Wade Hampton
Powers and Ida Shuff

Wade Hampton Powers Photos From the Powers Family Website

Ida Shuff Powers

Wade Hampton Powers b 7 Jan 1851 Scott Co VA d 8 Aug 1924 Wayne Co WV, s/o Jonas Powers and Sarah Ann Reynolds. Wade Hampton Powers m. Apr 1882 Lawrence Co OH to Ida Shuff b 19 Jan 1867 in Lawrence Co., OH d 2 Aug 1947 Cabell Co WV. d/o Smith Shuff and Minerva Sarah Allen. (Source). Much of the information below is from the website at The Powers Family Page. Children of Wade Hampton Powers and Ida Shuff;

I. Rebecca Powers b 5 Feb 1883 WV d 25 Mar 1964 Wayne Co WV, m. 4 Oct 1905 Wayne Co WV to Zachariah Taylor Ross b 26 Apr 1878 Wayne Co WV d 1 May 1952 Wayne Co WV, s/o James Madison Ross and Mariah Jane Osborne (Osburn) (Source). Children of Rebecca Powers and Zachariah Taylor Ross;

1) Pearl Ross b Oct. 17, 1906 d Feb. 21, 1989 Wayne Co WV; buried Mount Vernon Cemetery Wayne Co WV.

2) Hazel Ross b Sept.8, 1908 d June 25, 1986 Wayne Co WV; m. Clarence Cline, s/o Peter Cline and Matilda Mounts. Both are buried at Mount Vernon Cemetery, Wayne.

3) Oma Ross b March 19, 1910 d July 26, 1964 m. Herman Okey Sansom, s/o Okey E. Sansom and Eliza Crockett. Both are buried at Crockett Cemetery, Wayne Co., W.Va.

4) Elva Ross b Oct. 11, 1911 Wayne Co WV m. Okey Workman, s/o James Dolliver and Frances Ball Workman. Okey b 1888 was killed on a construction job on Feb. 4, 1954. She then later married John Canada. Elva is alive and well and still going strong with that Wayne County "twang" to her voice, that we all love! She's 87!

5) Muss Ross b on Dec. 21, 1913 Wayne Co WV. He married 5 Oct 1905 (Note: this date of 5 Oct 1905 and all information on this page is from another website "The Powers Family", so I really don't know what the correct date is) in Wayne Co W.Va. to Cleo Evelyn Jack, d/o C. Cecil Jack and Zetta Ann Arthur Muss passed away on Jan. 12, 1997 in Huntington, Cabell Co W.Va. Buried Mt Vernon Cemetery, Wayne Co W.Va. (See More about This Family)

6) Ruby Ross b Nov. 9, 1915 Wayne Co WV. She died Nov. 2, 1970 in Michigan. Ruby married Sam Vaughn. Sam died Nov. 10, 1977 in Michigan. Both are buried in the Mount Vernon Cemetery, Wayne, W.Va.

7) Shirley Ross b Sept. 20, 1917 Wayne Co WV m. Carroll Chester Crockett. Shirley is alive and well today and looking quite spry at the age of 82!

8) Ruth Ross b Oct. 13, 1919 Wayne Co WV. Ruth passed away on May 9, 1965 while living in Michigan m. her sweetheart Walter Wallace Booth, s/o Allen Booth and Lydia Blankenship.

9) Jarusha "Judy" Ross b March 1, 1922 in Wayne Co.,W.Va. I remember the first time I ever saw her. She was the spitting image of her Aunt "Dossie", my grandmother Dorothy Corns Powers who was the sister to Rebecca Powers Ross! Almost knocked my socks off! Jarusha has never married.

10) Mary Ross b Aug. 15, 1925 Wayne Co WV m. Alvie Ashworth, s/o Alvie Ashworth and Roy Hester Ashworth. Mary died March 21, 1979 Wayne Co WV. Buried at the Mount Vernon Cemetery, Wayne, W.Va.

II. Julia or Julie Powers b Oct 1885 m Unknown Carter and Unknown Goodman?.

III. Sarah Ann Powers b 8 May 1891 Wayne Co WV d 1955 Wayne Co WV buried beside her husband, Bill Gilson, Mt Vernon Cemetery, Wayne Co WV.

IV. Eli Powers b Dec 1890. The story below is from This Link.

The Disappearance of Eli Powers

        Eli Powers b December of 1890 in Wayne County, W.Va. and disappeared around the year 1911 and has never been seen or heard of since. He along with his family had packed up and moved to Callahan, Fla. Wade H. Powers & wife, Ida Shuff, (parents of Eli) bought a piece of property there and had settled in.
        That's when the trouble began. Well.. Ida kept house for a living and Wade would do odd jobs. One of the jobs that he was hired to do was to build a fence for this gentleman. So he and Eli started on this fence, and their " employer " interrupted them by telling them that that's not the way to build a fence here in Florida, because the soil was different there, than it was in West Virginia and it would never hold up.
        Well... Needless to say that made Wade mad. So He, Eli and their employer ended up in an awful big fight with Wade picking up a shovel and hitting their " employer " over the head with it.  Wade truly thought they had killed this poor fellow. So he and Eli went into hiding.
        They hid in the woods and in the swamps, but eventually the police found them, and of course hauled them off to jail. When Ida got wind of what had happened, she really got mad. So for the next few weeks she would go to the jailhouse everyday and beg the police to let Eli out, so that she could take him home. They got tired of her coming around so they let him out, in his mother's care.
        When they got home from the police station, Ida had given Eli some train money to come back to Wayne, W. Va. on. In the mean time, Ida and the rest of the family, (excluding Wade, who was still in jail) were packing up to move back to W.Va. also.
        Well.. When she arrived in W.Va., Eli still had not shown up. And he never did. Ida passed away in August of 1947 never having seen her son since that day in Callahan. It has always been suspected that he was robbed and murdered for his train fare, and that his body was probably dumped in the swamp.  Or that he could have moved elsewhere to start a new life.
         Story has it that Wade Powers was awfully rough on his children. It could be that Eli just simply moved away, to avoid any more abuse or trouble from his father.

