SEVENTH GENERATION

195. Harvey Street POWERS was born on 3 Mar 1882 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He died on 25 Sep 1962 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He was buried in Kenbridge Cemetary. Harvey Street POWERS was a tobacco farmer who also raised beef cattle. He ran the "country store" originally operated by his father under the name "W.H. Powers and Sons," with a mailing address of Kinderwood, Va.
He was a member of the Lunenburg County School Board.
His property holding began with his father's "home place," Oak Shade. He added the farm that was left to his brother John and the property known as the Neblett farm. He was active in Salem Church (Methodist) not far from the Powers farm although the author can not recall his ever attending church. He enjoyed hunting, but there was a grove of oak trees between his home and "John's home" where there was a large family of squirels, which were off limits. His shotgun was handed-down to this author who has given it to his namesake, Harvey Street Powers (RIN#0003). The author also proudly uses Harvey Street Powers' roll-top desk, which was made by an itinerant cabinet maker from trees felled on the Powers farm. Harvey Street Powers died from cancer.

He was married to Addie Maye TERRELL (daughter of Thaddeus Thomas TERRELL and Martha Adelaide (Mattie) BARKER) on 22 Apr 1906 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. Addie Maye TERRELL was born on 27 Oct 1883 in Halifax County, Virginia. She died on 24 Jul 1968 in Leesburg, VA. She was buried in Kenbridge Cemetary. Addie Terrell was raised only about a mile from the Powers family farm. All of us that knew her as a Grandmother, recall Sunday Dinner at "the home place." She was a fine cook. She raised all of her children without ever catching the measles. But when she was in her 60's, she caught them from a woman who helped her in the kitchen. She survived that bout. After the death of her husband, she moved-in with her Daughter Glennis in Round Hill, Virginia, where she lived until her passing. Harvey Street POWERS and Addie Maye TERRELL had the following children:

+296 i. Claude Street POWERS was born on 28 Jun 1908 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He died on 3 Mar 1975 in South Hill, Virginia. He was buried in Kenbridge Cemetary. Claude S. POWERS left the family farm when he was in his teens to work for the Kelly Tire Company and so he never completed High School. In the 1940's, he worked for Peoples Drug Stores in Washington. It was there he met and married Helen Eller. He joined the Navy during World War II, but quickly received a medical discharge. About 1950, he operated a Western Auto store in Chatham, Virginia. Later in the 50's, he returned home to work for Watkins Motor Company selling cars. Later he worked for Carson Ford in Kenbridge and Jackson Motors in Chase City. He lost a leg to a circulation problem in 1972. He died from a heart attack.
+297 ii. William Thomas POWERS was born on 18 Aug 1910 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He died on 12 May 1991 in Richmond, Virginia. He was buried in Kenbridge Cemetary. William Thomas (Tom) POWERS attended the public schools of Lunenburg County. He received his undergraduate degree from Randolph-Macon College. He was always close to RMC, serving on its board of trustees and receiving an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1986. He also attended Virginia Tech, where he did graduate work in agronomy and economics. He served eight years on Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors. Tom POWERS served in the Navy Reserve in World War II, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Tom POWERS began a long career in government service to agriculture in 1934. In 1952, he became Executive Director of the Virginia Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. He retired in 1972.
298 iii. Louise Maye POWERS was born on 7 Oct 1912 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. She died on 1 Dec 1915 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. Louise Maye POWERS died at the age of three. Brothers Jack and Tom say the family believed she died from a "germ" her father brought home from a hospital stay in Richmond. There is a letter in the possession of Harvey Wayne Powers, dated Oct. 26, 1915, from Harvey Street Powers to his wife. He is writing from his hospital bed at Stuart Circle Hospital in Richmond. It confirms that indeed Louise's father was in the hospital just before her death.
+299 iv. Henry Bernice "Jack" POWERS was born on 15 Oct 1914 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He died on 17 Nov 1982 in Kenbridge, Virginia. He was buried in Kenbridge Cemetary. H.B. "Jack" POWERS attended the public schools of Lunenburg County and graduated from Virginia Tech in 1939. Upon graduation, he went to work for the State as an "Agricultural Extension Agent." His first jobs were in Nansemond and Sussex Counties. Jack POWERS served four years in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, he returned to his native Lunenburg County as an "Agricultural Extension Agent." He died after a long battle with skin cancer.
+300 v. Glennis POWERS was born on 19 Sep 1917 in Lunenburg County, Virginia.
Glennis POWERS graduated from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Jun 1939.