JAMES HARVEY POWELL 1882-1949
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Obituary, Tampa Tribune x25 Jan 1949, p.2, sec.A:
James H. Powell
James Harvey Powell, 66, of Jacksonville, and a former resident of Tampa, died in Jacksonville Sunday morning. Mr. Powell had resided for the past four years in Jacksonville, and 35 years prior to moving to Jacksonville, lived in Tampa. He was on the Tampa Police force and worked for Tampa Electric Company. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Pansy Powell, Jacksonville; two sons, Thomas Powell and Leon Powell, Tampa; two daughters, Mrs. C.H. Cleveland and Mrs. Howard Wright, of Tampa; a brother, Roy Powell, of Greenville; and six grandchildren.
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According to the veteran's pension application of Rev. A.R. Powell, Jim Powell lived in St. Louis, MO in 1907. The city directory of St. Louis for that year shows J.H. Powell as a stevedore. He moved to Tampa, Fla. about 1908, where he worked for the City of Tampa as a trolly car conductor, a position held by his brother, Roy Powell, in Savannah, GA, a few years before. While in Tampa, Jim Powell suffered a bout of appendicitus in the Spring of 1908 and was nursed back to health by the wife of his landlord, Mrs. Wm H. Gage.
By late 1909, Jim was situated in Jacksonville, Fla. as a furniture salesman. There he met and married 20 year old Pansy Blossom Renault, daughter of Alfred Renault and Sally Bryan Renault. Pansy was born at Waldo, Fla., on 21 Oct 1889.
The 1910 census of Jacksonville, Fla. shows 26 year old James H. and Pansy B. Powell as residents. The enumerator visited this household on 26 April 1910. The census record shows that the couple had been married less than a year and had no children (although, at the time, Pansy was pregnant with their first child.)
James Harvey and Pansy Blossom Powell's first child, Letha Cleo Powell, was born 2 Aug 1910, Jacksonville, FL.
By 1911, James Harvey Powell had moved his young family back to Berrien Co., Ga. He registerd to vote there with his three brothers.
Jim and Pansy Powell's second child, Elwa Jean Powell, was born in Nashville, Berrien Co., Ga., in 1912. The next year, Jim Powell, shows again on the voter registration list, again, with all of his brothers.
James Harvey Powell is mentioned next in the Valdosta Times as a pallbearer in the obituary of E.L. Moore in 1914. E.L. Moore was a deacon at Cat Creek Bapt. Church and was active in several ministry efforts in Berrien and Lowndes Co., GA.
In June, 1915, a third child, James Leon Powell, was born to Jim and Pansy Powell.
Jim and all of his brothers completed draft registrations for World War I on 12 Sept 1918. Jim indicated that he was 35 years old, born 20 Oct 1882 in Berrien Co., Ga., and cited his profession as a farmer. He was of medium height, slender build, had gray eyes and brown hair (just like his father.)
The last child born to the union of Jim Powell and Pansy Blossom Renault was Thomas Alvah Powell, born 7 July 1918 in Nashville, Ga. The first name, Thomas, came from Jim's father, Thomas William Powell, Sr. and the middle name came from his brother, Rev. Alvah Roy Powell. Of the four Powell brothers, Jim and Roy were best friends, likely because they were closer in age, while John and Will were closer, for the same reason.
In 1919, Jim and Pansy had moved back to Tampa, where Pansy's relatives had removed to. In the 1920 census of Hillsborough County, Fla., Jim & Pansy's family lived at 108 W. Michigan Ave. in Tampa.
The 1920 census shows:
Powell, James H. age 37, GA/GA/GA
Powell, Pansy, age 30, FL/IL/FL
Powell, Letha, age 9
Powell, Elwa, age 7
Powell, Leon, age 4 7/12
Powell, Thomas, age 1 3/12
The 1924 city directory of Tampa, Fla., shows James H. Powell and wife, Pansy, living at 101 W. Francis Ave. Jim Powell was employed as a Police Officer by the city of Tampa. In the 1929 city directory, they were living at 210 Gladys Street.
Jim Powell continued his career as a Police officer with the Tampa police force into the early 1940's. During that time, his two sons, James Leon and Thomas Alvah Powell, were inducted into the U.S. Army for service during World War II. Both, survived the war, returned to Florida, married, and began large families.
During the early years of the War, nephew Wilbur Powell, son of brother Rev. Alvah Roy Powell, moved to the Tampa area, where he met and married Wilhamena Lucille Bellotte. She was from a Lowndes Co., GA family.
About 1942, Jim Powell retired from the Tampa Police force and he moved, along with his wife Pansy, to Jacksonville, Fla., where they both worked at St. Luke's Hospital, Pansy as a nurse & Jim as a maintenance man. About 1948, Jim fully retired to his dream of being a fishing guide on the St. John's River, until his death, on 23 Jan 1949. His death certificate shows his last address was 4445 Beverly Ave. in Jacksonville, Fla., that he was a retired police officer, and was born Nashville, Ga.
Pansy Blossom Renault Powell was a widow for 14 years. The 1956 city directory of Jacksonville shows that she still lived in the same home on Beverly Ave. and served as a nurse at St. Luke's Hospital. She retired from that position in 1960 due to health reasons. She died 20 June 1963 in Tampa, Fla. Her death certificate shows her last address as 10049 Florida Ave., Tampa, FL. The certificate shows that she was born 21 Oct. 1889, to Rueben Renault. The informant was her son, Leon Powell, 121 W. 26th Ave., Tampa, FL.
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Columbus Holden Cleveland, son-in-law of Jim & Pansy Powell:
Died: 2 May 1986, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Born: 7 Feb 1903, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Informant: Letha (Powell) Cleveland
Father: Reuben Lindsey Cleveland
Mother: Rosa Vickery
Columbus H. Cleveland mar. Letha Powell 5 Jan 1929, Hillsborough Co., FL, Book 5, p. 495. Letha Powell Cleveland, b. 2 Aug 1910 Jacksonville, FL, d. 24 Apr 1995, Oldsmar, Pinellas Co., FL.
Their son, Charles Holden Cleveland, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, with combat service in the Korean War, was honorably discharged 15 Aug 1952, as annotated in Book 85, p. 327, Hillsborough Clerk of Court, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Obituary for son, Charles Holden Cleveland:
CLEVELAND, Charles, 77, of Land O'Lakes, Fla., passed away May 7, 2008. He was a retired police officer from the Tampa Police Department after 25 years of service, he also served in the U.S. Marines. Charles is survived by his loving wife Claire; son, Dennis Cleveland (Mary Kay) of Tampa; daughters, Suzanne Mahmoud (Hassan) of Land O'Lakes and Nancy Mattioli (Ronnie) of Lakeland, Fla.; sisters, Margaret Nipper and Martha Cleveland, both of Tampa; and 11 grandchildren, Kathryn (Scott), Andrea, Charles-Alan, Matthew, Sahar, Summer, Miriam, Daniel, Chelsea, and Alexis. The family will receive friends 6-8 p. m. Monday, May 12, 2008, with funeral services 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Both services will be held at Northgate Baptist Church, 1301 Linebaugh Ave., with interment to follow in Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, Fla. Donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place Memphis, TN 38105.
Swilley Funeral Home (813) 932-6157
Tampa Tribune, The (FL) - May 12, 2008 Edition: FINAL, Page: 6
Note: SGT US MARINE CORPS; KOREA. BURIAL WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS AT FLORIDA NATIONAL CEMETERY, BUSHNELL, FL.
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Thomas Alvah Powell, son of Jim & Pansy Powell:
Died: 4 March 1986, Tampa, Fla.
Born: 7 July 1918, Nashville, Ga.
Informant: J. Leon Powell, 15705 Willowdale, Tampa, Fla.
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Renault
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Nunber (SS-5)
Pansy Renault Powell
2308 Highland Drive
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Laundress, White Way Laundry
Age: 47
Born: Oct. 21, 1889, Waldo, Fla.
Father: Fred Renault
Mother: Sallie Bryan
Dated/Signed: Dec 8, 1936, Mrs. Pansy Powell
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Number (SS-5)
Letha Powell Cleveland
301 W. Ross Ave.
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Sales, J.C. Penney Co., Tampa, Fla.
Age: 28
Born: Aug. 2, 1910, Jacksonville, Fla.
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Blossom Renault
Dated/Signed: April 10, 1939, Mrs. Letha Cleveland
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Number (SS-5)
William Howard Wright, Jr.
306 East Oak Street
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Hotel Tampa Terrace
Age: 24 years
Born: July 11, 1912, Cedartown, Ga.
Father: William Howard Wright
Mother: Alice Stephenson
Dated/Signed: December 2, 1936, Howard Wright
Note: William Howard Wright and Elwa Jean Powell divorced in 1953, Hillsborough Co., Fla. She remarried in 1955 to Paul Sterner. Elwa Jean Sterner died 21 Sept 1986, Hillsborough Co., Fla. Her death certificate shows a date of birth 20 Nov 1912.
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Desk record of F.T. Blount Funeral Home, Tampa, FL:
Name: James Harvey Powell
Address: 4445 Beverly (Jacksonville)
DOD: 1/23/49
POD: Jacksonville, FL
Age: 66
Time in City: 7 years (Jacksonville)
Place of Service: Chapel, 2 p.m.
Church: Riverside Baptist Church, Tampa, Fla.
Cemetery: Garden of Memories
Date of Burial: 1/25
Ship to: BKM
Account charge to: Leon Powell of Tampa, Fla.
Comment: Take off stick pin.
Survivors:
2 dau.s:
Mrs. C.H. Cleveland (Tampa)
Mrs. Howard Wright (Tampa)
Wife:
Mrs. Pansy Powell
2 sons:
Thomas Powell (Tampa)
Leon Powell (Tampa)
1 brother:
Roy Powell (Greenville, Fla.)
6 grandchildren.
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Children: Letha Cleo Powell b. 1910, Elwa Jean Powell b. 1912, James Leon Powell b. 1915 and Thomas Alvah Powell, b. 1918.
Father: Rev. Thomas William Powell b. 1839. Died Berrien Co., GA, 1887. Memorial # 96147953.
Mother: Mrs. Albina Tabitha Whitlow 1847-1890, dau. of Miles Washington Whitlow and Emily Gholston of Walker Co., GA.
Brother: Rev. Alvah Roy Powell 1878-1953, bur. Evergreen Cemetery, Greenville, FL. Memorial # 39623243.
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Nashville Herald, Nashville, Ga.,:
x 1 May 1908: "J.W.E. Powell, cashier of the First National Bank, visited his brother, Jim Powell, in Tampa, Saturday and Sunday. Jim has been suffering from appendicitis, but is improving now."
x 11 Sept 1908: "Jim Powell came up from Tampa last week to visit relatives and old friends."
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1880 Census, Marion County, Illinois:
Alfred (Reuben) Renault, age 20, b. Illinois. His father was born in the Alsace Region of France.
Sallie P. Bryan Renault, age 17.
Sidney Bryan, age 52 (widow).
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1900 Jacksonville, Duval Co, Fla.
Sallie P. Renault, age 37/FL/AL/FL
Leon Renault, age 19
Isabella Renault, age 16
Alice A. Renault, age 14
Pansy Renault, age 10
Frederick Renault, age 6
Olla R. Renault, age 3
Note: Sallie Persons Renault was the dau. of Stephen Bryan and Sydney Persons.
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Death Certificate of James Leon Powell:
Born: 16 December 1915, Nashville, Ga.
Died: 2 December 1995, Tampa, Fla.
Surviving spouse: Genevieve Prince
Occupation: Police Officer
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Blossom Powell
Informant: David Powell (son)
Note:
James Leon Powell mar. 1. Hilda Evelyn Bell, 14 Feb 1938, mar. 2 Genevieve Pressley 5 Jun 1944.
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Marriage License, State of Florida, Alachua County:
Whereas, application has been made to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Alachua County, for the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, for a license for marriage, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Clerk that no legal impediment exists to the marriage now sought to be solemnized, these are therefore, to authorize to unite in the Holy Estate of Matrimony,
A.R. Renault and S.P. Bryan
and that you make return of the duly certified under your hand to the Clerk of said Court aforesaid,
Witness, J.A. Carlisle, Clerk of said Court, and the seal of said court, at the Court House in Gainesville, this 4th of June, A.D., 1880.
I certify that the within named persons were, by me, the undersigned, duly united in the Holy Estate of Matrimony, by the authority of the within license.
Done this sixth day of June, A.D., 1880.
D.A. Falkenbury, Minister of the Gospel.
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Florida Times Union, x 2 April 1896:
Special to the Times-Union - Fernandina - Last night the special vegetable train from Gainesville ran into a freight train that had just backed out onto the main track at Yulee. Engineer Fred Renault, who was pulling the vegetable train, failed to see the signals of the freight train until too late to prevent the collision. Renault refused to jump and was killed. The fireman leaped from the engine booth, receiving no injury beyond a sprained ankle. Renault leaves a wife and several children. His home was at Waldo.
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Tampa Tribune, Sept 8, 1961
Windshield Shots to Cost Officer
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A Tampa patrolman who fired eight pistol shots through the windshield of his police cruiser during a chase Monday has received orders to pay $96.50 to have the damage repaired. Patrol Inspector Leon Powell said Patrolman James Beckner and Patrolman James Hawkins were involved in a high speed chase of a car driven by David Taylor, a Negro. Beckner fired his pistol through the windshield of his own car at the rear of the Taylor vehicle. Taylor, apprehended when his car slammed into a sandbank, later pleaded guilty to illegally possessing firearms and aggravated assault.
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Megan Noel Lang, less than 1 day old, born in Tampa, passed away April 26, 2008.
She was preceded in death by her grandparent, Lucille Whitfield Lang and great-grandparents, Leon and Genevieve Powell, Leon and Alice Brownell, Ervine and Gertrude Lang, Robert Whitfield.
Megan is survived by her parents, Alex and Stephanie Lang; brother, Brandon Leon Egley Lang; grandparents, David and Paula Powell and Alfred Lang; great-grandmother, Bertha Whitfield; uncles and aunt, Michael and Joyann Powell, Matthew Powell, Alvis Lang and Alan Lang; as well as many cousins, great-uncles and great-aunts.
