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Powell Family Crests
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Our Family History - A
Narrative
I suppose if one
were to truly chronicle the Powell family history than one must
be ready to embrace the hypocrisy of laying claim to a family
name that was never ours to start with. Given to my great great
grandfather by his white Georgian slave owner the Powell name
is rooted in European history beyond the scope (or interest)
of this piece. So to is the name of Amos, which from all indications
has been passed down now some six generations of male ancestors
in our family tree. Truthfully, our family's real name, that
of the African slave who was stolen from his homeland, shipped
in chains across the Atlantic, and packaged and sold in a slave
auction somewhere in a gulf coast port, was lost to our family
long, long ago. Long before we could admire his spirit, empathize
with his sacrifice, and chronicle his illicit and foreboding
journey to this New World. It is to this unnamed family member
(and not that of our former slave owners) that the Powell family
honors and acknowledges as our ancestral father.
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Powell Family Time
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FAMILY EVENT |
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~1862 |
Amos (great, great grandfather) born
to slaves on Georgian plantation |
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~1864 |
Powell family plantation owners
move to Alabama |
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~1866 |
Powell family servant set free. some
(including great x3 grandmother )elect to remain with family |
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~1880 |
Amos (great great grand father
marries ??? moves off Powell Alabama plantation and becomes sharecropper |
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~1883 |
Amos (great grandfather) born |
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~1901 |
Amos (great grandfather) marries
Pearlie Frost (paternal great grand mother) |
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~1924 |
Amos Sr. (grand father) marries Georgia
Cook (paternal grandmother) |
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1956 |
Amos Jr. (father) marries LoGrant
White (mother) in Los Angeles; move to Carson, CA to raise family |
| 1985 |
Amos, III marries Tyris ___ |
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