Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1875-05-04
EdrlU Bethel Families.
rowERs.

He was o noted backwoodsman and
Colonial surveyor snd laid out several oil
the townships in Coos County. lie was
noted officer in the old French and 10.
dian wars. lie married Anna Keys OF
Chelmsford, Mass and among his chill
dren was GIDEON, who was born in Lit
,Ie,on, July 2S. 1881, and married Ruth
Hosmer, who was bora May 2S. l'5S,
and removed to Acton. where they had
the following children:
GIDEON. born Sept. 10, 1903; Paul,
born June 70. 1860, married NJ. Head oil
Temple. n. H., and died in middle life
SILAS, born Sept. =. 1902; Sarah. born
Aug. Is, 1894; Ruth. born May l. l16I
Peter, born May 2S, 1869; LaCiaed, born
Aug. 3, III, married June 5, lIoS TO
Phineas Howard OF Temple. who came
early to Bethel. and he aud his brother
Asa, who married Lydia Spotford. are
the ancestors OF the Towards who live in
Bethel, Hanover and Rumford Jonathan,
born April Z, 1873. died young; A6ner,
born July II. l775; JONATHAN, born
Aug. s. l777; Lydia, born Sept. 1884.
married Stephen Sanders of Temple. N.
II. and came to Bethel.
Gideon Powers, the father o! this
family, came quite early to Temple. n.
H., aud he and his oldest sons were SOL
diers in the war for Independence. Three
of the sons, Gideon, Silas and Jonathan.
subsequently came to Bethel and settled
on the north side oil the river in what is
now Hanover Gideon bought OF Eleazer
Twitchell in 1897. interval lot No. Two,
situated on the north side of the Andros-
coggiu river in Sudbury Canada. This
fam is now part OF the homestead OF
Reuben b. Foster. Esq. lie married
Ruth Packard OF Greenland, n. H., who
was born Sept. G, 1888. and died April
80. 1916; their children were rs follows:
gideon, born March 2. 1884, in Bethel,
married Apphia. daughter OF Abraham
Russell. and had several sons and daugh-
ters. most OF whom are still living;
Ruth born Dec. II, 1875; Sarah, born
Oct 9. 1897 Hosmer, born May p, 1889,
still lives in Wilto; Hannah. born April
~. l79l; Zertidh. born July Il, 1885,
PoHy. born April 81. 1896; Betsy. bora
Oct. u. 1899. died May IS. l74l. One oil
these daughters married Joshua Roberts
OF Hanover. who were the parents Of DR..
Thomas Roberts; another married an
Ormsby and still lives in Wilton, and
Polly married a Bn,terdeld and lives in
West Medford, Mass. Gideon died in
Augusta year or two ago. aged nearly
90 years. One OF his daughters married
T. II. Tibbetts of Augusta. and another Is
the wife OF Austin Partridge of Paris.
Silas Powers. who came TO Bethel with
his brother Gideon probably about 1888,
settled also on an interval lot now owned
by r. b. Foster, Esq he married Sept.
II. 1870, Submit. tn dnughter OF Enoch
Bartlett OF Newry. rney were married
by Dew EliphaL Chapman, and had chill.
dron as follows: Pant. who married and
moved 10 Brunswick, where he lived and
died Lois married Eoenezer, son OF Ste
phen and Dorcas (BArbour) Bartlett OF
Bethel. (seo Bartlett Family and had
several children. among whom IS DR..
Silas Powers Bartlett OF East Dixdeld
ArtenlaS, who in middle lie went South,
aud but little more is known OF him;
LouiAa married Stephen. son OF James
Sprague of Bethel. and moved early to
Dexter, where be died few yhars ago;
Julla married Cyrus Brockway and is
still living widow st Sangeryille.
Jonathan Powers came to Bethel sew
eral years after his brothers came. and
began on the lot near where his brothers
lived. which is now occupied by his son,
Orson Powers. Esq. He married Lucy.
daughter OF Enoch Bartlett. Esq. OF
Newry, and raised up a family OF eight
boys and two girls. Oh the sons. Peter
lives 10 the lower part OF Bethel Jonathan
died 10 Hanover several years ago; OrSoH
lives on the old homestead, aud OF the
others. Ambrose. Elias, Siillman. Charles
and Moses. know nothing. The girls
were Hudah and Anna and know
nothing OF them:
Gideon, the oldest of the Bethel emf
grants. moved quite early to Wilton and
died there. Silas and Jonathan lived and
died In Bethel. Peter. the son of iona.
than, we believe is the only one now living
in Bethel. though some Of them still live
in Hanover. The posteIity OF Gideon
and Silas have all left Bethel and Hanover.
Among the ten families mentioned by
Lieut.. Segar as living in Bethel at the
Indian raid in 1871, was Amos Powers.
who claimed no Relationship to the tam
lilies represented in this sketch. shall
nome account OF Amos Powers and
family hereafter.
Peter Powers married Sally Stearns;
Orsen. Sarah Hubbard Ambrose. HGldah
Frost aAd went west; Huldah married
Moses Bartlett and Anna married Thomas
Stearn These were sons and daughters
of Jonathan Powers mentioned above.
The genealogy of the families in this
article may be briefly summarized as
follows: lst, PETER married Anna
KEYS: %, GIDEON married Ruth Hosmer;