When I started this journey I promised I would find truth and believe the truth that I found. I have found that there is in fact no Native or Indian blood in my family line. I say this respectfully as I have great respect for Anishinaabe people. A boy named Ben and a girl named Winona both members of status I call my own children infact. The fact that there was native blood in us was a myth believed by my family and talked about for years. I have a sibling that has based his life on this myth. Alleged my fathers mother was a child of an Native person. They thought her name was Belle Halladay when in fact her name was Isabelle Hollington and her roots were English and Ireland.
So it is that I have discovered some unpleasant things but I must share what I have found. The following is just that and it is in reference to my Great grand father James H Powers.
Below is a record of James H. Powers and Mona Mac Indoes children in an orphanage in Bingahmton area.
Mona had passed away.
Alice Lucille powers Married Jonas Widrick.
Some time later she went and took these children out of the orphanage and they lived with her.
Below is Jim Powers. He is James H Powers first born son. As told to me when he was older he wanted to see his father but only from a distance. He had been 'left' at some point in his life.
This is my grandmother's (Alice Lucille's) half brother and his wife Vera.
This was the writing on the back.
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