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  POWELL - CRANE CEMETERY
  Commonly referred to as the Terrill Cemetery in MarionCounty, Missouri two miles southeast o f Philadelphia.
  
     Asa L. Bottom  1808-1833                             Elizabeth L. Crane Bottom  1812-1879
  James Alva Bottom  1849-1923                         James W. Bottom  1837-1876
  Mary F. Bottom  1839-                                     Matilda C. Powell Bottom  1862-1882
  Pregellie Bottom  1860-1861                              Amanda Crane
  Charles B. Crane  1834-1840                             Joseph L. Crane  1843-1866
  Mary (Polly) Crane  1796-1844                        Tarleton Lee Crane  1783-1849
  Thomas L. Crane  1842-1845                            Zachary Taylor Crane  1820-?
  George B. Johnson 1862-1863                          George R. Johnson 1869-1893
  Jennie Johnson's Baby Boy                               G. P. Netherland  1802-1864
  George Netherland  1862-1864                          Minnie B. Netherland  1864-1864
  Nellie A. Pafford                                               Al Thurston Powell  1880-190 3
  Charles Talton Powell  1836-1912                     Charles Powell  1880-1928
  Cyrus Powell  1808-1898                                   Cyrus Powell  1861-?
  David M. Powell  1878-1879                              Falconer Obediah Powell  1856-1921
  Fannie Powell                                                      George Washington Powel l  1838-?
  G. M. Powell (infant)  1868-                               G. Powell  Ina and Tiny Powell (Tw ins)  Died Young
  Jennings Powell  Died at 18 Mos.                       Lazarus Powell  Died at Birth
  Luther Powell  1896-1896                                   Martha Powell  1810-1869
  Martha Powell Crane  1858-1928                       Mary E. Powell  1847-1935
  Matilda Crane Powell  1815-1903                       Meridosa Powell  1869-?
  Mollie Turner Powell  1848-1935                      Mollie Powell  1889-?
  Sally Powell  1856-1882                                     Sarah Bottom Powell  1839-?
  Silas Powell                                                        Richard Powell  1854-190 2
  Taylor D. Powell  1876-1896                             Taylor Green Powell  1878-1908
  Taylor Powell Jr.  1896-                                      Tom T. (Little Tom) Powell  186 7-
  Winnie Frances Powell  1862-1938                      Vermon Clarence Powell  1904-
  Almeda Powell Ward  1863-1942                         Lucy J. Proctor  1824-1904
  Columbus Proctor  1810-1865                              John C. Proctor  1858-1868
  Montgomery Proctor  1815-1870                        Cassandra Bottom Porfitt  1850-
  
  CRANE CRAIN
  By Lilly Hazel Bates
  
       Many relatives I have interviewed have told me "the Cranes and Powells are all mixed up " and they cannot get them all straightened out. I have never known many of the Cranes or Pow ells, as my mother died when I was two and her mother Susan Powell Gibson, daughter of Cyru s and Matilda Crane Powell and granddaughter of Tarleton Crane, died when my mother was jus t a child, so my mother, herself, did not know many of them.  It has been very difficult fo r me to trace my family tree.
       Our first known Crane ancestor was James Crane of Pittsylvania County, Virginia.  He wa s born about 1715 and was married to Susanna. Their known children included John (b. 1738, ma rried Frances Pond ca. 1765, d. 1831 Mercer County, Kentucky), Thomas (b. 1755, married Ann L ee, daughter of John Lee, Jr. in Goochland County, Virginia, d. 1839 Mercer County,  Kentucky ), and Aaron (b. 1756, married Susanna Veach, d. 1824 Fayette County, Kentucky).  James Cran e died in Pittsylvania County in 1794.
       His sons, John, Thomas, and Aaron all served in the Revolution and all migrated to Merce r County, Kentucky by about 1810 and settled along Doctors Fork of Chaplin River.  John Cran e fathered thirteen children, Thomas Crane had eight children, and Aaron had ten.  Dr. Nelso n Crane was a son of Aaron Crane.
       The first child of Thomas W. and Ann (Lee) Crane was Tarleton Lee Crane, born 1783, he m arried Mary Elizabeth Beadle August 12, 1812 in Mercer County.  Mary Elizabeth was about 15 w hen she married Tarleton. Their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1812, and thereafter a ch ild was born every year or so, until a total of nineteen children were born. The daughter, El izabeth married Asa Bottom in 1830 and another daughter, Matilda, married Cyrus Powell in 183 1.  Asa Bottom and Cyrus Powell took their young families to Marion County, Missouri shortl y after this and settled on adjoining farms near Philadelphia, Missouri.
       In the fall of 1839, after thirteen children were born to Tarleton and Mary, they packe d up their belongings and with teams made the trip to Marion County, Missouri.  They had eigh t children sixteen and under.  It took them nine weeks to make the trip.  They settled on a f arm near their children.  In Missouri more children blessed this family.
       Five Crane sons, Richard, Robert, Joel, William and Thomas J., were seized with the prev ailing gold fever and went to Californian to seek their fortunes.  On March 18, 1849 the Cran e boys joined a party of twenty-four other men for the trip to California with dreams of comi ng back with enough gold to buy the biggest farm in Missouri!
       It took the party six months to reach El Dorado County.  The Cranes staked out claims an d for two and a half years swung their picks into the gravel beds for gold.  They did very we ll but they could see the gold was not going to last forever.  The Cranes had always been far mers so Robert and Richard decided to look for a farm.
       The brothers loaded their horses on a barge and want down the Sacramento River to San Fr ancisco Bay.  From there William and Thomas J. returned to Missouri by way of Panama.  It i s said that William paid $20 to ride a mule across the Isthmus of Panama.   Richard, Robert , and Joel settled in the Cotate Valley near Santa Rosa and became successful farmers.  Ove r the years the Crane families of California helped a host of relatives, or "boys from Missou ri", get a start in California.  In 1864 Thomas J. Crane and his family crossed the plains b y covered wagon and rejoined his brothers in California.
       As late as 1950, almost one hundred years after Richard and Robert Crane first set eye s on their glorious Cotate Valley, their  descendants still farmed the original Crane homeste ads.
       Even today the names Crane, Powell, Bottom, and others that intermarried with these fami lies can be found throughout Marion County, Missouri and the surrounding area where they firs t settled over a century ago.
  