V. Mona Powers (Monie) b 13 Aug 1893 Wayne Co WV d 1 Nov 1960 in Cabell Co WV m. Edgar Sharp.

VI. Victoria Powers b 28 Jan 1896 (Source).

VII. Franklin "Frank" Powers b 1 Feb 1898.

VIII. Nellie Powers b 5 Nov 1900 Wayne Co WV d 12 Jun 1927 of an apparent suicide. Nellie was married to Everett Munsey Jr (aka Muncy) (Thomas Everett Munsey Jr?), s/o Rev Thomas "Tom" Munsey (Everett Sr?). They had 3 children; Marjorie Munsey b 19 Aug 1920 d Jan 1993 Springfield, OH, (aka Margaret Munsey), Thelma Munsey and Randall Munsey. Below Obituary from the following link; Nellie Powers Obituary;

Obituary of Nellie Powers Munsey
Wayne ,W.Va. Thursday, June 23, 1927

Mrs. Nellie Munsey, age 24, an account of whose suicide was published in this paper last issue, was brought to Mt. Vernon Cemetary, near Ardel, this county for burial Tuesday afternoon of last week. The services were in charge of Rev. Henry Mullens and Rev. Paris Adkins, Jr. The deceased was the wife of Everette Munsey, s/o the Rev. Thomas Munsey, former Wayne countian. Mrs. Munsey had been seperated from her husband and children and domestic difficulties were assigned as the reason for her suicide. She is survived by her husband, Everett Munsey, three small children, Marjorie, Thelma, and Randell; by her mother, Mrs. Ida Powers, of Huntington, by five sisters; Mrs. Jessie Clonce of Ironton, Ohio; Mrs. Monie Sharp, Mrs. Sarah Gilson and Mrs. Dossie Corns, of Huntington, and Mrs. Rebecca Ross, Wayne, Route 2; and one brother, Wade Powers, of Huntington.

IX. Jessie Powers (female) b Oct. 13, 1905 Wayne Co WV d 13 Jul 1999 age 93 at Holston Valley Hospital, Kingsport TN buried Oak Hill Cemetrey, Kingston, TN m. Jesse Dana "Doc" Clonce and resided in Kingsport, TN. Children; James Wiley Clonce, Joann Clonce Capps and John Douglas Clonce.

Obituary: Jessie Powers Clonce:

DIED - JULY 13, 1999 ** JESSIE POWERS CLONCE, 93, at Holston Valley Hospital. Born in Wayne WV., and moved to Kingsport, TN, in the late 1920’s. Preceded in death by her son, James Wiley Clonce; a daughter, Joann Clonce Capps, parents, W. H. and Ida (Shuff) Powers; seven sisters, Rebecca Ross, Julia Carter, Sarah Gilson, Monie Sharp, Nellie Munsey, Dossie Corns and Victoria Powers; three brothers, Frank, Eli and Wade Powers. Survivors include her husband, Jess Dana Clonce; and a son, John Douglas Clonce. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery.

X. Dorothy "Dossie" Powers - Corns b 28 May 1903 d Feb 1, 1977 in Huntington Cabell Co WV, m. 15 Sept 1924 in Lawrence Co OH to .William Edward Corns b 30 Jul 1906 Symmes Twp, Lawrence Co OH, d 10 Oct 1963 Huntington, Wayne Co WV, s/o Harvey H Corns and Myrtle Mae Workman. Both buried Woodmere Cemetery, Cabell Co WV. To see the lineage of the Corn line, please visit the Corn Family Page!  Children of Dossie Powers and William Edward Corns;

1. Betty Lou Corns.

2. Wilma Jean Corns.

3. Janice Lee Corns.

4. Pauline Lee Corns.

5. David Lee Corns.

6. Mildred Aldine Corns b 29 Jun 1925 Huntington, Cabell Co WV. d 24 Nov 1973 Huntington, Cabell Co WV.

7. Helen Delores Corns b 25 Sept 1926 Huntington Cabell Co WV d 8 Oct 1995 Huntington, Cabell Co WV, m. Unknown Ross.

8. Living Corns (male) m. Living McCormick (female), d/o Virgil Woodson McCormick and Hazel Virginia Tate. Children; Living Female Corns m. 1st Living Male Monroe m. 2nd Paul Claiborne Workman b 28 Dec 1954 Huntington, Cabell Co WV d 15 Feb 2001 Kanawha Co WV; Living Female Corns m. Living Summers; Living Male Corns m. Living Female Irvine.

9. Kenneth Larry Corns (male twin) b 22 Jun 1938 Huntington, Cabell WV d 31 Jul 2000 Huntington, Cabell Co WV.

10. Carroll Gary Corns (male twin) b 22 Jun 1938 Huntington, Cabell WV d 11 Aug 1938 Huntington Cabell Co WV.