Erma Jane Albright and Jay Preston Powers

JAY PRESTON POWERS, son of FRANCES HALL and WALTER CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS POWERS, was born January 16, 1884 in Kansas,⁴⁵⁶ and died June 5, 1983.⁴⁵⁶ He is buried in Netawaka Cemetery, Jackson County, Kansas.⁴⁵⁶

He married ERMA JANE ALBRIGHT on December 21, 1904 in Powhattan, Brown, Kansas.⁴¹⁸⁰ She was born September 13, 1885,⁴⁵⁶ and died November 25, 1957 in Holton, Jackson, Kansas.⁴⁵⁶ She is buried in Netawaka Cemetery, Jackson County, Kansas.^{456, 5386}

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Children of ERMA JANE ALBRIGHT and JAY PRESTON POWERS:

1. WALTER PRESTON POWERS, b. September 16, 1907, Netawaka, Jackson, Kansas;⁴¹⁸³ m. ALICE FERN CLINKENBEARD on May 17, 1931⁶⁶⁶⁷; d. October 27, 1966, Council Grove, Morris, Kansas.⁴¹⁸³



Marriage Announcements and News

Atchison Daily Globe, December 12, 1954⁴¹⁹¹

MR. AND MRS. JAY POWERS, Whiting, are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary Dec. 19. They will hold open house Dec. 19 from 1:30 to 4:p.m. at the Whiting Methodist church parlors for their friends and relatives. Both Mr. and Mrs. Powers are natives of this part of the state. They spent 45 years on a farm in the south Powhattan neighborhood north of Netawaka. They have lived in Whiting the last eight years. Their immediate family includes Mr. and Mrs. Walter Powers and their son, Norman of Council Grove. Mr. Powers is the present mayor of Whiting and has served as Whiting township trustee for the past four years.

Obituaries

Salina Journal, November 26, 1957⁵⁰⁷²

Five Dead After Two-Car Crash

Tuesday, Nov. 26—

HOLTON, Kas. (AP).—The toll in a two-car collision near here rose to five late yesterday with the death of a two-weeks-old baby. Four others are hospitalized.

Mrs. Esther Marie Wolfe, 20, Holton, and her three children, Leona Marie, 4; Lee William, 22 months, and Michael Allen, two weeks old, and Mrs. Erma Powers, 72, Whiting, were victims of the crash.

Michael Allen Wolfe died in a hosptial several hours after the crash. Mrs. Wolfe and Mrs. Powers died at the scene. Lee William Wolfe died en route to the hospital and Leona Marie Wolfe died shortly after arrival at the hospital.

Hospitalized were J. Preston Powers, 73, Whiting, husband of Mrs. Powers; Frank Mosher,51, Whiting, passenger in the Powers car; Mrs. Margi Lou Rawlings, 25, Holton, and her daughter, Cheryl Ann, 4. The latter two were passengers in the Wolfe car.

The condition of the injured was reported fair today.

Atchison Daily Globe, November 27, 1957⁵³⁸⁶

Powers Rites At Whiting Friday

Funeral services for Mrs. Erma Albright Powers, 70, wife of J. A. Powers of Whiting, who was killed in an automobile collision norht of Holton Monday, will be held at the Whiting Methodist church at 3 p.m. Friday.

The Rev. C. E. Nash of Whiting and the Rev. Paul Wesley of Council Grove will officiate. Burial will be in the Netawaka cemetery.

Her husband suffered a broken leg, facial cuts and other injuries in the accident and is a patient in the Holton hospital.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
March 1, 18854178	Powhattan, Brown, Kansas	Walter Christopher Columbus Powers Frances Hall Jay Preston Powers Ethel Powers Winnie Estella Powers
June 19, 19004113	Powhattan, Brown, Kansas	Walter Christopher Columbus Powers Frances Hall Edward Ray Powers Jay Preston Powers Ethel Powers
February 27, 19204181	Powhattan, Brown, Kansas	Jay Preston Powers Erma Jane Albright Walter Preston Powers
April 12, 19304182	Powhattan, Brown, Kansas	Jay Preston Powers Erma Jane Albright Walter Preston Powers
April 17, 19403143	Powhattan, Brown, Kansas	Jay Preston Powers Erma Jane Albright Ethel Powers
April 3, 19509535	Whiting, Jackson, Kansas	Jay Preston Powers Erma Jane Albright