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Obituary, Tampa Tribune x25 Jan 1949, p.2, sec.A:
James H. Powell
James Harvey Powell, 66, of Jacksonville, and a former resident of Tampa, died in Jacksonville Sunday morning. Mr. Powell had resided for the past four years in Jacksonville, and 35 years prior to moving to Jacksonville, lived in Tampa. He was on the Tampa Police force and worked for Tampa Electric Company. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Pansy Powell, Jacksonville; two sons, Thomas Powell and Leon Powell, Tampa; two daughters, Mrs. C.H. Cleveland and Mrs. Howard Wright, of Tampa; a brother, Roy Powell, of Greenville; and six grandchildren.
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According to the veteran's pension application of Rev. A.R. Powell, Jim Powell lived in St. Louis, MO in 1907. The city directory of St. Louis for that year shows J.H. Powell as a stevedore. He moved to Tampa, Fla. about 1908, where he worked for the City of Tampa as a trolly car conductor, a position held by his brother, Roy Powell, in Savannah, GA, a few years before. While in Tampa, Jim Powell suffered a bout of appendicitus in the Spring of 1908 and was nursed back to health by the wife of his landlord, Mrs. Wm H. Gage.
By late 1909, Jim was situated in Jacksonville, Fla. as a furniture salesman. There he met and married 20 year old Pansy Blossom Renault, daughter of Alfred Renault and Sally Bryan Renault. Pansy was born at Waldo, Fla., on 21 Oct 1889.
The 1910 census of Jacksonville, Fla. shows 26 year old James H. and Pansy B. Powell as residents. The enumerator visited this household on 26 April 1910. The census record shows that the couple had been married less than a year and had no children (although, at the time, Pansy was pregnant with their first child.)
James Harvey and Pansy Blossom Powell's first child, Letha Cleo Powell, was born 2 Aug 1910, Jacksonville, FL.
By 1911, James Harvey Powell had moved his young family back to Berrien Co., Ga. He registerd to vote there with his three brothers.
Jim and Pansy Powell's second child, Elwa Jean Powell, was born in Nashville, Berrien Co., Ga., in 1912. The next year, Jim Powell, shows again on the voter registration list, again, with all of his brothers.
James Harvey Powell is mentioned next in the Valdosta Times as a pallbearer in the obituary of E.L. Moore in 1914. E.L. Moore was a deacon at Cat Creek Bapt. Church and was active in several ministry efforts in Berrien and Lowndes Co., GA.
In June, 1915, a third child, James Leon Powell, was born to Jim and Pansy Powell.
Jim and all of his brothers completed draft registrations for World War I on 12 Sept 1918. Jim indicated that he was 35 years old, born 20 Oct 1882 in Berrien Co., Ga., and cited his profession as a farmer. He was of medium height, slender build, had gray eyes and brown hair (just like his father.)
The last child born to the union of Jim Powell and Pansy Blossom Renault was Thomas Alvah Powell, born 7 July 1918 in Nashville, Ga. The first name, Thomas, came from Jim's father, Thomas William Powell, Sr. and the middle name came from his brother, Rev. Alvah Roy Powell. Of the four Powell brothers, Jim and Roy were best friends, likely because they were closer in age, while John and Will were closer, for the same reason.
In 1919, Jim and Pansy had moved back to Tampa, where Pansy's relatives had removed to. In the 1920 census of Hillsborough County, Fla., Jim & Pansy's family lived at 108 W. Michigan Ave. in Tampa.
The 1920 census shows:
Powell, James H. age 37, GA/GA/GA
Powell, Pansy, age 30, FL/IL/FL
Powell, Letha, age 9
Powell, Elwa, age 7
Powell, Leon, age 4 7/12
Powell, Thomas, age 1 3/12
The 1924 city directory of Tampa, Fla., shows James H. Powell and wife, Pansy, living at 101 W. Francis Ave. Jim Powell was employed as a Police Officer by the city of Tampa. In the 1929 city directory, they were living at 210 Gladys Street.
Jim Powell continued his career as a Police officer with the Tampa police force into the early 1940's. During that time, his two sons, James Leon and Thomas Alvah Powell, were inducted into the U.S. Army for service during World War II. Both, survived the war, returned to Florida, married, and began large families.
During the early years of the War, nephew Wilbur Powell, son of brother Rev. Alvah Roy Powell, moved to the Tampa area, where he met and married Wilhamena Lucille Bellotte. She was from a Lowndes Co., GA family.
About 1942, Jim Powell retired from the Tampa Police force and he moved, along with his wife Pansy, to Jacksonville, Fla., where they both worked at St. Luke's Hospital, Pansy as a nurse & Jim as a maintenance man. About 1948, Jim fully retired to his dream of being a fishing guide on the St. John's River, until his death, on 23 Jan 1949. His death certificate shows his last address was 4445 Beverly Ave. in Jacksonville, Fla., that he was a retired police officer, and was born Nashville, Ga.
Pansy Blossom Renault Powell was a widow for 14 years. The 1956 city directory of Jacksonville shows that she still lived in the same home on Beverly Ave. and served as a nurse at St. Luke's Hospital. She retired from that position in 1960 due to health reasons. She died 20 June 1963 in Tampa, Fla. Her death certificate shows her last address as 10049 Florida Ave., Tampa, FL. The certificate shows that she was born 21 Oct. 1889, to Rueben Renault. The informant was her son, Leon Powell, 121 W. 26th Ave., Tampa, FL.
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Columbus Holden Cleveland, son-in-law of Jim & Pansy Powell:
Died: 2 May 1986, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Born: 7 Feb 1903, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Informant: Letha (Powell) Cleveland
Father: Reuben Lindsey Cleveland
Mother: Rosa Vickery
Columbus H. Cleveland mar. Letha Powell 5 Jan 1929, Hillsborough Co., FL, Book 5, p. 495. Letha Powell Cleveland, b. 2 Aug 1910 Jacksonville, FL, d. 24 Apr 1995, Oldsmar, Pinellas Co., FL.
Their son, Charles Holden Cleveland, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, with combat service in the Korean War, was honorably discharged 15 Aug 1952, as annotated in Book 85, p. 327, Hillsborough Clerk of Court, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Obituary for son, Charles Holden Cleveland:
CLEVELAND, Charles, 77, of Land O'Lakes, Fla., passed away May 7, 2008. He was a retired police officer from the Tampa Police Department after 25 years of service, he also served in the U.S. Marines. Charles is survived by his loving wife Claire; son, Dennis Cleveland (Mary Kay) of Tampa; daughters, Suzanne Mahmoud (Hassan) of Land O'Lakes and Nancy Mattioli (Ronnie) of Lakeland, Fla.; sisters, Margaret Nipper and Martha Cleveland, both of Tampa; and 11 grandchildren, Kathryn (Scott), Andrea, Charles-Alan, Matthew, Sahar, Summer, Miriam, Daniel, Chelsea, and Alexis. The family will receive friends 6-8 p. m. Monday, May 12, 2008, with funeral services 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Both services will be held at Northgate Baptist Church, 1301 Linebaugh Ave., with interment to follow in Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, Fla. Donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place Memphis, TN 38105.