  Tarlton Lee Crane 1783 Charlotte, VA - 1849 Philadelphia MO Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Beedle 179 6 - 1844 Philadelphia MO Married August 5, 1812 Mercer Co. KY
  
  CHILDREN 1.  Elizabeth L. Crane 1812 Mercer Co. KY - 1879 Philadelphia MO, Mar. Asa L. Botto m June 9, 1830 Washington Co. KY 2.  George Miller Crane 1814 Mercer Co. KY - 1904 Phila. MO , Mar Frances Marshall Nov. 2, 1834 KY 3.  Matilda Proter Crane 1815 Mercer Co. KY - 1904 Mar ion Co. MO, Mar. Cyrus Powell July 28, 1831 Washington Co. KY 4.  Thomas J. Crane 1818 Merce r Co. KY - 1888 Sonoma CA, Mar. Eliza M. Crane Nov. 4, 1852 MO 5.  Theodocia Crane 1819 Merce r Co. Ky - 1895 Marion Co. MO, Mar. James Marshall Marion Co. MO 6.  Zachary Taylor Crane 182 0 Mercre Co. KY - died Sonoma CA 7.  Robert Crane 1822 Mer. Co. KY - 1900 Sonoma CA, Mar. Sus an Davidson Nov. 3, 1853 Santa Rosa, CA 8.  William C. Crane 1824 Wash. Co. KY - 1915, Mar. H ethy Pettit 1859 Marion Co. MO 9.  King Crane 1826 Mer. Co. KY - died 1863 Civil War in Miss . 10.  James Crane 1827 Boyle Co. KY - 1912 Phila. MO, Mar. Catherine Tayor 1849 Phila. MO 11 . John Crane 1828, Mar. Martha Crane 12.  Richard H. Crane 1829 Mer. Co. KY - 1915 Sonoma CA , Mar. Nancy Patton 1853 Marion Co. MO 13.  Calvin Crane 1830 Mer. Co. KY - died Sonoma CA, M ar. Elizabeth Jones 14.  Joel Crane 1831 Mer. Co. KY - 1908 CA, Mar. Jane Davidson 1853 Sant a Rosa, CA 15.  Silas Harland Crane 1832 Wash. Co. KY - 1909 Marion Co. MO, Mar. Matilda R. P emberton 1859 16.  Charles B. Crane 1834 Phila. MO - 1840 Phila. MO 17.  Carrie Allen Crane 1 836 Marion Co. MO - died 1863 Civil War in Miss. 18.  Nelson Lee "Little Doc" Crane 1838 Mari on Co. MO , Mar. Clara Allen 19.  Joseph L. Crane 1843 Marion Co. MO - 1866 Marion Co. MO Cyr us Powell was born October 31, 1808 probably in Washington County, Kentucky.  He was the seve nth child and sixth son of Charles Jr. and Leah Goldman Powell.  He married Matilda Porter Cr ane in Washington County, Kentucky on July 28, 1831.  She was the third child born to Tarlto n Lee and Polly Beedle Crane.  Tradition says when Matilda was 16 she jumped out a school hou se window and rode off on horseback to be married to Cyrus.
       Hazel Bates, a great- granddaughter of Cyrus Powell, states: "In 1829 Cyrus Powell journ eyed from Washington County Kentucky to Marion County, Missouri, and patented two forty acr e plots of land in Section 29, Township 58, Range 7 near Philadelphia from the United States .  It is on this 80 acres that Cyrus Powell built his home, planted his orchard, and raised h is family of eight children.  In 1836 he purchased an adjoining 80 acres for $100."
       The children of Cyrus and Matilda were Mary E. (1844-1915), Charles Talton (1836- 1912) , George W. (1838), Martha Jane (1840), Theodocia Ellen (1843-1947), Thomas Walton (1845-1918 ), Susan E. (1850-1882), and Richard C. (1854-1902).
       The 1860 census for Marion County values Cyrus Powell's estate at $2450.  His farm is de scribed as well situated and carefully cultivated. He had 130 acres of improved land, 750 bus hels Indian corn, 15 bushels wheat, 1000 pounds tobacco, sixty sheep, and fifty swine.  Cyru s was definitely a successful farmer.  He and Matilda were staunch members of the Baptist Chu rch, and for many years Cyrus held the position of school director.
       Asa L. Bottom owned a farm adjoining Cyrus Powell. Asa married Elizabeth L. Crane the el dest sister of Matilda Crane Powell.  Three of the Powell sons married daughters of Asa and E lizabeth Bottom.  George Powell married Mary Elizabeth Bottom; Thomas Walton Powell married M atilda Bottom; and Richard Powell married Theodocia Bottom.  The Powell, Crane, and Bottom fa milies of Marion County all raised large families and of their descendants intermarried, crea ting a many faceted connection among these three family names.
       In 1860 Cyrus Powell's nephew, also named Cyrus Powell and son of Henry Powell, was work ing as a farm hand for Columbus Proctor, a neighbor of the elder Cyrus.  This is a firm indic ation that the Powell brothers stayed in contact even though they lived about one hundred mil es apart. As late as 1900 we have accounts of descendants of James Walton Powell from Scotlan d County, Missouri visiting the descendants of Cyrus Powell in Marion County.
       Cyrus Powell suffered from arthritis the last nine years of his life and was bed ridde n much of that time. Cyrus died June 5, 1895 and is buried in the Terrill Cemetery not far fr om the farm where he and Matilda lived out their lives.
       Matilda Crane Powell died in 1903 and is buried beside her husband. All Matilda's childr en, except for Susan who died in 1882, joined her, on August 14, 1900, to celebrate her 85t h birthday.  At that time all seven children lived in Marion County.  In attendance at the ce lebration were 28 grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren, one great great grandchild, and man y others.  It was stated, "She enjoys the distinction of having 140 direct living descendants ."
       More than one hundred fifty years have now passed since Cyrus Powell and Matilda Crane w ere joined in marriage.  If we could count the descendants of this couple, I wonder how man y we would find today.
  
