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Solomon Leland Powers

Birth: 2 Jan 1804
Croydon, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
Death: 1 Sep 1883 (aged 79)
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial: Evergreen Cemetery

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Memorial ID: 14948102 View Source

LIVED ON WEST HIGH STREET AND RAN A QUARRY OFF THE BALTIMORE PIKE AT "POWERS" HILL. BORN NEW HAMPSHIRE."STONE CUTTER. IN 1838 HE MOVED HIS FAMILY FROM BALTIMORE TO GETTYSBURG AND OPENED ONE OF THE FIRST QUARRIES IN THE AREA. LOCATED AT POWERS HILL HIS QUARRY PROVIDED THE STONE FOR THE BASE OF THE EVERGREEN CEMETERY GATEHOUSE."

LIVED ON WEST HIGH STREET AND RAN A QUARRY OFF THE BALTIMORE PIKE AT "POWERS" HILL. BORN NEW HAMPSHIRE."STONE CUTTER. IN 1838 HE MOVED HIS FAMILY FROM BALTIMORE TO GETTYSBURG AND OPENED ONE OF THE FIRST QUARRIES IN THE AREA. LOCATED AT POWERS HILL HIS QUARRY PROVIDED THE STONE FOR THE BASE OF THE EVERGREEN CEMETERY GATEHOUSE."

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Catherine Ann Atkinson Powers

1804–1892 (m. 1833)

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Maintained by: bcullisi1
Originally Created by: pat callahan
Added: Jul 16, 2006
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14948102/solomon_leland-powers: accessed ), memorial page for Solomon Leland Powers (2 Jan 1804–1 Sep 1883), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14948102, citing Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by bcullisi1 (contributor 47926145).

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