Swilley Funeral Home (813) 932-6157
Tampa Tribune, The (FL) - May 12, 2008 Edition: FINAL, Page: 6
Note: SGT US MARINE CORPS; KOREA. BURIAL WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS AT FLORIDA NATIONAL CEMETERY, BUSHNELL, FL.
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Thomas Alvah Powell, son of Jim & Pansy Powell:
Died: 4 March 1986, Tampa, Fla.
Born: 7 July 1918, Nashville, Ga.
Informant: J. Leon Powell, 15705 Willowdale, Tampa, Fla.
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Renault
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Nunber (SS-5)
Pansy Renault Powell
2308 Highland Drive
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Laundress, White Way Laundry
Age: 47
Born: Oct. 21, 1889, Waldo, Fla.
Father: Fred Renault
Mother: Sallie Bryan
Dated/Signed: Dec 8, 1936, Mrs. Pansy Powell
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Number (SS-5)
Letha Powell Cleveland
301 W. Ross Ave.
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Sales, J.C. Penney Co., Tampa, Fla.
Age: 28
Born: Aug. 2, 1910, Jacksonville, Fla.
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Blossom Renault
Dated/Signed: April 10, 1939, Mrs. Letha Cleveland
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Number (SS-5)
William Howard Wright, Jr.
306 East Oak Street
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Hotel Tampa Terrace
Age: 24 years
Born: July 11, 1912, Cedartown, Ga.
Father: William Howard Wright
Mother: Alice Stephenson
Dated/Signed: December 2, 1936, Howard Wright
Note: William Howard Wright and Elwa Jean Powell divorced in 1953, Hillsborough Co., Fla. She remarried in 1955 to Paul Sterner. Elwa Jean Sterner died 21 Sept 1986, Hillsborough Co., Fla. Her death certificate shows a date of birth 20 Nov 1912.
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Desk record of F.T. Blount Funeral Home, Tampa, FL:
Name: James Harvey Powell
Address: 4445 Beverly (Jacksonville)
DOD: 1/23/49
POD: Jacksonville, FL
Age: 66
Time in City: 7 years (Jacksonville)
Place of Service: Chapel, 2 p.m.
Church: Riverside Baptist Church, Tampa, Fla.
Cemetery: Garden of Memories
Date of Burial: 1/25
Ship to: BKM
Account charge to: Leon Powell of Tampa, Fla.
Comment: Take off stick pin.
Survivors:
2 dau.s:
Mrs. C.H. Cleveland (Tampa)
Mrs. Howard Wright (Tampa)
Wife:
Mrs. Pansy Powell
2 sons:
Thomas Powell (Tampa)
Leon Powell (Tampa)
1 brother:
Roy Powell (Greenville, Fla.)
6 grandchildren.
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Children: Letha Cleo Powell b. 1910, Elwa Jean Powell b. 1912, James Leon Powell b. 1915 and Thomas Alvah Powell, b. 1918.
Father: Rev. Thomas William Powell b. 1839. Died Berrien Co., GA, 1887. Memorial # 96147953.
Mother: Mrs. Albina Tabitha Whitlow 1847-1890, dau. of Miles Washington Whitlow and Emily Gholston of Walker Co., GA.
Brother: Rev. Alvah Roy Powell 1878-1953, bur. Evergreen Cemetery, Greenville, FL. Memorial # 39623243.
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Nashville Herald, Nashville, Ga.,:
x 1 May 1908: "J.W.E. Powell, cashier of the First National Bank, visited his brother, Jim Powell, in Tampa, Saturday and Sunday. Jim has been suffering from appendicitis, but is improving now."
x 11 Sept 1908: "Jim Powell came up from Tampa last week to visit relatives and old friends."
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1880 Census, Marion County, Illinois:
Alfred (Reuben) Renault, age 20, b. Illinois. His father was born in the Alsace Region of France.
Sallie P. Bryan Renault, age 17.
Sidney Bryan, age 52 (widow).
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1900 Jacksonville, Duval Co, Fla.
Sallie P. Renault, age 37/FL/AL/FL
Leon Renault, age 19
Isabella Renault, age 16
Alice A. Renault, age 14
Pansy Renault, age 10
Frederick Renault, age 6
Olla R. Renault, age 3
Note: Sallie Persons Renault was the dau. of Stephen Bryan and Sydney Persons.
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Death Certificate of James Leon Powell:
Born: 16 December 1915, Nashville, Ga.
Died: 2 December 1995, Tampa, Fla.
Surviving spouse: Genevieve Prince
Occupation: Police Officer
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Blossom Powell
Informant: David Powell (son)
Note:
James Leon Powell mar. 1. Hilda Evelyn Bell, 14 Feb 1938, mar. 2 Genevieve Pressley 5 Jun 1944.
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Marriage License, State of Florida, Alachua County:
Whereas, application has been made to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Alachua County, for the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, for a license for marriage, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Clerk that no legal impediment exists to the marriage now sought to be solemnized, these are therefore, to authorize to unite in the Holy Estate of Matrimony,
A.R. Renault and S.P. Bryan
and that you make return of the duly certified under your hand to the Clerk of said Court aforesaid,
Witness, J.A. Carlisle, Clerk of said Court, and the seal of said court, at the Court House in Gainesville, this 4th of June, A.D., 1880.
I certify that the within named persons were, by me, the undersigned, duly united in the Holy Estate of Matrimony, by the authority of the within license.
Done this sixth day of June, A.D., 1880.
D.A. Falkenbury, Minister of the Gospel.
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Florida Times Union, x 2 April 1896:
Special to the Times-Union - Fernandina - Last night the special vegetable train from Gainesville ran into a freight train that had just backed out onto the main track at Yulee. Engineer Fred Renault, who was pulling the vegetable train, failed to see the signals of the freight train until too late to prevent the collision. Renault refused to jump and was killed. The fireman leaped from the engine booth, receiving no injury beyond a sprained ankle. Renault leaves a wife and several children. His home was at Waldo.
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Tampa Tribune, Sept 8, 1961
Windshield Shots to Cost Officer
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A Tampa patrolman who fired eight pistol shots through the windshield of his police cruiser during a chase Monday has received orders to pay $96.50 to have the damage repaired. Patrol Inspector Leon Powell said Patrolman James Beckner and Patrolman James Hawkins were involved in a high speed chase of a car driven by David Taylor, a Negro. Beckner fired his pistol through the windshield of his own car at the rear of the Taylor vehicle. Taylor, apprehended when his car slammed into a sandbank, later pleaded guilty to illegally possessing firearms and aggravated assault.
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Megan Noel Lang, less than 1 day old, born in Tampa, passed away April 26, 2008.
She was preceded in death by her grandparent, Lucille Whitfield Lang and great-grandparents, Leon and Genevieve Powell, Leon and Alice Brownell, Ervine and Gertrude Lang, Robert Whitfield.
Megan is survived by her parents, Alex and Stephanie Lang; brother, Brandon Leon Egley Lang; grandparents, David and Paula Powell and Alfred Lang; great-grandmother, Bertha Whitfield; uncles and aunt, Michael and Joyann Powell, Matthew Powell, Alvis Lang and Alan Lang; as well as many cousins, great-uncles and great-aunts.
