PVT Edward Powers
1832 – 1917
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CW
Edward Powers was born February 1, 1832 in Waterford, Ireland.
He and his family immigrated to the United States in 1845, and was an early settler in the Barrington area.
Powers entered military service on October 14, 1864, and served in Renwick’s Elgin Independent Battery Light Artillery, 5th Independent Battalion, Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War. He was honorably discharged in Chicago on July 18, 1865 as a Private.
On September 1, 1865, he married another Irish immigrant, Catherine Bergen, in Elgin; they raised two children.
Powers was a farmer in Cary until his death.
Private Edward Powers died November 16, 1917, in the home of his daughter in Cuba Station. He is buried with his wife in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution