, Virginia. Buried in the Mitchell Family Cemetery near his home at Summerland, SC (halfway between Batesburg and Leesville, SC). He carried the nickname "Tarbucket".
Sarah A. LEE
DEATH: When Lake Murry water rose, tombstones were relocated to the old Concord Methodist Church Cemetery north of Leesville, SC.
26.
Mary A. MITCHELL
RECORD: Ancestors of Ruth Barr McDaniel & Raymond Allen McDaniel; Ruth Barr McDaniel;Faith Printing Company, 4210 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors, SC 29687;1977; Never married
27.
Harriet S. MITCHELL
Source: Ancestors of Ruth Barr McDaniel & Raymond Allen McDaniel; Ruth Barr McDaniel;Faith Printing Company, 4210 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors, SC 29687;1977; Never married
9.
Daniel Anderson MITCHELL
RECORD: Just Folk: The Crowell Family, Joyce Parker Hervey, 1984, Privately Printed, page 277:
Daniel Anderson Mitchell, also known as D. A. Mitchell and as Andrew Mitchell, was born about 1780-1790, probably in upper South Carolina in the Old Ninety-Sixth District. His parents were John and Elizabath (Forrest) Mitchell, who emigrated from Amelia County, Virginia. By 1790, when the first U. S. Census was taken, there were many Mitchell families in upper South Carolina. Many of them have been connected in a book published by Ruth Barr McDaniel, called "Ancestors of Ruth Barr McDaniel and Raymond Allen McDaniel", published 1977, by Faith Printing Company, 4210 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors, SC 29687. Unfortunately only 50 copies of the book were printed, so they are no longer available. Also, the Andrea Collection, available on microfilm at many genealogical libraries, has some information on the Mitchell family origins.
Before 1820, Daniel A. Mitchell married Edna Temperance __?__, who, according to family lore, was a full-blooded Indian; however, I do not find any evidence of this. Daniel and Edna apparently lived for a while in Union County, where Daniel's name appeared on the 1820 census, with a household consisting of (in addition to himself) one female born ca 1794-1804 (no doubt his wife) and three children, probably his first three children, Eleanor, Elizabeth, and Daniel D. D. Mitchell. In 1826 Daniel was named administrator of the estate of his brother Sion Mitchell, who died in Edgefield District. Daniel may have moved to Edgefield about that time. He was in Edgefield by the time the 1830 Census was taken, and he remained there until his death. Joining Daniel in posting a bond in the administration of Sion Mitchell's estate were his brother, William C. Mitchell, and Forrest Mitchell, relationship not known. Other Mitchells named in the administration papers, who were owed money by the estate were: William C. Mitchell, D. A. Mitchell, Abram Mitchell, John Mitchell, and Forrest Mitchell.
In 1827, the personal property from the estate of Sion Mitchell was sold, and some of the purchasers were: D. A. Mitchell bought a Negro girl Nany for $463, a sow and pigs, a "stock hog in the woods," a pen of shucks, 10 bushels of corn, an old plow bridle, and a goose. Other purchasers were John Mitchell, William C. Mitchell, Josiah Mitchell, Polly Mitchell and others, who bought items such as cabbage in the garden, a spinning wheel, beef hide, several cows, three more Negro slaves, and a 25 gallon still (bought by William C. Mitchell.
Daniel A. Mitchell was a farmer, as were most of the people in upper South Carolina. He owned as many as eleven slaves at one time. When he died in 1841 at age 51-61, he owned two parcels of land, one along Clouds Creek (described as "a certain tract of land lying on both sides of Cloud's Creek, waters of Saluda River being in Edgefield District state aforesaid, containing 525 acres") and one along West Creek, ("a certain tract of land containing 282 acres more or less situated in the said state and district on West Creek, waters of Saluda River"). Appraisers valued the two pieces of land at $1100 and $600. The land on Cloud's creek bordered on the property of Jacob Long, Jr., Gaspar Buzzard, Seaborn Johnson, Sarah Slack, and W. C. Mitchell. The West Creek land bordered property owned by James Cameron, Jacob Long, Jr., the estate of Green B. Mitchell, and W. C. Mitchell.
