_Samuel ERVIN _____________+
| (1776 - 1823) m 1820
_Robert Hugh ERVIN __|
| (1822 - 1875) m 1848|
| |_Mary Ann EADES ___________+
| (1800 - 1831) m 1820
|
|--Jennie Fee ERVIN
| (1851 - ....)
| _James Asbury TAIT ________+
| | m 1814
|_Sarah Asbury TAIT __|
(1826 - 1905) m 1848|
|_Elizabeth Caroline GOODE _
(1794 - 1868) m 1814
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Submitted by Robert Tait Ervin III, 126 Silverwood Street, Mobile, AL 36607.
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Sarah Asbury Ervin Bible
_Erasmus POWE _______
| (1768 - 1831) m 1792
_William Ellerbe POWE _____|
| (1793 - 1845) m 1815 |
| |_Ester ELLERBE ______
| (1772 - 1853) m 1792
|
|--William Ellerbe POWE II
| (1829 - 1905)
| _Albert TORRENCE ____
| |
|_Elizabeth Sloan TORRENCE _|
(1797 - 1840) m 1815 |
|_Elizabeth HACKETT __
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Catherine Elvira Tate: b) 9 April 1841 near Morganton, N.C. d 9 February 1918 Durham, N.C. while visiting her son Edward K. Powe dau of Dr. William Caldwell and Laura Theresa Wilson Tate of Morganton. She received her education in private schools at Morganton and Charlotte and at the famous old Nash and Killock School in Hillsboro, NC. She was a small woman and had red hair and blue eyes inherited from the Tate Family.
William Ellerbe Powe II, son of William Ellerbe and Elizabeth Sloan Torrence Powe b) 9 February 1829 Cheraw SC d) 26 January 1905 Morganton, NC. M) 2 April 1862: inherited 30 slaves and much land from his parents. He lived his early years near Salisbury, NC. He spent several years in New Mexico as secretary to governor Abram Rencher. After his return to NC, he assisted in building the Western North Carolina Railroad. He served as commissary sergeant at the Confederate prison in Salisbury. In 1869, he moved to Morganton, NC and remained there the rest of his life. He was a farmer by vocation but was frequently in public life, being mayor for several terms. He was an acknowledged leader in civic life and worked for an adequate public school system in Morganton. They were members of the Episcopal Church and are buried in the churchyard of Grace Episcopal Church.