William Thomas Hall Sowle

1872 - 1957  (85 years)

• Name	William Thomas Hall Sowle  [1]
  Birth	20 Feb 1872	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Dec 1957	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island   [1, 3]
  Burial	Friends Cemetery, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
  Person ID	I47157	Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)
  Last Modified	3 Sep 2017

  
  

  Father	Job Sowle,   b. 1836, Massachusetts d. 11 Feb 1919, Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Lydia Cory,   b. 15 Apr 1835, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island d. 22 Dec 1903, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	1859  [1, 4]
  Family ID	F22890	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Josephine Bourn Chase,   b. 18 Aug 1878, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island d. 15 Mar 1952, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	28 Feb 1911  [1, 5]
  Family ID	F22900	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2017

  
  

• Notes

  Newport Daily News November 29, 1957 William Thomas Hall Sowle, 85, former Portsmouth town official and prominent Grange member, died yesterday at a Portsmouth nursing home. He made with a nephew, Mervin C. Briggs of 905 West Main Road, Portsmouth. Born in Portsmouth, Feb 20, 1872, he was the son of Job and Lydia Corey Sowle. He was a member of the town council from 1914 to 1920; a tax commisioner from 1924 to 1948 and an overseer of the poor and commisioner of the town farm from 1918 to 1932. Mr. Sowle was an active member of Portsmouth Grange since 1893, and was one of three surviving charter members of Newport County Ponoma Grange. A past member of both granges, he was a member of the Southeastern Rhode Island Past Masters Assn. Burial will be in Friends cemetery, Portsmouth,

  
  

• Sources

  [S22723] Descendants of Patience Hascall and John Cory, (compiled by Richard K. Hascall for the Haskell Family Association). [S11925] Cory's of America, Ancestors and Descendants, (Al Bertus Cory Second Edition), 929.273/C819ct. [S37691] Obituary, Newport Daily News, William Thomas Hall Sowle, (November 29, 1957). [S27807] LDS - International Genealogical Index, (Family History Center Files, Church of Latter Day Saints). [S42927] Glenn Russell, RootsWeb.com, New England families, (extracted August 2009).