Woodson County Obituaries
Joseph C. (Big Joe) Powell 
Contributed by Charlotte Barnes Lewin

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Yates Center News, Friday, February 15, 1884

Powell--Departed from life at his home near this city on February 5, 1884, 
Joseph C. Powell, in the 49th year of his age.

The deceased was born in Washington Co., Ohio, removing in his early boyhood 
with his parents to the State of Virginia, coming from thence to Kansas in 
1856, settling in Wyandotte Co. Where for many years he underwent the 
hardships and privation incident to frontier life.  In 1874 he settled in 
this county where he has since resided and by his modest and cheerful 
demeanor, and conscientious endeavors to fill well the station in life in 
which his circumstances had placed him, he had won a most enviable position 
in the confidence and affections of his neighbors.  While yet in his teens he 
became a member of the Christian church of which he remained a consistent and 
zealous member until the time of his departure, having for the last eight 
years filled the responsible position of Elder of the church. He was also a 
member of the Masonic Fraternity, the Knight of Pythias and the A.O.U.W.  For 
the last two years he has been in the employ of the St. Louis, Ft. Scott and 
Wichita Railroad where he had won the complete confidence of his employers 
and was at the time of his death foreman of the water service of the road.  
The funeral services were in charge of the Masonic Fraternity assisted by the 
K of P and A.O.U.W., Rev. BH Smith of Ft. Scott, preaching the discourse at 
the Christian church the deceased leaves a wife and large family of children 
for whom the profoundest sympathy is felt throughout the entire community.  
His death is a loss to the whole community who will long remember his virtues 
and his amiable conduct and mourn the fateful providence that took him from 
them.  He was buried in Kalida cemetery.