Melvina PowersAge: 51 years1874–1926
- Name
- Melvina Powers
- Given names
- Melvina
- Surname
- Powers
- Married name
- Melvina Pottenger
 Birth | November 22, 1874 40 37 |
 Death of a brother | Holloway Kittrell Powers March 23, 1875 (Age 4 months) |
 Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 3 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Census | June 1, 1880 (Age 5 years) |
| Death of a father | George Washington Powers August 6, 1889 (Age 14 years) |
| Death of a sister | Rebecca Ann Powers January 11, 1890 (Age 15 years) |
 Marriage | Crayton Pottenger — View this family May 1, 1891 (Age 16 years) |
| Death of a sister | Mary Elizabeth Powers January 11, 1893 (Age 18 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 23 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 41 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 42 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 43 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
 Death | January 15, 1926 (Age 51 years) |
 Last change | November 30, 2016 – 16:29:55 by: Barry Shemwell |
| Family with parents |
| father |
George Washington Powers Birth: November 24, 1833 — Missouri, United States Death: August 6, 1889 — Butler, Missouri, United States |
| mother |
Mary Ann “Polly” Kittrell Birth: March 1, 1837 28 16 — Butler, Missouri, United States Death: March 13, 1927 — Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, United States |
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Marriage: calculated 1852 — |
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2 years elder sister |
Mary Elizabeth Powers Birth: calculated 1853 19 15 — Missouri, United States Death: January 11, 1893 — Butler, Missouri, United States |
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4 years elder brother |
Holloway Kittrell Powers Birth: October 15, 1856 22 19 — Missouri, United States Death: March 23, 1875 |
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2 years elder brother |
Marion Powers Birth: January 2, 1859 25 21 — Missouri, United States Death: before 1870 — Missouri, United States |
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3 years elder sister |
Rebecca Ann Powers Birth: November 28, 1861 28 24 — Butler, Missouri, United States Death: January 11, 1890 — Butler, Missouri, United States |
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3 years elder brother |
Albert Ernest Powers Birth: February 22, 1865 31 27 — Butler, Missouri, United States Death: September 27, 1949 — Butler, Missouri, United States |
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4 years elder brother |
George W Powers Birth: calculated 1868 34 30 — Missouri, United States Death: |
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2 years elder sister |
Marinda Powers Birth: December 20, 1869 36 32 — Butler, Missouri, United States Death: January 18, 1945 — Pope, Arkansas, United States |
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5 years herself |
Melvina Powers Birth: November 22, 1874 40 37 — Butler, Missouri, United States Death: January 15, 1926 |
| Family with Crayton Pottenger |
| husband |
Crayton Pottenger Birth: July 10, 1859 — Preble, Ohio, United States Death: August 7, 1933 — Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, United States |
| herself |
Melvina Powers Birth: November 22, 1874 40 37 — Butler, Missouri, United States Death: January 15, 1926 |
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Marriage: May 1, 1891 — Beaver Dam, Butler, Missouri, United States |
Melvina Powers has 2 first cousins recorded
Father's family (0)
Mother's family (2)
Parents Marion Kittrell + Louisana A “Dixie” Tomlin
| Census | 1880 United States - Census transcript - George Washington Powers - Household
Beaver Dam, Butler, MO
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