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JAMES HARVEY POWELL 1882-1949
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Obituary, Tampa Tribune x25 Jan 1949, p.2, sec.A:
James H. Powell
James Harvey Powell, 66, of Jacksonville, and a former resident of Tampa, died in Jacksonville Sunday morning. Mr. Powell had resided for the past four years in Jacksonville, and 35 years prior to moving to Jacksonville, lived in Tampa. He was on the Tampa Police force and worked for Tampa Electric Company. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Pansy Powell, Jacksonville; two sons, Thomas Powell and Leon Powell, Tampa; two daughters, Mrs. C.H. Cleveland and Mrs. Howard Wright, of Tampa; a brother, Roy Powell, of Greenville; and six grandchildren.
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According to the veteran's pension application of Rev. A.R. Powell, Jim Powell lived in St. Louis, MO in 1907. The city directory of St. Louis for that year shows J.H. Powell as a stevedore. He moved to Tampa, Fla. about 1908, where he worked for the City of Tampa as a trolly car conductor, a position held by his brother, Roy Powell, in Savannah, GA, a few years before. While in Tampa, Jim Powell suffered a bout of appendicitus in the Spring of 1908 and was nursed back to health by the wife of his landlord, Mrs. Wm H. Gage.
By late 1909, Jim was situated in Jacksonville, Fla. as a furniture salesman. There he met and married 20 year old Pansy Blossom Renault, daughter of Alfred Renault and Sally Bryan Renault. Pansy was born at Waldo, Fla., on 21 Oct 1889.
The 1910 census of Jacksonville, Fla. shows 26 year old James H. and Pansy B. Powell as residents. The enumerator visited this household on 26 April 1910. The census record shows that the couple had been married less than a year and had no children (although, at the time, Pansy was pregnant with their first child.)
James Harvey and Pansy Blossom Powell's first child, Letha Cleo Powell, was born 2 Aug 1910, Jacksonville, FL.
By 1911, James Harvey Powell had moved his young family back to Berrien Co., Ga. He registerd to vote there with his three brothers.
Jim and Pansy Powell's second child, Elwa Jean Powell, was born in Nashville, Berrien Co., Ga., in 1912. The next year, Jim Powell, shows again on the voter registration list, again, with all of his brothers.
James Harvey Powell is mentioned next in the Valdosta Times as a pallbearer in the obituary of E.L. Moore in 1914. E.L. Moore was a deacon at Cat Creek Bapt. Church and was active in several ministry efforts in Berrien and Lowndes Co., GA.
In June, 1915, a third child, James Leon Powell, was born to Jim and Pansy Powell.
Jim and all of his brothers completed draft registrations for World War I on 12 Sept 1918. Jim indicated that he was 35 years old, born 20 Oct 1882 in Berrien Co., Ga., and cited his profession as a farmer. He was of medium height, slender build, had gray eyes and brown hair (just like his father.)
The last child born to the union of Jim Powell and Pansy Blossom Renault was Thomas Alvah Powell, born 7 July 1918 in Nashville, Ga. The first name, Thomas, came from Jim's father, Thomas William Powell, Sr. and the middle name came from his brother, Rev. Alvah Roy Powell. Of the four Powell brothers, Jim and Roy were best friends, likely because they were closer in age, while John and Will were closer, for the same reason.
In 1919, Jim and Pansy had moved back to Tampa, where Pansy's relatives had removed to. In the 1920 census of Hillsborough County, Fla., Jim & Pansy's family lived at 108 W. Michigan Ave. in Tampa.
The 1920 census shows:
Powell, James H. age 37, GA/GA/GA
Powell, Pansy, age 30, FL/IL/FL
Powell, Letha, age 9
Powell, Elwa, age 7
Powell, Leon, age 4 7/12
Powell, Thomas, age 1 3/12
The 1924 city directory of Tampa, Fla., shows James H. Powell and wife, Pansy, living at 101 W. Francis Ave. Jim Powell was employed as a Police Officer by the city of Tampa. In the 1929 city directory, they were living at 210 Gladys Street.
Jim Powell continued his career as a Police officer with the Tampa police force into the early 1940's. During that time, his two sons, James Leon and Thomas Alvah Powell, were inducted into the U.S. Army for service during World War II. Both, survived the war, returned to Florida, married, and began large families.
During the early years of the War, nephew Wilbur Powell, son of brother Rev. Alvah Roy Powell, moved to the Tampa area, where he met and married Wilhamena Lucille Bellotte. She was from a Lowndes Co., GA family.
About 1942, Jim Powell retired from the Tampa Police force and he moved, along with his wife Pansy, to Jacksonville, Fla., where they both worked at St. Luke's Hospital, Pansy as a nurse & Jim as a maintenance man. About 1948, Jim fully retired to his dream of being a fishing guide on the St. John's River, until his death, on 23 Jan 1949. His death certificate shows his last address was 4445 Beverly Ave. in Jacksonville, Fla., that he was a retired police officer, and was born Nashville, Ga.
Pansy Blossom Renault Powell was a widow for 14 years. The 1956 city directory of Jacksonville shows that she still lived in the same home on Beverly Ave. and served as a nurse at St. Luke's Hospital. She retired from that position in 1960 due to health reasons. She died 20 June 1963 in Tampa, Fla. Her death certificate shows her last address as 10049 Florida Ave., Tampa, FL. The certificate shows that she was born 21 Oct. 1889, to Rueben Renault. The informant was her son, Leon Powell, 121 W. 26th Ave., Tampa, FL.
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Columbus Holden Cleveland, son-in-law of Jim & Pansy Powell:
Died: 2 May 1986, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Born: 7 Feb 1903, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Informant: Letha (Powell) Cleveland
Father: Reuben Lindsey Cleveland
Mother: Rosa Vickery
Columbus H. Cleveland mar. Letha Powell 5 Jan 1929, Hillsborough Co., FL, Book 5, p. 495. Letha Powell Cleveland, b. 2 Aug 1910 Jacksonville, FL, d. 24 Apr 1995, Oldsmar, Pinellas Co., FL.
Their son, Charles Holden Cleveland, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, with combat service in the Korean War, was honorably discharged 15 Aug 1952, as annotated in Book 85, p. 327, Hillsborough Clerk of Court, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Obituary for son, Charles Holden Cleveland:
CLEVELAND, Charles, 77, of Land O'Lakes, Fla., passed away May 7, 2008. He was a retired police officer from the Tampa Police Department after 25 years of service, he also served in the U.S. Marines. Charles is survived by his loving wife Claire; son, Dennis Cleveland (Mary Kay) of Tampa; daughters, Suzanne Mahmoud (Hassan) of Land O'Lakes and Nancy Mattioli (Ronnie) of Lakeland, Fla.; sisters, Margaret Nipper and Martha Cleveland, both of Tampa; and 11 grandchildren, Kathryn (Scott), Andrea, Charles-Alan, Matthew, Sahar, Summer, Miriam, Daniel, Chelsea, and Alexis. The family will receive friends 6-8 p. m. Monday, May 12, 2008, with funeral services 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Both services will be held at Northgate Baptist Church, 1301 Linebaugh Ave., with interment to follow in Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, Fla. Donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place Memphis, TN 38105.
