Thanks, Michael! I actually have MaineMemory in my list of favorites, but forgot it was there and found they've upgraded the site when I visited last night...great enjoyment, but I already knew James Powell is not there.

I HAVE seen a picture of a tintype on the Library of Congress site that fits Powell in uniform/accoutrements and looks like a twin to his eldest grandchild, Tracy; but no data is known for same other than the tintype's owner lives in Maine ~ I've contacted him and learned he bought the tintype in the D.C. area about 35 years ago, which does not dissuade my feelings as Powell was stationed many places, and we've located other family pictures down into Florida.

*Live* people moving around is not nearly as disconcerting as the dead! :-)

I think I did locate the burial sites of Powell's sons and some other kin last year through MaineMemory's cemetery connections and the Old Canada Road Historical Society ~ lovely people at both places.

Judy Martin

'mornin', Seamus...altho' it must be afternoon where you are ~ yes, we were just up in Maine this summer as Wes' kin still mostly live around Scarborough where he was raised. But we met in NM 25 years ago and have remained legal residents since.

The Powells lived on Hangtown Road. Wes' father grew up estranged from his family, and we did not even know the right maiden name of his (grand)mother ~ told it was Powers when it was really Powell...and also told they were basically not worth learning anything about.

Wes left home at 18, volunteered for Vietnam, but was sent to the Korean DMZ instead. We have been apart many more special days than together, but I knew he was like that when I married him and would never even secretly complain.

I was totally thunderstruck to find about nine months ago that he's exactly like his Grammie Powell's grandfather, Major James Powell! I've put some data about Powell up in CPT Cotton's "Moving Graves" topic. Major Powell and Colonel Everett Peabody have become fairly recent "unsung heroes" of interest regarding Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing, and cousins I found last year told me they read about Major Powell in their Maine History books when they were in school.

His grandson, Bill Powell, was chief of Police in Skowhegan at some time. That's Bill's parents (Major Powell's son, Jimmy, who was also with him at Shiloh & seven years previous from the age of five ~ and Lizzie Bates Powell) up in my picture. James Powell was Regular Army from 1847 (Mexican War) until transferring into the 25th Missouri just thirteen days before he was killed at Shiloh, 06041862.

Hubby Wes & I were fast friends with (I did newsletter mailings and editing for) David Hackworth, the military hero/writer, until he died last May; and with Wes already deployed at that time, I've put Major Powell's life at the top of my "sniffing" list.

Yes, Wes was antiterrorism officer for Iraq in '03/4 and has now returned to oversee the prisons until felt the Iraqis can do most for themselves. He's finally felt he's found his destiny and culmination of all jobs he's had thru' life, including in his dad's construction business up there from about aged nine. He'll have to tell his own story when the time is right.

In the meantime, I realize I'm a newbie in your awesome circle here, but I'd like to learn more about all you Mainers involved if that's not being too snoopy ~ I'll make a point to read all your online bios so you won't have to repeat those parts.

JBMartin

Thanks for your comments, Will ~ and any prayers y'all have opportunity to offer for troops in combat zones.

And I DID go through all y'alls' bios and even went to the Tims' Confederate site ~ and wondered if he & I are related as I have Timmonses, and all the various spellings are supposedly kin (I can trace mine back only to Delaware before the RevWar ~ and they were the only family Loyalists I've located).

Not sure I said we specifically made it to Bingham, Caratunk, and The Forks last summer, but we did; several Powells are in the Bean Yard Cemetery & others local there ~ did NOT like the off-roading and rafting paradise it has become, but our "guide" did not seem to mind; her family had a place on Pleasant Pond about fifty years ago, while the Martins owned Pleasant Pond Inn about 100 years ago.

How eerie, yet warm: the things we stumble into when not looking. I'll love to spend more time up there when we are able. Hubby has never voiced a desire to do reenactments (probably because he's still active duty), but he has gone to many battlefields and has a library of about 5000 books with probably over ½ being military or western history related.

I DO have a yen to at least start attending reenactments ~ was at Gettysburg (uncle in 75th Ohio KIA/buried there) & Antietam/Boonsboro each once and Shiloh twice last year, and was just about to run over to Fort Arbuckle, Oklahoma last week on a whim when these fires broke out...no, not for Civil War history, but Powell was there until all Texas/IT federal troops were called up to Fort Leavenworth at the Rebellion's outbreak.

Like most serious ancestor seekers, I often feel that I'm 150 years old, so hope to run into some of you youngsters some day!

JBMartin