  Children of Cyrus Powell and Matilda Porter Crane 1.  Mary E. Powell, b. Nov. 23, 1834, Mar . Robert Ward, 1853 in Marion Co., d. Jan. 6, 1915:  CHILDEN:  Alonzo, Henry, Cyrus, Robert , John, Rahcael, Minna. 2.  Charles Talton Powell, b. May 14, 1836, Mar. 1. Martha Netherland , 1855, Mar. 2. Aldora Allen, 1877, d. Jan. 8, 1912: CHILDREN: (of Martha Netherland) Thomas , Falconer, James, Robert, Will, Kate: ( of Aldora Allen) Charles, Emmett, Benjamin, Winnie , Isla, Abbie, Nona, Susie, Jenning, David. 3.  George W. Powell, b. June 9, 1838, Mar. 1. Ma ry E. Bottom, 1858, CHILDREN: Thomas, Cyrus, Almeda, Martha, Ena, Tiny.  Mar. 2. Mary Turner , CHILRREN: Richard, Taylor, Margaret, Lazarus. 4.  Martha Jane (Jennie), b. May 4, 1840, Mar . Orson Johnson, 1861, CHILDREN: Pearl, Gene, Kaiser, Charles, George. 5.  Theodocia Ellen Po well, b. June 12, 1843, Mar.1 Henry Netherland, 1860, d. Jan. 14, 1937, CHILDREN: George, Min nie, Rhoda, Matilda, Susie, Mary, Lula.  Mar. 2. Bryan Pendery, 1879, CHILDREN: Lula Pearl. 6 .  Thomas Walton Powell, b. April 3, 1845, Mar. 1. Matilda Bottom, CHILDREN: Alphus, Dudley , Thomas, Rosa, William, Ina. Mar. 2. Cora Crane, 1893, CHILDREN: Viola, Mary, Una. 7.  Susa n E. Powell, b. Oct. 26, 1850, Mar. John Gibson, 1871, d. Sept. 6, 1882, CHILDREN: Lillie Bel l, Cynthia Matilda (Cynthia Gibson, mother of Hazel Bates, married Francis Brown). 8.  Richar d Powell, b. Sept. 21, 1854, Mar. 1. Sarah Allen, CHILDREN: Ida, Lula, Oney. Mar. 2. Theodoci a Bottom, CHILDREN: Dora, Delbert, Jackson, Audra, Roger.

Details of Cyrus' family with Mitilda Porter CRANE