River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-09-03
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Died, on the 9th day of August, 1896,
at her home in Warren, Mimi, Mrs
Martha A. Powell, widow of n. n. Pow
ell of River Falls, Wisconsin.
Mrs. Powell, whose name was Martha
A. Hart, was born at Yates, New York,
on the 18th of September, 1926. OF her
fathers family there now survives only
Mr.. A. F. Hart, her half brother, a
former resident of this city, who now re-
sides at Sank Center, Mimi. The family
removed to Indiana when Mrs. Powell
was about eight years of age. She had
the misfortune to lose both parents in
early life and from that time found a
home in the family of friends.
She removed to Lakeland, Mimi, in
the year 1850 and engaged in teaching.
Soon after she made the acquaintance of
n. n. Powell, the second of the Powell
brothers, whose names are SO closely
identified with the history of this section
of Wisconsin. Mr.. Powell and Miss
Hart we're married at Lakeland Sept.
2Stb, 1852, and Immediately after took up
their residence in the old Pioneer Store
in River Falls. There they resided for
short time until their house, which is
now occupied by the family of Judge
Weld, could be erected. They lived
here, however, but year or two, be-
fore removing to the new house built on
the west side, now owned by Mr.. Muck
| enhausen.
Four children we've born to them. two
of whom died in infancy, the survivors
being W. y. Powell, prosperous mer-
chant, and Miss Eva Powell, both of
| Warren, Mimi. About eleven years ago
Mrs. Powell removed thither to be with
her children and has since made it her
| home.
Mr.. n. n. Powell became an invalid
short time after his marriage and died at
his home in 1862, leaving the care of his
young children to Mrs. Powell, trust
which she fulfilled with christian fidelity.
She united with the Congregational
church of this city in 1857 and has lived
devoted christian life.
end seems to be to develop the best
character of their offspring, seeking no
worldly elevation, careless of those hon
ors and distinctions after which SO many
seek. They seem to feel, as did the
mother of the Gracchi, that the jewels
best fitting woman's adjoining are her
children. Mrs. Powell was emphatically
| one of these. She found her happiest
hours in her family circle. While she
had many warm friends, attracted by
her womanly virtues, she mingled little
with society, but, with motherly love,
| devoted her life to the training of her
| loved ones and to the development of
that in their character which she found
| worthy of her love. In this work she
| found her consolation for widowhood
and her life reward. For around her bed
side in her last hours were grouped the
| faces of those she had tenderly trained;
their low voices beat soothingly upon her
ears and their caressing fingers eased the
pain at her temples. Their very pres
ence softened, though it could not stay,
the footsteps of the fleet messenger-the
messenger who was to her an angel of
light, reckoning to misty shore above,
and in whose voice there was the ring of
promised reunions and sweet converse
with souls who should ''rise up and call
her blessed"
Her husband having been buried in
Greenwood Cemetery in this city, her re-
mains were brought here on Saturday
last accompanied by her son and daughter
and brother and the funeral held in the
afternoon at her former home, now &C.
cupied by the family of Allen p. Weld, Esq,
many of her friends being present. Rev.
G. II. Mcintosh conducted the funeral
services and select choir sang appropri-
ate hymns, after which many carriages
wended their way to the quiet Green
wood where, beneath the trees planted
by old time friends, the sacred remains
were laid away beside those of her hus-
band