The Horace Bell Case In The Newspaper

Source
Los Angeles Star, vol. 8, no. 31, December 11, 1858

"The prisoners were still secure, but the minute men who had been drafted into service to protect the jail against expected onslaught, believed that their work was about done, and had relaxed their vigilance."

"There was a friend of the Bells who was a relative of the jailer's wife. He paid a visit to the family of the jailer about this time, and remained for a week. At the end of the period he returned to the Indiana side of the river to bid his friend, Horace Bell, good-by, before the latter should return to California."

"During his visit the young man had learned where the keys to the jail were kept, and he had brought away with him some other valuable information that was imparted to Horace Bell and Walter Gresham, as the three friends stood near the bank of the river one cloudy night and laid some daring plans. But not under the shadow of darkness was the work of rescue to be done."
                       

Horace Bell And The Troubles Between Kentucky And Indiana

See post entitled Brandenburg and Horace Bell 

Thrilling Adventure Los Angeles Man - Interesting Story From Early Life of Major Bell

When court convened Horace Bell, Walter Gresham and Colonel Marsh came to plead the cause of the Bells who were in prison, and while Colonel Marsh was standing near the entrance of the courthouse, conversing with Bell. he was assassinated by a young man named Stanley Young. The murderer was never arrested, and the court refused to release the prisoners. Hundreds of Indianans offered to assist in their rescue if force were needed, but Horace Bell refused to permit anyone to risk his life to effect the desired end, and insisted that when the right time came he would accomplish the work himself.

Horace Bell made a fearless speech in which he said that he had no desire to encourage war between the two states...but that if proper action were not taken then he, himself, would go in broad daylight and, breaking open the jail, release the prisoners.


See more regarding the "Troubles" here.

William S. Powers' Group Sheet

William and Addie (More) Powers
My Paternal Great-Grandparents

William Seldon Powers married Addie More 25 April 1888 in Lapeer County, Michigan.  He immigrated to Michigan from Grimsby, Ontario, Canada, about 1880 give or take a year.  Addie became an alien and had to be naturalized when she married William (a Canadian and alien) even though she was born and raised in Lapeer County, Michigan, USA.

Source - William S. Powers When He Was Still An Alien

Newspaper items regarding Powers's in Lapeer County.

Naturalization papers for William in 1931.

1934 Flint City Directory

Allen, Wm R (Mae A) rail opr Eastern Mich Rys r 1701 E. Hamilton

Powers, Marion G. (Marian J) autowkr  h 1530 Colorado

Powers, Ralph (Beatrice) bodywkr  r 1661 Beach

Powers, William S. (Addie M) carp  h 1530 Colorado

William S Powers

[Burial] Place Dryden, Lapeer, Michigan

Birth Date 27 Aug 1859

Death Date 10 Jul 1939

Cemetery Thornville Cemetery

Name Addie More Powers

Event Type Death

Event Date 21 May 1947

Gender Female

Father's Name Moore

Mother's Name Richmond

[Buried in Thornville Cemetery]

See her obituary in the Flint (Mich.) Journal here.

A brief history of our Powers family written by Marion Garrison Powers.

William S. Powers entry at Wikitree.

Californian From An Advertisement

Source

Friend Graham, California

 Kent County, Ontario, Probate:

Friend Graham, California

Image 275

3 June 1868

Slinkard Valley, Mono County, California

United States Census, 1870

1870 Census

Name: Freend Graham

Sex: Male

Age: 37

Event Place: Mono Mills, Mono, California, United States

Birth Year (Estimated): 1833

*Birthplace: New York

Race: White

*Other records show Michigan and Canada as his place of birth

Joseph Glines' Obituary

Death of Joseph Glines in California reported in the Marietta daily leader (Ohio):

Marietta daily leader., May 15, 1901, Image 4

About Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906

Census 1900

Hamilton Township, Butte, California, United States

Gender: Male

Age: 85

Marital Status: Widowed

Race: White

Relationship to Head of Household: Inmate

Birth Date: Jul 1815

Birthplace: Ohio

Father's Birthplace: Massachusetts

Mother's Birthplace: Maryland

(Died 17 April 1901 according to FamilySearch site)

Mrs. A. M. Rowe

AGED WOMAN DIES OF BRONCHIAL TROUBLE -- San Francisco Call 29 December 1910 -- California Digital Newspaper Collection

Source

Sacramento Years Ago

Source

Her Brother, (John) Roswell Denholm

California Digital Newspaper Collection > Los Angeles Herald > 20 October 1916
Los Angeles Herald, Number 304, 20 October 1916

Warren Snow And His Heirs

Warren Snow was a descendant of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins (as am I).

