Legend of Powells in England

I made the tree (below) from info emailed to me by Lillian Smith LillianAnnSmith@Yahoo.Com 30 Oct 2002 & 5 Nov 2002 along with info from the red book Fairfield County Family Histories page 94 - 95. The tree explains the DEA & WALKER genealogy that was written at the top of the legend about England (above). The genealogy does not shed much light on who wrote the legend, but because it is on the same sheet of paper, it needs to be looked at to eliminate it from consideration as relevant to the legend. As to when it was written, at the bottom of the legend (above), the handwritten paper says "[In?] Aunt Cynthia['s] life time a lawyer[?] wrote there was a fortune for the Powell heirs in the Court of Chancery". This Bible was handed down to Carl HINNANT Sr. (son of Lucy Powell who married Wm. Geo. HINNANT) (in tree below). Carl HINNANT Sr. had an Aunt Cynthia (shown in the tree below) and I believe that that Cynthia is the Aunt Cynthia mentioned & thus these words were written by Carl Sr. As to when this was written, it is obvious from the reference to Cynthia's lifetime, that her lifetime was over when this was written, so I think it was written a few years after her death which was in 1910. It says the lawyer wrote during Cynthia's life, so the lawyer wrote between 1840 & 1910.

I do not believe that the genealogy of the DEAs & WALKERs written above the legend on the same sheet of paper, is an indication that the legend is about the DEA immigrant or WALKER immigrant, because:
1) (at the bottom of the legend) it mentions POWELL when it says "[In?] Aunt Cynthia['s] life time a lawyer[?] wrote there was a fortune for the Powell heirs in the Court of Chancery ".
2) I certainly do not think it is a reference to the DEAs since neither Cynthia nor Carl Sr. descend from DEAs. So, I believe this is the legend of where our POWELLs came from, not the DEAs nor the WALKERs.
3) Furthermore the legend says "Aaron Powell's forefather came from England". If this legend is refering to the WALKERs (or DEAs) then this reference to Aaron would have to be refering to Aaron Edgar POWELL, Cynthia's brother. I think that is unlikely. In talking of the immigrant it would seem appropriate to refer to an earlier common ancestor -- at the least, it is refering to Aaron, Cynthia's father. I am surprised it does not refer to Caleb POWELL Sr. instead of Caleb Sr.'s son, Aaron.

I think the genealogy of the DEAs & WALKERs was added to keep from leaving out Cynthia's mom's side of the family. I think the writer was trying to give a balanced or complete ancestry, telling what he knows from both sides of the family, but I am guessing.

Since I don't descend from Aaron & his wife Frances WALKER, I am disappointed that everyone in the generation with my ancestor Caleb POWELL has a surname except my ancestor Dorcas (wife of Caleb POWELL). I wish the writer knew & wrote equally about both sides of the family. He probably knew more about the WALKER side of the ancestry because Frances WALKER lived until 1872 to tell of her side of the family, whereas Aaron POWELL only lived until 1845 to tell of his ancestry. signed James W. Green III

Mary Christopher Elizabeth Henry Caleb POWELL Dorcas DEA HENDRIX WALKER b. bef 1765 NC b. 1760-1765 NC d. 1792-96 | | d. 1822-1828 d. 1835 |_____________|_____________| Fairfield Co. SC Fairfield Co. SC | ____|____ |___________________| | | | | Billy John Jemima Francis Aaron DEA SHEDD WALKER WALKER POWELL b. 1785-1790 | b. 1802 b. 1799 b. 1791 d. 1826 | probably d. 1872 d. 1845 | |_______| |___________m. 1819____________| | ||||||| | | | Wm. Christopher Cynthia Aaron Lucy DEA POWELL Edgar Ellen B. b. 1824-1826 b. 1840 POWELL POWELL d. 1898-1899 d. 1910 b. 1842 b. 1845 m. Mary J. McGRAW m. Laban m. Emma m. Capt. | TRAPP JACKSON Wm. Geo. | HINNANT | | Geo. Lafayette DEA Carl HINNANT Sr. b. 25 Feb 1857 b. 1886 m. Mary Lee FOWLER | | | Jesse Milton DEA Carl HINNANT Jr. b. 15 Nov 1879 m. Laura WADE | Fred Harold DEA b. 30 Dec 1908 m. Lillian Myra RIPPY | Jessie Ann DEA b. 1934 m. Joe Elton SMITH | Lillian SMITH 4214 McNiel, Wichita Falls, TX 76308 (940)692-0328

