Sarah Elizabeth Powell
b. November 1833, d. 16 November 1909
- Father: John Lewis Powell b. circa 1807, d. 5 December 1861
- Mother: Susan G. Orgain b. 11 March 1811, d. 28 May 1852
- Sarah Elizabeth Powell was born in November 1833 in Virginia.
- John Lewis Powell and Susan G. Orgain appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Sarah Elizabeth Powell, Anna A. Powell, Rebecca Orgain Powell, Thomas Clifton Powell and Susan Ella Powell.
- John Lewis Powell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Sarah Elizabeth Powell, Rebecca Orgain Powell, Thomas Clifton Powell, Susan Ella Powell, Roberta C. Powell and Rebecca Gee Powell. Also in the household was James Hitchcock (39). John L. Powell was enumerator for this area.
- She was a teacher, according to the 1860 census.
- She married Felix Grundy Adams, son of Unknown Adams and Unknown (?), on 16 July 1868 in Marengo County, Alabama.
- Felix Grundy Adams and Sarah Elizabeth Powell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Linden, Marengo County, Alabama. Other members of the household included George F. Adams, Laura Shields Adams, Walter Benjamin Adams, Thomas Felix Adams and Powell Orgain Adams.
- Powell Orgain Adams and Mary Laurence Taber appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Cameron, Milam County, Texas, at Belton Street. Other members of the household included Sarah Elizabeth Powell, Marcellus Powell Adams. Also in the household were three young female boarders.
- Sarah Elizabeth Powell died on 16 November 1909 in Cameron, Texas.
- She was interred at Oak Hill Cemetery, Cameron, Milam County, Texas.
- The following appeared on 18 November 1909 in The San Antonio Daily Express: [Died] (Cameron, Tex., Nov. 17) Mrs. Sadie Adams died at the home of her son, P. O. Adams, yesterday and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery today. The funeral services were held at the home on Hefley Heights. Mrs. Adams was 76 years of age. She had lived in Cameron about twelve years and up to a few days before her death has taught a large music class. Her only child, P. O. Adams, is of the wholesale hosiery firm here of Adams & Trigg.
- Last Edited: 23 Apr 2016
Family: Felix Grundy Adams b. 18 December 1812, d. 2 September 1889
- Powell Orgain Adams+ b. 3 July 1869, d. 4 March 1943