Swilley Funeral Home (813) 932-6157
Tampa Tribune, The (FL) - May 12, 2008 Edition: FINAL, Page: 6
Note: SGT US MARINE CORPS; KOREA. BURIAL WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS AT FLORIDA NATIONAL CEMETERY, BUSHNELL, FL.
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Thomas Alvah Powell, son of Jim & Pansy Powell:
Died: 4 March 1986, Tampa, Fla.
Born: 7 July 1918, Nashville, Ga.
Informant: J. Leon Powell, 15705 Willowdale, Tampa, Fla.
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Renault
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Nunber (SS-5)
Pansy Renault Powell
2308 Highland Drive
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Laundress, White Way Laundry
Age: 47
Born: Oct. 21, 1889, Waldo, Fla.
Father: Fred Renault
Mother: Sallie Bryan
Dated/Signed: Dec 8, 1936, Mrs. Pansy Powell
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Number (SS-5)
Letha Powell Cleveland
301 W. Ross Ave.
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Sales, J.C. Penney Co., Tampa, Fla.
Age: 28
Born: Aug. 2, 1910, Jacksonville, Fla.
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Blossom Renault
Dated/Signed: April 10, 1939, Mrs. Letha Cleveland
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Number (SS-5)
William Howard Wright, Jr.
306 East Oak Street
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Hotel Tampa Terrace
Age: 24 years
Born: July 11, 1912, Cedartown, Ga.
Father: William Howard Wright
Mother: Alice Stephenson
Dated/Signed: December 2, 1936, Howard Wright
Note: William Howard Wright and Elwa Jean Powell divorced in 1953, Hillsborough Co., Fla. She remarried in 1955 to Paul Sterner. Elwa Jean Sterner died 21 Sept 1986, Hillsborough Co., Fla. Her death certificate shows a date of birth 20 Nov 1912.
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Desk record of F.T. Blount Funeral Home, Tampa, FL:
Name: James Harvey Powell
Address: 4445 Beverly (Jacksonville)
DOD: 1/23/49
POD: Jacksonville, FL
Age: 66
Time in City: 7 years (Jacksonville)
Place of Service: Chapel, 2 p.m.
Church: Riverside Baptist Church, Tampa, Fla.
Cemetery: Garden of Memories
Date of Burial: 1/25
Ship to: BKM
Account charge to: Leon Powell of Tampa, Fla.
Comment: Take off stick pin.
Survivors:
2 dau.s:
Mrs. C.H. Cleveland (Tampa)
Mrs. Howard Wright (Tampa)
Wife:
Mrs. Pansy Powell
2 sons:
Thomas Powell (Tampa)
Leon Powell (Tampa)
1 brother:
Roy Powell (Greenville, Fla.)
6 grandchildren.
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Children: Letha Cleo Powell b. 1910, Elwa Jean Powell b. 1912, James Leon Powell b. 1915 and Thomas Alvah Powell, b. 1918.
Father: Rev. Thomas William Powell b. 1839. Died Berrien Co., GA, 1887. Memorial # 96147953.
Mother: Mrs. Albina Tabitha Whitlow 1847-1890, dau. of Miles Washington Whitlow and Emily Gholston of Walker Co., GA.
Brother: Rev. Alvah Roy Powell 1878-1953, bur. Evergreen Cemetery, Greenville, FL. Memorial # 39623243.
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Nashville Herald, Nashville, Ga.,:
x 1 May 1908: "J.W.E. Powell, cashier of the First National Bank, visited his brother, Jim Powell, in Tampa, Saturday and Sunday. Jim has been suffering from appendicitis, but is improving now."
x 11 Sept 1908: "Jim Powell came up from Tampa last week to visit relatives and old friends."
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1880 Census, Marion County, Illinois:
Alfred (Reuben) Renault, age 20, b. Illinois. His father was born in the Alsace Region of France.
Sallie P. Bryan Renault, age 17.
Sidney Bryan, age 52 (widow).
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1900 Jacksonville, Duval Co, Fla.
Sallie P. Renault, age 37/FL/AL/FL
Leon Renault, age 19
Isabella Renault, age 16
Alice A. Renault, age 14
Pansy Renault, age 10
Frederick Renault, age 6
Olla R. Renault, age 3
Note: Sallie Persons Renault was the dau. of Stephen Bryan and Sydney Persons.
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Death Certificate of James Leon Powell:
Born: 16 December 1915, Nashville, Ga.
Died: 2 December 1995, Tampa, Fla.
Surviving spouse: Genevieve Prince
Occupation: Police Officer
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Blossom Powell
Informant: David Powell (son)
Note:
James Leon Powell mar. 1. Hilda Evelyn Bell, 14 Feb 1938, mar. 2 Genevieve Pressley 5 Jun 1944.
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Marriage License, State of Florida, Alachua County:
Whereas, application has been made to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Alachua County, for the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, for a license for marriage, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Clerk that no legal impediment exists to the marriage now sought to be solemnized, these are therefore, to authorize to unite in the Holy Estate of Matrimony,
A.R. Renault and S.P. Bryan
and that you make return of the duly certified under your hand to the Clerk of said Court aforesaid,
Witness, J.A. Carlisle, Clerk of said Court, and the seal of said court, at the Court House in Gainesville, this 4th of June, A.D., 1880.
I certify that the within named persons were, by me, the undersigned, duly united in the Holy Estate of Matrimony, by the authority of the within license.
Done this sixth day of June, A.D., 1880.
D.A. Falkenbury, Minister of the Gospel.
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Florida Times Union, x 2 April 1896:
Special to the Times-Union - Fernandina - Last night the special vegetable train from Gainesville ran into a freight train that had just backed out onto the main track at Yulee. Engineer Fred Renault, who was pulling the vegetable train, failed to see the signals of the freight train until too late to prevent the collision. Renault refused to jump and was killed. The fireman leaped from the engine booth, receiving no injury beyond a sprained ankle. Renault leaves a wife and several children. His home was at Waldo.
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Tampa Tribune, Sept 8, 1961
Windshield Shots to Cost Officer
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A Tampa patrolman who fired eight pistol shots through the windshield of his police cruiser during a chase Monday has received orders to pay $96.50 to have the damage repaired. Patrol Inspector Leon Powell said Patrolman James Beckner and Patrolman James Hawkins were involved in a high speed chase of a car driven by David Taylor, a Negro. Beckner fired his pistol through the windshield of his own car at the rear of the Taylor vehicle. Taylor, apprehended when his car slammed into a sandbank, later pleaded guilty to illegally possessing firearms and aggravated assault.
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Megan Noel Lang, less than 1 day old, born in Tampa, passed away April 26, 2008.
She was preceded in death by her grandparent, Lucille Whitfield Lang and great-grandparents, Leon and Genevieve Powell, Leon and Alice Brownell, Ervine and Gertrude Lang, Robert Whitfield.
Megan is survived by her parents, Alex and Stephanie Lang; brother, Brandon Leon Egley Lang; grandparents, David and Paula Powell and Alfred Lang; great-grandmother, Bertha Whitfield; uncles and aunt, Michael and Joyann Powell, Matthew Powell, Alvis Lang and Alan Lang; as well as many cousins, great-uncles and great-aunts.