Form Gen., 1 ~~Tobacco Growers Co-Operative Association~~ (Our Great Grandmother) "Our Grandmother was a native of Pennsylvania she was a Dea (Day), & had one child, uncle Billy Dea, she married Henry Walker of N.C. & had two[?] children, girls, one was our mohter & the other married John Shedd of Lancaster. I suppose they are dead.	Native of Pensylvania Our GrandMother, was a Dea & had one child, Uncle Billy Dea. She married Henry Walker of N.C. & had two children, girls, one was our mother, & the other married John Shedd of Lancaster, all dead I reckon,
Aaron Powells forefathers came from England on account of their Baptist belief two of this The third one went back to England to see after their property. They were wealthy & some one in England threatened to confiscate their property in account of their religious belief. The one brother that went back was never heard from. Either was lost at Sea or stayed in England to look after this property.* [?] Aunt Cynthia life time a lawyer[?] wrote there was a fortune for the Powell heirs in the Court of Chancery.	Aaron Powell's forefather came from England on account of their Baptist faith, Heirs of the brother Stayed here & the 3^rd one went back to England to see after their property. They were wealthy, & were threatned over in England to confiscate their property on account of their Baptist faith. The one brother that went to England was never heard from, lern[?] what became of him. Perhaps had to stay in England to save his property, or was lost at Sea he was never heard from.
I, James W. Green III, typed the preceeding today, Tuesday 14 April 1998 from my 8.5" x 14" photocopy of the original. The original is a piece of stationary about 8.5" x 11". Someone should research this Tobacco Growers Co-Op Assoc. to help date the age of this writing. I used itallics to represent what is handwritten. The ink & paper are good, but I cannot be sure of what is being written due to the poor handwriting. I have made my best guess as to what it says. The photocopy is good except at the edge & the writing extends to the edge. This is displayed line for line like the original. On the back of the photocopy shortly after it was made I wrote "original xerox made Feb. 6, 1978 at Caroliniana Library, USC. Columbia, S.C. by James W. Green, III from paper stuck in Bible in possession of Carl R. Hinnant Jr., Columbia, S.C." This Carl Hinnant is a son of Carl Hinnant Sr. b.1886, son of Lucy Ellen Powell b.1845.	I, James W. Green III, typed the preceeding today, Tuesday 14 April 1998 from 2 of my 8.5" x 14" photocopies of the original. The original is a piece of paper about 5" x 8". I used itallics to represent what is handwritten. It looks like the original may be pencil that is light in places. The handwriting may be by the same person but this writing is less hurried looking. I have made my best guess as to what it says. The photocopy may have lost tonner. The horizontal rule separates what is on one photocopy from what is on the other. I think these are photocopies of the front & back of the same original sheet of ruled paper This is displayed line for line like the original. On the back of the photocopies shortly after it was made I wrote in pencil "original xerox made Feb. 6, 1978 at Caroliniana Library, USC, Columbia, S.C. by James W. Green, III from papers stuck in Bible in possession of Carl R. Hinnant Jr., Columbia, S.C.
I expect from reading the above all will guess that the one on the right is older due to content impovements made at left & due to the letter head at left & due to the appended note at the bottom of the left copy. On the back of the last photocopy I wrote more about these photocopies: "...I borrowed the Bible (of which these xeroxes are a copy) from Carl R. Hinnant Jr. Sat. Feb. 4, 1978 & on Mon. Feb. 6, 1978 I took the aforesaid Bible to Caroliniana Library & made them a xerox copy from the Bible ... then I made myself this set of xeroxes from the Bible, because I thought that this machine was making better copies than the machine I used several years ago to make myself a copy from the Bible. Then I returned the Bible to said Carl on same day about 10 PM. I may not have xeroxed for Caroliniana Library all that is herein contained." This Carl Hinnant is a son of Carl Hinnant Sr. b.1886, son of Lucy Ellen Powell b.1845.