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Note: George Nathan Powers filed two land claims in Lyman County, SD. The first (Serial No. SDMTAA 046611) was for 40 acres and was issued by the Montana Land Office on February 5, 1906. The second one (Serial No. SDMTAA 046616) was for 120 acres (adjoining) and was issued on February 17, 1906 by the Montana Land Office. The land patents are in the notebook. The land was located six miles straight east of Reliance, SD, Section 13, Twsp 105, Range 72.
George and his wife Laura are buried in the Oacoma Cemetery in Oacoma, Lyman County, SD. George was working as a hired hand for Samuel Mills, father of George's wife, Laura Mills in 1900
(source: Census of 1900, Charles Mix County, Choteau Creek Twsp). This is undoubtedly how he
became acquainted with Laura -- though she had also served as bridesmaid for Mary Willi, who had married his brother Robert Frank Powers in 1895.
From the obituary at the time of his death on March 17, 1948, it indicated that "he came to Tripp, SD in the summer of 1886" (which was three years before statehood). He would have been 12 years old and, along with his older brother Robert Frank Powers, who would have been 15 at the time, they lived with their only sister, Evaline Loretta POWERS Brown, her husband John A. Brown and their children, until old enough to be on their own.
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