My dad was a true "Okie from Muskogee", born in that eastern Oklahoma town on November 4, 1917. At the age of 2, he contracted polio which caused his legs to be unsteady for the rest of his life. This was no hindrance to him. Although small in stature, he was the strongest man I've ever known. He worked in the oil fields most of his adult life. He married my mother on November 4th, 1948 (his 31st birthday). He was the son of Robert and Henrietta (Patton) Powers.
Robert Earl Powers, Sr. worked in the oilfields his entire life. He was one of 5 sons born to Francis and Lucy Powers on a farm in Randolph Co., Missouri. He married Henrietta Anthony Patton on June 29th, 1913. They had 3 children.
The sons of Francis Newlin Powers
Robert Earl (1889-1963)
is in the front on the far right.
Francis Newlin Powers was born in 1856 to John and Rebecca Powers, not far from where he would raise his family. Lucy Dale grew up nearby. They married in 1881 at the home of her parents.
Little is known about our branch of the Powers' family beyond 1816. That is the year that John C. Powers was born in South Carolina. We know that he traveled to Illinois where he met and married Rebecca Elizabeth Campbell. They exchanged wedding vows on January 4th, 1837 in Greene Co. They were farmers and settled near Cairo, Missouri, where they lived the remainder of their lives. Although there is only 1 descendant of Francis to carry on the Powers name, it ranks 314th in the US.
Francis Newlin Powers
(1856-1916)