Name:Warren Snow

Probate Date:20 Apr 1888

Probate Place:Ionia, Michigan, USA Inferred

Death Year:Abt 1888 Inferred

Death Place:Michigan, USA

Case Number:1976

Item Description:Probate Packets, 1974-2010, 1887 (HeritageQuest)

Heirs of Warren Snow (per HeritageQuest):

Petitioner: Urania Taylor, Petitioner (Daughter)
Uriel Snow, son   Cascade, Mich
Alexander Kennedy, grandson   South Dumfries, Canada
John H. Kennedy, "   "    "  "
Sarah A. Souter, granddaughter, California
Edwin C. Kennedy, great-grandson, Wolverton, Oxford Co., Canada
Warren S. Kennedy, "                     "                      "     
Agnes Parks, granddaughter, Mecosta, Mecosta Co., Mich
Warren B. Hoag, grandson, Vergennes, Kent Co.

Census 1880

Keene, Ionia, Michigan, United States

Charles Taylor Self M 49 Canada

Uranie Taylor Wife F 50 Canada

Warren Taylor Son M 25 Michigan, United States

H Charley Taylor Son M 23 Michigan, United States

Myrtie Taylor Daughter F 11 Michigan, United States

B Alida Taylor Granddaughter F 3 Michigan, United States

Warren Snow Father-in-law M 89 Canada

Phebe Reed Other F 19 Ohio, United States

Charles Dickerson Other M 19 Michigan, United States

Warren Snow died in Ionia County; buried in Kent County, Michigan

Simpkins In Keweenaw

Michigan, Probate Records, Keweenaw Probate of wills 1866-1938:

Image 35

Nathaniel S. Simpkins, Jr.

City of New York

Sister, Mary Fay, wife of Caleb Fay

Of San Francisco, California

Deceased Brother, John Simpkins (and his 7 children)

Nathaniel S. Simpkins, one of John's 7 children

Father: Nathaniel Simpkins of Yarmouth, Massachusetts

Brother: Charles H. Simpkins

Katie Worcester Fay and Charles Simpkins Fay, bequeathed land in Mexico

Brother: George W. Simpkins, St. Louis

Sister-In-Law: Mrs. Ruth B. Simpkins Of Yarmouth, Massachusetts

Robert S. Covell, of Boston, Massachusetts

Henry E. Jacobs, Employee

Thomas D. Ellis, Employee

Daniel W. Gilbert, Employee

Henry J. Scudder, Friend, New York, Sole Executor

21 March 1881

Witnesses: Edward M. Scudder; Henry Sanger Snow; Robert W. Blackwell

Nathaniel Simpkins' Mother's family (and his siblings):

Source

David Roark Was A Victim Of A Catastrophe

Published in the Daily Louisville Democrat, March 5, 1857:

Source (Ky Digital Library)

Addie Mae (Powers) Allen

Addie Mae Powers, daughter of William S. and Addie (More) Powers, married William Roy Allen as his second wife. Their children were William, Elizabeth Jane, and Marion George Allen.

Name Addie May Powers

Gender Female

Christening Place Calhoun, Michigan

Birth Date 28 Feb 1898

Birthplace Battle Creek, Calhoun, Mich

Father's Name Wm. S. Powers

Mother's Name Addie M. Powers

Census 1900

Battle Creek city Ward 1, Calhoun, Michigan

William S Po??S Head M 41 Canada Eng

Addie M Po??S Wife F 36 Michigan

Na?? S Po??S Son M 7 Michigan

Ralph N Po??S Son M 4 Michigan

Addie M Po??S Daughter F 2 Michigan

Cynthia Moor Mother-in-law F 71 New York

Mary F Greene Servant F 29 Ohio

Census 1900
Allegan, Michigan, United States
Robert Reid Head M 73 Ireland
Jennie Reid Wife F 54 Ohio
William Allen Servant M 14 Michigan
Mildred Martin Servant F 18 Indiana
[The Reids were in-laws of William's aunt, Ida Shepard - Ida lived next door]

