WILLIS Burton POWELL 
WILLIS Burton was born on March 21st, 1858 in Missouri.1 WILLIS Burton's father was Jacob POWELL and his mother was Sarah Emily Melvin. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Melvin and Nancy Melvin. He had six brothers and seven sisters, named Wilis Burton, Robert Lee, Andrew Jackson, David, Andrew Jackson, Harry, Sarah, Sarah, Alice, Jennie Linn, Nannie Catherine, Nannie Catherine and Helen. He was the third oldest of the fourteen children. He had two half-brothers named John T. and George W.. He died at the age of 85 on January 29th, 1944.1 General Notes
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Willis Burton Powell, son of Jacob and Emily Powell, was born 31 March 1858 nea r Boliver, Missouri, and married 13 June 1892 to Eva Ludora Vance, born 4 March 1868 in Ray County Missouri. They had two sons, Harry Leslie Powell, born in B utler, Missouri, 5 March 1893, and Mac Stewart Powell, born in Buffalo Wyoming, 5 April 1895. Willis, Eva and Harry came to Buffalo, Wyoming in 1894, to Willi s' brother, Lee Powell, and family. They both worked for a large cattle and sh eep ranch. Willis was foreman of the cattle end of it and Eva was a cook for t he ranch "hands", as the men were called that worked there. If I remember right , they stayed in Buffalo, Wyoming until the boys were seven and five years old. They then went back to Missouri and Willis went to Alaska to the gold rush. He came home broke. When he got back Willis took his family and went to Flagst aff, Arizona. Here he worked in the copper mines. Eva and the boys had chicke ns and milk cows. The boys had a milk, butter, and egg route. I don't know how long they stayed in Arizona. I took by their stories that the boys were in th eir middle teens. They then went back to Butler, Missouri and stayed until bot h sets of parents had died. In 1918, the Powell family loaded all their belongi ngs and two saddle horses on an emigrant car and came to Sheridan, Wyoming. I am sure the boys and, I suppose, Willis all found work. In 1919 Harry went to M ontana horseback to find a place to live. He went to Miles City, Montana to fi le on a homestead of 640 acres. I am sure he rode to Miles City horseback too. Mac filed about the same time as their places joined. Willis did not homeste ad. In 1922 Willis and Eva went out to Montana to live. Along with their wagon , team and stuff they also brought a few milk cows they got around Sheridan, Wy oming that were driven behind the wagon out to Montana. The place in Montana wa s about 50 miles from Sheridan, Wyoming and the closest post office was seven m iles away. Another homesteader said to a neighbor "If we just had a post offic e now it would quiet us." When they got the post office they called it "Quietu s."
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.08 Jun 1834 in Monroe Co. Misso d.20 Feb 1915 in Butler, Bates County, Missouri
- b.21 Mar 1858 in Missouri d.29 Jan 1944
- b.1809 in Stokes Co. NC d.24 Aug 1847 in Schuyler Co. MO
- b.27 Jul 1827 in Indiana d.03 Feb 1915 in Butler, Bates County, Missouri
- d.15 Mar 1882 in Bates Co. MO
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