History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 926, Vermont Township
Joseph D. Powell, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 4; P. O., Table
Grove; born in Pickaway Co., O., in 1827. His father, Samuel P., was
born in Virginia, moved first to Kentucky, then to Ohio, where he
married Elizabeth Alptire, by whom he had 12 children, Joseph being the
youngest but one; the family emigrated to Menard Co., Ill., in the fall
of 1827; Mr. Samuel P. dealt in stock, increased his property, and was
Road Commissioner for the Springfield and Havana road; he died in 1835.
Mrs. P. died in 1856. Joseph settled in this county in his 18th year;
in 1849 he married Caroline Baughman, daughter of Daniel B., a
Virginian. He now owns 480 acres of land and a valuable farm residence.
He has withal been correspondingly generous, contributing largely to
Abingdon College, Knox Co., and to the construction of the Rushville
branch of the C., B. & Q. R. R.