 March 1, 1906 (Oregon Twp) in the Lapeer Clarion newspaper:
Willie Allen leaves for Douglas on March 5th to work for the summer.  On Wednesday evening 20 or more of his young friends gave him a surprise.  The evening was spent playing Flinch and other games and at a late hour they departed for their several homes wishing Willie God speed in his absence. [Douglas, Allegan County, Michigan]

William R. Allen married 1st, Mildred Wooley, February 1909; she and their infant child died in 1916.

Census 1910
Saugatuck, Allegan, Michigan
William R Allen Head M 24 Michigan
[fruit farm manager]
Mildred E Allen Wife F 27 Michigan
William Coxford Hired man M 23 Canada

Census 1910

Dryden, Lapeer, Michigan

William S Powers Head M 50 Canada

Adda M Powers Wife F 45 Michigan

Ward S Powers Son M 16 Michigan

Ralph N Powers Son M 13 Michigan

Adda M Powers Daughter F 12 Michigan

Cynthia J Powers Daughter F 9 Michigan

Marion G Powers Son M 3 Michigan

[All of the children who became adults were listed in this census]

Addie Powers' marriage to William Roy Allen:

Name Wm R Allen

Age (Expanded) 30 years

Birth Year 1887

Birthplace Lapeer

Spouse's Name A Mae Powers

Spouse's Age (Expanded) 18 years

Spouse's Birth Year 1899

Spouse's Birthplace Lapeer Co.

Event Date 13 Jan 1917

Event Place Flint, Genesee, Michigan

Father's Name Wm S Allen

Mother's Name Emily Sheppard

Spouse's Father's Name Wm Powers

Spouse's Mother's Name Addie Moore

Name William Roy Allen

Draft Registration

 Date 1917-1918

Flint City no 1, Michigan

Birth Date 07 Mar 1881

Birthplace , , United States

[1205 S. Saginaw Street]

[2nd finger right hand off at 1st joint]

Census 1920

Flint Ward 3, Genesee, Michigan

[336 W. Twelfth Street, Flint]

William R Allan Head M 33 Michigan

Annie May Allan Wife F 21 Michigan

William R Allan Son M 1 Michigan

Elizabeth Jane Allan Daughter F 0 Michigan

1920 Flint City Directory
Allen, Wm R (Addie) mtrmn, res: 336 W. 12th

1924 Flint City Directory
Allen, Wm R. (A. May) mtrmn h 221 W. 13th

Census 1930

Flint, Genesee, Michigan

[Rented 2001 Dwight Ave, $25]

William R Allen Head M 43 Michigan

[street car operator]

Addie M Allen Wife F 33 Michigan

W Ralph Allen Son M 11 Michigan

E Jane Allen Daughter F 10 Michigan

M George Allen Son M 5 Michigan

1934 Flint City Directory

Allen, Wm R (Mae A) rail opr Eastern Mich Rys r 1701 E. Hamilton

Census, 1940

Flint City, Genesee, Michigan

[Owned Home @ 1701 Hamilton Ave; valued $3300]

  William Allen M 54 Michigan

[trolley coach driver]

Addie Allen F 42 Michigan

William R Allen M 21 Michigan

Elizabeth Allen F 20 Michigan

Marion G Allen M 15 Michigan

California, Death Index, 1940-1997

name: Addie Mae Allen

event: Death

event date: 03 Feb 1981

Los Angeles, California, United States

birth date: 28 Feb 1898

birthplace: Michigan

gender: Female

father: Powers

mother: Moore

See two letters by Marion George Allen here and here.

Starr L. Warren's Probate File

Michigan, Probate Records...Wayne Probate packets 1899...:

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File# 26215

Starr L. Warren

Died: 13 November 1899

Coversheet [Image 22]

Warren, Nettie E., widow, Executrix, of Detroit, Wayne, Mich.

