Rachel (Woodruff) Powell (1833)

Born 17 Jan 1833 in Upper Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Powell — married 20 Dec 1853 in Home Township, Algoma, Canada West

Descendants

Biography

Rachel was born in 1833 to Zelotus Woodruff and Ann Lamoreaux.^[1]

"The Powell brothers, Caleb and Henry, came to Pickering about the year 1815 and settled on Lot 6. B. F. Caleb's family were William, Henry and Bradford. William Powell married Susan Dillingham, by whom he had a family of one son and four daughters, as follows: Emma, (Mrs. Ellicott, Lot 16, Con. 4), Amelia (Mrs. Smith, Toronto), Ida (Mrs. Oke, Toronto), Hatty (Mrs. L. D. Banks, Pickering) and Walter B., auctioneer of Pickering Village. Henry Powell married Rachel Woodruff, by whom he had a family of four sons and one daughter, as follows : John (Lot 10, B.F., married M. Stanley), Harvey (Lot 6, Con. 2, married Mrs. Davis), Bradford (of Oshawa), Thomas (went to the United States) and Nettie (Mrs. Richards, of Lot 3, B.E.). Bradford Powell was a merchant in Whitby." ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Census of Canada West 1851
2. ↑ Past Years in Pickering: Sketches of the History of the Community, William R. Wood, 1911

See also:

• Burial Friends Cemetery, Mill St., Pickering.
• http://woodruffgenealogy.org/