William
Harvey
Powers
Born in Scott County, Virginia
Ancestors 
Brother of
Auburn Jefferson Powers, Oliver Lee Powers, Emory Winton Powers, Gaines Morgan Powers, Lydia May (Powers) Person, Oscar Martin Powers, Fannie Powers, Julia Kate (Powers) Mooney, Lena Elizabeth Powers, Vernon Isaac Powers, Worley Belt Powers, Ethel Estelle (Powers) Odom and Rufus Ray Powers
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 37
in Cambridge, Idaho
Profile last modified
| Created 26 May 2015
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Biography
William was born in 1885. He was the son of Forest Powers and Alice Parvin. William killed the man who killed his brother, Oliver Lee Powers. After the shootout, William returned to Idaho where he contracted Rocky Mountain Spotted fever and died in 1923. No evidence that William ever married has been found. [1]
Sources
- "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCB-64C : 7 December 2015), William H Powers, Payette, Payette, Idaho, United States; citing sheet 15A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,294.
Draft
- "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8QD-4NG : 12 December 2014), William Harvey Powers, 1917-1918; citing Washington County, Idaho, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,452,223.
- ↑ A source for this information is needed.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~0.78%
~6.25%
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