Warren, Pearl, daughter 13 years of age,     "            "                    "

Warren, William H., son, 12 years old "     "

Warren, Catherine M., daughter, 11 years old

Last Will And Testament

Sandusky, Erie, Ohio

Dated: 12 December 1898

Find A Grave Index

Name Starr Warren

Event Type Burial

Event Date 1899

Colma, San Mateo, California, United States of America

Photograph Included N

Death Date 13 Nov 1899

Affiliate Record Identifier 87544085

Cemetery Cypress Lawn Memorial Park

Census 1900

Detroit city Ward 2, Wayne, Michigan, United States

Elmer H Pierce Head M 33 New York

Nettie E Pierce Wife F 38 Michigan

Wm H Warren Stepson M 13 Michigan

Catharine M Warren Stepdaughter F 12 Michigan

Mary A Bastwid Mother-in-law F 75 New York

[Marriage]

Elmer H Pierce

Birthplace New York

Spouse's Name Nettie E Warren

Spouse's Birth Date 1868

Spouse's Birthplace Detroit, Mich

Spouse's Age 32

Event Date 17 May 1900

Event Place , Lucas, Ohio

Father's Name Thomas Pierce

Mother's Name Emma Vaneas

Spouse's Father's Name William Bostwick

Spouse's Mother's Name Mary A Rose

Marital Status Widowed

Spouse's Marital Status Widowed

The Poor Man's Judge

Source

John K. Hackett, Recorder of the City of New York, was born into a theatrical family.

A Member Of Hackett's Acting Family

"After practising [law] in New York City several years, he [John K. Hackett] went to California with other New Yorkers about the time the gold fever broke out. He practised law in the city of San Francisco a few years and then returned to New York City."

"While in California* Hackett and George G. Barnard were intimate friends. Barnard, soon after he commenced his residence in the City of New York, was elected Recorder, and before his term had expired was elected Judge of the Supreme Court. Through Barnard's influence...Hackett became Recorder."

"His judicial career was held in high esteem by the Press and the community generally. He had the reputation of being a bold and fearless Judge and his name was a terror to criminals." [Source]

*"He was reputed to be, and probably was, the best pistol shot in the United States." 

Names of persons who sentences were suspended by Recorder John K. Hackett:

Source

Mary A. (Ferguson) Richmond - An Heir In #10741

Wayne County, Michigan

Walter Ferguson

Probate File# 10741

Died: 22 Jan. 1882

St. Ignace, Michigan

Late of Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada (Picton)

All Heirs Of Canada Except For Mary Richmond

Richmond, Mary A. (Ferguson) 

sister of estate

1882

San Diego, California

Viewed online at FHC Microfilm# 955765

Person With Lapeer Connections Died At Oreville

Marysville Daily Appeal, Volume XIX, Number 19, 24 January 1869 :


Died

At Oreville, January 20th, of pneumonia, Warren Morrison, aged 54 years. Cincinnati, Ohio, and Lapeer, Michigan, papers copy.

Rufus Rowe And Daughter Adeline In California News Items

The first item is Isaac Briceland vs. Rufus Rowe, et al in the Fourth Judicial District in San Francisco:

Source

Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 -- Daily Alta California 27 February 1855 -- California Digital Newspaper Collection

This item noted that Miss Adeline Rowe was on a passenger list per steamer Columbus, from Panama, in 1850:

Source

PASSENGERS. -- Sacramento Transcript 9 December 1850 -- California Digital Newspaper Collection

Estate Of Jonathan Coverdale

Michigan, Probate Records, Lapeer Estate files 1852-1855...:

File 102 [Image 93]

Jonathan Coverdale, deceased

Date of Death: 3rd November Last [1850 or 1851]

Place of Death: California

Sally Coverdale in Elba was mentioned.

Jonathan Coverdale left a widow and six minor children.