In his will, written the 27th of Sept. 1841, Daniel specifically bequeathed a Negro girl named Nelly to his daughter Ellen (Eleanor) and her husband Simeon Rice. The rest of his property was to go to his wife Tempy and his children: Ellen, Daniel, Elizabeth (wife of James Murphy), Rebecca, Nancy, Bashaba, Sally, Joseph, and Henrietta Elouisa.
After Daniel's death, which occurred shortly after his will was written, his estate was administered by Reuben B. Bouknight, who ordered surveys made of the property belonging to the estate. Chain carriers for the surveyors were James Mitchell, James D. Bouknight, and Mosses Smith, and the surveyor was C. Bouknight.
A friendly suit was filed against Temperance Mitchell, widow of Daniel Mitchell, in the Equity Court, by Daniel's children, Eleanor Rice (widow of John S. Rice), Elizabeth Murphy (wife of James Murphy), Daniel Mitchell, Rebecca Mitchell, Nancy Mitchell, Sarah Mitchell, Bersheba Mitchell, Joseph Mitchell, and Henrietta Mitchell, so that they might receive their share in the estate. The court appointed Jacob Long Jr., James Cameron, James Whittle, Jacob Long Sr., and Amos Banks, Esquires, to determine if it would be in the interest of the legatees to sell the two parcels of land and divide the proceeds among the children and widow or to subdivide the land and distribute it. The decision was made, after an appraisal of the land, to sell it at public auction as early as practical.
Temperance remained in Edgefield County. In the 1850 census, nine years after her husband's death, she still had four of her children living with her in "The District": Rebecca, Barshaby, Joseph, and Henrietta. Their residence was very near the homes of W. Carey Mitchell and Forest A. T. Mitchell. Temperance's son, Daniel lived nearby. Henrietta Elouisa Mitchell, the youngest child of Daniel and Temperance Mitchell, was married in Edgefield on April 5, 1858 to Abraham Powell. Shortly thereafter, the newlyweds left their comfortable lives in South Carolina and journeyed to Bienville Parish, Louisiana, never to return to Edgefield. Temperance (and her daughter Rebecca) accompanied them. When they reached Louisiana, Temperance and Abraham together purchased an entire section of land from the U. S. Government. Temperance's part was the "West half of Section thirty, in Township sixteen, of Range Six, in the district of lands subject to sale at Natchitoches, Louisiana, containing three hundred and thirty acres, and twenty four hundredths of an acre."
Temperance Mitchell (born in South Carolina) died on September 27, 1863 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. She was buried at the Campground Cemetery. Her tombstone reads: "Edna T. wife of Andrew Mitchell born 1799 died 1863. Her end was peace."
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Daniel D. D. MITCHELL
Source: Ancestors of Ruth Barr McDaniel & Raymond Allen McDaniel; Ruth Barr McDaniel;Faith Printing Company, 4210 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors, SC 29687;1977; He was the first Sunday School superintendent of the Leesville Methodist Church, and held the office for over 50 years.
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Rebecca Almana Catherine MITCHELL
She is buried in the same cemetery as Edna Temperance Mitchell, and her death is recorded in the Powell family Bible under Deaths: "Rebecca Almana Catherine Stone departed this life on 21 September 1863 and her daughter Jula Ann was born on 22 of December 1862"
41.
Nancy MITCHELL
RECORD: Edgefield, SC Equity Records;;;;; Her marriage to Andrew Boddie (Bodie) is found here
COCKROFT
RECORD: Edgefield, SC Equity Records Her marriage record is here
45.
Henrietta Louise MITCHELL
RECORD: Just Folk: The Crowell Family, Joyce Parker Hervey, 1984, Privately Printed See Abraham Powell for details on the life of Henrietta Louisa Mitchell
Abraham POWELL
RECORD: Just Folk: The Crowell Family of Louisiana, Joyce Parker Hervey, 1984, privately printed, page 282: Abraham Powell, who was sometimes called Abe Powell, was born on September 16, 1830, either in Macon County Georgia or in South Carolina (perhaps Edgefield County). His parents names and their whereabouts after 1830 are unknown. Family tradition is that Abraham's family owned land and were well off, and that Abraham was one of the youngest children. He is said to have left home when he was a young boy. Tradition also holds that in his later years, Abraham's mother wrote to him and tried to persuade him to bring his family home to visit her and to claim his inheritance. His wife encouraged him to go and to take some of the older children with him, but, since the whole family could not go, Abraham refused. He never saw his mother again and did not receive his inheritance.