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Obituary, Tampa Tribune x25 Jan 1949, p.2, sec.A:
James H. Powell
James Harvey Powell, 66, of Jacksonville, and a former resident of Tampa, died in Jacksonville Sunday morning. Mr. Powell had resided for the past four years in Jacksonville, and 35 years prior to moving to Jacksonville, lived in Tampa. He was on the Tampa Police force and worked for Tampa Electric Company. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Pansy Powell, Jacksonville; two sons, Thomas Powell and Leon Powell, Tampa; two daughters, Mrs. C.H. Cleveland and Mrs. Howard Wright, of Tampa; a brother, Roy Powell, of Greenville; and six grandchildren.
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According to the veteran's pension application of Rev. A.R. Powell, Jim Powell lived in St. Louis, MO in 1907. The city directory of St. Louis for that year shows J.H. Powell as a stevedore. He moved to Tampa, Fla. about 1908, where he worked for the City of Tampa as a trolly car conductor, a position held by his brother, Roy Powell, in Savannah, GA, a few years before. While in Tampa, Jim Powell suffered a bout of appendicitus in the Spring of 1908 and was nursed back to health by the wife of his landlord, Mrs. Wm H. Gage.
By late 1909, Jim was situated in Jacksonville, Fla. as a furniture salesman. There he met and married 20 year old Pansy Blossom Renault, daughter of Alfred Renault and Sally Bryan Renault. Pansy was born at Waldo, Fla., on 21 Oct 1889.
The 1910 census of Jacksonville, Fla. shows 26 year old James H. and Pansy B. Powell as residents. The enumerator visited this household on 26 April 1910. The census record shows that the couple had been married less than a year and had no children (although, at the time, Pansy was pregnant with their first child.)
James Harvey and Pansy Blossom Powell's first child, Letha Cleo Powell, was born 2 Aug 1910, Jacksonville, FL.
By 1911, James Harvey Powell had moved his young family back to Berrien Co., Ga. He registerd to vote there with his three brothers.
Jim and Pansy Powell's second child, Elwa Jean Powell, was born in Nashville, Berrien Co., Ga., in 1912. The next year, Jim Powell, shows again on the voter registration list, again, with all of his brothers.
James Harvey Powell is mentioned next in the Valdosta Times as a pallbearer in the obituary of E.L. Moore in 1914. E.L. Moore was a deacon at Cat Creek Bapt. Church and was active in several ministry efforts in Berrien and Lowndes Co., GA.
In June, 1915, a third child, James Leon Powell, was born to Jim and Pansy Powell.
Jim and all of his brothers completed draft registrations for World War I on 12 Sept 1918. Jim indicated that he was 35 years old, born 20 Oct 1882 in Berrien Co., Ga., and cited his profession as a farmer. He was of medium height, slender build, had gray eyes and brown hair (just like his father.)
The last child born to the union of Jim Powell and Pansy Blossom Renault was Thomas Alvah Powell, born 7 July 1918 in Nashville, Ga. The first name, Thomas, came from Jim's father, Thomas William Powell, Sr. and the middle name came from his brother, Rev. Alvah Roy Powell. Of the four Powell brothers, Jim and Roy were best friends, likely because they were closer in age, while John and Will were closer, for the same reason.
In 1919, Jim and Pansy had moved back to Tampa, where Pansy's relatives had removed to. In the 1920 census of Hillsborough County, Fla., Jim & Pansy's family lived at 108 W. Michigan Ave. in Tampa.
The 1920 census shows:
Powell, James H. age 37, GA/GA/GA
Powell, Pansy, age 30, FL/IL/FL
Powell, Letha, age 9
Powell, Elwa, age 7
Powell, Leon, age 4 7/12
Powell, Thomas, age 1 3/12
The 1924 city directory of Tampa, Fla., shows James H. Powell and wife, Pansy, living at 101 W. Francis Ave. Jim Powell was employed as a Police Officer by the city of Tampa. In the 1929 city directory, they were living at 210 Gladys Street.
Jim Powell continued his career as a Police officer with the Tampa police force into the early 1940's. During that time, his two sons, James Leon and Thomas Alvah Powell, were inducted into the U.S. Army for service during World War II. Both, survived the war, returned to Florida, married, and began large families.
During the early years of the War, nephew Wilbur Powell, son of brother Rev. Alvah Roy Powell, moved to the Tampa area, where he met and married Wilhamena Lucille Bellotte. She was from a Lowndes Co., GA family.
About 1942, Jim Powell retired from the Tampa Police force and he moved, along with his wife Pansy, to Jacksonville, Fla., where they both worked at St. Luke's Hospital, Pansy as a nurse & Jim as a maintenance man. About 1948, Jim fully retired to his dream of being a fishing guide on the St. John's River, until his death, on 23 Jan 1949. His death certificate shows his last address was 4445 Beverly Ave. in Jacksonville, Fla., that he was a retired police officer, and was born Nashville, Ga.
Pansy Blossom Renault Powell was a widow for 14 years. The 1956 city directory of Jacksonville shows that she still lived in the same home on Beverly Ave. and served as a nurse at St. Luke's Hospital. She retired from that position in 1960 due to health reasons. She died 20 June 1963 in Tampa, Fla. Her death certificate shows her last address as 10049 Florida Ave., Tampa, FL. The certificate shows that she was born 21 Oct. 1889, to Rueben Renault. The informant was her son, Leon Powell, 121 W. 26th Ave., Tampa, FL.
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Columbus Holden Cleveland, son-in-law of Jim & Pansy Powell:
Died: 2 May 1986, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Born: 7 Feb 1903, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Informant: Letha (Powell) Cleveland
Father: Reuben Lindsey Cleveland
Mother: Rosa Vickery
Columbus H. Cleveland mar. Letha Powell 5 Jan 1929, Hillsborough Co., FL, Book 5, p. 495. Letha Powell Cleveland, b. 2 Aug 1910 Jacksonville, FL, d. 24 Apr 1995, Oldsmar, Pinellas Co., FL.
Their son, Charles Holden Cleveland, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, with combat service in the Korean War, was honorably discharged 15 Aug 1952, as annotated in Book 85, p. 327, Hillsborough Clerk of Court, Hillsborough Co., FL.
Obituary for son, Charles Holden Cleveland:
CLEVELAND, Charles, 77, of Land O'Lakes, Fla., passed away May 7, 2008. He was a retired police officer from the Tampa Police Department after 25 years of service, he also served in the U.S. Marines. Charles is survived by his loving wife Claire; son, Dennis Cleveland (Mary Kay) of Tampa; daughters, Suzanne Mahmoud (Hassan) of Land O'Lakes and Nancy Mattioli (Ronnie) of Lakeland, Fla.; sisters, Margaret Nipper and Martha Cleveland, both of Tampa; and 11 grandchildren, Kathryn (Scott), Andrea, Charles-Alan, Matthew, Sahar, Summer, Miriam, Daniel, Chelsea, and Alexis. The family will receive friends 6-8 p. m. Monday, May 12, 2008, with funeral services 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Both services will be held at Northgate Baptist Church, 1301 Linebaugh Ave., with interment to follow in Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, Fla. Donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place Memphis, TN 38105.