Sally Coverdale, widow

1. David S. Coverdale*
2. Jonathan B. Coverdale
3. Thomas G. Coverdale
4. Levi M. Coverdale
5. J. [Thaddeus] Coverdale
6. Mary J. Coverdale

Above listed were the minor children of Jonathan Coverdale

An excerpt from California Biographies at Rootsweb (also here):

*JUDGE DAVID S. COVERDALE. Few more consistent, practical, or well balanced careers have contributed to the pioneer and later development of Delano than that of Judge David S. Coverdale, veteran of the Civil war, and well known as a justice of the peace, notary, health officer, president of the board of trade, promoter of waterways, and extensive real estate operator. From a long line of English ancestors Judge Coverdale inherits those substantial and conservative traits which have been of inestimable value in his work in a growing community. His father, Jonathan Coverdale, spent the first fifteen years of his life in England, and then came with his parents to Lower Canada, where he lived until attaining his majority. In Canada he married Sallie Brisbon, a native of Lower Canada, and of Irish-German descent, with whom he removed to a farm in Lapeer county, Mich. He found the country a stranger to the improvements of man, and set about with characteristic energy to clear his land, and establish a general farming and stock-raising enterprise. Six children were born into his family, of whom David S. was the eldest. He was born March 16, 1835, in Detroit, Mich., his mother being there temporarily. In 1850 Jonathan Coverdale crossed the plains in an ox-train for California, by way of Council Bluffs, Salt Lake City and the Platte river, and in Sacramento, Cal., engaged in teaming and the building of levees. His dream of western success was not destined for fulfillment, for a year after arriving on the coast he was taken ill and died, at the age of about forty-five years. Subsequently his wife married again, and died in Michigan at the age of fifty-five. 

Jonathan Coverdale was mentioned in a news item here.

Census 1860

The Township Of Burlington, Lapeer, Michigan

HOUSEHOLD

James Gark M 60 New York

Sally Gark F 51 Canada East

Justus Gark M 20 Canada West

Thomas Coverdale M 19 Michigan

Levi Coverdale M 17 Michigan

Thaddeus J Coverdale M 14 Michigan

Mary J Coverdale F 13 Michigan

A Joseph Hayes Acklin Scandal In D. C.

Source

The story as told in the Daily Alta California, 0 November 1886...:

Washington, October 31, 1885.— Fashionable circles at Washington...have been thrown into some excitement consequent upon the testimony recently given...by General Thomas L. Rosser, of Confederate cavalry fame, in the case of Benjamin Golly, indicted for perjury, charged with having falsely testified in the divorce suit brought by Mr. [Eugene] Belt, a wealthy and aged citizen of Baltimore, against his wife, formerly a widow named Mrs. [Mary Alice] Godfrey, who is the sister of Mrs. Benjamin A. Willis, of New York City, the wife of ex-Congressman Willis... .

A condensed version of the incident that involved Acklen, Mrs. Godfrey and General Rosser:

Mr. Acklen paid marked attention to Mrs. Godfrey, and, although her suitors were legion, rumor gave him the preference. ....[they] were seen everywhere together, and all went merry as a marriage bell, until the public were thrown into spasms by a well-authenticated story that General Tom Rosser and Joe Acklen had engaged in a serious altercation, late at night, at Welcker's, in which a lady was involved... .

[General Rosser] pre-supposiug that a lady was in distress, burst in the door and found Mr. Acklen and Mrs. Godfrey together in something of a disordered condition. Seizing Acklen by the collar, General Rosser ejected him... .

Everybody, however, expected nothing less than a duel, but no duel supervened, and the affair culminated by the disclosure that Mr. Acklen had subsequently offered marriage to Mrs. Godfrey, but which proffer Mrs. Godfrey indignantly declined.

These and other events culminated to drive Acklen out of the political arena, and he disappeared finally from Washington.

Some year or two since it supervened that a Mr. Belt, a well-known resident of Baltimore, had repudiated his wife and instituted proceedings of divorce against her. All Baltimore became agitated over this affair, and little wonder is it that Washington caught the infection when it was developed that Mrs. Godfrey, now Mrs. Belt, was the party.

Fortunately for the ends of Justice and her own reputation, she was enabled to prove the utter falsity of this testimony, and the trial resulted in not only a victory for the lady in the divorce proceedings, but culminated in the prosecution of the perjurers... .

Joseph Hayes Acklin was the son of Joseph A. S. Acklin and Adelicia (Hayes) Acklin and was a cousin.

Joseph A.S. Acklin, Adelicia's 2nd husband, was my first cousin 5 times removed.  His father, Samuel Black Acklin, and my 4th great-grandmother, Elizabeth (Acklin) Hinds, were siblings.