The earliest known record relating to Abraham Powell is the 1850 Census of Edgefield County South Carolina. He was a young man of 20, enumerated in the household of J. R. and Caroline Eidson, whose relationship to Abe, if any, are unknown. [Caroline was the sister of Reuben Bouknight, who administered the estate of Daniel A. Mitchell, Abraham Powell's future father-in-law.]
On the 5th of April in 1858, Abraham, who was then 27 years old, married 16 year old Henrietta Louisa Mitchell, who was born in Edgefield South Carolina on July 21, 1841. Henrietta was the youngest of the nine children of Daniel Anderson Mitchell and Edna Temperance Mitchell. The Mitchell family had been a prominent family in upper South Carolina for over 70 years. Henrietta's father had died when she was less than a year old, and she was raised by her mother with help from her older brother and sisters.
Henrietta and Abraham Powell probably listened to tales that their neighbors in Edgefield County told about the flourishing town of Mount Lebanon, Louisiana, which had been established twenty years earlier by emigrants from Edgefield. They would have heard that it was famous for its healthy climate, the wealth of its inhabitants, and its fine educational institutions. Perhaps it was the thought of these finer things that enticed the newlywed couple to move to Louisiana. The move may also have been prompted by a spirit of adventure and by the prospect of finding good land at a reasonable price.
Arriving in 1859 with his new wife and his mother-in-law, Temperance Mitchell, and perhaps other relatives and friends, Abraham apparently found Mount Lebanon to his liking - it was the cultural center of Bienville Parish. The town had a population of three or four-hundred people, mostly of "good" South Carolina stock. Records of the area indicate that some of the people were related to Abe and Henrietta Powell. There was a flourishing Baptist Church; two colleges: Mount Lebanon University and Mount Lebanon Female Institute. There were three stores operating and a printing office which published a newspaper. The homes were well-built and some were fine ante-bellum plantation homes. Abraham and his mother-in-law each bought land in Bienville Parish. In December of 1859, Abraham bought an 80 acre plot with his wife's inheritance that she received from her father's estate. The following October, in 1860, Abraham Powell and Temperance Mitchell each purchased 330 acres from the Federal Government.
Then War broke out between the North and the South, and Abraham opted to join the Confederate Army. Leaving his family, which by this time included two young sons, Elbert D., born May 1, 1859, and John J. L., born May 2, 1861, Abraham enlisted as a private in Gray's 28th Louisiana Infantry. His induction papers, signed in his own hand on the 8th of May in 1862 at Monroe, Louisiana, described him as 31 years old, with hazel eyes, black hair, dark complexion, and 5 feet 7 1/2 inches tall. He was paid $50 bounty and was enlisted for three years or the duration of the War.
The next two years brought much sorrow to the Powell family. Henrietta's mother, Temperance Mitchell and Henrietta's sister, Rebecca Almana Catherine Stone, died in 1863, and were buried at Campground cemetery near Bienville, Louisiana. On May 6, 1864, Abraham, who had been wounded, was transferred from the Confederate hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana to the Mount Lebanon Confederate Hospital, which was housed in the Mount Lebanon University buildings. Family tradition is that Abraham was wounded during the siege of Vicksburg (which ended on the Fourth of July in 1863) and spent a long time in the Veterans hospital recovering. His military papers indicated that he suffered a gunshot wound. The final blow of the fateful two years occurred on September 16, 1864, when the youngest son of Abraham and Henrietta died. George Abraham Powell, born on March 21, 1863, died at the age of about eighteen months. Abraham's participation in the war ended when he was wounded. He returned home to his family. The wound and the war experience had weakened him and he never completely recovered his health. In 1866 or 1867, after the birth of Larkin W. J., born May 11, 1866, the family moved to Sparta, about 12 miles southwest of Mount Lebanon. Abraham sold the 80 acres he had bought with Henrietta's inheritance, and the whole section that he and his mother-in-law had purchased before the war and bought 200 acres in Ward 7 of Bienville Parish at Sparta. Sparta was the first parish seat and was located in the woods on a sand bed. It was distantly removed from the stagecoach line and from any navigable water source.