Swilley Funeral Home (813) 932-6157
Tampa Tribune, The (FL) - May 12, 2008 Edition: FINAL, Page: 6
Note: SGT US MARINE CORPS; KOREA. BURIAL WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS AT FLORIDA NATIONAL CEMETERY, BUSHNELL, FL.
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Thomas Alvah Powell, son of Jim & Pansy Powell:
Died: 4 March 1986, Tampa, Fla.
Born: 7 July 1918, Nashville, Ga.
Informant: J. Leon Powell, 15705 Willowdale, Tampa, Fla.
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Renault
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Nunber (SS-5)
Pansy Renault Powell
2308 Highland Drive
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Laundress, White Way Laundry
Age: 47
Born: Oct. 21, 1889, Waldo, Fla.
Father: Fred Renault
Mother: Sallie Bryan
Dated/Signed: Dec 8, 1936, Mrs. Pansy Powell
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Number (SS-5)
Letha Powell Cleveland
301 W. Ross Ave.
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Sales, J.C. Penney Co., Tampa, Fla.
Age: 28
Born: Aug. 2, 1910, Jacksonville, Fla.
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Blossom Renault
Dated/Signed: April 10, 1939, Mrs. Letha Cleveland
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U.S. Social Security Act, Application for Social Security Number (SS-5)
William Howard Wright, Jr.
306 East Oak Street
Tampa, Florida
Occupation: Hotel Tampa Terrace
Age: 24 years
Born: July 11, 1912, Cedartown, Ga.
Father: William Howard Wright
Mother: Alice Stephenson
Dated/Signed: December 2, 1936, Howard Wright
Note: William Howard Wright and Elwa Jean Powell divorced in 1953, Hillsborough Co., Fla. She remarried in 1955 to Paul Sterner. Elwa Jean Sterner died 21 Sept 1986, Hillsborough Co., Fla. Her death certificate shows a date of birth 20 Nov 1912.
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Desk record of F.T. Blount Funeral Home, Tampa, FL:
Name: James Harvey Powell
Address: 4445 Beverly (Jacksonville)
DOD: 1/23/49
POD: Jacksonville, FL
Age: 66
Time in City: 7 years (Jacksonville)
Place of Service: Chapel, 2 p.m.
Church: Riverside Baptist Church, Tampa, Fla.
Cemetery: Garden of Memories
Date of Burial: 1/25
Ship to: BKM
Account charge to: Leon Powell of Tampa, Fla.
Comment: Take off stick pin.
Survivors:
2 dau.s:
Mrs. C.H. Cleveland (Tampa)
Mrs. Howard Wright (Tampa)
Wife:
Mrs. Pansy Powell
2 sons:
Thomas Powell (Tampa)
Leon Powell (Tampa)
1 brother:
Roy Powell (Greenville, Fla.)
6 grandchildren.
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Children: Letha Cleo Powell b. 1910, Elwa Jean Powell b. 1912, James Leon Powell b. 1915 and Thomas Alvah Powell, b. 1918.
Father: Rev. Thomas William Powell b. 1839. Died Berrien Co., GA, 1887. Memorial # 96147953.
Mother: Mrs. Albina Tabitha Whitlow 1847-1890, dau. of Miles Washington Whitlow and Emily Gholston of Walker Co., GA.
Brother: Rev. Alvah Roy Powell 1878-1953, bur. Evergreen Cemetery, Greenville, FL. Memorial # 39623243.
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Nashville Herald, Nashville, Ga.,:
x 1 May 1908: "J.W.E. Powell, cashier of the First National Bank, visited his brother, Jim Powell, in Tampa, Saturday and Sunday. Jim has been suffering from appendicitis, but is improving now."
x 11 Sept 1908: "Jim Powell came up from Tampa last week to visit relatives and old friends."
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1880 Census, Marion County, Illinois:
Alfred (Reuben) Renault, age 20, b. Illinois. His father was born in the Alsace Region of France.
Sallie P. Bryan Renault, age 17.
Sidney Bryan, age 52 (widow).
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1900 Jacksonville, Duval Co, Fla.
Sallie P. Renault, age 37/FL/AL/FL
Leon Renault, age 19
Isabella Renault, age 16
Alice A. Renault, age 14
Pansy Renault, age 10
Frederick Renault, age 6
Olla R. Renault, age 3
Note: Sallie Persons Renault was the dau. of Stephen Bryan and Sydney Persons.
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Death Certificate of James Leon Powell:
Born: 16 December 1915, Nashville, Ga.
Died: 2 December 1995, Tampa, Fla.
Surviving spouse: Genevieve Prince
Occupation: Police Officer
Father: James Harvey Powell
Mother: Pansy Blossom Powell
Informant: David Powell (son)
Note:
James Leon Powell mar. 1. Hilda Evelyn Bell, 14 Feb 1938, mar. 2 Genevieve Pressley 5 Jun 1944.
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Marriage License, State of Florida, Alachua County:
Whereas, application has been made to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Alachua County, for the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, for a license for marriage, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Clerk that no legal impediment exists to the marriage now sought to be solemnized, these are therefore, to authorize to unite in the Holy Estate of Matrimony,
A.R. Renault and S.P. Bryan
and that you make return of the duly certified under your hand to the Clerk of said Court aforesaid,
Witness, J.A. Carlisle, Clerk of said Court, and the seal of said court, at the Court House in Gainesville, this 4th of June, A.D., 1880.
I certify that the within named persons were, by me, the undersigned, duly united in the Holy Estate of Matrimony, by the authority of the within license.
Done this sixth day of June, A.D., 1880.
D.A. Falkenbury, Minister of the Gospel.
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Florida Times Union, x 2 April 1896:
Special to the Times-Union - Fernandina - Last night the special vegetable train from Gainesville ran into a freight train that had just backed out onto the main track at Yulee. Engineer Fred Renault, who was pulling the vegetable train, failed to see the signals of the freight train until too late to prevent the collision. Renault refused to jump and was killed. The fireman leaped from the engine booth, receiving no injury beyond a sprained ankle. Renault leaves a wife and several children. His home was at Waldo.
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Tampa Tribune, Sept 8, 1961
Windshield Shots to Cost Officer
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A Tampa patrolman who fired eight pistol shots through the windshield of his police cruiser during a chase Monday has received orders to pay $96.50 to have the damage repaired. Patrol Inspector Leon Powell said Patrolman James Beckner and Patrolman James Hawkins were involved in a high speed chase of a car driven by David Taylor, a Negro. Beckner fired his pistol through the windshield of his own car at the rear of the Taylor vehicle. Taylor, apprehended when his car slammed into a sandbank, later pleaded guilty to illegally possessing firearms and aggravated assault.
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Megan Noel Lang, less than 1 day old, born in Tampa, passed away April 26, 2008.
She was preceded in death by her grandparent, Lucille Whitfield Lang and great-grandparents, Leon and Genevieve Powell, Leon and Alice Brownell, Ervine and Gertrude Lang, Robert Whitfield.
Megan is survived by her parents, Alex and Stephanie Lang; brother, Brandon Leon Egley Lang; grandparents, David and Paula Powell and Alfred Lang; great-grandmother, Bertha Whitfield; uncles and aunt, Michael and Joyann Powell, Matthew Powell, Alvis Lang and Alan Lang; as well as many cousins, great-uncles and great-aunts.
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