During the time they lived at Sparta, two more children were added to the family: Nancy Henrietta Victoria Powell was born on March 12, 1868, and James Hilborn Anderson Powell on September 20, 1870. The month after James was born, Abraham sold their land for $420 in gold. That ended the land transactions of Abraham in Bienville Parish.
The exact whereabouts of the family between 1870 and 1878 is not established, although census records indicate that the children born during this time to Abe and Henrietta were born in Louisiana. These children were: Sissie Powell, who was born and died on June 25, 1874; Mary Elizabeth Virginia Powell, born on June 2, 1875; and Eugene Henry Harrison Powell, born January 26, 1878. Eight years after they apparently left Bienville Parish, Henrietta Powell purchased 80 acres of land in Grant Parish, Louisiana, which they kept for about two and a half years. According to family tradition, Abraham moved his family to Vicksburg, Mississippi about 1880, apparently after the birth of their last child Fletcher Christopher Powell, which occurred in October of 1880. Some of the children attended school at Vicksburg. Mary Powell won a gold medal for being first in her class there. In 1887 and 1888, tragedy again struck the Powells. They lost their 21 year old son Larkin, who succumbed to a fever on February 10, 1887. Then on the 20th of July in 1888, Abraham Powell died. He is said to have been buried by the government in the City Cemetery at Vicksburg since he had been a soldier. (A letter of inquiry to the Vicksburg City Cemetery elicited the following response: "I have examined the records of the City Cemetery and find that 4 plots have been sold to parties with the last name of Powell. Records are kept on plots or lots - no individual graves. 1849 Washington Powell; 1858 Mr. Powell; 1860 Shaw & Powell; 1899 A. M. Powell. An On the ground survey of these plots and the confederate cemetery plot did not show any headstones with names mentioned in your letter. I might point out that in many cases in the late 1800's, graves were marked with wooden head markers, which have long past deteriorated.") On August 1, 1888, just 10 days after Abraham's death, 10 year old Eugene Henry died.
The family returned to Louisiana to live with John J. L. Powell. John devoted himself to helping his mother raise the younger children. He remained a bachelor all his life, but was looked to and loved like a father by his younger brothers and sisters.
Henrietta lost another son, James, on May 15, 1894. He was buried at the Campground Cemetery near Bienville, Louisiana. During the 35 years she had been in Louisiana and Mississippi Henrietta had suffered the deaths of her mother, sister, husband, and six of her ten children. Henrietta died on November 3, 1907, at the age of 66. The story of her death has been related by her granddaughter, Leola Crowell Young, who was a small child of three and a half years at the time, but remembered the event and heard the story from her mother, Mary Powell Crowell:
"When my sister Ethel was at least a month old, we went to visit Grandma Powell. She was living with Uncle John in a little sawmill town between Ruston and Hodge, and we had not seen them in a long time. After we visited for a while, we came back home and brought Grandma with us. We were living out of Gibsland at Watson's Sawmill on Black Lake. Grandma loved squirrel, so Pappa told Mr. Watson that he was going to take a day off and go hunting for squirrel. He killed a mess of them and we had a big squirrel dinner. Grandma was sleeping in our bed, so Carrie and I slept with Mamma and Daddy. I remember Pappa jumping up and getting Mamma up, telling her Grandma was sick. She was sitting on her bed holding her side (she had forgotten to bring her medicine with her). Carrie slept but I jumped up and followed them into Grandma's room. Pappa went to get the Watsons, who lived close by, but Grandma died before he got back. She had been planning to go home the next day. We didn't have a telephone, so Pappa had to get on the train to go see Uncle John. He said he never hated to tell anybody anything as badly as he did telling Uncle John about his mother. When Pappa got off the train, he saw Uncle John standing on the scales weighing himself. When he told him Grandma was dead, Uncle John almost fell dead himself. I remember we had to take Grandma's coffin to the graveyard in a wagon." Henrietta was buried at the Campground Cemetery, near her mother, sister, and two of her children.
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